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Memories of the Ford Administration
ISBN: 9780141188997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) When a history professor - Alfred Clayton - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well: his unfinished book on 19th-century president James Buchanan.
When a history professor - Alfred Clayton - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal hi...
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Toward the End of Time
ISBN: 9780141188966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Ben Turnbull is a 66 year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben's life, traced by his journal entri
Ben Turnbull is a 66 year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China ...
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Couples
ISBN: 9780449911907 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it debuted, scandalized the public with prose pictures of the way people live, and that today provides an engrossing epitaph to the short, happy life of the "post-Pill paradise." It chronicles the interactions of ten young married couples in a seaside New England community who make a cult of sex and of themselves. The group of acquaintances form a magical circle, complete with ritualistic games, religious substitutions, a priest (Freddy Thorne), and a scapegoat (Piet Hanema). As with most American utopias,...
One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it debuted, scandalized the public with prose pictures of the w...
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The Maples Stories
ISBN: 9781841596037 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In 1956 John Updike wrote a short story about newly-weds Joan and Richard Maple. Over the next two decades he returned to this couple again and again, tracking their years together. This collection of stories offers a nuanced portrait of two deeply flawed but moving characters and their entwined lives.
In 1956 John Updike wrote a short story about newly-weds Joan and Richard Maple. Over the next two decades he returned to this couple again and again,...
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The Coup
ISBN: 9780141188959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less
Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor h...
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The Afterlife: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780449912010 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Seek My Face
ISBN: 9780345460868 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) John Updike's twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair, takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her by a New York interviewer named Kathryn, and recapitulates, through stories from her career and many marriages, the triumphant, poignant saga of postwar American art. In the evolving relation between the two women, interviewer and subject move in and out of the roles of...
John Updike's twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair, takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain...
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The Centaur
ISBN: 9780141189048 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with hi
In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for ...
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The Widows of Eastwick
ISBN: 9780141038032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) More than three decades have passed since the three divorcees - Alexandra, Jane and Sukie - left town, remarried, and became widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world to exotic lands such as Canada, China and Egypt and renew old acquaintances. And then, one summer, they decide to go back to Eastwick.
More than three decades have passed since the three divorcees - Alexandra, Jane and Sukie - left town, remarried, and became widows. They cope with th...
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Rabbit, Run
ISBN: 9780141187839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job.
It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence...
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In the Beauty of the Lilies
ISBN: 9780140255898 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) One hot afternoon in 1910, the Reverend Clarence Wilmot, standing in the rectory of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, experiences the last vestiges of his faith departing. True to this revelation, Clarence abandons the pulpit and becomes an encyclopedia salesman.
One hot afternoon in 1910, the Reverend Clarence Wilmot, standing in the rectory of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, experiences the last vestiges of h...
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Terrorist
ISBN: 9780345493910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The terrorist of John Updike's title is eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, the son of an Irish American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three. Devoted to Allah and to the Qur'an as expounded by the imam of his neighborhood mosque, Ahmad feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping New Jersey factory town of New Prospect. Neither Jack Levy, his life-weary guidance counselor at Central High, nor Joryleen Grant, his seductive black classmate, succeeds in diverting Ahmad from what the Qur'an calls the...
The terrorist of John Updike's title is eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, the son of an Irish American mother and an Egyptian father who disappe...
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91,22 |
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Čarodějky z Eastwicku
ISBN: 8594169483719 / Czeski / audio (mc/cd) / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Tři čarodějnice seděly tiše a uvědomovaly si, že jsou očarovány někým mocnějším…“
K uzoufání pokrytecké maloměsto Eastwick v americkém státečku Rhode Island nabízí trojici bájných čarodějnic jako z Macbetha přímo ideální rejdiště. Povětrnice Alexandra, Jane a Sukie, na jejichž dveře ťuká nepříjemná čtyřicítka, kráčejí za hlasem sexuální revoluce sladkých let šedesátých a dosud si v téhle díře poradily s troufalostí sobě vlastní. Jenže teď je omámil Darryl. Výstředník až z New Yorku hodlá v místním zašlém paláci... Tři čarodějnice seděly tiše a uvědomovaly si, že jsou očarovány někým mocnějším…“
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Licks of Love: Short Stories And a Sequel, 'Rabbit Remembered'
ISBN: 9780140298963 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Collected with a dozen wonderful stories, all set in classic Updike territory, the short novel 'Rabbit Remembered' is a major work in its own right - a riveting return to Updike's most celebrated fictional world. Janice and Nelson Angstrom, plus several other survivors of the irreducible Rabbit, fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness over the edge of the millennium, as a number of old strands come together in entirely unexpected ways.
Collected with a dozen wonderful stories, all set in classic Updike territory, the short novel 'Rabbit Remembered' is a major work in its own right - ...
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A Life in Letters
ISBN: 9780241707586 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Rabbit Redux
ISBN: 9780141188546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In 1969, the times are changing in America. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife leaves him, and suddenly, into his confused life comes Jill, a runaway who becomes his lover. But when she invites her friend to stay, a young black radical named Skeeter, the pair's fragile harmony soon begins to fail.
In 1969, the times are changing in America. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife leaves him, and suddenly, in...
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Early Stories, 1953-1975
ISBN: 9780141016085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 864 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the Depression in a small Pennsylvania town.
Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical...
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Bech at Bay
ISBN: 9780449004043 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Henry Bech, the moderately well known Jewish-American writer who served as the hero of John Updike's previous "Bech: A Book (1970) and "Bech Is Back (1982), has become older but scarcely wiser. In these five new chapters from his life, he is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety, of unbridled criticism and publicity in a literary world ever more cheerfully crass. He fights intimations of annihilation in still-Communist Czechoslovakia, while promiscuously consorting with dissidents, apparatchiks, and Midwestern Republicans. Next, he succumbs to the temptations of power by...
Henry Bech, the moderately well known Jewish-American writer who served as the hero of John Updike's previous "Bech: A Book (1970) and "Bech Is Back (...
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91,22 |
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Couples
ISBN: 9780141188980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England.
A novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England.
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The Complete Henry Bech
ISBN: 9780141188560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Henry Bech, the celebrated author of "Travel Light", has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. This work explores the writing life and what happens when a writer becomes a literary celebrity.
Henry Bech, the celebrated author of "Travel Light", has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. This work e...
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