wyszukanych pozycji: 44
The Complete Henry Bech
ISBN: 9780141188560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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68,47 zł |
Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest
ISBN: 9780679444596 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 1568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When we first met him in Rabbit, Run (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with some boys in an alley in Pennsylvania during the tail end of the Eisenhower era, reliving for a moment his past as a star high school athlete. Athleticism of a different sort is on display throughout these four magnificent novels--the athleticism of an imagination possessed of the ability to lay bare, with a seemingly effortless animal grace, the enchantments and disenchantments of life. Updike revisited his hero toward the end...
When we first met him in Rabbit, Run (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing bask...
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186,64 zł |
Uciekaj, Króliku
ISBN: 9788381962483 / Polski / twarda / 2021 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Harry Królik Angstrom, niegdyś mistrz drużyny koszykówki w college'u, obecnie pracownik domu towarowego, trudniący się reklamą cudownej maszynki do obierania jarzyn, czuje się zagubiony w otaczającym go świecie. Należy do tej części amerykańskiej klasy średniej lat pięćdziesiątych, która na ogół biernie akceptuje amerykański styl życia. A jednak, pod wpływem impulsu, porzuca żonę, córkę bogatego pośrednika handlu samochodami, i ucieka przed jałową konsumpcyjną egzystencją, przed wegetacją, w której gimnastyka seksualna zastępuje uczucia. Nie jest to...
Harry Królik Angstrom, niegdyś mistrz drużyny koszykówki w college'u, obecnie pracownik domu towarowego, trudniący się reklamą cudownej maszynk...
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46,06 zł |
The Witches of Eastwick
ISBN: 9780141188973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, luring them to his mansions.
The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, d...
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52,66 zł |
Rabbit, Run
ISBN: 9780141187839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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50,63 zł |
A Month of Sundays
ISBN: 9780141189000 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace.
Concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern c...
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52,66 zł |
Převrat
ISBN: 9788088445081 / Czeski / 2022 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Paměti fanatického diktátora smyšlené země v subsaharské Africe, jehož tepou všechny čtyři manželky i milenka, českým čtenářům připomenou, proč americký spisovatel John Updike hned dvakrát získal Pulitzerovu cenu.
Kniha dosvědčuje, že základem dobrého humoru je schopnost dělat si legraci ze sebe samých. Pobaví autorskou nadsázkou, sžíravou obrazností, vytříbeným jazykovým mistrovstvím i pohledem na světové dění. Strhující groteska z dob, kdy literaturu ještě tolik nespoutávala politická korektnost, neváhá glosovat ideologie všeho... Paměti fanatického diktátora smyšlené země v subsaharské Africe, jehož tepou všechny čtyři manželky i milenka, českým čtenářům přip...
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77,16 zł |
Gertrude and Claudius
ISBN: 9780449006979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Gertrude and Claudius are the "villains" of Hamlet: he the killer of Hamlet's father and usurper of the Danish throne; she his lusty consort, who marries Claudius before her late husband's body is cold. But in this imaginative "prequel" to the play, John Updike makes a case for the royal couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude and Claudius are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and family dysfunction, on a stage darkened by the ominous shadow of a sullen, erratic, disaffected prince. "I hoped to keep the texture light," Updike said of this novel, "to move... Gertrude and Claudius are the "villains" of Hamlet: he the killer of Hamlet's father and usurper of the Danish throne; she his lusty consor... |
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70,51 zł |
Memories of the Ford Administration
ISBN: 9780141188997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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68,47 zł |
The Poorhouse Fair
ISBN: 9780141188485 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair. The elderly residents take pride in the self-respect they gain from this one day. But when the fair goes less well than the folks had hoped, they blame Conner, the new prefect of the home. Together, they begin to revolt against the man.
At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair. The elderly residents take pride in the self...
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The Widows of Eastwick
ISBN: 9780141038032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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52,66 zł |
Early Stories, 1953-1975
ISBN: 9780141016085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 864 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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105,42 zł |
Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf
ISBN: 9780449912690 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "BUBBLY AND QUIZZICAL AND LUMINOUS."
--Los Angeles Times "JOYFUL . . . THE JACK NICKLAUS OF GOLF WRITING . . . The 30 entries in this collection, drawn mainly from magazine pieces, constitute a championship round. . . . This unbridled appreciation of golf's mystical opportunities for grace and redemption will enthrall even those who have never followed an 80-yard worm-burner with an elegant chip to the pin." --People "VINTAGE UPDIKE AND A RARE TREAT FOR GOLFERS." --San Francisco Chronicle "A BOOK WRITTEN UNDER A CLEAR BLUE SKY WITH AN UTTERLY PURE SWING . . . [ending]... "BUBBLY AND QUIZZICAL AND LUMINOUS."
--Los Angeles Times "JOYFUL . . . THE JACK NICKLAUS OF GOLF WRITING . . . The 30 entries in this collectio... |
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66,36 zł |
John Updike: Novels 1968-1975 (LOA #326): Couples / Rabbit Redux / A Month of Sundays
ISBN: 9781598536492 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 1150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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217,86 zł |
Of the Farm
ISBN: 9780345468222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this short novel, Joey Robinson, a thirty-five-year-old New Yorker, describes a visit he makes, with his second wife and eleven-year-old stepson, to the Pennsylvania farm where he grew up and where his aging mother now lives alone. For three days, a quartet of voices explores the air, making confessions, seeking alignments, quarreling, pleading, and pardoning. They are not entirely alone: ghosts (fathers, lovers, children) press upon them, as do phantoms from the near future (nurses, lawyers, land developers). Of the Farm concerns the places people choose to live their lives, and...
In this short novel, Joey Robinson, a thirty-five-year-old New Yorker, describes a visit he makes, with his second wife and eleven-year-old stepson, t...
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70,51 zł |
Rabbit is Rich
ISBN: 9780141188553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's ok, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. So why is it that he finds it so hard to accept the way that things have turned out?
It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's ok, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the ...
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50,63 zł |
Brazil
ISBN: 9780141188942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Neach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banal
Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands...
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68,47 zł |
Čarodějky z Eastwicku
ISBN: 8594169483719 / Czeski / audio (mc/cd) / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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78,99 zł |
Couples
ISBN: 9780141188980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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50,63 zł |
Rabbit at Rest
ISBN: 9780141188447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Fifty-six and overweight, Harry Rabbit Angstrom has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, is giving him cause for concern. His son is a wreck of a man and his wife has decided that she wants to be a working girl. He has to make the most of life. After all, he doesn't have much time left.
Fifty-six and overweight, Harry Rabbit Angstrom has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, is givin...
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65,84 zł |