wyszukanych pozycji: 44
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On Literary Biography
ISBN: 9781570033452 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A leading man of letters subjects a popular contemporary genre to thoughtful scrutiny.
A leading man of letters subjects a popular contemporary genre to thoughtful scrutiny.
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469,56 zł |
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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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222,95 zł |
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Rabbit, Run
ISBN: 9780449911655 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his--or any other--generation. Its hero is Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty--even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path, an invisible line toward...
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his--or any other--generation. Its hero i...
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76,92 zł |
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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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72,65 zł |
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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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51,82 zł |
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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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70,93 zł |
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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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192,31 zł |
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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…“
K uzoufání pokrytecké maloměsto Eastwick... |
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80,66 zł |
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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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51,82 zł |
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Rabbit at Rest
ISBN: 9780141188447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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70,93 zł |
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Terrorist
ISBN: 9780141027845 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Deals with one of America's issues - threat of Islamist terror from within. It also suggests ways in which we can counter it, in our words and our actions.
Deals with one of America's issues - threat of Islamist terror from within. It also suggests ways in which we can counter it, in our words and our act...
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54,55 zł |
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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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54,55 zł |
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Brazílie
ISBN: 9788088445074 / Czeski / 2022 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Vzrušující román amerického hvězdného spisovatele Johna Updika přináší velký milostný příběh s mnoha prvky magického realismu. Jde o moderní převyprávění legendárního eposu o Tristanovi a Isoldě. Setkávají se náhodně na pláži Copacabana. Tristao, černý kluk ze slumu v Riu, a Isabel, bílá dívka z vyšší třídy. Oba jsou přesvědčeni, že je osud svedl dohromady. Zrazeni rodinami, které je chtějí rozdělit, prchají do nejvzdálenějších končin brazilského divokého západu, kde stále vládne magie. Aniž by tušili, jaký překvapivý osud je...
Vzrušující román amerického hvězdného spisovatele Johna Updika přináší velký milostný příběh s mnoha prvky magického realismu. Jde o ...
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78,80 zł |
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In the Beauty of the Lilies
ISBN: 9780449911211 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "In the Beauty of the Lilies" begins in 1910 and traces God s relation to four generations of American seekers, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey. He loses his faith but finds solace at the movies, respite from the bleak facts of life, his life, gutted by God s withdrawal. His son, Teddy, becomes a mailman who retreats from American exceptionalism, religious and otherwise, into a life of studied ordinariness. Teddy has a daughter, Esther, who becomes a movie star, an object of worship, an All-American goddess. Her neglected son, Clark, is possessed of a...
"In the Beauty of the Lilies" begins in 1910 and traces God s relation to four generations of American seekers, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a cler...
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76,92 zł |
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Marry Me
ISBN: 9780141189406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sally is big and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's been sleeping with Richard ...As a hot, feverish summer of weekends, secret phone calls and lovemaking on the beach comes to a head, it turns out everyone knows more than they've been letting on.
Sally is big and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's bee...
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65,52 zł |
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Rabbit Redux
ISBN: 9780141188546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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51,82 zł |
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My Father's Tears and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780141042596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A beautiful, moving collection of short stories, in many of which Updike revisits the haunts of his childhood from the vantage point of old age.
A beautiful, moving collection of short stories, in many of which Updike revisits the haunts of his childhood from the vantage point of old age.
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54,55 zł |
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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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109,20 zł |
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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 |