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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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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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66,97 |
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Rabbit is Rich
ISBN: 9780141188553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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51,50 |
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Couples
ISBN: 9780449911907 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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Golf Dreams
ISBN: 9780140261561 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As a golfer for almost forty years, John Updike has written frequently about the game. This gathering of his pieces covers everything from the peculiar charms of bad golf and the satisfactions of an essentially losing struggle to the camaraderie of good golf and its own attendant perils.
As a golfer for almost forty years, John Updike has written frequently about the game. This gathering of his pieces covers everything from the peculia...
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82,44 |
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Brazil
ISBN: 9780141188942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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Memories of the Ford Administration
ISBN: 9780141188997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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The Afterlife: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780449912010 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Maples Stories
ISBN: 9781841596037 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf
ISBN: 9780449912690 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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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 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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Terrorist
ISBN: 9780345493910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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Gertrude And Claudius
ISBN: 9780140290905 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet, John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. As only he could, Updike recasts a tale of medieval violence and presents the case for its central couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude's warmth and lucidity, Claudius's soldierly yet peaceable powers of command are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and familial dysfunction, on a...
Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet, John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter...
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The Centaur
ISBN: 9780140023404 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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 his life.
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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Of the Farm
ISBN: 9780141189024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 129 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Joey Robinson visits the farm where he grew up and where his mother now lives. Accompanied by his newly acquired second wife, Peggy, and an eleven-year-old stepson, Joey spends three days reassessing and evaluating the course his life has run. But for Joey and Peggy, the delicate balance of love and sex is threatened by a dangerous awareness.
Joey Robinson visits the farm where he grew up and where his mother now lives. Accompanied by his newly acquired second wife, Peggy, and an eleven-yea...
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Seek My Face
ISBN: 9780141011165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. On a spring day in Vermont, 78-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. As the day wears on Kathryn and Hope try to understand one another across the gulf of age, experience and time, and subt
On a spring day in Vermont, 78-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. As the day wea...
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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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Bech at Bay
ISBN: 9780449004043 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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92,48 |
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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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