wyszukanych pozycji: 179
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Beasts
ISBN: 9780786711031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A young woman tumbles into a nightmare of decadent desire and corrupted innocence in a superb novella of suspense from National Book Awardwinner Joyce Carol Oates. Art and arson, the poetry of D. H. Lawrence and pulp pornography, hero-worship and sexual debasement, totems and taboos mix and mutate into a startling, suspenseful tale of how a sunny New England college campus descends into a lurid nightmare. "A small gem.... Oates does not disappoint, nor does she waste a word."The Washington Post Book World Oates often takes on sensational subject matter ... yet rarely has she done so with the...
A young woman tumbles into a nightmare of decadent desire and corrupted innocence in a superb novella of suspense from National Book Awardwinner Joyce...
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75,77 |
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Cardiff, by the Sea
ISBN: 9781800241411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
50,28 |
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I'll Take You There
ISBN: 9780060501181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Anellia" is a young student who, though gifted with a penetrating intelligence, is drastically inclined to obsession. Funny, mordant, and compulsive, she falls passionately in love with a brilliant yet elusive black philosophy student. But she is tested most severely by a figure out of her past she'd long believed dead. Astonishingly intimate and unsparing, and pitiless in exposing the follies of the time, I'll Take You There is a dramatic revelation of the risks--and curious rewards--of the obsessive personality as well as a testament to the stubborn strength of a certain... "Anellia" is a young student who, though gifted with a penetrating intelligence, is drastically inclined to obsession. Funny, mordant, and compulsi... |
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68,23 |
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The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
ISBN: 9780061227998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, edited by Greg Johnson, offers a rare glimpse into the private thoughts of this extraordinary writer, focusing on excerpts written during one of the most productive decades of Oates's long career. Far more than just a daily account of a writer's writing life, these intimate, unrevised pages candidly explore her friendship with other writers, including John Updike, Donald Barthelme, Susan Sontag, Gail Godwin, and Philip Roth. It presents a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young woman, fully engaged with her world and her culture, on her way... The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, edited by Greg Johnson, offers a rare glimpse into the private thoughts of this extraordinary writer, fo... |
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75,81 |
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Son of the Morning
ISBN: 9780062795700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
64,40 |
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Butcher
ISBN: 9781524712662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
90,58 |
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We Were the Mulvaneys
ISBN: 9781841156996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Mulvaneys are seemingly blessed by everything that makes life sweet. They live together in the picture-perfect High Point Farm, just outside the community of Mt Ephraim, New York, where they are respected and liked by everybody. Yet something happens on Valentine's Day 1976. An incident involving Marianne Mulvaney, the pretty sixteen-year-old daughter, is hushed up in the town and never discussed within the family. The impact of this event reverberates throughout the lives of the characters. As told by Judd, years later, in an attempt to make sense of his own past reveals the unspoken...
The Mulvaneys are seemingly blessed by everything that makes life sweet. They live together in the picture-perfect High Point Farm, just outside the c...
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65,37 |
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Extenuating Circumstances
ISBN: 9781613164259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
68,04 |
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Night, Neon
ISBN: 9781801104630 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
95,57 |
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Carthage
ISBN: 9780062298829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins his frantic search for the girl, they discover the unlikeliest of suspects--a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family. As grisly evidence mounts against the troubled war hero, the family must wrestle with the possibility of having lost a daughter forever. Carthage plunges us deep into the psyche of a wounded young corporal haunted by unspeakable acts of wartime aggression, while unraveling the story of a... Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins his... |
cena:
102,30 |
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The Gravedigger’s Daughter
ISBN: 9780007258468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best.
From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobil...
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cena:
85,50 |
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I Am No One You Know: Stories
ISBN: 9780060592899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a girl makes a decision to reveal a family secret, and changes her life irrevocably. In "The Girl with the Blackened Eye," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, a girl pushed to an even greater extreme of courage and desperation manages to survive her abduction by a serial killer. And in "Three Girls," two adventuresome... I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fi... |
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79,60 |
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Freaky Green Eyes
ISBN: 9780007183142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. New novel from the bestselling author of BIG MOUTH AND UGLY GIRL.
New novel from the bestselling author of BIG MOUTH AND UGLY GIRL.
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cena:
50,28 |
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Solstice
ISBN: 9780062795779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
75,77 |
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American Appetites
ISBN: 9780062269232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, American Appetites is classic Joyce Carol Oates--a suspenseful thriller in which the happy facade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal. For twenty-six years, Ian McCullough, a demographics researcher at a social science think tank, has been happily married to Glynnis, a successful cookbook writer and a brilliant hostess. When a drunken argument about a suspected infidelity turns physical, Ian accidentally pushes Glynnis through a plate glass window--or did... Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, American Appetites is classic Joyce Carol Oates--a suspenseful thril... |
cena:
68,19 |
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Księga amerykańskich męczenników
ISBN: 9788367674287 / Polski / miękka ze skrzydełkami / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Kiedy Luther Dunphy morduje lekarza wykonującego zabiegi przerywania ciąży w małym miasteczku na Środkowym Zachodzie Stanów Zjednoczonych, uważa, że działa z woli bożej. Sprawca jest gorliwym ewangelikiem, żołnierzem antyaborcyjnej Armii Boga. Jego ofiara, August Voorhees – bojownikiem o prawa reprodukcyjne kobiet, idealistycznym, choć skupionym na sobie. Zbrodnia pozbawia ojców dwie rodziny: zamożnych i wyedukowanych Voorheesesów, stroniących od religii i opowiadających się po stronie pro-choice, ale i Dunphych – ich przeciwieństwo w każdym calu. Córki ofiary i...
Kiedy Luther Dunphy morduje lekarza wykonującego zabiegi przerywania ciąży w małym miasteczku na Środkowym Zachodzie Stanów Zjednoczonych, uważ...
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Babysitter
ISBN: 9780593535172 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
150,97 |
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American Melancholy: Poems
ISBN: 9780063035270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
68,19 |
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Black Water
ISBN: 9780452269866 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel We Were the Mulvaneys
Taut, powerfully imagined and beautifully written, Black Water ranks with the best of Joyce Carol Oates's already long list of distinguished achievements. It can be read in a single afternoon, but, like every good book, it continues to haunt us. The New York Times Joyce Carol Oates has taken a shocking story that has become an American myth and, from it, has created a novel of electrifying power and illumination. Kelly Kelleher is an... The Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel We Were the Mulvaneys
Taut, power... |
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64,44 |