wyszukanych pozycji: 161
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48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
ISBN: 9781837932795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,76 zł |
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Soul at the White Heat
ISBN: 9780062666734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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116,09 zł |
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Beasts
ISBN: 9780786711031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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82,91 zł |
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Cardiff, by the Sea
ISBN: 9781800241411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,76 zł |
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Extenuating Circumstances
ISBN: 9781804540817 / Miękka / 2023 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,76 zł |
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A Bloodsmoor Romance
ISBN: 9780062269195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Finally returned to print, Joyce Carol Oates's lost classic: the satirical, often surreal, and beautifully plotted Gothic romance that follows the exploits of the audacious Zinn sisters, whose nineteenth-century pursuit of adventurous lives turns a lens on contemporary American culture When their sister is plucked from the shores of the Bloodsmoor River by an eerie black-silk hot air balloon that sails in through a clear blue sky, the lives of the already extraordinary Zinn sisters are radically altered. The monstrous tragedy splinters the family, who must not only grapple with the... Finally returned to print, Joyce Carol Oates's lost classic: the satirical, often surreal, and beautifully plotted Gothic romance that follows the ... |
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82,95 zł |
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Man Crazy
ISBN: 9780452277243 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fresh from the triumph of the bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates continues her exploration of family love and possibilities of human redemption with this compelling story of how one young woman suffers profoundly in the pursuit of love, but manages to emerge safe and whole.
Set in several towns on the Chatauqua River in upstate New York, Man Crazy tells the story of Ingrid Boone, who at age eight is taken into hiding by her beautiful young mother, Chloe. Sought by the men who have taunted Chloe, the authorities, and Ingrid's loving but volatile father still... Fresh from the triumph of the bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates continues her exploration of family love and possibilities o...
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91,25 zł |
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Hazards of Time Travel
ISBN: 9780062319609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,91 zł |
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Blond
ISBN: 9783753000046 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2021 / 1024 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ein eindrucksvolles Porträt der größten Hollywood-Legende des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts: Marilyn Monroe Ein eindrucksvolles Porträt der größten Hollywood-Legende des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts: Marilyn Monroe ... |
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117,39 zł |
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The Corn Maiden: And Other Nightmares
ISBN: 9780802155085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Corn Maiden is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Her single mother comes home one night to find her missing and panics, frantically knocking on the doors of her neighbors. She finally calls the police, who want to know why she left her young daughter alone until 8:00 o'clock. Suspicion falls on a computer teacher at her school with no alibi for the time of the abduction. Obvious clues--perhaps too obvious--point directly to him. Unsuspected is Judah (born Judith), an older girl from the same...
The Corn Maiden is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk...
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74,66 zł |
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Beautiful Days: Stories
ISBN: 9780062795793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,91 zł |
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Dear Husband: Stories
ISBN: 9780061704321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Replete with the emotional intensity and pathos for which Joyce Carol Oates is lauded, these fourteen stories explore the intimate lives of contemporary American families: the tangled relationship between generations, the desperation of loving more than one is loved in return. In "Cutty Sark" and "Landfill," the bond between adolescent son and mother reverberates with the force of an unspoken passion. The gripping title story finds Oates boldly reimagining the true-crime story of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her children in 2001. Several stories offer a more lighthearted... Replete with the emotional intensity and pathos for which Joyce Carol Oates is lauded, these fourteen stories explore the intimate lives of contemp... |
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74,66 zł |
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Night, Neon
ISBN: 9781801104654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,76 zł |
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The Tattooed Girl
ISBN: 9780061136047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Celebrated author Joshua Seigl, an idiosyncratic bachelor and confirmed recluse--young but in failing health--reluctantly admits to himself that he must hire a live-in assistant to help him with his increasingly complicated professional and personal affairs. Then one day at the bookstore he encounters Alma, a young woman covered with bizarre tattoos, who stirs something inside him. Unaware of her torturous past--the abuses she's suffered, the wrongs she's committed, the virulent hatred that seethes within her--Seigl decides that she is the one, and he has no idea that he is bringing an... Celebrated author Joshua Seigl, an idiosyncratic bachelor and confirmed recluse--young but in failing health--reluctantly admits to himself that he... |
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74,66 zł |
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Dis Mem Ber
ISBN: 9781786693990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Seven feverishly unsettling works, confronting the dangers that surround us and the dangers that lurk within.
Seven feverishly unsettling works, confronting the dangers that surround us and the dangers that lurk within.
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46,96 zł |
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The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age
ISBN: 9780062408686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow's Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters. The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates' vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State. From memories of her relatives, to those of a charming bond with a special red hen on her family farm; from her first friendships to her earliest experiences with death, The Lost Landscape is a powerful evocation of... Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow's Story, an affecting and ob... |
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74,61 zł |
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The Falls
ISBN: 9780061565342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side is confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby, who is unexpectedly drawn to this plain, strange woman. What follows is a passionate love affair, marriage, and family--a seemingly perfect existence. But the tragedy by which they were thrown together begins to shadow them, damaging their idyll with... It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "... |
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74,66 zł |
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The Sacrifice
ISBN: 9780062391698 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When a teenage girl is the alleged victim of an act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. In this magisterial work of fiction, Joyce Carol Oates explores the uneasy fault lines in a racially troubled society and reveals that there must always be a sacrifice--of innocence, truth, trust, and, ultimately, of lives. Unfolding in a succession of multiracial voices, in a community transfixed by this alleged crime and the spectacle unfolding around it, this profound... When a teenage girl is the alleged victim of an act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial t... |
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111,94 zł |
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The Rise of Life on Earth
ISBN: 9780811212137 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable portrait of one of the "insulted and injured" of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches Kathleen Hennessy's violent childhood shattered by a broken home, child-beating, and murder and follows her into her early adult years as a hospital health-care worker. Overworked, underpaid, and quietly overzealous, Kathleen falls in love with a young doctor, whose exploitation of...
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable port...
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66,15 zł |
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Zero-Sum
ISBN: 9780008609801 / Miękka / 2024 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,76 zł |