wyszukanych pozycji: 171
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Little Bird of Heaven
ISBN: 9780061885945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates is a riveting story of love violently lost and found in late 20th century America. In this novel, Oates returns to the Buffalo, New York, region to brilliantly explore the dangerous intersections of romance and eroticism, guilt and obsession, desire and murder. Little Bird of Heaven, a soaring work by the New York Times bestselling author and a nominee for the 2009 Man Booker Prize--one of the world's most prestigious literary awards--is as powerful and unforgettable as Joyce Carol Oates's previous acclaimed novels The...
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates is a riveting story of love violently lost and found in late 20th century America. In this novel, ...
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99,88 |
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Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense
ISBN: 9781613167168 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,52 |
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Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories
ISBN: 9780062356956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all. Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the stories in Lovely, Dark, Deep display Joyce Carol Oates's magnificent ability to make visceral the terror, hurt, and uncertainty that lurks at the edges of ordinary lives. In "Mastiff," a woman and a man are joined in an erotic bond forged out of terror and... From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collectio... |
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65,29 |
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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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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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A Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror from Women Writers
ISBN: 9781804440940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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65,69 |
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Marya: A Life
ISBN: 9780062269218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A deeply intimate psychological portrait of a young woman's tragic childhood, her reinvention as a successful young artist in the literary circles of 1950s New York City, and her struggle to understand and overcome the trauma of her past. Growing up in the confines of Innisfail, a bleak town in upstate New York, bright and curious Marya endures abandonment, betrayal, and loneliness. A college scholarship offers escape, taking her to New York City, where she makes a name for herself in academic and literary circles. But success cannot overcome the damage of her childhood, pain that... A deeply intimate psychological portrait of a young woman's tragic childhood, her reinvention as a successful young artist in the literary circles ... |
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Extenuating Circumstances
ISBN: 9781804540817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Dear Husband: Stories
ISBN: 9780061704321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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69,17 |
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Breathe
ISBN: 9780008490928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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45,47 |
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The Rise of Life on Earth
ISBN: 9780811212137 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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61,30 |
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Night. Sleep. Death. the Stars.
ISBN: 9780062979483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 1200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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149,88 |
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Der Schlächter
ISBN: 9783896677686 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Düster wie Bram Stoker, feministisch wie Margaret Atwood: Der neue Roman von einer der bedeutendsten amerikanischen Autorinnen der Gegenwart
Pennsylvania, Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dr. Silas Weir ist ein junger Arzt aus gutem Hause, doch ohne Charisma und Talent. Beim Anblick von Blut wird er ohnmächtig, Frauenkörper stoßen ihn ab. Um seinen strengen Vater zu beeindrucken, versucht er, auf unorthodoxe Weise als Chirurg voranzukommen, was ihn gesellschaftlich isoliert. Dann wird er durch eine Aneinanderreihung von Zufällen Direktor der Staatlichen Heilanstalt für... Düster wie Bram Stoker, feministisch wie Margaret Atwood: Der neue Roman von einer der bedeutendsten amerikanischen Autorinnen der Gegenwart |
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107,86 |
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Zero-Sum: Stories
ISBN: 9780593469583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Falls
ISBN: 9780007196746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A tale of murder, loss and romance in the mist of Niagara Falls: it is the crowning achievement of Joyce Carol Oates's career to date.
A tale of murder, loss and romance in the mist of Niagara Falls: it is the crowning achievement of Joyce Carol Oates's career to date.
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Zero-Sum
ISBN: 9780008609771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Little Bird of Heaven
ISBN: 9780061829840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A searing exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late-twentieth-century America, Little Bird of Heaven returns to the emotional and geographical terrain of acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates's previous bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and The Gravedigger's Daughter. When young wife and mother Zoe Kruller is found brutally murdered, the police target two suspects: her estranged husband, Delray Kruller, and her longtime lover, Eddy Diehl. In turn, the Krullers' son, Aaron, and Diehl's daughter, Krista, become... A searing exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late-twentieth-century America, Little Bird of Hea... |
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57,60 |
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Night, Neon
ISBN: 9781801104630 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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96,02 |
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My Life as a Rat
ISBN: 9780008339678 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayal
A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayal
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45,47 |
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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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