wyszukanych pozycji: 168
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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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56,82 |
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Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.: A Novel
ISBN: 9780062797599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,77 |
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them
ISBN: 9780345484406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Joyce Carol Oates s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. As powerful and relevant today as it on its initial publication, them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge of ruin in the Detroit slums, from the 1930s to the 1967 race riots. Praised by The Nation for her potent, life-gripping imagination, Oates traces the aspirations and struggles of Loretta Wendall, a dreamy young mother who is filled with regret by the age of sixteen, and the subsequent destinies of her...
Joyce Carol Oates s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. A...
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71,98 |
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A Book of American Martyrs
ISBN: 9780008221713 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. `The story of Trump's America' Daily Mail
`The story of Trump's America' Daily Mail
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95,57 |
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The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
ISBN: 9780060565541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having written in a number of genres -- prose, poetry, personal and critical essays, as well as plays -- she is an artist ideally suited to answer essential questions about what makes a story striking, a novel come alive, a writer an artist as well as a craftsman. In The Faith of a Writer, Oates discusses the subjects most... A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method |
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64,40 |
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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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Butcher
ISBN: 9780008694876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
85,50 |
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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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cena:
75,44 |
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The (Other) You: Stories
ISBN: 9780063035225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
71,98 |
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Breathe: A Novel
ISBN: 9780063085473 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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145,89 |
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Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
ISBN: 9780452265813 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Joyce Carol Oates adds to her extraordinary body of work with this stunning novel of violence and love. At the heart of the story are two people, Iris Courtney, who is white, and handsome Jinx Fairchild, the black basketball player who, in protecting Iris, kills a white man.
Iris is the only witness to the crime. The two of them are growing up in the early 1950s in a New York industrial town where racial boundaries keep people apart--or bring them together in explosive scenes of fear or desire. The secret link between Iris and Jinx is not only their attraction to each other, but a murder... Joyce Carol Oates adds to her extraordinary body of work with this stunning novel of violence and love. At the heart of the story are two people, Iris...
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cena:
83,39 |
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Beautiful Days: Stories
ISBN: 9780062795793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
75,77 |
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Flint Kill Creek
ISBN: 9781035909957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
50,28 |
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Missing Mom
ISBN: 9780060816223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Nikki Eaton, single, thirty-one, sexually liberated, and economically self-supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet, following the unexpected loss of her mother, she undergoes a remarkable transformation during a tumultuous year that brings stunning horror, sorrow, illumination, wisdom, and even—from an unexpected source—a nurturing love. Nikki Eaton, single, thirty-one, sexually liberated, and economically self-supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet... |
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56,67 |
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Hazards of Time Travel
ISBN: 9780062319609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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93,48 |
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Faithless: Tales of Transgression
ISBN: 9780060933579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid, unsparing precision and sympathy. By turns interlocutor and interpreter, magician and realist, she dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement and lasting power. In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid, unspar... |
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71,98 |
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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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64,40 |
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Das Unerwartete
ISBN: 9783312012848 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Eine etablierte Schriftstellerin kehrt in ihren Heimatort zurück und fragt sich, was hätte sein können, wenn sie nie gegangen wäre. Eine Attentäterin denkt über die Schwere ihrer Tat nach. Eine Professorin fühlt eine starke Verbindung zu ihrer Studentin und löst in ihr weitreichende Veränderungen aus. »Das Unerwartete« ist eine prägnante Vision alternativer Realitäten, eine Sammlung, die über die Zwänge nachdenkt, denen wir alle aufgrund der Umstände unserer Geburt und unseres Temperaments ausgesetzt sind, und die den konkurrierenden Druck und die Erwartungen... Eine etablierte Schriftstellerin kehrt in ihren Heimatort zurück und fragt sich, was hätte sein können, wenn sie nie gegangen wäre. Eine Attent... |
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67,10 |
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Blonde
ISBN: 9781841153728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 960 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A mesmerising novel of the most enduring cultural icon of the 20th century, Blonde is a deeply moving portrait of the woman who became Marilyn Monroe.
A mesmerising novel of the most enduring cultural icon of the 20th century, Blonde is a deeply moving portrait of the woman who became Marilyn Monroe....
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75,44 |