wyszukanych pozycji: 147
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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51,58 zł |
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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77,30 zł |
Cardiff am Meer
ISBN: 9783955102425 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2021 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In diesem Band mit vier bisher unveröffentlichten großen Erzählungen der bekannten Autorin werdendie Leser wieder einmal in eine Welt schaurig-spannender, psychologisch reizvoller Beziehungen befördert. Auslöser sind Vorfälle, die jedem von uns geläufig sind, sei es aus persönlicher Erfahrung oder durch Medienberichte. Da ist der Telefonanruf eines Fremden - soll ich den Anruf annehmen oder besser nicht? -, eine zugelaufene, herumstreunende Katze - kann sie die Rettung sein? -, die Beziehung einer jungen Studentin zu ihrem Mentor oder ein ungeklärter Selbstmord. In jeder dieser...
In diesem Band mit vier bisher unveröffentlichten großen Erzählungen der bekannten Autorin werdendie Leser wieder einmal in eine Welt schaurig-span...
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110,12 zł |
Hazards of Time Travel : A Novel
ISBN: 9780062319593 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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101,41 zł |
Babysitter
ISBN: 9780008536824 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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83,97 zł |
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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77,26 zł |
Faithless: Tales of Transgression
ISBN: 9780060933579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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68,67 zł |
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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115,91 zł |
I Am No One You Know: Stories
ISBN: 9780060592899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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77,30 zł |
Breathe
ISBN: 9780008490881 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych.
'America's preeminent fiction writer' New Yorker Michaela and her husband have moved to the starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape of New Mexico, to take residency at a distinguished academic institute. But then Gerard is stricken with a mysterious illness, initially misdiagnosed, and soon their life begins to resemble a nightmare. At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood - and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped her own. 'America's preeminent fiction writer' New Yorker Michaela and her husband have moved to the starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape o... |
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87,72 zł |
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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70,40 zł |
The Corn Maiden : And Other Nightmares
ISBN: 9781908800220 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. One day an 11-year-old girl disappears. She was playing with friends from school. The crop is strengthened by her blood. Marissa is an innocent girl, with hair the colour of corn-silk. She does not hold others in strange thrall, she obeys her parents, she does not stay late after school. She is the perfect sacrifice.
One day an 11-year-old girl disappears. She was playing with friends from school. The crop is strengthened by her blood. Marissa is an innocent girl, ...
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90,63 zł |
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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68,50 zł |
The Corn Maiden: And Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense
ISBN: 9781801102964 / Miękka / 2022 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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46,42 zł |
Marya: A Life
ISBN: 9780062269218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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64,38 zł |
The (Other) You: Stories
ISBN: 9780063035201 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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152,33 zł |
48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
ISBN: 9781837932771 / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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103,25 zł |
Hazards Of Time Travel
ISBN: 9780008295455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society. Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Time Travel is an exquisitely wrought love story, a novel of harrowing discovery - and an oblique but powerful response to our current political climate.
An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society. Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Tim...
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78,00 zł |
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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94,48 zł |