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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51,10 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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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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With Shuddering Fall
ISBN: 9780062795717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,91 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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Babysitter
ISBN: 9780008536817 / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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97,14 zł |
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The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
ISBN: 9780060565541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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70,47 zł |
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The Man Without a Shadow
ISBN: 9780062416094 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this taut and fascinating novel, the bestselling, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of The Sacrifice, The Accursed, and Lovely, Dark, Deep examines the mysteries of memory, personality, and identity and pierces the enigmatic force that drives human lives--love. In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets the attractive, charismatic Elihu Hoopes--the "man without a shadow"--whose devastated memory, unable to store new experiences or to retrieve the old, will make him the most famous and most studied amnesiac in history.... In this taut and fascinating novel, the bestselling, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of The Sacrific... |
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116,09 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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Babysitter
ISBN: 9780593535172 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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153,45 zł |
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Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong
ISBN: 9781801102940 / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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47,86 zł |
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Carthage
ISBN: 9780062208132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A mesmerizing novel that examines grief, faith, justice, and the atrocities of war through the story of a young girl's disappearance in a small adirondack town Zeno mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a father's 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... A mesmerizing novel that examines grief, faith, justice, and the atrocities of war through the story of a young girl's disappearance in a small adi... |
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66,32 zł |
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Blondynka
ISBN: 9788366863347 / Polski / miękka ze skrzydełkami / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Odważna i bezkompromisowa powieść o Normie Jeane Baker, kobiecie, z której kultura Hollywood zrobiła produkt. Historia narodzin i upadku najbardziej błyskotliwej kariery w kinematografii światowej.
W jednym ze swoich najbardziej ambitnych dzieł Joyce Carol Oates odważnie przedstawia wewnętrzne, poetyckie i duchowe życie Normy Jeane Baker – dziecka, kobiety, nieszczęśliwej celebrytki i idealizowanej blondynki, którą świat poznał jako Marilyn Monroe. Jej życie było naznaczone dramatami, smutkiem i żalem. Oraz ogromną tęsknotą za uczuciem. Lgnęła do mężczyzn,... Odważna i bezkompromisowa powieść o Normie Jeane Baker, kobiecie, z której kultura Hollywood zrobiła produkt. Historia narodzin i upadku najbardz...
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56,31 zł |
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48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
ISBN: 9781837932788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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81,80 zł |
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Blonde
ISBN: 9781841153728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 960 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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65,02 zł |
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You Must Remember This
ISBN: 9780452280199 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Joyce Carol Oates's epic novel of an American family in the 1950's probes the tender division between the permissible and the forbidden, between ordinary life and the secret places of the heart. Set in an industrial, working-class town in upstate New York, this book chronicles the frustrating marriage of parents Lyle and Hannah; the idealistic political journey of son Warren, and the passionate, obsessive relationship that develops between 15-year-old Enid Maria and her uncle Felix, a professional boxer twice her age. While brilliantly re-creating a decade that worshipped conformity,...
Joyce Carol Oates's epic novel of an American family in the 1950's probes the tender division between the permissible and the forbidden, betwee...
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cena:
91,25 zł |
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The (Other) You: Stories
ISBN: 9780063035201 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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150,95 zł |
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Das Unerwartete
ISBN: 9783753000671 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 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... |
cena:
109,12 zł |