wyszukanych pozycji: 171
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Beasts
ISBN: 9780786711031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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75,77 |
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Rape a Love Story
ISBN: 9780786714827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A victim of gang rape and left for dead, the once vital and sexy Teena Maguire can now only regret that she has survived. At a relentless, compelling pace, the National Book Award winner unfolds the story of Teena and Bethie, their assailants, and their unexpected, silent champion, a man who knows the meaning of justice--and love.
A victim of gang rape and left for dead, the once vital and sexy Teena Maguire can now only regret that she has survived. At a relentless, compelling ...
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75,77 |
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The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age
ISBN: 9780062408686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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68,19 |
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Flint Kill Creek - Stories of Mystery and Suspense
ISBN: 9781613165577 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
85,50 |
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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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cena:
71,98 |
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48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister
ISBN: 9781613163818 / Angielski / Inna / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
102,15 |
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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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The Gravedigger’s Daughter
ISBN: 9780007258468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best.
From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobil...
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cena:
85,50 |
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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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cena:
45,24 |
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Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.
ISBN: 9780008381110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
95,57 |
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Garden of Earthly Delights PB
ISBN: 9780812968347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 448 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. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and poverty, determined not to repeat her mother's life, Clara struggles for independence by way of her relationships with four very different men: her father, a family man turned itinerant laborer, smoldering with...
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. I...
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cena:
79,60 |
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The Man Without a Shadow
ISBN: 9780008165413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel that examines the mysteries of human memory and personality
From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel that examines the mysteries of human memory and personality
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60,84 |
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Flint Kill Creek
ISBN: 9781035909964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
80,47 |
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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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Extenuating Circumstances
ISBN: 9781613164259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
68,04 |
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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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Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong
ISBN: 9781801102940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
45,24 |
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Sourland
ISBN: 9780061996535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Oates is a fearless writer." --Los Angeles Times "Oates is a master of the dark tale--stories of the hunted and the hunter, of violence, trauma, and deep psychic wounds."--Booklist (starred review) Sourland is a gripping, haunting, and intensely moving collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates, one of America's preeminent authors. Unforgettable tales that re-imagine the meaning of loss--often through violent means--Sourland is yet another extraordinary read from the literary icon who has previously brought us...
"Oates is a fearless writer." --Los Angeles Times "Oates is a master of the dark tale--stories of the hunted and...
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cena:
68,19 |