wyszukanych pozycji: 108
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Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage
ISBN: 9780425134061 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Honest and scarily funny, and it offers a rare insight into an author who has customarily hidden his heart."--New York Times
"An anthology in which Vonnegut freely quotes himself on everything from art and architecture to madness and mass murder...Uncompromising."--Los Angeles Times Here we have a collection of essays and speeches by me, with breezy autobiographical commentary serving as connective tissue and splints and bandages. Here we go again with real life and opinions made to look like one big, preposterous animal not unlike an invention by Dr. Seuss...... "Honest and scarily funny, and it offers a rare insight into an author who has customarily hidden his heart."--New York Times
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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9780385312080 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey thro...
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June
ISBN: 9780099583660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For eight years, big game hunter and war hero Harold Ryan has been presumed dead, lost in the Amazon rainforest while hunting for diamonds. Now he's back, only to find his wife engaged to a hippy doctor and his son transformed into a pampered sissy.
For eight years, big game hunter and war hero Harold Ryan has been presumed dead, lost in the Amazon rainforest while hunting for diamonds. Now he's b...
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The Big Trip Up Yonder & 2 B R 0 2 B
ISBN: 9789362056177 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Palm Sunday
ISBN: 9781784877040 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best friend and a dead marriage.
In Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight ...
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Kurt Vonnegut Complete Stories
ISBN: 9781609808082 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 944 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
ISBN: 9780099282969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. It's New York, 1950. A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. By the time he'd sold his third, he decided to quit his job and make a living as a full-time writer. That young man was Kurt Vonnegut. This title collects his stories from the postwar years.
It's New York, 1950. A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. By the time he'd sold his third, he decided to quit his...
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Rzeźnia numer pięć
ISBN: 9788383356013 / Polski / twarda z obwolutą / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Jedna z największych powieści antywojennych w literaturze światowej.
W zamyśle autora miała to być jego pierwsza książka. A jednak Vonnegut potrzebował dystansu lat, a także doświadczenia wynikającego z publikacji czterech wcześniejszych powieści, by wreszcie przelać na papier swe doświadczenia z czasów, kiedy jako jeniec wojenny był świadkiem bombardowania Drezna. W rezultacie powstała książka uchodząca za jedną z najwybitniejszych amerykańskich powieści antywojennych. Jest to książka o pisarzu, który nie potrafi wymazać z pamięci wspomnień z czasów wojny,... Jedna z największych powieści antywojennych w literaturze światowej.
W zamyśle autora miała to być jego pierwsza książka. A jednak Vo... |
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Player Piano
ISBN: 9781784876715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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50,28 |
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Player Piano
ISBN: 9780385333788 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut--wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer a... |
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Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
ISBN: 9781612190907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations, including his last published interview.
During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut which collects interviews from throughout his career we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end. From Kurt Vonnegut's last interview Is there another book in you, by chance? No. Look, I m 84 years old. Writers... One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations, including h...
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While Mortals Sleep
ISBN: 9780099529064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In 'While Mortals Sleep' men and machines, art and artifice, fortune and fame become curiously twisted. A man plays with his model trains too much until the women in his life decide to take matters into their own hands. In the title story, a hard-nosed reporter is called upon to judge the annual Christmas lights competition.
In 'While Mortals Sleep' men and machines, art and artifice, fortune and fame become curiously twisted. A man plays with his model trains too much unt...
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Slaughterhouse 5
ISBN: 9781784879822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Bluebeard
ISBN: 9780008264338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. From the author of Slaughterhouse 5. In Rabo Karabekian’s fictional autobiography, Vonnegut creates an impeccably funny satirical piece, through the reflections of a seventy-one-year-old man. Review ‘Vonnegut is at his edifying best.’ The Philadelphia Inquirer ‘The quicksilver mind of Vonnegut is at it again … He displays all his talents satire, irony, ridicule, slapstick, and even a shaggy dog story of epic proportions.’ The Cincinnati Post ‘[Kurt Vonnegut is] a voice you can trust to keep poking holes in the social fabric.’ San Francisco Chronicle ‘It has the...
From the author of Slaughterhouse 5. In Rabo Karabekian’s fictional autobiography, Vonnegut creates an impeccably funny satirical piece, through th...
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Cat's Cradle
ISBN: 9780141189345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Dr Felix Hoenikker is the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true
Dr Felix Hoenikker is the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker'...
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Slaughterhouse 5
ISBN: 9780099800200 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractur...
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50,28 |
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Slapstick or Lonesome No More
ISBN: 9780099842705 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Presents a post-apocalyptic black comedy - dedicated to Laurel and Hardy.
Presents a post-apocalyptic black comedy - dedicated to Laurel and Hardy.
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Cat's Cradle
ISBN: 9780241467985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. 'Vonnegut looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched' J. G. Ballard This bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expresses our deepest fears of Armageddon, and has become a counter-culture classic. 'A satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion' Jay McInerney 'The closest thing we had to a Voltaire' Tom Wolfe 'The time to read Vonnegut is just when you begin to suspect that the world is not what it appears to be. He is not only entertaining, he is electrocuting' The New York Times
'Vonnegut looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched' J. G. Ballard This bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expres...
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2 B R 0 2 B
ISBN: 9781511985024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars. All diseases were conquered. So was old age. Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunteers.
Everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars. All diseases were conquered. So ...
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Jailbird
ISBN: 9780099999003 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Walter F. Starbuck was sent to prison in 1975 for his part in the American political scandals known collectively as Watergate. Now, he is coming out of jail, into the brave new world of 1980s Manhattan. This is the story of his first 24hrs of freedom.
Walter F. Starbuck was sent to prison in 1975 for his part in the American political scandals known collectively as Watergate. Now, he is coming out o...
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