wyszukanych pozycji: 11
All the Sad Young Literary Men
ISBN: 9780143114772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A novel of love, sadness, wasted youth, and literary and intellectual ambition-"a wincingly funny debut" (Vogue) Keith Gessen is a Brave and trenchant new literary voice. Known as an award-winning translator of Russian and a book reviewer for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times, Gessen makes his debut with this critically acclaimed novel, a charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century. The novel charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith as they overthink their college years, underthink...
A novel of love, sadness, wasted youth, and literary and intellectual ambition-"a wincingly funny debut" (Vogue) Keith Gessen is a ...
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95,40 zł |
All Art Is Propaganda
ISBN: 9780156033077 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s, when his most important experiences were behind him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead. All Art Is Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives...
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous ...
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55,70 zł |
Raising Raffi: A Book about Fatherhood (For People Who Would Never Read Such a Book)
ISBN: 9781837730223 / Miękka / 2023 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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55,70 zł |
All the Sad Young Literary Men. All die traurigen jungen Dichter, englische Ausgabe : Winner of the 5 Under 35 Fiction Award 2008
ISBN: 9780099513193 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the 21st century, this novel follows Sam, Mark, and Keith, as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle through the encouragement of the women who love and despise them to find a semblance of maturity, responsibility, and even literary fame.
A portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the 21st century, this novel follows Sam, Mark, and Keith, as they overthink their college years, unde...
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85,12 zł |
Raising Raffi: A Book about Fatherhood (For People Who Would Never Read Such a Book)
ISBN: 9781785789458 / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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86,11 zł |
A Terrible Country
ISBN: 9781910695760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In the summer of 2008, Andrei Kaplan moves from New York to Moscow to look after his ageing grandmother, a woman who survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia's violent capitalist transformation, during which she lost her beloved dacha. She welcomes Andrei into her home, even if she can't always remember who he is. Andrei learns to navigate Putin's Moscow, still the city of his birth, but with more expensive coffee. He looks after his elderly - but surprisingly sharp! - grandmother, finds a place to play hockey, a cafe to send emails, and eventually some friends, including a...
In the summer of 2008, Andrei Kaplan moves from New York to Moscow to look after his ageing grandmother, a woman who survived the dark days of communi...
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70,91 zł |
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
ISBN: 9780143114666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the World Fantasy Award One of New York Magazine's 10 Best Books of the Year One of NPR's 5 Best Works of Foreign Fiction The celebrated scary fairy tales of Russia's preeminent contemporary fiction writer--the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel Vanishings and aparitions, nightmares and twists of fate, mysterious ailments and supernatural interventions haunt these stories by the Russian master Ludmilla... New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the World Fantasy Award One of New York Magazine's 10 Best Books of ... |
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78,06 zł |
Critical Essays
ISBN: 9781846553264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home in discussing Charles Dickens & Charlie Chaplin, he moved back & forth across the borders between essay & journalism. These essays follow Orwell as he shows in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or a body of work gives rise to aesthetic & philosophical commentary.
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home in discussing Charles Dickens & Charlie Chaplin, he moved back & forth across the borders ...
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90,45 zł |
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
ISBN: 9781564784018 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an ...
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125,76 zł |
City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis
ISBN: 9780865478312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From its first shock waves in 2008, the Great Recession has been reshaping American cities. Detroit collapsed, and the ongoing national rollback in industry has meant the death of factory towns like Greensboro, North Carolina and Reading, Pennsylvania. But the effects of the crash have been far from uniform. The populations of gentrifying cities such as San Francisco and Brooklyn continue to expand, with rents soaring and neighborhood demographics changing overnight. Providence, Rhode Island is experiencing a civic renaissance that disguises lingering corruption in its political system.... From its first shock waves in 2008, the Great Recession has been reshaping American cities. Detroit collapsed, and the ongoing national rollback in... |
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91,07 zł |
Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
ISBN: 9780061965302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Diary of a Very Bad Year is a rarity: a book on modern finance that's both extraordinarily thoughtful and enormously entertaining."-- James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds "A great read. . . . HFM offers a brilliant financial professional's view of the economic situation in real time, from September 2007, when problems in financial markets began to surface, until late summer 2009."-- Booklist "n+1 is the rightful heir to Partisan Review and the New York Review of Books. It is rigorous, curious and provocative."...
"Diary of a Very Bad Year is a rarity: a book on modern finance that's both extraordinarily thoughtful and enormously entertaining."-- James Surow...
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69,34 zł |