wyszukanych pozycji: 109
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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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68,47 |
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Player Piano
ISBN: 9783453322660 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ilium, New York, in der nahen Zukunft. Alles wird von Maschinen produziert, der Großteil der amerikanischen Arbeiterklasse ist überflüssig geworden. Für Ingenieur Paul Proteus erweist sich diese schöne neue Welt als sinnentleerte Hölle - und so stellt er sich gegen das System. Doch diesen Kampf kann er unmöglich gewinnen.Der große Klassiker der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur - erstmals ungekürzt und in neuer Übersetzung von Peter Torberg!
Ilium, New York, in der nahen Zukunft. Alles wird von Maschinen produziert, der Großteil der amerikanischen Arbeiterklasse ist überflüssig geworden...
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Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
ISBN: 9780099282969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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Player Piano
ISBN: 9781784876715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Breakfast of Champions: A Novel
ISBN: 9780385334204 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest ...
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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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2br02b
ISBN: 9781613824016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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41,96 |
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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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108,01 |
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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. 8-10 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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51,10 |
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Slaughterhouse 5
ISBN: 9781784879822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Deadeye Dick
ISBN: 9780008264321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Rudy Waltz hasnt had it easy. After accidentally committing manslaughter at the age of twelve, the traumas life continued to throw at him seemed almost inconsequential. Now fifty-four, an expat living in Haiti, hes reliving the harrowing moments of his life that have left him in his current disillusioned state. But perhaps his ancestors, among them a father who was an unwitting patron of Adolf Hitler, have predestined him for the mad life hes lead. In Deadeye Dick Vonnegut expertly probes the ties between generations, and questions the conventional notions of morality. ‘Vonnegut is...
Rudy Waltz hasnt had it easy. After accidentally committing manslaughter at the age of twelve, the traumas life continued to throw at him seemed almos...
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Kurt Vonnegut: Novels 1976-1985 (Loa #252): Slapstick / Jailbird / Deadeye Dick / Galápagos
ISBN: 9781598533040 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 864 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With the success of Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Kurt Vonnegut cemented his reputation as America's funniest and most original satirist. This third volume of the definitive edition of his fiction collects four novels written in the 1970s and '80s, when Vonnegut was at the height of his storytelling powers. Slapstick (1976) takes the form of the post-apocalyptic memoirs of Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain, architect of a brilliant scheme to rid mankind of loneliness. Jailbird (1979) is a political fable of our time, the biography of a good man who becomes embroiled in several of...
With the success of Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Kurt Vonnegut cemented his reputation as America's funniest and most original satirist. This th...
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Slaughterhouse 5
ISBN: 9780099800200 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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Gal?pagos (Spanish Edition)
ISBN: 9788410323346 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2025 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Cat's Cradle
ISBN: 9780241467985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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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: Letters
ISBN: 9780099582946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life'. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, Vonnegut is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: 'I am an American fad-of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop.' Like Vonnegut's books, his letters...
This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to...
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Slapstick or Lonesome No More
ISBN: 9780099842705 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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Jailbird
ISBN: 9780099999003 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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