wyszukanych pozycji: 106
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A Man without a Country
ISBN: 9780747586050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5
Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5
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Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
ISBN: 9780099282969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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ISBN: 9788383356013 / Polski / twarda z obwolutą / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Breakfast of Champions: A Novel
ISBN: 9780385334204 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Player Piano
ISBN: 9781784876715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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ISBN: 9781613824016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Deadeye Dick
ISBN: 9780008264321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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While Mortals Sleep
ISBN: 9780099529064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage
ISBN: 9780425134061 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "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
"An anthol... |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
ISBN: 9780099582946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Slaughterhouse 5
ISBN: 9780099800200 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Slaughterhouse 5
ISBN: 9781784879822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Player Piano
ISBN: 9780385333788 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Cat's Cradle
ISBN: 9780241467985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) '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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Slapstick or Lonesome No More
ISBN: 9780099842705 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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: 9780141189345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Welcome to the Monkey House
ISBN: 9781784877033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A MASTERFUL COLLECTION OF TWENTY-FIVE SHORT STORIES FROM THE INIMITABLE AUTHOR OF SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5, KURT VONNEGUT 'Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer...a zany but moral mad scientist' Time A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms.
A MASTERFUL COLLECTION OF TWENTY-FIVE SHORT STORIES FROM THE INIMITABLE AUTHOR OF SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5, KURT VONNEGUT 'Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr Calig...
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Player Piano
ISBN: 9783453322660 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Schlachthof 5, 1 Audio-CD, 1 MP3
ISBN: 9783742416278 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Billy Pilgrim, amerikanischer Veteran des Zweiten Weltkriegs, überlebte 1945 den »Feuersturm« auf Dresden als Gefangener im »Schlachthof 5«. Nach dem Krieg lebt er mit seiner Frau und seinen zwei Kindern in Ilium, New York. Doch dann geht sein Sohn nach Vietnam - und Pilgrim selbst wird auf überraschende Weise zum »Pilger zwischen den Zeiten«. Kurt Vonnegut, Zeuge des »größten Massakers in der Geschichte Europas«, verarbeitete sein Trauma in diesem Roman, der zum Kultbuch der Anti-Vietnam-Generation wurde. Die Lesung mit Jan Josef Liefers beweist die zeitlose Qualität dieses...
Billy Pilgrim, amerikanischer Veteran des Zweiten Weltkriegs, überlebte 1945 den »Feuersturm« auf Dresden als Gefangener im »Schlachthof 5«. Nach...
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