wyszukanych pozycji: 108
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Slaughterhouse-Five
ISBN: 9780440180296 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1991 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Slaughterhous-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.
Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey throu...
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Niech pana Bóg błogosławi panie Rosewater
ISBN: 9788382023992 / Polski / twarda z obwolutą / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Groteskowy, a zarazem przerażająco wierny obraz świata zbudowanego wokół kultu pieniądza
Eliot Rosewater, miłośnik alkoholu, a także prezes bajecznie bogatej Fundacji Rosewatera, nie jest w stanie znieść ciężaru fortuny, którą posiada. Wpada w obłęd i wyrusza w pijacką pielgrzymkę po całym kraju, żeby na końcu zamieszkać w ciasnym biurze w swoim rodowym miasteczku i zacząć, ku niezadowoleniu wpływowego ojca, pomagać jego mieszkańcom w codziennych potrzebach. Tymczasem przebiegły i ambitny prawnik Norman Mushari postanawia pozbawić Eliota majątku i dostać się... Groteskowy, a zarazem przerażająco wierny obraz świata zbudowanego wokół kultu pieniądza
Eliot Rosewater, miłośnik alkoholu, a także... |
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Deadeye Dick
ISBN: 9780008264321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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: Letters
ISBN: 9780099582946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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Mother Night
ISBN: 9780099819301 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A companion novel to Slaughterhouse 5, covering similar themes and drawing on the author's experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. A black satire, it tells of an American spy in Germany who becomes confused by his own methods as he sends his coded messages by using pro-Nazi radio broadcasts.
A companion novel to Slaughterhouse 5, covering similar themes and drawing on the author's experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. A black satire...
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God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
ISBN: 9780099842804 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Eliot Rosewater is tortured by a fabulous inheritance he feels he does not deserve, so he devotes himself to drink, and to a life serving the dull, the ugly, the irrelevant and the useless.
Eliot Rosewater is tortured by a fabulous inheritance he feels he does not deserve, so he devotes himself to drink, and to a life serving the dull, th...
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Galapagos
ISBN: 9783453322653 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Vor einer Million Jahre - 1986, um genau zu sein - ist die Welt, wie wir sie kennen, dem Untergang geweiht. Erst brechen die Finanzmärkte der Erde zusammen, dann das Klima und schließlich sorgt eine Pandemie dafür, dass alle Frauen unfruchtbar werden. Alle bis auf diejenigen, die sich an Bord des Kreuzfahrtschiffes Bahia de Darwin auf dem Weg zu den Galapagos-Inseln befinden. Plötzlich sind die Passagiere die letzte Hoffnung der Menschheit. Doch damit die Menschen als Spezies überleben können, muss sie die Evolution von dem befreien, was sie beinahe in den Untergang geführt...
Vor einer Million Jahre - 1986, um genau zu sein - ist die Welt, wie wir sie kennen, dem Untergang geweiht. Erst brechen die Finanzmärkte der Erde zu...
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Slapstick, albo nigdy więcej samotności!
ISBN: 9788382021462 / Polski / Twarda z obwolutą / 2021 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Śmieszno-gorzka opowieść o samotności, na którą skazuje nas współczesny styl życia
Apokaliptyczna wizja oglądana oczami aktualnego króla Manhattanu (i ostatniego prezydenta Stanów Zjednoczonych), a zarazem złośliwie lekceważące spojrzenie na prawdopodobne rezultaty naszych szaleństw. Nawet finał życia, jakie znamy, zmienia się pod piórem Vonneguta w zabawną farsę – finałowy slapstick, który może być żartem Wszechmogącego z nas wszystkich. Śmieszno-gorzka opowieść o samotności, na którą skazuje nas współczesny styl życia
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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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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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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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Player Piano
ISBN: 9781784876715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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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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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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Kurt Vonnegut Complete Stories
ISBN: 9781609808082 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 944 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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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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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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