wyszukanych pozycji: 55
Ulice Laredo
ISBN: 9788377313923 / Polski / twarda / 2021 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Kapitan Woodrow Call za młodu wspólnik Gusa McCrae i strażnik Teksasu został łowcą nagród i właśnie zlecono mu wytropienie groźnego meksykańskiego bandyty. Towarzyszy mu w tej wyprawie pewien mieszczuch ze Wschodniego Wybrzeża, niezbyt rozgarnięty zastępca szeryfa i jeden z ostatnich członków ekipy Kapeluszników, niejaki Ślepki Parker, ożeniony z Loreną, dawną kochanką Gusa.Podczas długiego i niebezpiecznego pościgu przemierzają ostatnie dzikie tereny Zachodu. Akcja na pewien czas przenosi się do bandyckiej ostoi zwanej Miastem Wron, a w finale bohaterowie...
Kapitan Woodrow Call za mÅ‚odu wspólnik Gusa McCrae i strażnik Teksasu zostaÅ‚ Å‚owcÄ… nagród i wÅ‚aÅ›nie zlecono mu wytropienie groźnego meksykaÅ...
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85,41 zł |
Moving on
ISBN: 9781631493492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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80,27 zł |
Terms of Endearment
ISBN: 9780684853901 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere: Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma.
Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around her, including a string of devoted suitors. Widowed and overprotective of her daughter, Aurora adapts at her own pace until life sends two enormous challenges her way: Emma's hasty marriage and subsequent battle with cancer. Terms of Endearment is the Oscar-winning story of a memorable... In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts...
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81,55 zł |
The Late Child
ISBN: 9780743222549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An unforgettable addition to his widely acclaimed body of work, The Late Child is Larry McMurtry's tender, funny, and poignant sequel to The Desert Rose. McMurtry delivers another rich cast of characters -- and a heartfelt, bittersweet story that unfolds on the open road, in one woman's search for strength, understanding, and hope.
Harmony is the optimistic, resilient Las Vegas ex-showgirl who returns home one day to the news that her beloved daughter has died, in New York, of AIDS. She manages to stay afloat, buoyed by her precocious five-year-old son, Eddie, and her two... An unforgettable addition to his widely acclaimed body of work, The Late Child is Larry McMurtry's tender, funny, and poignant sequel to The...
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124,50 zł |
Horseman, Pass by
ISBN: 9781631493553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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64,21 zł |
The Last Kind Words Saloon
ISBN: 9781447274582 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A stunning new novel from the bestselling author of Lonesome Dove.
A stunning new novel from the bestselling author of Lonesome Dove.
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48,14 zł |
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
ISBN: 9780684870199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction -- as close to an autobiography as his readers are likely to get -- Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.
Using as a springboard an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin that he first read in Archer City's Dairy Queen, McMurtry examines the small-town way of life that big oil and big ranching have nearly destroyed. He praises the virtues of everything from a lime Dr. Pepper to the lost art of oral storytelling, and describes the brutal... In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction -- as close to an autobiography as his readers are likely to get -- Larry McMurtry has written a family portr...
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77,26 zł |
The Evening Star
ISBN: 9780684857510 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Larry McMurtry's Terms of Endearment touched readers in a way no other story has in recent years. The earthy humor and the powerful emotional impact that set this novel apart rise to brilliant new heights with The Evening Star. McMurtry takes us deep into the heart of Texas, and deep into the heart of one of the most memorable characters of our time, Aurora Greenway--along with her family, friends, and lovers--in a tale of affectionate wit, bittersweet tenderness, and the unexpected turns that life can take. This is Larry McMurtry at his very best: warm, compassionate, full...
Larry McMurtry's Terms of Endearment touched readers in a way no other story has in recent years. The earthy humor and the powerful emotional i...
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81,55 zł |
Crazy Horse: A Life
ISBN: 9780143034803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of this great Sioux warrior who became a reluctant leader at the Battle of Little Bighorn. With his uncanny gift for understanding the human psyche, Larry McMurtry animates the character of this remarkable figure, whose betrayal by white representatives of the U.S. government was a tragic turning point in the history of the West. A mythic figure puzzled over by generations of...
Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography...
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73,01 zł |
Pod Hollywood: A Third Memoir
ISBN: 9781439159965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "One thing I've always liked about Hollywood is its zip, or speed. The whole industry depends to some extent on talent spotting. The hundreds of agents, studio executives, and producers who roam the streets of the city of Los Angeles let very little in the way of talent slip by." In this final installment of the memoir trilogy that includes Books and Literary Life, Larry McMurtry, "the master of the show-stopping anecdote" (O: The Oprah Magazine) turns his own keenly observing eye to his rollercoaster romance with Hollywood. As both the creator of numerous works...
"One thing I've always liked about Hollywood is its zip, or speed. The whole industry depends to some extent on talent spotting. The hundreds of agent...
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60,12 zł |
Some Can Whistle
ISBN: 9780743230162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy?" In a furious phone call from T.R., the daughter he's never met, Danny Deck gets the jolt of his life. A TV writer who's retired to his Texas mansion, Danny spends his days talking to the answering machines of his ex-lovers from New York to Paris and dreaming of the characters in the sitcom he's created. But suddenly, a hurricane called T.R. is storming into his life...
In his most moving and richly comic contemporary novel since Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the modern West he created so masterfully in The Last Picture Show and... "Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy?" In a furious phone call from T.R., the daughter he's never met, Danny Deck gets the jolt of his life. A TV writ...
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85,85 zł |
Paradise
ISBN: 9780743215664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Long considered to be the brilliant dark horse of literary nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize-winning Larry McMurtry delivers a searing and reflective exploration of what paradise is, whether it exists, and how different it is from life in his Texas hometown. In 1999, Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads of America, set off for a trip to the paradise of Tahiti and the South Sea Islands in an old-fashioned tub of a cruise boat, at a time when his mother was slipping toward a paradise of her own. Opening up to her son in her final days, his mother makes a...
Long considered to be the brilliant dark horse of literary nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize-winning Larry McMurtry delivers a searing and reflective explora...
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55,83 zł |
The Last Picture Show
ISBN: 9781631493591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,50 zł |
The Desert Rose
ISBN: 9780684853840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing about women -- their love for reckless, hopeless men; their ability to see the good in losers; and their peculiar combination of emotional strength and sudden weakness -- makes The Desert Rose the bittersweet, funny, and touching book that it is.
Harmony is a Las Vegas showgirl. At night she's a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs... Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing abo...
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60,12 zł |
Thalia: A Texas Trilogy
ISBN: 9781631493751 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels-- Horseman, Pass By (1961), * Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)-- all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains, where the forces of modernity challenge small- town American life. From a cattleranch rivalry that confirms... Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three n... |
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128,47 zł |
Szlak umrzyka
ISBN: 9788377314661 / Polski / twarda / 2023 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Szlak umrzyka to, mimo że napisany jako trzeci w kolejności, chronologicznie pierwszy tom epickiej teatrologii o Dzikim Zachodzie. Przedstawione tu wydarzenia opowiadają genezę przyjaźni dwójki bohaterów bestsellerowego Na południe od Brazos: Augustusa McCrae i Woodrowa Calla, oraz jak ten pierwszy odnalazł miłość swojego życia, a drugi - matkę swego jedynego syna. Jest rok 1842. Gus i Call - młodzi, niedoświadczeni, ale pełni entuzjazmu poszukiwacze przygód - wstępują w szeregi słynnych strażników Teksasu, gdzie czeka ich brutalna konfrontacja z rzeczywistością. Ich...
Szlak umrzyka to, mimo że napisany jako trzeci w kolejności, chronologicznie pierwszy tom epickiej teatrologii o Dzikim Zachodzie. Przedstawione tu ...
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85,41 zł |
Cadillac Jack
ISBN: 9781631495090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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69,56 zł |
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
ISBN: 9781631493577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,50 zł |
The Last Picture Show
ISBN: 9780141194448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Set in a small dusty Texas town, this poignant coming-of-age novel portrays Jacy, Duane and Sonny, three teenagers stumbling towards adulthood, discovering the beguiling mysteries of sex and the even more baffling mysteries of love.
Set in a small dusty Texas town, this poignant coming-of-age novel portrays Jacy, Duane and Sonny, three teenagers stumbling towards adulthood, discov...
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51,58 zł |
Literary Life: A Second Memoir
ISBN: 9781439159941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. LARRY McMURTRY IS THAT RAREST OF ARTISTS, a prolific and genre-transcending writer who has delighted generations with his witty and elegant prose. In Literary Life, the sequel to Books, he expounds on the private trials and triumphs of being a writer. From his earliest inkling of his future career while at Rice University, to his tenure as a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford with Ken Kesey in 1960, to his incredible triumphs as a bestselling author, this intimate and charming autobiography is replete with literary anecdotes and packed with memorable observations about writing, writers, and...
LARRY McMURTRY IS THAT RAREST OF ARTISTS, a prolific and genre-transcending writer who has delighted generations with his witty and elegant prose. In ...
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60,12 zł |