wyszukanych pozycji: 61
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Cesta mrtvého muže
ISBN: 9788076895683 / Czeski / 2025 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Cesta mrtvého muže je první, mimořádná kniha z epické tetralogie Osamělá holubice. Larry McMurtry vdechl nový život zaniklému americkému Západu a stvořil dva nezapomenutelné hrdiny Guse a Calla. V zemi, kde na každém kroku číhá nebezpečí, se mladí texaští hraničáři Augustus McCrae a Woodrow Call musí mnohému naučit. Čelí spalujícímu vedru, zuřícím tornádům, rozbouřeným řekám, nemilosrdným indiánům, ale také smrtelně nebezpečným vrtochům vojáků. Na svých prvních výpravách v doprovodu statné a neohrožené děvky Matildy se...
Cesta mrtvého muže je první, mimořádná kniha z epické tetralogie Osamělá holubice. Larry McMurtry vdechl nový život zaniklému americkému ...
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97,91 |
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Pod Hollywood: A Third Memoir
ISBN: 9781439159965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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53,51 |
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The Last Picture Show
ISBN: 9781631493591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,93 |
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Thalia: A Texas Trilogy
ISBN: 9781631493751 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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The Last Kind Words Saloon
ISBN: 9780393351194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Tracing their legendary friendship from the settlement of Long Grass, Texas, to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, The Last Kind Words Saloon finds Wyatt and Doc living out the last days of a cowboy lifestyle that is already passing into history. In his stark and peerless prose McMurtry... In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the... |
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57,14 |
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Horseman, Pass by
ISBN: 9781631493553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,14 |
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Moving on
ISBN: 9781631493492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,43 |
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
ISBN: 9780684870199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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72,58 |
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Crazy Horse: A Life
ISBN: 9780143034803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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64,97 |
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Literary Life: A Second Memoir
ISBN: 9781439159941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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53,51 |
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Terms of Endearment
ISBN: 9780684853901 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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80,22 |
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Měsíc nad prérií
ISBN: 9788076896901 / Czeski / 2025 / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Měsíc nad prérií je druhá kniha epické tetralogie Osamělá holubice, která je vrcholem jedinečného pohledu Larryho McMurtryho na americký Západ. Vypráví o období dvaceti let mezi romány Cesta mrtvého muže a Osamělá holubice, o dobrodružství plném tragédií, krutosti, odvahy, cti a zrady. Texaští hraničáři Augustus McCrae a Woodrow Call, nyní již muži středního věku, se i nadále potýkají se stále většími útrapami dospělého života. Gus kvůli své osudové lásce Kláře Forsytheové a Call kvůli Maggie Tiltonové, mladé děvce, která ho miluje....
Měsíc nad prérií je druhá kniha epické tetralogie Osamělá holubice, která je vrcholem jedinečného pohledu Larryho McMurtryho na americký Z...
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116,31 |
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Terms of Endearment
ISBN: 9781447274704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning film, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove.
The acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning film, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove.
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66,97 |
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The Last Kind Words Saloon
ISBN: 9780871407863 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Opening in the settlement of Long Grass, Texas not quite in Kansas, and nearly New Mexico we encounter the taciturn Wyatt, whiling away his time in between bottles, and the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc, more adept at poker than extracting teeth. Now hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge more often with a mean look than a pistol Wyatt and Doc are living out the last days of a way of life that is passing into history, two men never more aware of the growing distance between their lives and their legends. Along with Wyatt's wife, Jessie, who runs the... Opening in the settlement of Long Grass, Texas not quite in Kansas, and nearly New Mexico we encounter the taciturn Wyatt, whiling away his time in... |
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103,06 |
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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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55,19 |
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Księżyc Komanczów
ISBN: 9788384080474 / Polski / twarda / 2025 / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Augustus McCrae i Woodrow Call, dwaj strażnicy Teksasu, mierzą się z ciężarem dojrzałości. Gus wciąż na nowo przeżywa swą miłość do Clary Forsythe, kobiety niezależnej i dumnej, podczas gdy Call, milczący i zamknięty w sobie, nie potrafi odwzajemnić uczucia Maggie Tilton - młodej prostytutki, która kocha go bez względu na wszystko. Choć różni ich niemal wszystko - temperament, spojrzenie na życie, potrzeba bliskości - łączy ich niegasnące poczucie obowiązku. Raz jeszcze ruszają do walki jako członkowie oddziału Strażników, by w towarzystwie tropiciela...
Augustus McCrae i Woodrow Call, dwaj strażnicy Teksasu, mierzą się z ciężarem dojrzałości. Gus wciąż na nowo przeżywa swą miłość do Clar...
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119,90 |
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All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
ISBN: 9781631493577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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60,96 |
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When the Light Goes
ISBN: 9781416534273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this masterful and often surprising sequel to the acclaimed Duane's Depressed, the Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author of Lonesome Dove has written a haunting, elegiac, and occasionally erotic novel about one of his most beloved characters. Duane Moore first made his appearance in The Last Picture Show and, like his author, he has aged but not lost his vigor or his taste for life. Back from a two-week trip to Egypt, Duane finds he cannot readjust to life in Thalia, the small, dusty, West Texas hometown in which he has spent all of his life. In the short time...
In this masterful and often surprising sequel to the acclaimed Duane's Depressed, the Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author of Lonesome D...
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57,33 |
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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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89,90 |
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Books: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781416583356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Now in paperback, Larry McMurtry's fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare antiquarian books: "a necessary and marvelous gift" (San Antonio Express-News). - Acclaimed author: Spanning a lifetime of literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded at a wide variety of genres, from coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show, to essays like In a Narrow Grave, to the reinvention of the "Western" on a grand scale like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. Here at last is the private McMurtry writing about himself:...
Now in paperback, Larry McMurtry's fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare antiqu...
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72,58 |