wyszukanych pozycji: 13
In a Perfect World
ISBN: 9780061766114 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In a Perfect World is critically acclaimed writer Laura Kasischke's new novel of marriage, motherhood, and the choices we make when we have no choices left. Kasischke, the author of The Life Before Her Eyes, tells the story of Jiselle, a young flight attendant who's just settled into a fairy tale life with her new husband and stepchildren. But as a mysterious new illness spreads rapidly throughout the country, she begins to realize that her marriage, her stepchildren, and their perfect world are all in terrible danger . . .
In a Perfect World is critically acclaimed writer Laura Kasischke's new novel of marriage, motherhood, and the choices we make when we have n...
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61,11 zł |
The Life Before Her Eyes
ISBN: 9780156027120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Diana stands before the mirror preening with her best friend, Maureen. Suddenly, a classmate enters holding a gun, and Diana sees her life dance before her eyes. In a moment the future she was just imagining--a doting wife and mother at the age of forty--is sealed by a horrific decision she is forced to make. In prose infused with the dramatically feminine sensuality of spring, we experience seventeen-year-old Diana's uncertain steps into womanhood--her awkward, heated forays into sex; her fresh, fragile construction of an identity. Together with the sights and sounds of renewal, we...
Diana stands before the mirror preening with her best friend, Maureen. Suddenly, a classmate enters holding a gun, and Diana sees her life dance befor...
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74,21 zł |
Mind of Winter
ISBN: 9780062284396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling poet and author of The Raising, returns Mind of Winter, a dark and chilling thriller that combines domestic drama with elements of psychological suspense and horror--an addictive tale of denial and guilt that is part Joyce Carol Oates and part Chris Bohjalian. On a snowy Christmas morning, Holly Judge awakens with the fragments of a nightmare floating on the edge of her consciousness. Something followed them from Russia. Thirteen years ago, she and her husband Eric adopted baby Tatty,... Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling poet and author of The Raising, returns Mind of Winter, a d... |
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129,31 zł |
Mind of Winter
ISBN: 9780062284402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling poet and author of The Raising, returns Mind of Winter, a dark and chilling thriller that combines domestic drama with elements of psychological suspense and horror--an addictive tale of denial and guilt that is part Joyce Carol Oates and part Chris Bohjalian. On a snowy Christmas morning, Holly Judge awakens with the fragments of a nightmare floating on the edge of her consciousness. Something followed them from Russia. Thirteen years ago, she and her husband Eric adopted baby Tatty,... Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling poet and author of The Raising, returns Mind of Winter, a d... |
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78,58 zł |
The Time Machine
ISBN: 9780999005057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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52,42 zł |
The Raising: Novel
ISBN: 9780062004789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "Kasischke's writing does what good poetry does--it shows us an alternate world and lulls us into living in it . . . The language catapults us into another plane of existence, one of facade and reflection." --New York Times Book Review
"Haunting, unsettling, and unforgettable, The Raising limns love, longing, belonging and the things we only think we know about life--and yes, death." --Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of You From Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of In a Perfect World and The Life Before Her... "Kasischke's writing does what good poetry does--it shows us an alternate world and lulls us into living in it . . . The language catapults us into an...
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65,48 zł |
Be Mine
ISBN: 9780156033831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) On Valentine s Day, Sherry finds an anonymous note in her mailbox: be mine. As the notes continue, Sherry becomes more and more charged by the idea that she can inspire such feelings. Her twenty-year marriage is routine and she feels old, aimless, and empty now that her son is in college. When she discovers who her admirer is, she begins a wildly passionate affair with him. But her son s childhood friend is witness to the affair, her best friend is strangely silent, and her husband is playing a disturbing game of titillation and encouragement. Soon events spiral out of Sherry s control,...
On Valentine s Day, Sherry finds an anonymous note in her mailbox: be mine. As the notes continue, Sherry becomes more and more charged by the idea th...
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78,58 zł |
Gardening in the Dark
ISBN: 9781931337229 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "Gardening in the Dark," Kasischke s sixth book of poetry, continues to explore the transformative power of imagination. Her poems take us to the flip side of human consciousness, where anything can happen at any time. Tinged with surrealism, her work makes visionary leaps from the quotidian to sudden, surprising epiphanies."
"Gardening in the Dark," Kasischke s sixth book of poetry, continues to explore the transformative power of imagination. Her poems take us to the f... |
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61,15 zł |
Where Now: New and Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781556595127 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Kasischke astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power. Publishers Weekly Every poem is exquisitely crafted, with crisp, clean lines and imagery that dazzles. The Washington Post For Kasischke poetry is a kind of revenge on the existential limits that it describes Los Angeles Review of Books Laura Kasischke s long-awaited selected poems presents the breadth of her probing vision that subverts the so-called normal. A lover of fairy tales, Kasischke showcases her command of the symbolic, with a keen attention to sound in her exploration of the... Kasischke astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power. Publishers Weekly Every poem is exquisitely crafted, with crisp, clea... |
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131,04 zł |
Fire and Flower: Poems
ISBN: 9781882295210 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Poetry. Three sections of ten poems each, which revel in the gorgeous possibilities of language even as they acknowledge the impossibility of language to contain the things it describes: But there will always be/ storms & gray// that settle on their shoulders blurred as sparrows// before they fly away. Seasons/ and the names for them will change. (from A is for Almost) Kasischke's world...is a world in which grace and horror, beauty and carnage, tragedy and hilarity commingle.-Harvard Review. Kasischke is the author of two previous collections of poems, WILD BRIDES and HOUSEKEEPING IN A...
Poetry. Three sections of ten poems each, which revel in the gorgeous possibilities of language even as they acknowledge the impossibility of language...
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52,20 zł |
Lilies Without
ISBN: 9781931337366 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 93 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "She has, like all good poets, created a music of her own, one suited to her concerns. When denizens of the 22nd century, if we get there, look back on our era and ask how we lived, they will take an interest both in the strangest personalities who gave their concerns verbal form, and in the most representative. The future will not--should not--see us by one poet alone. But if there is any justice in that future, Kasischke is one of the poets it will choose." --Boston Review "Kasichke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a... "She has, like all good poets, created a music of her own, one suited to her concerns. When denizens of the 22nd century, if we get there, look bac... |
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61,15 zł |
The Infinitesimals
ISBN: 9781556594663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase." "Austin American-Statesman" "The Infinitesimals" stares directly at illness and death, employing the same highly evocative and symbolic style that earned Laura Kasischke the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. Drawing upon her own experiences with cancer, and the lives and deaths of loved ones, Kasischke's new work commands a lyrical and dark intensity. Laura Kasischke is the author of eight collections of poetry and seven novels. She teaches at the University... "Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase." "Austin American-Statesman" "The I... |
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69,89 zł |
The Essential Walt McDonald
ISBN: 9781682831212 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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174,50 zł |