wyszukanych pozycji: 23
Birds of America
ISBN: 9780571260867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. From the opening story about a second-rate movie actress involved with a mechanic, 'Birds of America' unfolds a series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America.
From the opening story about a second-rate movie actress involved with a mechanic, 'Birds of America' unfolds a series of portraits of the young, the ...
|
|
cena:
50,99 zł |
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?: 'So marvellous that it often stops one in one's tracks.' OBSERVER
ISBN: 9780571268559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This book follows the lives of Berie, an American woman visiting Paris with her husband, and her best friend, Sils, from childhood. From the author of 'Anagrams' and 'Self-Help', this is a moving portrait which demonstrates wit and poignancy.
This book follows the lives of Berie, an American woman visiting Paris with her husband, and her best friend, Sils, from childhood. From the author of...
|
|
cena:
50,99 zł |
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home: 'The most irresistible contemporary American writer.' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
ISBN: 9780571273881 / Miękka / 2024 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
50,99 zł |
Bark: 'Pretty much 100% brilliant.' The Times
ISBN: 9780571273928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This book was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore explores the passing of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of American life, irony and half-cracked love wend their way through these stories, in which Moore is always tender, never sentimental and often heartbreakingly funny.
This book was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore explores the passing ...
|
|
cena:
50,99 zł |
Like Life
ISBN: 9780571260843 / Miękka / 2010 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In this collection of stories Lorrie Moore addresses herself to a contemporary emotional dilemma - the widening gulf between men and women, and the simultaneous yearning for and fear of closeness.
In this collection of stories Lorrie Moore addresses herself to a contemporary emotional dilemma - the widening gulf between men and women, and the si...
|
|
cena:
50,99 zł |
Ptaki Ameryki
ISBN: 9788381919449 / Polski / twarda / 2024 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Och, ależ męka to całe życie- myśli bohaterka jednego z opowiadań Lorrie Moore. Bo jak inaczej postrzegać codzienność, w której dzieci umierają, mężowie zdradzają, rodzice odchodzą, a ludzie są po prostu nieżyczliwi?To właśnie o życiowych rozterkach - małych i dużych - pisze jedna z najznakomitszych współczesnych amerykańskich pisarek. W tomie Ptaki Ameryki Moore z delikatnością pisze o tych, którzy się boją, są samotni, a ich decyzje i wybory wydają się czasem wątpliwe. Koncentruje się na postaciach, które coś uwiera, oddziela emocjonalnie od innych...
Och, ależ męka to całe życie- myśli bohaterka jednego z opowiadań Lorrie Moore. Bo jak inaczej postrzegać codzienność, w której dzieci umier...
|
|
63,55 zł |
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
ISBN: 9780307594143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
117,65 zł |
A Gate at the Stairs: 'Not a single sentence is wasted.’ Elizabeth Day
ISBN: 9780571249466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. With America gearing up for war in the Middle East, Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter a world of culture and politics. As her past becomes increasingly alien to her, Tassie realises she is becoming a stranger to herself.
With America gearing up for war in the Middle East, Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to univ...
|
|
cena:
50,99 zł |
Birds of America: Stories
ISBN: 9780307474964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial . Stand s] by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability. The New York Times Book Review
The celebrated collection of twelve stories from one of the finest authors at work today. ANew York TimesBook of the Year A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of theSalonBook Award AVillage VoiceBook of the Year A marvelous collection . Her stories are tough, lean, funny, and metaphysical . Birds of America has about it a wild beauty that simply... Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial . Stand s] by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability. The Ne...
|
|
cena:
78,44 zł |
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
ISBN: 9781524712525 / Inna / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
81,65 zł |
Terrific Mother: Faber Stories
ISBN: 9780571351831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goes to her friends' Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby. The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs. What follows is Adrienne's retreat from life and her attempt to return to it. Her sharp scepticism about the people around her is achingly funny. Yet beyond derision there is forgiveness and something along the lines of love
Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goes t...
|
|
cena:
25,47 zł |
Bark: Stories
ISBN: 9780307740861 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book " Moore] deftly paints with negative space, releasing tremendous... A New York Times Notable Book |
|
cena:
91,51 zł |
Self-Help: ‘One of America’s most brilliant writers.’ Stylist
ISBN: 9780571260850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This ironic, bittersweet collection of nine stories marked Lorrie Moore's talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are presented as a highly idiosyncratic guide to female existence.
This ironic, bittersweet collection of nine stories marked Lorrie Moore's talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are presented as a highl...
|
|
cena:
50,99 zł |
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
ISBN: 9780307740878 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
78,44 zł |
Collected Stories
ISBN: 9781841593937 / Twarda / 2020 / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing, wry voice, confirm Lorrie Moore as a master of the short story form.
These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing, wry voice, confirm Lo...
|
|
cena:
76,50 zł |
Self-Help: Faber Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780571322718 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious; Self-Help forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence which is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. These stories are modern America at its most real, with characters sharing thoughts and experiences they could have borrowed from our own lives. This is how to deal with divorce, adultery, cancer, how to talk to your mother or become a writer, the Lorrie Moore way.
Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious; Self-Help forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence which is just as relevant toda...
|
|
cena:
50,99 zł |
The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore: 'An unadulterated delight.' OBSERVER
ISBN: 9780571239368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A collection of stories from Lorrie Moore, hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction.
A collection of stories from Lorrie Moore, hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction.
|
|
cena:
66,30 zł |
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
ISBN: 9781400033829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Touches and dazzles and entertains. An enchanting novel." --The New York Times
In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America we share a grown woman s bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth. The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend Sils had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules, teasing the fun out of small... "Touches and dazzles and entertains. An enchanting novel." --The New York Times
In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author... |
|
cena:
69,72 zł |
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
ISBN: 9780593744154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
126,37 zł |
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary
ISBN: 9780571339945 / Miękka / 2019 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
50,99 zł |