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Waiting for Rescue
ISBN: 9781582435275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Jarring yet slyly comic, Waiting for Rescue evokes a world turned upside down after the events of 9/11 as seen through the eyes of a wry and observant American woman who, though far from the path of the hijacked planes, is thrown into turmoil nevertheless. As a teacher in Boston working with health professionals from around the world, her sudden grief and sense of impending violence gradually pervade every facet of her life and change forever her understanding of the "good works" her colleagues and her students believe they do. In Honig's global landscape, the paths of vastly...
Jarring yet slyly comic, Waiting for Rescue evokes a world turned upside down after the events of 9/11 as seen through the eyes of a wry and ob...
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The Truly Needy and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780822957812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) These nine stories are teeming with people on the margins, where destitute New Yorkers and determined immigrants are as much at the mercy of social services, media attention, opportunistic politicians, and "quality-of-life" campaigns as they are prey to grinding poverty, dangerous streets, and their own haunting memories. Delving into Lucy Honig's fiction, one is willingly drawn into an intimacy with these resilient, but flawed characters among them, a woman who cleans a beauty salon, a high school kid who s lost a parent, a runaway Cambodian bride, an actress, and a homeless woman.... These nine stories are teeming with people on the margins, where destitute New Yorkers and determined immigrants are as much at the mercy of social... |
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