wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page
ISBN: 9780156030342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At once a memoir of an exotic life, a meditation on the art and craft of writing, and a brilliant examination of the always complex relationship between fiction and life, Lynn Freed s critically acclaimed Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home surprises, instructs, and delights. With dark and comforting wisdom (Anne Lamott) and great intellectual and emotional range (Diane Johnson), Freed tears off all fictional disguises and exposes the human being behind the artist. A must-read for writers, readers, and anyone engaged in literature, Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home is destined...
At once a memoir of an exotic life, a meditation on the art and craft of writing, and a brilliant examination of the always complex relationship betwe...
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76,50 zł |
Romance of Elsewhere: Essays
ISBN: 9781640091597 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,08 zł |
The Curse of the Appropriate Man
ISBN: 9780156029940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. These fourteen short stories, written over the past ten years but never before collected, deal with the struggles between mothers and their wayward daughters, the often preposterous bonds that tie men and women together, and the complex games masters and servants play with one another. In spare, elegant prose, Freed delivers surprise after surprise as she shakes the truth from life. Whether it's her portrayal of a mother mired in senile dementia in "Ma," a young girl experiencing her first sexual encounter with an itinerant knife-sharpener in "Under the House," or a young woman incapable of...
These fourteen short stories, written over the past ten years but never before collected, deal with the struggles between mothers and their wayward da...
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59,33 zł |
The Last Laugh
ISBN: 9781250182104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,80 zł |
The Servants' Quarters
ISBN: 9780547336039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Haunted by phantoms of World War II and the Holocaust, young Cressida lives in terror of George Harding, who, severely disfigured, has returned from the front to recover on his family's African estate. When Harding plucks young Cressida's beautiful mother and family from financial ruin, establishing them in the old servants' quarters, Cressida is swept into a life inexorably bound to his.
Haunted by phantoms of World War II and the Holocaust, young Cressida lives in terror of George Harding, who, severely disfigured, has returned from t...
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67,83 zł |
Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life
ISBN: 9781586486440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The bulk of the interviews in this oral history were conducted in the days immediately following the anchorman's death from lung cancer in August 2005. Friends and fellow reporters retrace every step of his career, offering an intimate portrait of the late journalist and news anchor.
The bulk of the interviews in this oral history were conducted in the days immediately following the anchorman's death from lung cancer in August 2005...
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117,82 zł |