wyszukanych pozycji: 20
Because They Wanted to: Stories
ISBN: 9780684841441 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book A man tells a story to a woman sitting beside him on a plane, little suspecting what it reveals about his capacity for cruelty and contempt. A callow runaway girl is stranded in a strange city with another woman's fractiously needy children. An uncomprehending father helplessly lashes out at the daughter he both loves and resents. In these raw, startling, and incandescently lovely stories, the author of Veronica yields twelve indelible portraits of people struggling with the disparity between what they want and what they know. Because They...
A New York Times Notable Book A man tells a story to a woman sitting beside him on a plane, little suspecting what it reveals about his cap...
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67,87 zł |
Oppositions: Selected Essays
ISBN: 9781788168168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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57,00 zł |
The Devil's Treasure
ISBN: 9781733540155 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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148,47 zł |
Don't Cry
ISBN: 9781781255957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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54,65 zł |
Don't Cry
ISBN: 9780307275875 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories her first in more than ten years. In College Town l980, young people adrift in Ann Arbor debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; in the urban fairy tale Mirrorball, a young man steals a girl s soul during a one-night stand; in The Little Boy, a woman haunted by the death of her former husband is finally able to grieve through a mysterious encounter with a needy child. Each story delivers the powerful, original language, and the dramatic engagement of the intelligent mind with the craving body or...
Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories her first in more than ten years. In College Town l980, young people adrift in Ann Ar...
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80,60 zł |
Don't Cry
ISBN: 9781788168687 / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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46,63 zł |
Because They Wanted To
ISBN: 9780241464144 / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,82 zł |
Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays
ISBN: 9780307472335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From one of the most singular presences in American fiction comes a searingly intelligent book of essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal. Whether she's writing about date rape or political adultery or writers from John Updike to Gillian Flynn, Mary Gaitskill reads her subjects deftly and aphoristically and moves beyond them to locate the deep currents of longing, ambition, perversity, and loneliness in the American unconscious. She shows us the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Bjork, the playfulness of artist Laurel Nakadate. She celebrates the...
From one of the most singular presences in American fiction comes a searingly intelligent book of essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and pe...
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93,32 zł |
Veronica
ISBN: 9780375727856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, here is an evocative novel about female friendship in the glittering 1980s. A finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, here is an evocative novel about female friendship in the glittering... |
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76,36 zł |
This is Pleasure
ISBN: 9781788165044 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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36,26 zł |
Two Girls, Fat and Thin
ISBN: 9780241464151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,82 zł |
The Mare : Nominated for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017
ISBN: 9781781255940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A profound, important novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class - now in paperback
A profound, important novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class - now in paperback
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54,65 zł |
Two Girls Fat and Thin
ISBN: 9780684843124 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Reissued to coincide with the paperback publication of "Because They Wanted To", this captivating novel shimmers with dark intensity and wicked wit. In a stunning synthesis of eroticism, rage, pathos, and humor, Gaitskill's "fine storyteller's pace and brilliant metaphors" ("The New York Times Book Review") create a haunting and unforgettable journey into the dark side of contemporary life and the deepest recesses of the soul.
Reissued to coincide with the paperback publication of "Because They Wanted To", this captivating novel shimmers with dark intensity and wicked wit. I...
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84,80 zł |
The Devil\'s Treasure
ISBN: 9781946022820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,36 zł |
The Mare
ISBN: 9781788168670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,82 zł |
Bad Behavior
ISBN: 9780241383100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Mary Gaitskill's tales of desire and dislocation in 1980s New York caused a sensation with their frank, caustic portrayals of men and women's inner lives. As her characters have sex, try and fail to connect, play power games and inflict myriad cruelties on each other, she skewers urban life with precision and candour. 'Stubbornly original, with a sort of rhythm and fine moments that flatten you out when you don't expect it, these stories are a pleasure to read' Alice Munro 'An air of Pinteresque menace hangs over these people's social exchanges like black funereal bunting ......
Mary Gaitskill's tales of desire and dislocation in 1980s New York caused a sensation with their frank, caustic portrayals of men and women's inner ...
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51,82 zł |
Lost Cat: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781911547808 / Miękka / 2020 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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46,63 zł |
Veronica
ISBN: 9781781255926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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57,00 zł |
Oppositions: Selected Essays
ISBN: 9781788168151 / Twarda / 2021 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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88,12 zł |
One Thousand and One Nights: A Retelling
ISBN: 9780307948991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Passed down over centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of One Thousand and One Nights are related by the beautiful, young Shahrazad as she attempts to delay her execution. Retold in modern English by the acclaimed Lebanese author Hanan al-Shaykh, here are stories of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. Bringing together nineteen classic tales, in these pages al-Shaykh weaves an utterly intoxicating collection, rich with humor, violence, and...
Passed down over centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of One Thousand and One Nights are related by...
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84,84 zł |