wyszukanych pozycji: 48
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Time's Arrow
ISBN: 9780679735724 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. "The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art."--Newsday
In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and ma...
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65,65 zł |
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The Zone of Interest
ISBN: 9780099593683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The new novel from Martin Amis
The new novel from Martin Amis
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52,87 zł |
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Lionel Asbo: State of England
ISBN: 9780099565680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful criminal - has always looked out for his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He gives him fatherly advice and introduces him to the joys of Internet porn. Des, on the other hand, desires nothing more than books, a girl to love and to steer clear Uncle Li's psychotic pitbulls, Joe and Jeff.
Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful criminal - has always looked out for his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He gives him fatherly advice...
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52,87 zł |
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Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions
ISBN: 9780099461876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Martin Amis provides portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike.
Martin Amis provides portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike.
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58,16 zł |
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Dead Babies
ISBN: 9780099437338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "It's transfixing -- At first it's funny. It teases, exaggerates, deliberates. Then it becomes ferocious, stricken, moving." --"The Times"
Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the bacchanalia bent bon-vivants ensconced at Appleseed Rectory for the weekend are reeling in an hallucinatory haze of sex and seduction. But as Friday melts into Saturday and Saturday spirals into Sunday and sobriety sets in, the orgiastic romp descends to disastrous depths. "It's transfixing -- At first it's funny. It teases, exaggerates, deliberates. Then it becomes ferocious, stricken, moving." --"The Times"
Blitzed... |
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52,87 zł |
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Other People
ISBN: 9780679735892 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. She wakes in an emergency room in a London hospital, to a voice that tells her: "You're on your own now. Take care. Be good." She has no knowledge of her name, her past, or even her species. It takes her a while to realize that she is human -- and that the beings who threaten, befriend, and violate her are other people. Some of whom seem to know all about her.
In this eerie, blackly funny, and sometimes disorienting novel, Martin Amis gives us a mystery that is as ambitious as it is intriguing, an investigation of a young woman's violent extinction that also traces her construction of a... She wakes in an emergency room in a London hospital, to a voice that tells her: "You're on your own now. Take care. Be good." She has no knowledge of ...
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86,44 zł |
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Interessengebiet : Roman
ISBN: 9783036959535 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2017 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Können wir uns noch in die Augen blicken, nachdem wir gesehen haben, wer wir wirklich sind? Ein beunruhigender, meisterhaft geschriebener und unendlich trauriger Roman.
Können wir uns noch in die Augen blicken, nachdem wir gesehen haben, wer wir wirklich sind? Ein beunruhigender, meisterhaft geschriebener und unendli...
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72,74 zł |
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Experience: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780375726835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels.
The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life. He also examines the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who was abducted and murdered by one of Britain's most notorious serial killers. Experience also deconstructs the changing literary scene, including Amis' portraits of... Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and ...
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73,88 zł |
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Einstein's Monsters
ISBN: 9780099768913 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An ex-circus strongman and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny. There is maximum boredom and minimum love-making advised, while a new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a 'father of the nuclear age'. This book offers a collection of stories that reveal a deep preoccupation.
An ex-circus strongman and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny. There is maximum boredom and...
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47,58 zł |
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Heavy Water And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780099272663 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of short stories, including Heavy Water; Straight Fiction; Career Moves; The Janitor on Mars; Let Me Count the Times; and others.
A collection of short stories, including Heavy Water; Straight Fiction; Career Moves; The Janitor on Mars; Let Me Count the Times; and others.
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58,16 zł |
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Das Rachel-Tagebuch : Roman. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Somerset Maugham Award 1974
ISBN: 9783036959313 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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63,65 zł |
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Strefa interesów
ISBN: 9788383381596 / Polski / broszurowa / 2024 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Film na podstawie poruszającej powieści mistrza prozy brytyjskiej.Miłość w czasach Zagłady.Golo Thomsen, oficer SS, zakochuje się w Hannah Doll, żonie komendanta obozu koncentracyjnego. Paul Doll dowiaduje się prawdy i obojgu grozi wielkie niebezpieczeństwo. Doll knuje intrygę, w której jedną z głównych ról ma odegrać niejaki Szmul - więzień obozu.To tylko powierzchnia, pod którą kotłuje się hitlerowska noc Walpurgi.Amis mierzy się w tej powieści z jedną z największych tragedii nowożytnego świata. Powojenny finał jest nie mniej poruszający niż tło akcji -...
Film na podstawie poruszającej powieści mistrza prozy brytyjskiej.Miłość w czasach Zagłady.Golo Thomsen, oficer SS, zakochuje się w Hannah Doll...
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47,49 zł |
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Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
ISBN: 9781400032204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's award-winning memoir, Experience. Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century -- one that spread through the world, both captivating it and staining it red. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of 20th-century thought: the indulgence of Communism by the intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginnings and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one-hundred...
A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's award-winnin...
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86,44 zł |
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London Fields
ISBN: 9780679730347 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. London Fields is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts. Or is the killer the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch?
London Fields is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing intent ...
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90,55 zł |
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London Fields: Introduction by John Sutherland
ISBN: 9780375712524 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Martin Amis's acclaimed novel--now in a twenty-fifth-anniversary hardcover edition--is a blackly comic murder mystery about a murder that has not yet happened. First published in 1989, LONDON FIELDS is set ten years into a dark future, against a backdrop of environmental and social decay and the looming threat of global cataclysm. As the dreaded millennium approaches, Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing, attempts to orchestrate her own extinction, choosing her thirty-fifth birthday, November 5, 1999, as the date of her murder. Whom to manipulate into killing her is the...
Martin Amis's acclaimed novel--now in a twenty-fifth-anniversary hardcover edition--is a blackly comic murder mystery about a murder that has not yet ...
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144,06 zł |
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The Information
ISBN: 9780099526698 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. How can one writer hurt the reputation of another? This is the problem facing novelist Richard Tull, contemplating the success of his friend and rival, Gwyn Barry. 'The Information' is at once revenge tragedy, comedy of errors and contemporary satire.
How can one writer hurt the reputation of another? This is the problem facing novelist Richard Tull, contemplating the success of his friend and rival...
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68,74 zł |
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The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America
ISBN: 9780099461869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Yellow Dog.
At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles, and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers, opinion-makers, leaders and crackpots with characteristic discernment and wit. Included in a gallery of Great American Novelists are Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Joseph Heller, William Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Paul Theroux,... A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Yellow Dog.
At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Prince... |
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58,16 zł |
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The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
ISBN: 9780099422228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A selection of Martin Amis' reviews and essays over the past quarter century. It contains pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen, Dickens, Kafka, Philip Larkin, Joyce, Lowry, Nabokov, Waugh, Gore Vidal, Michael Crichton, and John Updike to name a few.
A selection of Martin Amis' reviews and essays over the past quarter century. It contains pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen, ...
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79,33 zł |
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Time's Arrow: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1991
ISBN: 9780099455356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The story of a life told backwards. Its narrator, Doctor Tod T. Friendly, trapped and hurtling towards a terrible secret, moves out of the blackest sleep to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned.
The story of a life told backwards. Its narrator, Doctor Tod T. Friendly, trapped and hurtling towards a terrible secret, moves out of the blackest sl...
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52,87 zł |
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Inside Story
ISBN: 9781529113471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This extraordinary novel gives the reader the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers - a wonder of literary invention and a boisterous modern classic. His most intimate and epic work to date, Inside Story is the unseen portrait of Martin Amis' extraordinary life, as a man and a writer.
This extraordinary novel gives the reader the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers - a wonder of literary invention and a boisterous ...
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52,87 zł |