wyszukanych pozycji: 48
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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 |
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The Information
ISBN: 9780679735731 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal--they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers, even as Tull himself sinks deeper into the sub-basement of literary failure. The only way out of this predicament, Tull believes, is the plot the demise of Barry.
"With The Information, Amis delivers a portrait of middle-age realignment with more verbal felicity and unbridled reach... Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal--they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This...
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90,55 zł |
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The Zone of Interest
ISBN: 9780804172899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, The Village Voice, The Miami Herald, Financial Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookRiot
-Powerful and electric. . . . A book that may stand for years as the triumph of his career.- --NPR -This is a novel that will endure. . . . A novel whose adventurousness is at the level of its ethical register, its attempt . . . to imagine the unimaginable.- --The Guardian (London) -A tour de force of sheer verbal virtuosity, and a brilliant, celestially upsetting novel inspired by no less than a profound... A Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, The Village Voice, The Miami Herald, Financial Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune,...
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74,09 zł |
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Night Train
ISBN: 9780099748717 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Detective Hoolihan, a policewoman, a police in cop parlance, begins to investigate the death of Jennifer. The evidence swings towards suicide - the gun in her hand, the suicide note, the secret history of depression and drug addiction, and then swings away; could be suicide administer three and why does the autopsy reveal no sign of drug abuse?
Detective Hoolihan, a policewoman, a police in cop parlance, begins to investigate the death of Jennifer. The evidence swings towards suicide - the gu...
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52,87 zł |
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Heavy Water: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780375701153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Martin Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." --"The Wall Street Journal"
In this wickedly delightful collection of stories, Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern master of the form. In "Career Move," screenwriters struggle for their art, while poets are the darlings of Hollywood. In "Straight Fiction," the love that dare not speak its name calls out to the hero when he encounters a forbidden object of desire--the opposite sex. And in "State of England," Mal, a former "minder to the superstars," discovers how to live in a country where "class... "Martin Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." --"The Wall Street Journal"
In this wickedly delightful collection of ... |
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61,74 zł |
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House of Meetings
ISBN: 9780099488682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. This title is about one such liaison.
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spe...
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58,16 zł |
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Koba The Dread
ISBN: 9780099438021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, this work gives us information about Stalin: Koba the Dread, losif the Terrible.
Addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In between the personal...
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68,74 zł |
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Yellow Dog
ISBN: 9780099267591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Novelists have noticed that contemporary reality keeps outdoing their imaginations. Yet there is still the obligation to attempt a reading of the present and the very near future. This work serves as an example of how the novel, or more particularly the comic novel, can respond to this transformation.
Novelists have noticed that contemporary reality keeps outdoing their imaginations. Yet there is still the obligation to attempt a reading of the pres...
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52,87 zł |
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Im Vulkan : Essays
ISBN: 9783036957883 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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118,21 zł |
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Other People: a Mystery Story
ISBN: 9780099769019 / Angielski / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When she awakes and realizes she is all right, that Time is starting again, it seems fitting that she should lie on a spindly white trolley in a white room. A nearby voice tells she is on her own now and to be good. Was she not good before? This story unfolds a metaphysical thriller where jealously guarded secrets jostle with startling insights.
When she awakes and realizes she is all right, that Time is starting again, it seems fitting that she should lie on a spindly white trolley in a white...
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52,87 zł |
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Einstein's Monsters
ISBN: 9780679729969 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A collection of stories about a frightening world inhabited by people dehumanized by the daily threat of nuclear war and postwar survivors deformed by its results.
A collection of stories about a frightening world inhabited by people dehumanized by the daily threat of nuclear war and postwar survivors deformed by...
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61,74 zł |
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The Rachel Papers
ISBN: 9780099503873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly-sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously. He sets the scene with infinite care -- but it doesn t come off quite as Charles expects."
Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly-sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits ...
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52,87 zł |
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Success
ISBN: 9780099461852 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gregory leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days & nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests. His foster brother, Terry, has to make do with the leavings as he trawls through life in a miasma of grief. But roles are reversed with both lives dramatically changed.
Gregory leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days & nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests. His foster brother, Terry, has ...
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52,87 zł |
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The Pregnant Widow
ISBN: 9780099488736 / Miękka / 2011 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Summer 1970. A long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution.
Summer 1970. A long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sex...
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58,16 zł |
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The Zone of Interest
ISBN: 9781529942293 / Miękka / 2024 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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52,87 zł |
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Money
ISBN: 9780099461883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, this is a tale of life lived without restraint; of money, the terrible things it can do and the disasters it can precipitate.
This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-wor...
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52,87 zł |
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Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict's Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machines
ISBN: 9781787331198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this offbeat book, introduced by Stephen Spielberg, acclaimed author Martin Amis explores how 1980s video games took a generation by storm. Delving into the electric atmosphere of the arcades where he misspent his youth, he asks: Why did Space Invaders invade our hearts and minds? How much time, loose change and sex appeal did they cost us? And most importantly, which secret cheats and tactics must we master to reach the next level?
In this offbeat book, introduced by Stephen Spielberg, acclaimed author Martin Amis explores how 1980s video games took a generation by storm. Delving...
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79,33 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 |