wyszukanych pozycji: 48
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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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 |
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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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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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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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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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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 |