wyszukanych pozycji: 120
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Film Flam
ISBN: 9780743216241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows his Hollywood. In Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits.
With successful movies and television miniseries made from several of his novels -- Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, and Hud -- McMurtry writes with an outsider's irony of the industry and an insider's experience. In these essays he illuminates the plight of the screenwriter, cuts a clean, often... A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows his Hollywood. In Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrat...
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61,28 |
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Buffalo Girls
ISBN: 9780743216296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: "Martha Jane -- better known as Calamity -- is just one of the handful of aging legends who travel to London as part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in Buffalo Girls. As he describes the insatiable curiosity of Calamity's Indian friend No Ears, Annie Oakley's shooting match with Lord Windhouveren, and other highlights of the tour, McMurtry turns the story of a band of hardy, irrepressible survivors into an unforgettable portrait of love, fellowship, dreams, and heartbreak.
In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: "Martha Jane -- better known as Calamity -- is just one of the...
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76,61 |
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Memoirs and Reflections
ISBN: 9781442648302 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring contribution to Canadian law, politics, and life. These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on various commissions of inquiry, and his... From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential caree... |
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190,37 |
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Memoirs and Reflections
ISBN: 9781442629028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 582 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring contribution to Canadian law, politics, and life. These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on various commissions of inquiry, and his... From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential caree... |
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171,08 |
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Pod Hollywood: A Third Memoir
ISBN: 9781439159965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "One thing I've always liked about Hollywood is its zip, or speed. The whole industry depends to some extent on talent spotting. The hundreds of agents, studio executives, and producers who roam the streets of the city of Los Angeles let very little in the way of talent slip by." In this final installment of the memoir trilogy that includes Books and Literary Life, Larry McMurtry, "the master of the show-stopping anecdote" (O: The Oprah Magazine) turns his own keenly observing eye to his rollercoaster romance with Hollywood. As both the creator of numerous works...
"One thing I've always liked about Hollywood is its zip, or speed. The whole industry depends to some extent on talent spotting. The hundreds of agent...
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53,66 |
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Terms of Endearment
ISBN: 9780684853901 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere: Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma.
Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around her, including a string of devoted suitors. Widowed and overprotective of her daughter, Aurora adapts at her own pace until life sends two enormous challenges her way: Emma's hasty marriage and subsequent battle with cancer. Terms of Endearment is the Oscar-winning story of a memorable... In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts...
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cena:
80,44 |
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Moving on
ISBN: 9781631493492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
72,63 |
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Walls of Confinement
ISBN: 9780983354437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
57,30 |
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Szlak umrzyka
ISBN: 9788377314661 / Polski / twarda / 2023 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Szlak umrzyka to, mimo że napisany jako trzeci w kolejności, chronologicznie pierwszy tom epickiej teatrologii o Dzikim Zachodzie. Przedstawione tu wydarzenia opowiadają genezę przyjaźni dwójki bohaterów bestsellerowego Na południe od Brazos: Augustusa McCrae i Woodrowa Calla, oraz jak ten pierwszy odnalazł miłość swojego życia, a drugi - matkę swego jedynego syna. Jest rok 1842. Gus i Call - młodzi, niedoświadczeni, ale pełni entuzjazmu poszukiwacze przygód - wstępują w szeregi słynnych strażników Teksasu, gdzie czeka ich brutalna konfrontacja z rzeczywistością. Ich...
Szlak umrzyka to, mimo że napisany jako trzeci w kolejności, chronologicznie pierwszy tom epickiej teatrologii o Dzikim Zachodzie. Przedstawione tu ...
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cena:
89,90 |
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BT305 Creation Our Foundation I
ISBN: 9781976386022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
32,19 |
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Terms of Endearment
ISBN: 9781447274704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning film, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove.
The acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning film, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove.
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66,83 |
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Ulice Laredo
ISBN: 9788384080313 / Polski / twarda / 2025 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. McMurtry napisał smutną, a jednocześnie zabawną powieść, w której uczcił nie tylko przeszłość swoich bohaterów, lecz także schyłek amerykańskiego Zachodu. - New York Times Jedno z najmocniejszych i najbardziej poruszających dzieł McMurtryego. - Los Angeles Times Kapitan Woodrow Call - za młodu wspólnik Gusa McCrae i strażnik Teksasu - został łowcą nagród i właśnie zlecono mu wytropienie groźnego meksykańskiego bandyty. W wyprawie towarzyszy mu mieszczuch ze Wschodniego Wybrzeża, niezbyt rozgarnięty zastępca szeryfa i jeden z ostatnich członków ekipy...
McMurtry napisał smutną, a jednocześnie zabawną powieść, w której uczcił nie tylko przeszłość swoich bohaterów, lecz także schyłek amery...
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99,90 |
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Rhino Ranch
ISBN: 9781439156407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. - Highly acclaimed, iconic author: Larry McMurtry is renowned for his elegiac prose, sharp wit, and engaging plotlines. His Thalia, Texas, series is among his most famous and Duane is an icon as much as his creator. - The Thalia Finale: Readers have followed the life of Duane through The Last Picture Show, Texasville, Duane's Depressed, and When the Light Goes . Rhino Ranch, the final episode in Duane's saga, represents the end of an era and is the most unusual and compelling novel in the series. - Irony, romance, and cycle of life: Duane...
- Highly acclaimed, iconic author: Larry McMurtry is renowned for his elegiac prose, sharp wit, and engaging plotlines. His Thalia, Texas, series is a...
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cena:
68,99 |
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Lonesome Dove
ISBN: 9781529099942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
65,37 |
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Am I Black on the Inside?
ISBN: 9781096935339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
45,87 |
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Heaven's Gold: Resurrecting Faith in Today's Youth
ISBN: 9781449787264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Young people are leaving the church in staggering numbers as they go off to college, and church leaders do not know how to stop this exodus of youth. This study outlines why young people are leaving and what it will take to resurrect their faith, offering a foolproof plan how to accomplish that. Heaven's Gold takes the reader on a treasure hunt through Scripture from a fresh point of view that will attract young people, rather than drive them away. By turning the church into a spiritual fitness center, the fire of faith can be rekindled in each of us.
Young people are leaving the church in staggering numbers as they go off to college, and church leaders do not know how to stop this exodus of yout... |
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53,61 |
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The Last Picture Show
ISBN: 9780141194448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Set in a small dusty Texas town, this poignant coming-of-age novel portrays Jacy, Duane and Sonny, three teenagers stumbling towards adulthood, discovering the beguiling mysteries of sex and the even more baffling mysteries of love.
Set in a small dusty Texas town, this poignant coming-of-age novel portrays Jacy, Duane and Sonny, three teenagers stumbling towards adulthood, discov...
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55,31 |
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Literary Life: A Second Memoir
ISBN: 9781439159941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. LARRY McMURTRY IS THAT RAREST OF ARTISTS, a prolific and genre-transcending writer who has delighted generations with his witty and elegant prose. In Literary Life, the sequel to Books, he expounds on the private trials and triumphs of being a writer. From his earliest inkling of his future career while at Rice University, to his tenure as a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford with Ken Kesey in 1960, to his incredible triumphs as a bestselling author, this intimate and charming autobiography is replete with literary anecdotes and packed with memorable observations about writing, writers, and...
LARRY McMURTRY IS THAT RAREST OF ARTISTS, a prolific and genre-transcending writer who has delighted generations with his witty and elegant prose. In ...
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53,66 |
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The Desert Rose
ISBN: 9780684853840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing about women -- their love for reckless, hopeless men; their ability to see the good in losers; and their peculiar combination of emotional strength and sudden weakness -- makes The Desert Rose the bittersweet, funny, and touching book that it is.
Harmony is a Las Vegas showgirl. At night she's a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs... Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing abo...
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53,66 |
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Leaving Cheyenne
ISBN: 9781631493515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
61,13 |