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Wright Morris Territory: A Treasury of Work
ISBN: 9780803236585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Best known for his novels, including the National Book Award winners The Field of Vision and Plains Song, Nebraska-born author Wright Morris has long been regarded as one of America s most gifted writers. This volume, culling work from the photo-text books, criticism, and numerous short stories frequently overlooked among his oeuvre, reflects the true breadth of this quintessentially American artist s talents. As such, it offers a fascinating overview of Morris s inspiring accomplishments in multiple genres.
While embracing the prose for which Morris is justly famous, this... Best known for his novels, including the National Book Award winners The Field of Vision and Plains Song, Nebraska-born author Wright Mo...
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98,69 zł |
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The Home Place (Revised)
ISBN: 9780803282520 / Angielski / Miękka / 1968 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most highly regarded of contemporary American Writers.
This account in first-person narrative and photographs of the one-day visit of Clyde Muncy to "the home place" at Lone Tree, Nebraska, has been called "as near to a new fiction form as you could get." Both prose and pictures are homely: worn linoleum, an old man s shoes, well-used kitchen utensils, and weathered siding. Muncy s journey of discovery takes the measure of the man he has become and... Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most hi...
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62,31 zł |
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What a Way to Go
ISBN: 9780803258624 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The reader of this rollicking novel, first published in 1962, accompanies forty-seven-year-old Professor Arnold Soby (regarded by his girl students as safe and acceptable, but also good fun) on a sabbatical voyage to Italy and Greece. Among Soby's shipboard companions are Miss Winifred Throop, retired head mistress of the Winnetka Country Day School; her companion and colleague, Miss Mathilde Kollwitz, teacher of French and German; and Miss Thropp's seventeen-year-old niece, Cynthia Pomeroy, beautiful, scatterbrained, and studiously vulgar. Standing off the challenges of Italian and Swiss...
The reader of this rollicking novel, first published in 1962, accompanies forty-seven-year-old Professor Arnold Soby (regarded by his girl students as...
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103,89 zł |
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The Man Who Was There
ISBN: 9780803258136 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When it first appeared in 1945, this novel disconcerted a good many critics: Agee Ward, "the man who was there" of the title, ostensibly is the man who is not there--a member of the armed forces in World War II, he has been reported missing in action. Yet as we are shown various views of Agee and how he continues to affect the lives of others--among them Grandma Herkimer and Private Reagan, who knew him in boyhood; Peter Spavic and Mrs. Krickbaum, who refuse to believe that he is missing; Miss Gussie Newcomb, his landlady and (to her surprise) his heir--we come to perceive what Agee had in...
When it first appeared in 1945, this novel disconcerted a good many critics: Agee Ward, "the man who was there" of the title, ostensibly is the man wh...
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83,10 zł |
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Ceremony in the Lone Tree
ISBN: 9780803282766 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Although Tom Scanlon would just as soon spend it alone, his ninetieth birthday becomes the occasion for a family gathering in the Midwestern town of Lone Tree. The unlikely celebrants take this opportunity to reconceive their visions of past, future, and family in their own grotesque and ultimately liberating ways. Ceremony in Lone Tree is a spare and beautiful work by one of America's great postwar authors. Wright Morris (1910-98) wrote thirty-three books, including The Home Place and Plains Song (both available in Bison Books editions), and Field of Vision, which won the National Book...
Although Tom Scanlon would just as soon spend it alone, his ninetieth birthday becomes the occasion for a family gathering in the Midwestern town of L...
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86,93 zł |
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Cause for Wonder
ISBN: 9780803258853 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "When Warren Howe, middle-aged TV script writer, receives an invitation to the funeral of Monsieur Dulac, he attempts to round up all the people who were guests with him three decades ago in Riva. Dulac's castle in the Austrian Alps. Neither Uncle Fremont, who 'invented the dust bowl' nor an old college friend cares to re-experience the good old days. But Sol Spiegel, a junk collector who salvages the past, is eager to return. To escape a world firmly anchored in space and bound to clock time, to re-experience the unbelievable, they go back to Riva--an imaginative creation fixed in neither...
"When Warren Howe, middle-aged TV script writer, receives an invitation to the funeral of Monsieur Dulac, he attempts to round up all the people who w...
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88,29 zł |
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In Orbit
ISBN: 9780803258303 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "In the space of one day, Jubal E. Gainer, high school dropout and draft dodger, manages to rack up an impressive array of crimes. . . . He steals a friend's motorcycle, rapes a simple-minded spinster, mugs a pixyish professor, and stabs an obese visionary who runs a surplus store. He then waits out an Indiana twister and goes his way, leaving as much wreckage in his path as the twister itself."--Library Journal. "In Orbit is a short novel, full of action, and the seriousness can mostly be found between the lines. There] one can see against what Jubal Gainer's rebellion, thoughtless and...
"In the space of one day, Jubal E. Gainer, high school dropout and draft dodger, manages to rack up an impressive array of crimes. . . . He steals a f...
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124,68 zł |
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A Life
ISBN: 9780803281066 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Floyd Warner, eighty-two, has driven from California to his childhood home in Nebraska in his antique Maxwell coupe. There he confronts the smoldering remains of this late sister's house and the realization that he is now completely alone. As though in a trance, he sets out once again, this time to find his first adult home, a dusty sheep farm in the southwest, preparing to meet the fate that ultimately awaits him. Of such deceptively simple ingredients is this brilliant portrait of the last hours of an old man's life composed. Floyd Warner, who first appeared in Fire Sermon, is perhaps the...
Floyd Warner, eighty-two, has driven from California to his childhood home in Nebraska in his antique Maxwell coupe. There he confronts the smoldering...
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62,31 zł |
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The Huge Season
ISBN: 9780803258051 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this novel, set in 1952 but intermingling the past and present, the protagonist reviews the effects of the Jazz Age on himself and a friend, recalling their exploits in college, in Paris, and in love. The result is the picture of a generation. "A wonderful novel. It has power, meaning, freshness, vitality, and style."--Library Journal. "The execution is brilliant. A master of the comic and deeply sensitive to the most inarticulate of American sorrows, Morris's work is moving as only truly original work can be."--New York Times. "With increasing skill and insight, the serious (not solemn)...
In this novel, set in 1952 but intermingling the past and present, the protagonist reviews the effects of the Jazz Age on himself and a friend, recall...
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103,89 zł |
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The World in the Attic
ISBN: 9780803257290 / Angielski / Miękka / 1971 / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Wright Morris's "Nebraska Trilogy" (1946-49) embodies his attempt to capture and come to terms with his past. According to David Madden, in his study Wright Morris, "In The Inhabitants a picture collection] the emphasis is on the artifacts inhabited and on the land; in The Home Place narrative and pictures], on the inhabitants themselves; and in The World in the Attic, on what the land and the people signify to one man, Clyde Muncy, writer and self-exiled Nebraskan. . . . What was only suggested to Muncy in The Home Place is further developed, although not entirely resolved, in The World in...
Wright Morris's "Nebraska Trilogy" (1946-49) embodies his attempt to capture and come to terms with his past. According to David Madden, in his study ...
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72,70 zł |
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Plains Song: For Female Voices
ISBN: 9780803282674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Wright Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books, including The Home Place, also available in a Bison Books edition, and Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award. Charles Baxter is a professor of English at the University of Michigan and the author of numerous works, including The Feast of Love.
Wright Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books, including The Home Place, also available in a Bison Books edition, and Field of Vision, which won ...
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72,70 zł |
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War Games
ISBN: 9780803258785 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Written twenty years before it was first published in 1972, War Games features both black and charcoal-gray humor, whose characters and events are as unpredictable as they are absorbing--a book, in the author's words, "where the extremity of the bizarre is seen as the ultimate effort to change oneself, if not the world." At the center of the novel is the developing relationship between the protagonist, a fifty-three-year-old army colonel, and a Viennese immigrant whom he first knows as Mrs. Tabori and whose story he has learned through a dying amputee, Human Kopfman. Themes and characters...
Written twenty years before it was first published in 1972, War Games features both black and charcoal-gray humor, whose characters and events are as ...
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62,31 zł |
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The Deep Sleep
ISBN: 9780803258235 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "'Judge' Howard Potter, one of the most respected and influential citizens of a suburban town outside of Philadelphia, lies dead after a long and wearying illness. He is survived by the five people who knew him best and whose lives were deeply influenced by him. . . .Through the thoughts and reminiscences of these five very different people Mr. Morris tells his story. . . . His] writing is occasionally obscure but always absorbing. He does not, like so many writers, hover omnisciently over his characters. He prefers to project himself into their innermost and very human thoughts and...
"'Judge' Howard Potter, one of the most respected and influential citizens of a suburban town outside of Philadelphia, lies dead after a long and wear...
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103,89 zł |
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Man and Boy
ISBN: 9780803257870 / Angielski / Miękka / 1973 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "I have read and admired all of Morris's books, and there is no doubt in my mind that he is one of the most truly original of contemporary writers. His originality, his absolutely individual way of seeing and feeling, permeates Man and Boy, giving it its humor and wisdom."--Granville Hicks. "For a long time I have not read a novel that gave me so much pleasure in original talent. Morris] speaks completely in his own voice, a fascinating voice. He conveys the quality of the American gothic as no other writer I know has done."--Mark Schorer. "Mother, Mr. Morris seems to say in Man and Boy],...
"I have read and admired all of Morris's books, and there is no doubt in my mind that he is one of the most truly original of contemporary writers. Hi...
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72,70 zł |
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Fire Sermon
ISBN: 9780803281042 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "A radiant expression of the art Wright Morris] has developed through thirty years and fourteen earlier novels. Although it is anything but preachy it will stick in the minds of the congregation for a long time. . . . On the one hand, this is a novel of alienation and on the other, a novel about the discovery of identity. The author's overall concern . . . is the destiny of man. In this novel--perhaps more clearly and movingly than ever before--he carries the reader with him, until astonishment, awe, compassion, laughter, and exultation mingle in a tragic sense of life."--Granville Hicks,...
"A radiant expression of the art Wright Morris] has developed through thirty years and fourteen earlier novels. Although it is anything but preachy i...
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62,31 zł |
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One Day
ISBN: 9780803258419 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 433 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Friday, November 22, 1963, in Escondido, California, begins with the discovery of an infant in the adoption basket at the local animal pound. This calculated effort to shock the natives is silenced by the news from Dallas of an event calculated to shock the world. One Day is concerned with the way these two events are related and with the time that begins when conventional time seems to have stopped. The events of this day, both comical and horrifying, make the commonplace seem strange, and the strange familiar. To accommodate the present, the past must be reshuffled, and events accounted for...
Friday, November 22, 1963, in Escondido, California, begins with the discovery of an infant in the adoption basket at the local animal pound. This cal...
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135,07 zł |
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My Uncle Dudley
ISBN: 9780803258044 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "A wryly humorous chronicle of an odyssey which The Kid--the unnamed adolescent narrator--and his Uncle Dudley make across the country in an old Marmon touring car with seven men who share expenses. The events occur in the mid-1920s, 'the Homeric phase of the gas buggy era.' . . . In the context of American fictional heritage, the passengers float down the Big Muddy on the raft, refugees from the world of Aunt Sally. Dudley and The Kid, and even the car, are archetypes--the Uncle one had, or wishes on had had; the Huck Finn some were and all would like to have been; and the car one would most...
"A wryly humorous chronicle of an odyssey which The Kid--the unnamed adolescent narrator--and his Uncle Dudley make across the country in an old Marmo...
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72,70 zł |
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The Works of Love
ISBN: 9780803257672 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "When I was a boy of eight in the Platte Valley of Nebraska, my father made the first of the many moves that would prove to be of interest to a future writer of fiction. They were east to Chicago, the point on the map where all the lines pointed. Almost twenty years would pass before I would seek to recapture the past that I had experienced. The Works of Loveis the first fruit of that effort, and the linchpin in my novels concerned with the plains. The reader who has read The Home Place or The Field of Vision will find in this novel the crux of an experience I frequently return to but never...
"When I was a boy of eight in the Platte Valley of Nebraska, my father made the first of the many moves that would prove to be of interest to a future...
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88,29 zł |
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Love Among the Cannibals
ISBN: 9780803258426 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "In Love Among the Cannibals, Wright Morris is concerned with primitive energies and his book is a genial, often very funny short novel such as D. H. Lawrence might have written if he could have been influence by John Steinbeck."--Yale Review. "The narrator, Earl Horter, is a lyric writer of juke box songs. He and his partner Mac (the 'poor man's Rodgers and Hart') are in Hollywood to work on a musical. They each pick up a girl--Mac's is a Memphis belle and Earl's is a Greek goddess--and the four take a trip to Acapulco where the primitive atmosphere reveals the true worth of each."--Kirkus....
"In Love Among the Cannibals, Wright Morris is concerned with primitive energies and his book is a genial, often very funny short novel such as D. H. ...
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83,10 zł |
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The Field of Vision
ISBN: 9780803257894 / Angielski / Miękka / 1974 / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winner of the National Book Award "Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the American middle generation. Through a large body of work --which, unaccountably, has yet to receive the wide attention it deserves--Mr. Morris has adhered to standards which we have come to identify as those of the most serious literary art. His novel The Field of Vision brilliantly climaxes his most richly creative period. It is a work of permanent significance and relevance to those who cannot be content with less than a full effort to cope with the symbolic possibilities of the human condition...
Winner of the National Book Award "Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the American middle generation. Through a large body of wo...
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83,10 zł |
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