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Checkpoint
ISBN: 9781400079858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 115 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet.
From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet.
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The Mezzanine
ISBN: 9780802144904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive first novelfirst published in 1986 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperbackthe author of Vox and The Fermata uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying one s shoes, The Mezzanine at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry. Nicholson Baker s accounts of the ordinary become extraordinary through his sharp storytelling and his unconventional, conversational style. At first...
In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive first novelfirst published in 1986 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperbackthe author of Vox a...
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The Way the World Works: Essays
ISBN: 9781416572480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) New York Times bestselling author Nicholson Baker has assembled a "provocative and entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) collection of his most original and brilliant pieces from the last fifteen years. From political controversy to the intimacy of his own life, from forgotten heroes of pacifism to airplane wings, telephones, paper mills, David Remnick, Joseph Pulitzer, the OED, and the manufacture of the Venetian gondola, Nicholson Baker ranges over the map of life to examine what troubles us, what eases our pain, and what brings us joy. The Way...
New York Times bestselling author Nicholson Baker has assembled a "provocative and entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) col...
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80,88 |
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A Box of Matches
ISBN: 9780375706035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks.
What Emmett thinks about is the subject of this wise and closely observed novel, which covers vast distances while moving no further than Emmett's hearth and home. Nicholson Baker's extraordinary ability to describe and celebrate life in all its rich ordinariness has never been so beautifully achieved. Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffe...
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73,22 |
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Libidárium
ISBN: 9788025709245 / Czeski / 2013 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Tato erotická groteska se odehrává v prapodivném fantazijním světě zvaném Libidárium, kde je možné splnit si jakoukoli touhu, byť za nemalou cenu: kupříkladu větší, tlustší úd je k mání za pravou ruku. Díky výměně pohlavních orgánů můžou pánové konečně poznat, jaké to je být přeříznut vlastním penisem, zatímco ženy kopulují s roztouženými stromy, holdují romantickým projížďkám na masturbárkách či klitorisurfují po jezeře, v jehož hlubinách se ukrývá chujochneská příšera.
Nejedná se o typicky maskulinní pornoromán, neboť... Tato erotická groteska se odehrává v prapodivném fantazijním světě zvaném Libidárium, kde je možné splnit si jakoukoli touhu, byť za nemal...
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70,57 |
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Vox
ISBN: 9780679742111 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) NATIONAL BESTSELLER Vox is a novel that remaps the territory of sex--sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. It is an erotic classic that places Nicholson Baker firmly in the first rank of major American writers.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Vox is a novel that remaps the territory of sex--sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable a...
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69,36 |
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Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art
ISBN: 9781984881397 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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134,87 |
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The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
ISBN: 9780679776246 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The bestselling author of Vox and The Fermata devotes his hyperdriven curiosity and magnificently baroque prose to the fossils of punctuation and the lexicography of smut, delivering to readers a provocative and often hilarious celebration of the neglected aspects of our experience. 368 pp. 15,000 print.
The bestselling author of Vox and The Fermata devotes his hyperdriven curiosity and magnificently baroque prose to the fossils of punctuation and the ...
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88,63 |
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Room Temperature
ISBN: 9781847083494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A myriad of unrelated and trivial questions flood through the mind of the narrator, Mike, as he feeds his six month-old baby daughter one afternoon. Baker's readership and fan base is well-established with the success of his previous book, Vox.
A myriad of unrelated and trivial questions flood through the mind of the narrator, Mike, as he feeds his six month-old baby daughter one afternoon. B...
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40,31 |
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Vox
ISBN: 9781847083524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This is the story of two voices, his and hers: two strangers who, having met on a telephone chat-line, switch to a private, one-on-one connection - and find it impossible to hang up.
This is the story of two voices, his and hers: two strangers who, having met on a telephone chat-line, switch to a private, one-on-one connection - an...
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45,36 |
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U and I: A True Story
ISBN: 9780679735755 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike.
Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike.
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73,22 |
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The Everlasting Story of Nory
ISBN: 9780679763758 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling stories and inventing dolls. She has nightmares about teeth, which may explain her career choice. She is going to school in England, where she is mocked for her accent and her friendship with an unpopular girl, and she has made it through the year without crying.
Nicholson Baker follows Nory as she interacts with her parents and peers, thinks... Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any h...
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65,51 |
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The Fermata
ISBN: 9780099286714 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A story about sexual fantasy in which the main character, Arno Strine, a temporary typist, has mastered the technique of freezing time so that he can undress women. Nicholson Baker is the author of Vox.
A story about sexual fantasy in which the main character, Arno Strine, a temporary typist, has mastered the technique of freezing time so that he can ...
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87,23 |
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Room Temperature
ISBN: 9780802144911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The author of the quirky masterpiece The Mezzanine turns a young father's feeding-time reverie into a dazzling catalog of the minutiae of domestic love. A delightful book, homey and comfortable as a slipper. . . . Every page provokes the shock, or at least the smile, of recognition.--Washington Post.
The author of the quirky masterpiece The Mezzanine turns a young father's feeding-time reverie into a dazzling catalog of the minutiae of domestic lov...
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65,51 |
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A Box of Matches. Eine Schachtel Streichhölzer, englische Ausgabe
ISBN: 9780099448389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark, makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches. Then, he rummages through the thoughts that crowd his head and preoccupy him. Here is mid-life domesticated man, whose thoughts veer from love and marriage, to firelighters and suicide, in the twinkling of an eye.
A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark, makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches. Then, he rummages through...
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The Fermata
ISBN: 9780679759331 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay (Seattle Times). Sparkling.--San Francisco Chronicle.
Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acroba...
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73,22 |
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U AND I: A True Story
ISBN: 9781847083517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Baker presents a subtle, funny, yet profoundly serious study of the means by which art and artists are made, in this book about John Updike, and Baker's own obsession with Updike.
Baker presents a subtle, funny, yet profoundly serious study of the means by which art and artists are made, in this book about John Updike, and Baker...
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45,36 |
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
ISBN: 9781416572466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy--a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh perspective on the political and social landscape that gave rise to World War II. Human Smoke delivers a closely textured, deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s. Incorporating meticulous research and well-documented sources--including newspaper and magazine articles, radio speeches,...
Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of no...
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80,92 |
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House of Holes: A Book of Raunch
ISBN: 9781439189528 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In the New York Times bestseller House of Holes, Nicholson Baker, "one of the most beautiful, original, and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades" (The New York Times Magazine), returns to the terrain that made him famous with a gleefully provocative, off-the-charts erotic novel that is unlike anything you've read--"a filthy tour de force" (Time). Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. So begins Nicholson Baker's fuse-blowing sexual escapade--a modern-day Hieronymus Boschian bacchanal...
In the New York Times bestseller House of Holes, Nicholson Baker, "one of the most beautiful, original, and ingenious prose stylists ...
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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
ISBN: 9780375726217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country s libraries including the Library of Congress have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age.
With meticulous detective work and Baker s well-known explanatory power, Double Fold reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless... The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country s libraries including the Library of Congress hav...
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