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The Way the World Works: Essays
ISBN: 9781416572480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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90,80 zł |
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Room Temperature
ISBN: 9780802144911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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73,54 zł |
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The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
ISBN: 9780679776246 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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99,50 zł |
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Vox
ISBN: 9781847083524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa 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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46,20 zł |
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The Fermata
ISBN: 9780099286714 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa 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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56,48 zł |
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Vox
ISBN: 9780679742111 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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77,87 zł |
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The Mezzanine
ISBN: 9781783786381 / Miękka / 2020 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,35 zł |
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The Mezzanine
ISBN: 9780802144904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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73,54 zł |
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The Everlasting Story of Nory
ISBN: 9780679763758 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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73,54 zł |
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A Box of Matches
ISBN: 9780375706035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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82,19 zł |
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Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art
ISBN: 9781984881397 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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151,41 zł |
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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. 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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71,34 zł |
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Room Temperature
ISBN: 9781847083494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa 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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41,07 zł |
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Checkpoint
ISBN: 9781400079858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 115 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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60,56 zł |
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U and I: A True Story
ISBN: 9780679735755 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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82,19 zł |
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The Fermata
ISBN: 9780679759331 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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82,19 zł |
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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
ISBN: 9780375726217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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112,48 zł |
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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 (Dostawa 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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46,20 zł |
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House of Holes: A Book of Raunch
ISBN: 9781439189528 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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77,83 zł |
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Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids
ISBN: 9780399160998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. **A New York Times Bestseller** "May be the most revealing depiction of the American contemporary classroom that we have to date." --Garret Keizer, The New York Times Book Review
Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, in pursuit of the realities of American public education, signed up as a substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the... **A New York Times Bestseller** "May be the most revealing depiction of the American contemporary classroom that we have to date." <...
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129,78 zł |
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