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King of the Jews
ISBN: 9780241990681 / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the sprawling biography of Arnold Rothstein, a mythical New Yorker who was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in "The Great Gatsby" and Nathan Detroit in "Guys and Dolls." Rothstein was also rumored to be the mastermind of the Black Sox scandal, the fixing of the 1919 World Series.
This is the sprawling biography of Arnold Rothstein, a mythical New Yorker who was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in "The Great Gatsby" and Natha...
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87,31 zł |
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Where Dead Voices Gather
ISBN: 9780316895071 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the center of this riveting book--a narrative that is part mystery, part biography, part meditation on the meaning and power of music.
A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the center of this riveting book--a narrative that is part mystery, part biography, part meditati...
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237,01 zł |
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King of the Jews: The Greatest Mob Story Never Told
ISBN: 9780060936006 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Flamboyant mobster Arnold Rothstein was gambling and money. He was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. It was rumored he masterminded the 1919 World Series fix. He was Mr. Broadway, a king of corruption holding court from his private booth at Lindy's Restaurant. In this lively, sprawling biography, the inimitable Nick Tosches -- "one of the greatest living American writers" (Dallas Observer) -- examines the myth and extraordinary legacy of Arnold Rothstein. It is an elegy to old New York that places... Flamboyant mobster Arnold Rothstein was gambling and money. He was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detr... |
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78,06 zł |
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Where Dead Voices Gather
ISBN: 9780316895378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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120,15 zł |
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Night Train: A Biography of Sonny Liston
ISBN: 9780140279788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In 1962, Sonny Liston became boxing's world heavyweight champion. He was a poor plantation boy and a bruiser for the mob who had done time for armed robbery, but he had fought his way to the top. Those he met in the ring said he was unstoppable, even dangerous. Sonny, however, knew differently.
In 1962, Sonny Liston became boxing's world heavyweight champion. He was a poor plantation boy and a bruiser for the mob who had done time for armed r...
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55,70 zł |
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Me and the Devil
ISBN: 9780316120999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A raw and blazing novel by "the single, most brain-searingly dangerous man of letters. Read him at your peril." (Anthony Bourdain)
An aging New Yorker, a writer named Nick, feels life ebbing out of him. The world has gone to hell and Nick is so sick of it all that he can't even have a glass of champagne. Then one night he meets a tantalizing young woman who agrees to come back to his apartment. Their encounter is the most strangely extraordinary of his life. Propelled by uncontrollable, primordial desires, he enters a new and unimagined dimension of the forbidden and is filled with a... A raw and blazing novel by "the single, most brain-searingly dangerous man of letters. Read him at your peril." (Anthony Bourdain)
An aging New Y... |
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158,01 zł |
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The Nick Tosches Reader
ISBN: 9780306809699 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Newsday has said that Nick Tosches "casts brilliant black light." The San Diego Reader has said that "Tosches's best sentences uncoil like rattlesnakes and strike with a venom that spreads poison through all the little Sunday-school ideas you've held dear." And Rolling Stone has said that "Tosches can write like a wild rockabilly raveup. He can be elegant as a slow blues." The Nick Tosches Reader is the author's own selection of his best work over the past thirty years, including fiction, poetry, interviews, rock writing, investigative journalism, and criticism....
Newsday has said that Nick Tosches "casts brilliant black light." The San Diego Reader has said that "Tosches's best sentences uncoil li...
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170,16 zł |
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Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll: The Birth of Rock in the Wild Years Before Elvis
ISBN: 9780306808913 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Long before Elvis Presley entered Sam Phillips's Sun Records studio in 1954, rock 'n' roll was being performed and recorded by the likes of Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, the Clovers, the Dominoes, the Midnighters, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Wanda Jackson, and Johnny Ace. More than just a series of shrewd and evocative portraits of these and sixteen other performers, this book is also a paean to a forsaken time of relentless excess, sudden ruin, and fierce music. For this edition, the author has contributed a new listing of recent CD reissues. From 1945 to 1955, from Chinese...
Long before Elvis Presley entered Sam Phillips's Sun Records studio in 1954, rock 'n' roll was being performed and recorded by the likes of Big Joe Tu...
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95,36 zł |
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Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story
ISBN: 9780141041858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The dramatic and tormented life of Jerry Lee Lewis is the most fabled in rock 'n' roll history. 'Hellfire' is a wild and riveting biography, a journey into the soul of a rock 'n' roll legend, and into the soul of rock 'n' roll itself.
The dramatic and tormented life of Jerry Lee Lewis is the most fabled in rock 'n' roll history. 'Hellfire' is a wild and riveting biography, a journey...
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65,84 zł |
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In the Hand of Dante
ISBN: 9780316735643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now in paperback--the Tosches masterpiece--a life-or-death thriller based on the life of Dante and a thief named Nick Tosches.
Now in paperback--the Tosches masterpiece--a life-or-death thriller based on the life of Dante and a thief named Nick Tosches.
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108,37 zł |
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Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'n' Roll
ISBN: 9780306807138 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven; medieval myth and musical miscegenation; sex, drugs, murder; and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own. Profusely and superbly illustrated, Country stands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written.
Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and ...
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139,81 zł |
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The Italian American Reader
ISBN: 9780060006679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This anthology -- the first general-reader collection of writing by Italian American authors -- is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner. A gathering of voices old and new, some speak in the accents of another age, some completely contemporary and assured, and all together for the first time. To stand with all the other popular media images we represent, now, at last, one exists in written form, the literature of Italian American life. Inside, there are excerpts from novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, and poems -- by the living and the dead, the famous and the obscure. The excerpts... This anthology -- the first general-reader collection of writing by Italian American authors -- is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner. A gathering ... |
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86,73 zł |
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