wyszukanych pozycji: 154
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48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
ISBN: 9781837932795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,10 zł |
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Babysitter
ISBN: 9780008536824 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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83,20 zł |
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Butcher
ISBN: 9781524712662 / Miękka / 2024 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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92,06 zł |
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The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age
ISBN: 9780062408686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow's Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters. The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates' vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State. From memories of her relatives, to those of a charming bond with a special red hen on her family farm; from her first friendships to her earliest experiences with death, The Lost Landscape is a powerful evocation of... Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow's Story, an affecting and ob... |
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74,61 zł |
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Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
ISBN: 9780452272316 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls are joined in a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them. Foxfire is Joyce Carol Oates s strongest and most unsparing novel yet an always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit. Here is the secret history of a sisterhood of blood, a haven from a world of male oppressors, marked by a liberating fury that burns too hot to last. Above all, it is the story of Legs Sadovsky, with her lean,...
The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls are joined in a gang dedicated to pride, powe...
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91,25 zł |
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Das Unerwartete
ISBN: 9783312012848 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Eine etablierte Schriftstellerin kehrt in ihren Heimatort zurück und fragt sich, was hätte sein können, wenn sie nie gegangen wäre. Eine Attentäterin denkt über die Schwere ihrer Tat nach. Eine Professorin fühlt eine starke Verbindung zu ihrer Studentin und löst in ihr weitreichende Veränderungen aus. »Das Unerwartete« ist eine prägnante Vision alternativer Realitäten, eine Sammlung, die über die Zwänge nachdenkt, denen wir alle aufgrund der Umstände unserer Geburt und unseres Temperaments ausgesetzt sind, und die den konkurrierenden Druck und die Erwartungen... Eine etablierte Schriftstellerin kehrt in ihren Heimatort zurück und fragt sich, was hätte sein können, wenn sie nie gegangen wäre. Eine Attent... |
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68,20 zł |
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The Sacrifice
ISBN: 9780062391698 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When a teenage girl is the alleged victim of an act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. In this magisterial work of fiction, Joyce Carol Oates explores the uneasy fault lines in a racially troubled society and reveals that there must always be a sacrifice--of innocence, truth, trust, and, ultimately, of lives. Unfolding in a succession of multiracial voices, in a community transfixed by this alleged crime and the spectacle unfolding around it, this profound... When a teenage girl is the alleged victim of an act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial t... |
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111,94 zł |
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The Corn Maiden : And Other Nightmares
ISBN: 9781908800220 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. One day an 11-year-old girl disappears. She was playing with friends from school. The crop is strengthened by her blood. Marissa is an innocent girl, with hair the colour of corn-silk. She does not hold others in strange thrall, she obeys her parents, she does not stay late after school. She is the perfect sacrifice.
One day an 11-year-old girl disappears. She was playing with friends from school. The crop is strengthened by her blood. Marissa is an innocent girl, ...
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90,45 zł |
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Cardiff, by the Sea
ISBN: 9781800241411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,10 zł |
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The Corn Maiden: And Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense
ISBN: 9781801102964 / Miękka / 2022 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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47,86 zł |
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Marya: A Life
ISBN: 9780062269218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A deeply intimate psychological portrait of a young woman's tragic childhood, her reinvention as a successful young artist in the literary circles of 1950s New York City, and her struggle to understand and overcome the trauma of her past. Growing up in the confines of Innisfail, a bleak town in upstate New York, bright and curious Marya endures abandonment, betrayal, and loneliness. A college scholarship offers escape, taking her to New York City, where she makes a name for herself in academic and literary circles. But success cannot overcome the damage of her childhood, pain that... A deeply intimate psychological portrait of a young woman's tragic childhood, her reinvention as a successful young artist in the literary circles ... |
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62,17 zł |
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Blonde
ISBN: 9780062968456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,91 zł |
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The Gravedigger's Daughter
ISBN: 9780061236839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father--a former high school teacher--is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. When local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty give rise to an unthinkable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca heads out into America. Embarking upon an extraordinary odyssey of erotic risk and ingenious self-invention, she seeks renewal, redemption, and peace--on the road to a bittersweet and distinctly "American" triumph. Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father--a former high school teacher--is demeane... |
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83,57 zł |
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Little Bird of Heaven
ISBN: 9780061885945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates is a riveting story of love violently lost and found in late 20th century America. In this novel, Oates returns to the Buffalo, New York, region to brilliantly explore the dangerous intersections of romance and eroticism, guilt and obsession, desire and murder. Little Bird of Heaven, a soaring work by the New York Times bestselling author and a nominee for the 2009 Man Booker Prize--one of the world's most prestigious literary awards--is as powerful and unforgettable as Joyce Carol Oates's previous acclaimed novels The...
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates is a riveting story of love violently lost and found in late 20th century America. In this novel, ...
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120,73 zł |
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48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
ISBN: 9781837932771 / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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102,30 zł |
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48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister
ISBN: 9781613163818 / Angielski / Inna / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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111,74 zł |
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Hazards of Time Travel
ISBN: 9780062861009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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111,94 zł |
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The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
ISBN: 9780060565541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having written in a number of genres -- prose, poetry, personal and critical essays, as well as plays -- she is an artist ideally suited to answer essential questions about what makes a story striking, a novel come alive, a writer an artist as well as a craftsman. In The Faith of a Writer, Oates discusses the subjects most... A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method |
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70,47 zł |
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Garden of Earthly Delights PB
ISBN: 9780812968347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and poverty, determined not to repeat her mother's life, Clara struggles for independence by way of her relationships with four very different men: her father, a family man turned itinerant laborer, smoldering with...
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. I...
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87,10 zł |
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Give Me Your Heart
ISBN: 9780547385419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Haunting . . . Written in the author s classic, clear style, these narratives enchant. Boston Globe Haunting . . . Written in the author s classic, clear style, these narratives enchant. Boston Globe |
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74,66 zł |