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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Black Water
ISBN: 9780452269866 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel We Were the Mulvaneys
Taut, powerfully imagined and beautifully written, Black Water ranks with the best of Joyce Carol Oates's already long list of distinguished achievements. It can be read in a single afternoon, but, like every good book, it continues to haunt us. The New York Times Joyce Carol Oates has taken a shocking story that has become an American myth and, from it, has created a novel of electrifying power and illumination. Kelly Kelleher is an... The Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel We Were the Mulvaneys
Taut, power... |
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70,51 zł |
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We Were the Mulvaneys
ISBN: 9781841156996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Mulvaneys are seemingly blessed by everything that makes life sweet. They live together in the picture-perfect High Point Farm, just outside the community of Mt Ephraim, New York, where they are respected and liked by everybody. Yet something happens on Valentine's Day 1976. An incident involving Marianne Mulvaney, the pretty sixteen-year-old daughter, is hushed up in the town and never discussed within the family. The impact of this event reverberates throughout the lives of the characters. As told by Judd, years later, in an attempt to make sense of his own past reveals the unspoken...
The Mulvaneys are seemingly blessed by everything that makes life sweet. They live together in the picture-perfect High Point Farm, just outside the c...
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66,45 zł |
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Jack of Spades
ISBN: 9781801109338 / Miękka / 2022 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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47,86 zł |
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Zero Sum: Stories
ISBN: 9780593535868 / Twarda / 2023 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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120,28 zł |
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A Bloodsmoor Romance
ISBN: 9780062269195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Finally returned to print, Joyce Carol Oates's lost classic: the satirical, often surreal, and beautifully plotted Gothic romance that follows the exploits of the audacious Zinn sisters, whose nineteenth-century pursuit of adventurous lives turns a lens on contemporary American culture When their sister is plucked from the shores of the Bloodsmoor River by an eerie black-silk hot air balloon that sails in through a clear blue sky, the lives of the already extraordinary Zinn sisters are radically altered. The monstrous tragedy splinters the family, who must not only grapple with the... Finally returned to print, Joyce Carol Oates's lost classic: the satirical, often surreal, and beautifully plotted Gothic romance that follows the ... |
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82,95 zł |
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Dear Husband: Stories
ISBN: 9780061704321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Replete with the emotional intensity and pathos for which Joyce Carol Oates is lauded, these fourteen stories explore the intimate lives of contemporary American families: the tangled relationship between generations, the desperation of loving more than one is loved in return. In "Cutty Sark" and "Landfill," the bond between adolescent son and mother reverberates with the force of an unspoken passion. The gripping title story finds Oates boldly reimagining the true-crime story of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her children in 2001. Several stories offer a more lighthearted... Replete with the emotional intensity and pathos for which Joyce Carol Oates is lauded, these fourteen stories explore the intimate lives of contemp... |
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74,66 zł |
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Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense
ISBN: 9781788543705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Six feverishly unsettling works from one of our greatest literary imaginations.
This taut collection stands at the crossroads of sex, violence, and longing - and asks us to interrogate the intersection of these impulses within ourselves. Six feverishly unsettling works. Six feverishly unsettling works from one of our greatest literary imaginations.
This taut collection stands at the crossroads of sex, violenc... |
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51,10 zł |
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Zero-Sum
ISBN: 9780008609764 / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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86,91 zł |
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Beautiful Days: Stories
ISBN: 9780062795793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,91 zł |
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Blond
ISBN: 9783365001233 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1024 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. 1926 wird Norma Jeane Baker in Los Angeles geboren. Ihre Kindheit ist von Einsamkeit und Sehnsucht geprägt. Als junge Frau hat sie bereits verinnerlicht, dass es für sie nur einen Weg gibt, sich ihres Selbstwertes zu versichern: über das Begehren der Männer. Ab da beginnt die Verwandlung zur Kunstfigur Marilyn Monroe. Einfühlsam und sprachgewaltig erzählt Joyce Carol Oates in ihrem Roman von der größten Hollywood-Legende des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, von ihrem Schmerz, ihrer Strahlkraft, ihren Träumen und ihrem tragischen Ende. »Ein ganz beeindruckendes Werk, wie ein... 1926 wird Norma Jeane Baker in Los Angeles geboren. Ihre Kindheit ist von Einsamkeit und Sehnsucht geprägt. Als junge Frau hat sie bereits verinne... |
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72,74 zł |
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The Tattooed Girl
ISBN: 9780061136047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Celebrated author Joshua Seigl, an idiosyncratic bachelor and confirmed recluse--young but in failing health--reluctantly admits to himself that he must hire a live-in assistant to help him with his increasingly complicated professional and personal affairs. Then one day at the bookstore he encounters Alma, a young woman covered with bizarre tattoos, who stirs something inside him. Unaware of her torturous past--the abuses she's suffered, the wrongs she's committed, the virulent hatred that seethes within her--Seigl decides that she is the one, and he has no idea that he is bringing an... Celebrated author Joshua Seigl, an idiosyncratic bachelor and confirmed recluse--young but in failing health--reluctantly admits to himself that he... |
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74,66 zł |
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The Corn Maiden: And Other Nightmares
ISBN: 9780802155085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Corn Maiden is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Her single mother comes home one night to find her missing and panics, frantically knocking on the doors of her neighbors. She finally calls the police, who want to know why she left her young daughter alone until 8:00 o'clock. Suspicion falls on a computer teacher at her school with no alibi for the time of the abduction. Obvious clues--perhaps too obvious--point directly to him. Unsuspected is Judah (born Judith), an older girl from the same...
The Corn Maiden is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk...
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74,66 zł |
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Extenuating Circumstances
ISBN: 9781804540800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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95,03 zł |
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The Falls
ISBN: 9780061565342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side is confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby, who is unexpectedly drawn to this plain, strange woman. What follows is a passionate love affair, marriage, and family--a seemingly perfect existence. But the tragedy by which they were thrown together begins to shadow them, damaging their idyll with... It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "... |
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74,66 zł |
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Dis Mem Ber
ISBN: 9781786693990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Seven feverishly unsettling works, confronting the dangers that surround us and the dangers that lurk within.
Seven feverishly unsettling works, confronting the dangers that surround us and the dangers that lurk within.
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47,28 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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High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006
ISBN: 9780060501204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and includes eleven new tales that further demonstrate the breathtaking artistry and striking originality of an incomparable talent who "has imbued the American short story with an edgy vitality and raw social surfaces" (Chicago Tribune). No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fict... |
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82,91 zł |
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The Rise of Life on Earth
ISBN: 9780811212137 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable portrait of one of the "insulted and injured" of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches Kathleen Hennessy's violent childhood shattered by a broken home, child-beating, and murder and follows her into her early adult years as a hospital health-care worker. Overworked, underpaid, and quietly overzealous, Kathleen falls in love with a young doctor, whose exploitation of...
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable port...
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66,15 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 |