wyszukanych pozycji: 72
The Humbling
ISBN: 9780307472588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his 60s, Axler has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance.
Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in h...
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74,79 zł |
When She Was Good
ISBN: 9780679759256 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose -goodness- is a terrible disease.
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process. With his unerring portraits of Lucy and her hapless, childlike husband, Roy, Roth has created an uncompromising work of... In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralist...
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87,99 zł |
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
ISBN: 9780099520962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A work of candour and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. It concentrates on five episodes from Philip Roth's life.
A work of candour and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. It concentrates on five episode...
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56,09 zł |
The Anatomy Lesson
ISBN: 9780679749028 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers grows into an addiction to vodka, marijuana, and Percodan.
The Anatomy Lesson is a great comedy... At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and ...
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83,59 zł |
Reading Myself And Others
ISBN: 9780099485025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Collects the interviews, essays and articles that span a quarter of a century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and 'reveal a preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world.'
Collects the interviews, essays and articles that span a quarter of a century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and 'reveal a preoccupation with t...
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66,30 zł |
I Married a Communist
ISBN: 9781784875558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he marries the nations reigning radio actress and beloved silent-film star, the exquisite Eve Frame (born Chava Fromkin). Their marriage evolves from a glamorous, romantic idyll into a dispiriting soap opera of tears and treachery. And with Eves dramatic revelation to the gossip columnist Bryden Grant of her husbands life of...
Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An ide...
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50,99 zł |
Zuckerman Unbound
ISBN: 9780099477563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky, but he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisers, and literary critics. The recent murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., lead an unsettled Zuckerman to wonder if 'target' may be more than a figure of speech. In Zuckerman Unbound - the second volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman...
Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhatta...
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50,99 zł |
Verschwörung gegen Amerika : Roman. Nachwort von Denis Scheck.
ISBN: 9783446262393 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Philip Roths großer Roman über die Demokratie und ihre Gefährdung von innen jetzt in besonderer Ausstattung mit flexiblem Einband und Lesebändchen - und einem Nachwort von Denis Scheck.
Philip Roths großer Roman über die Demokratie und ihre Gefährdung von innen jetzt in besonderer Ausstattung mit flexiblem Einband und Lesebändchen...
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72,58 zł |
The Dying Animal
ISBN: 9780099422693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. David, white-haired & over 60, is a TV culture critic & lecturer at a New York college. He meets Consuela, a 24-year-old student, daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who puts his life into erotic disorder & haunts him for the next eight years.
David, white-haired & over 60, is a TV culture critic & lecturer at a New York college. He meets Consuela, a 24-year-old student, daughter of wealthy ...
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54,44 zł |
I Married a Communist
ISBN: 9780099287834 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Radio actor Iron Rinn is a roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist turned popular performer, he marries America's reigning radio actress and silent movie star, Eve Frame. However, both his marriage and his life collapse.
Radio actor Iron Rinn is a roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist turned popul...
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50,99 zł |
The Humbling
ISBN: 9780099535652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Everything is over for Simon Axler. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his 60s, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire.
Everything is over for Simon Axler. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his 60s, he has lost his magic, his talent and ...
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54,44 zł |
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
ISBN: 9780679749059 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction--a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art.
Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the thirties and forties; his education in American life at a conventional college; his passionate entanglement, as an ambitious young man, with the angriest person he ever met (the "girl of my dreams" Roth calls her); his clash, as a fledgling writer, with a Jewish... The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction--a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, ...
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79,19 zł |
Goodbye, Columbus
ISBN: 9780099498155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Tells the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer break and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. This novella is also accompanied by five short stories.
Tells the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer break and di...
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50,99 zł |
Zuckerman Unbound
ISBN: 9780679748991 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky ("Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?"), but he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisers, and sidewalk literary critics. The recent murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., lead an unsettled Zuckerman to wonder if "target" may be more than a figure of speech.
In Zuckerman... Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhatta...
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87,99 zł |
Mistrzowie. Spotkania z twórcami
ISBN: 9788378664000 / Polski / broszurowa / 2021 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Bardzo jestem do tej książki przywiązany, często do niej wracam. Philip Roth, klasyk amerykańskiej literatury, w dialogu z pisarzami i malarzem, których dzieło i postawa były dla niego inspiracją. Ten wielki powieściopisarz potrafił zaangażować się na rzecz innych twórców, pokazać ich magię, geniusz ich dzieła. Imponuje mi postawa Rotha, altruizm i szacunek artysty, wręcz podziw, dla innych artystów. Jakie to dziś wyjątkowe w narcystycznym świecie sztuki, jak piękne! Książka Rotha to opowieść o pokrewieństwie dusz, wdzięczności i poczuciu wspólnej misji. Jej...
Bardzo jestem do tej książki przywiązany, często do niej wracam. Philip Roth, klasyk amerykańskiej literatury, w dialogu z pisarzami i malarzem, ...
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39,99 zł |
The Plot Against America
ISBN: 9780099478560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. When Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. He publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany. This book recounts the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst.
When Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. He publicly blamed the Jews for pushing Ame...
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50,99 zł |
I Married a Communist
ISBN: 9780375707216 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s. In his heyday as a star--and as a zealous, bullying supporter of "progressive" political causes--Ira marries Hollywood's beloved silent-film star, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon in her Manhattan townhouse is shortlived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's scandalous bestselling expose that...
I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1...
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79,19 zł |
The Prague Orgy
ISBN: 9780099476511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Nathan Zuckerman is visiting Prague, where intellectuals come searching for Kafta, where misfits who don't submit decently to their misfortunes act out a comedy of manners in decadence. Here Zuckerman meets Olga, and brings home lessons for the American writer - lessons about oppression and resilience, laughter and Kafta, and more.
Nathan Zuckerman is visiting Prague, where intellectuals come searching for Kafta, where misfits who don't submit decently to their misfortunes act ou...
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50,99 zł |
Le rabaissement
ISBN: 9782070450442 / Francuski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Simon Axler geht es schlecht. Mit sechzig hat der ehemalige Theaterstar alles Selbstvertrauen verloren. Als ihn auch noch seine Frau verlässt, beginnt er eine riskante Beziehung mit der lesbischen Tochter eines Jugendfreundes. Was anfangs Trost zu spenden scheint, erweist sich als Wirklichkeitsflucht, die in die Katastrophe führt. Mit Ironie und ohne Gnade entblößt Philip Roth in seinem neuen Roman alle menschlichen Täuschungen Liebe und Macht, Leidenschaft und Prestige.
Simon Axler geht es schlecht. Mit sechzig hat der ehemalige Theaterstar alles Selbstvertrauen verloren. Als ihn auch noch seine Frau verlässt, beginn...
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43,89 zł |
The Professor of Desire
ISBN: 9780099389019 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities. Temptation comes to him in both its ordinary and spectacular forms. This book explores in all its painful ramifications, the pursuit and loss of erotic happiness.
David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilit...
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54,44 zł |