wyszukanych pozycji: 65
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Nemesis
ISBN: 9780099542261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death.
In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis,...
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51,10 |
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The Anatomy Lesson
ISBN: 9780099476610 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The finale to Roth's Zuckerman trilogy. Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious physical affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his life. His work was his life, but now his work is trekking from one doctor to the next.
The finale to Roth's Zuckerman trilogy. Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious physical affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoul...
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89,02 |
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Philip Roth: Novels & Other Narratives 1986-1991 (LOA #185): The Counterlife / The Facts / Deception / Patrimony
ISBN: 9781598530308 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 767 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities, leading the critic Harold Bloom to proclaim Roth ?our foremost novelist since Faulkner.? Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assault on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time. By special arrangement with the author, The Library of America continues the definitive edition of Roth's collected works.
This fifth volume of The Library of America's... For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities, leading the critic Harold Blo...
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179,01 |
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I Married a Communist
ISBN: 9781784875558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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51,10 |
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Deception
ISBN: 9780099801900 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'Deception', Philip Roth's most poignant and provocative work since 'Portnoy's Complaint', explores adultery and the unmasking of illicit lovers in a novel that exposes the tenderness and uncertainty underlying all affairs of the heart.
'Deception', Philip Roth's most poignant and provocative work since 'Portnoy's Complaint', explores adultery and the unmasking of illicit lovers in a ...
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51,10 |
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The Ghost Writer
ISBN: 9780099477570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his literary idol, E. I. Lonoff. At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate foreign background who turns out to be a former student of Lonoff's and who may also have been his mistress. Zuckerman, with his active, youthful imagination, wonders if she could be the paradigmatic victim of Nazi persecution. If she were,...
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of l...
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51,10 |
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Nemesis
ISBN: 9780307475008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives.
Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As the devastating disease begins to ravage Bucky s playground, Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: fear, panic, anger,... Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives....
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63,96 |
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Portnoyův komplex
ISBN: 8594169485836 / Czeski / audio (mc/cd) / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. V roce 1966 ulehl na gauč věhlasného newyorského cvokaře a rád by se mu vyzpovídal, neboť s jinou formou hříšné relaxace jeho víra nepočítá. Alexander Portnoy - židovský vzorňák v… ehm… Kristových letech, úspěšný právník v mladičkém oboru lidských práv a ze všeho nejvíc lovec žen posedlý sexem i sociálním altruismem - má totiž neurózu jako trám. Jak se pod dohledem dr. Spielvogela noří do hlubin svého rozčarování, loví odtud coby svědomitý sebemrskač křivdu za křivdou. A protože zároveň ne a ne přeseknout pupeční šňůru...
V roce 1966 ulehl na gauč věhlasného newyorského cvokaře a rád by se mu vyzpovídal, neboť s jinou formou hříšné relaxace jeho víra nepoč...
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78,27 |
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Pastoral Americana / American Pastoral
ISBN: 9788497936101 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,55 |
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Mendelssohn Is On The Roof
ISBN: 9781907970016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. SS Officer Juliyus Schlesinger is ordered to remove the statue of the Jewish composer Mendelssohn from the roof of the Prague Academy of Music before an official concert. Unsure which of the statues is Mendelssohn, he tells his men to remove the one with the biggest nose. Unfortunately, this is the statue of Wagner.
SS Officer Juliyus Schlesinger is ordered to remove the statue of the Jewish composer Mendelssohn from the roof of the Prague Academy of Music before ...
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51,10 |
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When She Was Good
ISBN: 9780099484998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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.
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 ar...
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51,10 |
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Philip Roth: Nemeses (LOA #237): Everyman / Indignation / The Humbling / Nemesis
ISBN: 9781598531992 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. What kind of choices fatally shape a life? How does the individual withstand the onslaught of circumstance? These are the dark questions that animate Nemeses, the quartet of thematically related short novels that are published here together for the first time in this final volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works. Everyman (2006) is the sparse and affecting story of one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality. Set against the backdrop of the Korean War, Indignation (2008) is the extraordinary narrative of a young man struggling...
What kind of choices fatally shape a life? How does the individual withstand the onslaught of circumstance? These are the dark questions that animate ...
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179,01 |
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I Married a Communist
ISBN: 9780375707216 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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70,88 |
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Amerikanisches Idyll : Roman. Nachwort von Denis Scheck. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzer Prize 1998
ISBN: 9783446262379 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Der mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnete Roman jetzt in besonderer Ausstattung mit flexiblem Einband und Lesebändchen - und einem Nachwort von Denis Scheck.
Der mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnete Roman jetzt in besonderer Ausstattung mit flexiblem Einband und Lesebändchen - und einem Nachwort von Denis...
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72,74 |
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Goodbye, Columbus
ISBN: 9780099498155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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51,10 |
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Operation Shylock: A Confession
ISBN: 9780099307914 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Phillip Roth confronts his double, an imposter whose self-appointed task is to lead the jews out of Israel and back to Europe, a moses in reverse and a monstrous nemesis to the 'real' Philip Roth. This work is at once a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, and a confession.
Phillip Roth confronts his double, an imposter whose self-appointed task is to lead the jews out of Israel and back to Europe, a moses in reverse and ...
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56,22 |
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Portnoy's Complaint
ISBN: 9780099399018 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A story that tells about the confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood.
A story that tells about the confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time ...
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51,10 |
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Portnoy's Complaint
ISBN: 9780679756453 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Portnoy's Complaint n. after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis,"...
Portnoy's Complaint n. after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually war...
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66,74 |
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Der menschliche Makel, 1 MP3-CD : Lesung mit Jürgen Hentsch (1 mp3-CD), Lesung. MP3 Format
ISBN: 9783742409249 / Niemiecki / Audio (mc/cd) / 2019 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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68,20 |
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Exit Ghost
ISBN: 9780099516088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left 11 years ago. Alone on his New England mountain, Nathan has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age.
Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left 11 years ago. Al...
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56,22 |