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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 |
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The Dying Animal
ISBN: 9780099422693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 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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50,99 zł |
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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 |
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Konające zwierzę
ISBN: 9788308074756 / Polski / twarda / 2022 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. David Kepesh jest powszechnie poważanym i zapraszanym do mediów krytykiem kultury. Gwiazdą w gronie wykładowców jednej z nowojorskich uczelni. Gdy przekroczył sześćdziesiątkę, spotkał na swojej drodze Consuelę Castillo, wytworną, ułożoną dwudziestoczteroletnią studentkę, córkę zamożnych kubańskich emigrantów, która szybko wprowadza w jego życie erotyczny zamęt.Od rewolucji seksualnej lat sześćdziesiątych, gdy opuścił swoją żonę i dziecko, Kepesh oddawał się doznawaniu jak ją określa wyemancypowanej męskości, i odkładał na bok myśl o rodzinie lub...
David Kepesh jest powszechnie poważanym i zapraszanym do mediów krytykiem kultury. Gwiazdą w gronie wykładowców jednej z nowojorskich uczelni. Gd...
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42,65 zł |
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American Pastoral
ISBN: 9781784875541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate Americans rise and fall—of a strong, confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces of social disorder. Seymour Swede Levov—a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his fathers Newark glove factory—comes of age in thriving, triumphant postwar America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. Not even the most private, well-intentioned citizen, it seems, gets to sidestep the sweep of history. With vigorous realism,...
American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate Americans rise and fall—of a strong, confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces ...
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50,99 zł |
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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. 12 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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178,61 zł |
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Philip Roth: Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-2014
ISBN: 9781598535402 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. America's most celebrated writer returns with a definitive edition of his essential statements on literature, his controversial novels, and the writing life, including including six pieces published here for the first time and many others newly revised. Throughout a unparalleled literary career that includes two National Book Awards (Goodbye, Columbus, 1959 and Sabbath's Theater, 1995), the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (American Pastoral, 1997), the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Counterlife, 1986), and the National Humanities Medal (awarded by...
America's most celebrated writer returns with a definitive edition of his essential statements on literature, his controversial novels, and the wri...
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173,46 zł |
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Patrimony: A True Story
ISBN: 9780679752936 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does so, discloses the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished his father's long, stubborn engagement with life."
Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old fat...
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83,59 zł |
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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 |
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Deception
ISBN: 9780099801900 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 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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50,99 zł |
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The Breast
ISBN: 9780679749011 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis a daring, heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity."
Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned...
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70,39 zł |
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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 |
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The Human Stain
ISBN: 9780375726347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out...
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an agi...
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79,19 zł |
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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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Everyman
ISBN: 9780307277718 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from -one family's harrowing encounter with history- (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his...
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against Americ...
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81,65 zł |
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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 |
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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. 12 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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178,61 zł |
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I Married a Communist
ISBN: 9781784875558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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54,44 zł |
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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 |
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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 |
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