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Parrot and Olivier in America
ISBN: 9780307476012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Man Booker Prize Finalist Man Booker Prize Finalist |
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88,41 zł |
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My Life as a Fake
ISBN: 9781400030880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake is a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship between literature and lying. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a mysterious Australian named Christopher Chubb. Chubb is a despised literary hoaxer, carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. But in this dubious manuscript Sarah recognizes a work of real genius. But whose genius? As Sarah tries to secure the manuscript, Chubb draws her into a fantastic story of...
Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake is a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship be...
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70,51 zł |
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The Fat Man in History
ISBN: 9780679743323 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) If, in some post-Marxist utopia, obesity were declared counterrevolutionary, how would a houseful of fat men strike back? If it were possible to win a new body by lottery, what kind of people would choose ugliness? If two gun-toting thugs decided to take over a business and run it through sheer terror how far would their methods take them?
These are the questions that Peter Carey, author of The Tax Inspector and Oscar and Lucinda, brilliantly explores in this collection of stories. Exquisitely written and thoroughly envisioned, the tales in The Fat Man in History... If, in some post-Marxist utopia, obesity were declared counterrevolutionary, how would a houseful of fat men strike back? If it were possible to win a...
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66,31 zł |
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Illywhacker
ISBN: 9780571311569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery travels across the Australian continent and a century in a picaresque novel full of outlandish encounters and dangerous characters. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, Illywhacker is a contemporary classic.
An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be the king of them all. Va...
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56,87 zł |
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Theft: A Love Story
ISBN: 9780571231508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, this work presents an exploration of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption. It is narrated by the twin voices of the artist, Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother', Hugh.
Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, this work presents an exploration of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption. It i...
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56,87 zł |
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Bliss
ISBN: 9780679767190 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in this darkly funny novel, death is sometimes a necessary prelude to real life.
Part The Wizard of Oz, part Dante's Inferno, and part Australian Book of the Dead, Bliss is a triumph of uninhabited storytelling from a writer of extravagant gifts. For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for th...
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83,99 zł |
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True History of the Kelly Gang
ISBN: 9780571270156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Told in the form of a journal justifying Ned Kelly to the daughter he would never meet, this is a mesmerising act of historical imagining by one of the most popular novelists at work today.
Told in the form of a journal justifying Ned Kelly to the daughter he would never meet, this is a mesmerising act of historical imagining by one of th...
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51,70 zł |
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Bliss
ISBN: 9780571225910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Peter Carey's novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell.
Peter Carey's novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell.
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56,87 zł |
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Oscar and Lucinda
ISBN: 9780679777502 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox SearchlightPictures.
This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place innineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms--could a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine become allied with a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. And only the prodigious imagination of Peter Carey could implicate Oscar and Lucinda in a... The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox SearchlightPictures.
This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romanc... |
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92,83 zł |
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Jack Maggs
ISBN: 9780571270170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From the author of 'Oscar and Lucinda', this is a novel of possession, dangerous bargains and illicit love set in Victorian London. Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia in a clandestine fashion.
From the author of 'Oscar and Lucinda', this is a novel of possession, dangerous bargains and illicit love set in Victorian London. Jack Maggs, raised...
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51,70 zł |
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Pravdivý příběh Neda Kellyho a jeho bandy
ISBN: 9788072035076 / Czeski / 2004 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Strhující román jednoho z nejvýraznějších australských autorů vypráví o chlapci vyrůstajícím v irské přistěhovalecké rodině, o bídě a drsném životě domkářů v Austrálii 19. století a o tom, jak je snadné ocitnout se na nesprávné straně zákona, pokud se člověk nenarodil jako boháč a nemíní spolupracovat se zkorumpovanou policií. Ned Kelly, jemuž spisovatel vzdává ve své knize hold, byl skutečnou postavou ”divokého jihu”, proslulý svým neprůstřelným oděvem, který mu dodával vzezření středověkého rytíře a učinil z tohoto...
Strhující román jednoho z nejvýraznějších australských autorů vypráví o chlapci vyrůstajícím v irské přistěhovalecké rodině, o bíd...
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60,55 zł |
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The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
ISBN: 9780679760368 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From a writer whom Thomas Keneally calls "one of the great figures on the cusp of the millennium" comes a novel that conjures an entire world that suggests our own, but tilted on its axis--a world whose most powerful country, Voorstand, dominates its neighbors with ruthless espionage and its mesmerizing but soul-destroying Sirkus.
Into that world comes Tristan Smith, a malformed, heroically willful, and unforgivingly observant child. Tristan's life includes adventure and loss, political intrigue, and a bizarre stardom in the Voorstand Sirkus, where animals talk and human performers die... From a writer whom Thomas Keneally calls "one of the great figures on the cusp of the millennium" comes a novel that conjures an entire world that sug...
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79,57 zł |
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True History of the Kelly Gang
ISBN: 9780571362783 / Miękka / 2020 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TO BE RELEASED IN CINEMAS 28TH FEBRUARY 2020'Extraordinary . So mesmerising and moving.' Mail on Sunday'Vastly entertaining.' New York TimesTo the authorities in pursuit of him, Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer.
THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TO BE RELEASED IN CINEMAS 28TH FEBRUARY 2020'Extraordinary . So mesmerising and moving.' Mail on Sund...
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46,53 zł |
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The Holy Apostles Sermons
ISBN: 9781540694324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A collection of sermons given at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Apostles in New York City, a congregation noted for its inclusive ministry and progressive theology. Proceeds go to support the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen.
A collection of sermons given at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Apostles in New York City, a congregation noted for its inclusive ministry and progr...
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46,37 zł |
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His Illegal Self
ISBN: 9780571231546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, Che, the precocious son of 60s radicals, just wants to see his parents. But first he must become an outlaw himself, fleeing to a hippy commune in the jungle of tropical Queensland, where he is forced to slowly, bravely, confront his life.
Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, Che, the precocious son of 60s radicals, just wants to see his parents. But first he must be...
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51,70 zł |
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The Tax Inspector
ISBN: 9780571166329 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The day Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare-parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy, was also the day that tax inspector Maria Takis arrived to begin her overdue audit of the family business. From the author of Oscar and Lucinda which won the 1988 Booker Prize.
The day Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare-parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy, was also the day that tax inspector Maria T...
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51,70 zł |
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Illywhacker
ISBN: 9780679767909 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national character--espcially of its proclivity for tall stories and barefaced lies.
As Carey follows this charming scoundrel across a continent and a century, he creates a crazy quilt of outlandish encounters, with characters that... In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 13...
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88,41 zł |
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Emmanuel: God With Us: Reflections for Advent
ISBN: 9798363250644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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64,93 zł |
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Theft: A Love Story
ISBN: 9780307276483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex- really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a rainstorm and into their lives. Beautiful, smart, and ambitious, she's also the daughter-in-law of the late great painter Jacques Liebovitz. Soon Marlene sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making--or the ruin--of them all."
Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex- really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brot...
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79,57 zł |
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A Long Way From Home
ISBN: 9780571338856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive.A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey's late style masterpiece;
Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quite s...
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56,87 zł |
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