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Bliss
ISBN: 9780679767190 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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My Life as a Fake
ISBN: 9781400030880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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84,78 |
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The Chemistry of Tears
ISBN: 9780571280018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. London 2011, Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her lover of thirteen years. As the mistress of a married man she has to grieve in private. Given a special project away from prying eyes and mad with grief.
London 2011, Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her lover of thirteen years. As the mistress of ...
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Emmanuel: God With Us: Reflections for Advent
ISBN: 9798363250644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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56,61 |
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His Illegal Self
ISBN: 9780571231546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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Collected Stories
ISBN: 9780571175864 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A volume containing the stories in The Fat Man in History and War Crimes, together with three other stories not previously published in book form. The author won the 1988 Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda.
A volume containing the stories in The Fat Man in History and War Crimes, together with three other stories not previously published in book form. The...
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True History of the Kelly Gang
ISBN: 9780571270156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. 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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52,33 |
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Parrot and Olivier in America
ISBN: 9780307476012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Man Booker Prize Finalist Man Booker Prize Finalist |
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Parrot and Olivier in America
ISBN: 9780571253326 / Miękka / 2011 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist, but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America.
Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be ...
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Oscar and Lucinda
ISBN: 9780571270163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed.
Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1...
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A Long Way From Home
ISBN: 9780571338856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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The Holy Apostles Sermons
ISBN: 9781540694324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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The Fat Man in History
ISBN: 9780571144389 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A collection of short stories by Peter Carey, whose other books include 'Bliss', 'Illywhacker' and 'Oscar and Lucinda', which was awarded the 1988 Booker Prize. The stories, set in an ominous near-future that has a feel of contemporary life, are by turn bizarre and funny.
A collection of short stories by Peter Carey, whose other books include 'Bliss', 'Illywhacker' and 'Oscar and Lucinda', which was awarded the 1988 Boo...
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The Fat Man in History
ISBN: 9780679743323 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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61,66 |
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The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
ISBN: 9780679760368 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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Illywhacker
ISBN: 9780679767909 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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Bliss
ISBN: 9780571225910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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55,31 |
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Oscar and Lucinda
ISBN: 9780679777502 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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Theft: A Love Story
ISBN: 9780571231508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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The Tax Inspector
ISBN: 9780679735984 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From Granny Catchprice, who runs her family business--and her family--with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives to sixteen-year-old Benny, who dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into an empire--and himself into an angel--the Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamozovs. But when a beautiful and very pregnant agent of the Australian Taxation Office enters their lives, the resulting collision becomes, in Carey's hands, masterpiece of coal-black humour and compassionate horror.
-- From the Hardcover edition. From Granny Catchprice, who runs her family business--and her family--with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives to sixteen-year-old Ben...
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