wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Travel Writing
ISBN: 9780156033923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and moonlights as a travel writer. On his way home after work one evening he witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim. But was it an accident? Could Pete have prevented it? And did it actually happen, or is this just an elaborate tale he concocts to impart the power of story to his teenage students? Why can't he stop thinking about Lisa Kim? And what might his obsession with her mean to his relationship with his girlfriend, Lydia? With humor, tenderness,...
Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and moonlights as a travel writer. On his way home ...
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71,89 zł |
None of this Ever Really Happened
ISBN: 9780099516484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With humour, tenderness, and suspense, this novel takes the reader on fascinating journeys, both geographical and psychological, playing with our notions and expectations of fact and fiction.
With humour, tenderness, and suspense, this novel takes the reader on fascinating journeys, both geographical and psychological, playing with our noti...
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87,98 zł |
Old Heart
ISBN: 9781609531171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Tom Johnson has turned 85 and has suffered a few "events," though he knows his mind is sharp. His oldest son, who had Down Syndrome has died, and his remaining two children want to move him out of the homestead lake house and into a retirement home in town. What Tom wants to do is to find the only woman he ever loved, a woman he met in the Netherlands where he was stationed during World War II. And so he slips away, deftly covers his tracks, and begins his search for her in Eindhoven. While his children try to track him down and then have him extradited back home, Tom delves into love and...
Tom Johnson has turned 85 and has suffered a few "events," though he knows his mind is sharp. His oldest son, who had Down Syndrome has died, and his ...
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67,70 zł |
Beards and Masculinity in American Literature
ISBN: 9781138093768 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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705,63 zł |
Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction
ISBN: 9781138016040 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction is an interdisciplinary study that presents masculinity as a key thematic concern in contemporary New York fiction. This study argues that New York authors do not simply depict masculinity as a social and historical construction but seek to challenge the archetypal ideals of masculinity by writing counter-hegemonic narratives. Gendering canonical New York writers, namely Paul Auster, Bret Easton Ellis, and Don DeLillo, illustrates how explorations of masculinity are tied into the principal themes that have defined the American novel from its very...
Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction is an interdisciplinary study that presents masculinity as a key thematic concern in contemporary New Yor...
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757,90 zł |
Beards and Masculinity in American Literature
ISBN: 9780367499181 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Beards and Masculinity in American Literature is a pioneering study of the symbolic power of the beard in the history of American writing. This book covers the entire breadth of American writing – from 18th century American newspapers and periodicals through the 19th and 20th centuries to recent contemporary engagements with the beard and masculinity. With chapters focused on the barber and the barbershop in American writing, the "need for a shave" in Ernest Hemingway’s fiction, Whitman’s beard as a sanctuary for poets reaching out to the bearded bard, and the contemporary re-engagement...
Beards and Masculinity in American Literature is a pioneering study of the symbolic power of the beard in the history of American writing. This book c...
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209,02 zł |
Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction
ISBN: 9781138382893 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction is an interdisciplinary study that presents masculinity as a key thematic concern in contemporary New York fiction. This study argues that New York authors do not simply depict masculinity as a social and historical construction but seek to challenge the archetypal ideals of masculinity by writing counter-hegemonic narratives.
Gendering canonical New York writers, namely Paul Auster, Bret Easton Ellis, and Don DeLillo, illustrates how explorations of masculinity are tied into the principal themes that have defined the American novel from its very... Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction is an interdisciplinary study that presents masculinity as a key thematic concern in contemporary New Yor...
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250,83 zł |
Maestro: World War M
ISBN: 9781302931186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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82,36 zł |
Georg Elser: The Zither Player
ISBN: 9781517710217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. No anti-Nazi group or individual came closer to decapitating the Nazi Party than Georg Elser. Once written off as a Nazi stooge, Elser's reputation underwent a resurrection with the unearthing of his 203 page Gestapo interrogation report. The grim detail of his lethal plan to rid Germany of the Nazi menace is recorded, as is much of the private life of the enigmatic musician turned lone wolf assassin. Escaping his debt-ridden alcoholic father Elser wandered from rural life, his musical ability enabling him to socialise while his charm prospered his prolific love life. Repulsed by the populist...
No anti-Nazi group or individual came closer to decapitating the Nazi Party than Georg Elser. Once written off as a Nazi stooge, Elser's reputation un...
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111,08 zł |
Maestro: Krieg um die Zukunft
ISBN: 9783741629259 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. KAMPF UM DIE MACHT Der tyrannische Hulk Maestro ist eine der gewaltigsten und zerstörerischsten Kräfte in der postapokalyptischen Zukunft der Erde, die er als Alleinherrscher regieren will. Doch nun tun sich der Sub-Mariner Namor aus Atlantis, Gamma-Koloss Abomination, die Fackel und Dr. Doom zusammen, um Maestros Hunger nach Macht Einhalt zu gebieten. Und so kommt es im Land und in der Tiefsee zu einem wahren Kampf der Titanen. Das Finale der futuristischen Maestro-Trilogie, inszeniert von Hulk-Legende und Maestro-Schöpfer Peter David (SPIDER-MAN 2099), Germán Peralta (MOON KNIGHT),...
KAMPF UM DIE MACHT Der tyrannische Hulk Maestro ist eine der gewaltigsten und zerstörerischsten Kräfte in der postapokalyptischen Zukunft der Erde, ...
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73,25 zł |