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The Counterlife
ISBN: 9780679749042 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate.
Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the miind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the skeptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's... The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingl...
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95,87 zł |
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Letting Go
ISBN: 9780099485032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Set in Chicago in the fifties, this title chronicles an era when men and women were still constrained by the dictates of custom, community and family.
Set in Chicago in the fifties, this title chronicles an era when men and women were still constrained by the dictates of custom, community and family.
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114,83 zł |
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My Life as a Man
ISBN: 9780679748274 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel.
At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen's death, Peter is still trying-- and failing-- to write his way free of it. Out of desperate inventions and cauterizing... A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Li...
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100,22 zł |
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The Ghost Writer
ISBN: 9780099477570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 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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50,99 zł |
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The Plot Against America: A Novel
ISBN: 9780358008811 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Soon to be an HBO Miniseries from executive producer David Simon ';A masterwork of counterfactual history.'The New Yorker Soon to be an HBO Miniseries from executive producer David Simon ';A masterwork of counterfactual history.'The New Yorker |
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122,47 zł |
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American Pastoral
ISBN: 9780375701429 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Now a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, and Dakota Fanning Here is Philip Roth's masterpiece--an elegy for the American century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him. For... Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Now a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, and Dakota Fanning Here is Philip Rot... |
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78,44 zł |
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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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68,04 zł |
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Operation Shylock: A Confession
ISBN: 9780099307914 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 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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56,09 zł |
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Le rabaissement
ISBN: 9782070450442 / Francuski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Simon Axler geht es schlecht. Mit sechzig hat der ehemalige Theaterstar alles Selbstvertrauen verloren. Als ihn auch noch seine Frau verlässt, beginnt er eine riskante Beziehung mit der lesbischen Tochter eines Jugendfreundes. Was anfangs Trost zu spenden scheint, erweist sich als Wirklichkeitsflucht, die in die Katastrophe führt. Mit Ironie und ohne Gnade entblößt Philip Roth in seinem neuen Roman alle menschlichen Täuschungen Liebe und Macht, Leidenschaft und Prestige.
Simon Axler geht es schlecht. Mit sechzig hat der ehemalige Theaterstar alles Selbstvertrauen verloren. Als ihn auch noch seine Frau verlässt, beginn...
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43,89 zł |
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American Pastoral: The renowned Pulitzer Prize-Winning novel
ISBN: 9780099771814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Seymour Levov, a devoted family man and inheritor of his father's factory, comes of age in thriving post-war America. His daughter Merry is the apple of his eye until America begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s, and Merry grows up to be a terrorist bent on destroying her father's paradise.
Seymour Levov, a devoted family man and inheritor of his father's factory, comes of age in thriving post-war America. His daughter Merry is the apple ...
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50,99 zł |
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Everyman
ISBN: 9780099501466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Intended to be the personification of mankind, this work traces from the author's first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers. It is a human story of the regret and loss and stoicism of a man who becomes what he does not want to be.
Intended to be the personification of mankind, this work traces from the author's first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of hi...
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50,99 zł |
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The Professor of Desire
ISBN: 9780679749004 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A chronicle of the passion and desire of David Kepesh and of his endeavors, from adolescent accession to middle-aged ebb, to realize and sustain erotic happiness and domestic security.
A chronicle of the passion and desire of David Kepesh and of his endeavors, from adolescent accession to middle-aged ebb, to realize and sustain eroti...
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87,15 zł |
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The Counterlife
ISBN: 9780099481355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate. Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the mind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the sceptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's paid in the struggle...
The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irrev...
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56,09 zł |
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The Anatomy Lesson
ISBN: 9780099476610 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 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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50,99 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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Our Gang: Starring Trick and His Friends
ISBN: 9780099389118 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The character of Tricky presents one of the greatest hypocritical opportunists, an unprincipled self-seeker in this satirical vision of a debased national leadership speaking a language that is designed to make lies sound truthful.
The character of Tricky presents one of the greatest hypocritical opportunists, an unprincipled self-seeker in this satirical vision of a debased nati...
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50,99 zł |
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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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72,58 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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The Great American Novel
ISBN: 9780099889403 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A novel narrated by octogenarian ex-sportswriter Word Smith, who plans to write the 'Great American Novel' and also to tell the tragic and hilarious story of the Ruppert Mundys - the only homeless baseball team ever to play in the big league, who have disappeared from all official histories.
A novel narrated by octogenarian ex-sportswriter Word Smith, who plans to write the 'Great American Novel' and also to tell the tragic and hilarious s...
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56,09 zł |
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Exit Ghost
ISBN: 9780307387295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nathan Zuckerman, the indomitable literary adventurer of Roth's nine Zuckerman books, finds himself involved--as he never wanted or intended to be--with love, mourning, desire, and animosity.
Nathan Zuckerman, the indomitable literary adventurer of Roth's nine Zuckerman books, finds himself involved--as he never wanted or intended to be--wi...
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91,51 zł |
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