wyszukanych pozycji: 63
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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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71,90 |
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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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108,87 |
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My Life as a Man
ISBN: 9780099515319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Peter is a gifted young writer, and Maureen Tarnopol is 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.
Peter is a gifted young writer, and Maureen Tarnopol is the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fra...
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50,52 |
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The Professor of Desire
ISBN: 9780099389019 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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50,52 |
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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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67,41 |
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The Human Stain
ISBN: 9781784875565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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 his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret. But its not the secret of his affair, at seventy-one, with Faunia Farley, a woman half his age with a savagely wrecked past--a part-time farmhand and a janitor at the college where, until recently, he was the powerful...
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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Indignation
ISBN: 9780099523420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. America, 1951. Marcus Messner, from Newark, New Jersey, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. Far away from home, in the Midwestern college, Marcus has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.
America, 1951. Marcus Messner, from Newark, New Jersey, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg Colle...
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50,52 |
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The Dying Animal
ISBN: 9780099422693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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51,82 |
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Sabbath's Theater
ISBN: 9780679772590 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring surpassed even his own Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction."
Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath...
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73,02 |
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Sabbath's Theater
ISBN: 9780099582014 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is the story of Mickey Sabbath, a disgraced puppeteer who, after the death of his long-time mistress, embarks on a raging journey into dionysian extremism, madness and bitter understanding. Philip Roth won the 1995 National Book Award.
This is the story of Mickey Sabbath, a disgraced puppeteer who, after the death of his long-time mistress, embarks on a raging journey into dionysian ...
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50,52 |
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The Anatomy Lesson
ISBN: 9780099476610 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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88,13 |
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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. 8-10 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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176,96 |
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The Ghost Writer
ISBN: 9780099477570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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Nemesis
ISBN: 9780307475008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives.
Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As the devastating disease begins to ravage Bucky s playground, Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: fear, panic, anger,... Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives....
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63,22 |
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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. 8-10 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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176,96 |
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Pastoral Americana / American Pastoral
ISBN: 9788497936101 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2026 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,67 |
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Philip Roth: Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-2014
ISBN: 9781598535402 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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171,85 |
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Reading Myself And Others
ISBN: 9780099485025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Collects the interviews, essays and articles that span a quarter of a century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and 'reveal a preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world.'
Collects the interviews, essays and articles that span a quarter of a century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and 'reveal a preoccupation with t...
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88,13 |
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Everyman
ISBN: 9780099501466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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50,52 |
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Operation Shylock: A Confession
ISBN: 9780099307914 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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55,58 |