wyszukanych pozycji: 62
Pictures Of Fidelman
ISBN: 9780099433453 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Arthur Fidelman, Bronx-born and raised, is a self-confessed failure as a painter. When he goes to Italy to prepare a critical study of Giotto, a picaresque tale of comedy and adventure ensues.
Arthur Fidelman, Bronx-born and raised, is a self-confessed failure as a painter. When he goes to Italy to prepare a critical study of Giotto, a picar...
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70,79 zł |
God's Grace
ISBN: 9780374529673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. God's Grace (1982), Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood -- a radical departure from Malamud's previous fiction. The novel's protagonist is paleolosist Calvin Cohn, who had been attending to his work at the bottom of the ocean when the Devastation struck, and who alone survived. This rabbi's son -- a "marginal error" -- finds himself shipwrecked with an experimental chimpanzee capable of speech, to whom he gives the name Buz. Soon other creatures appear on their island-baboons,... God's Grace (1982), Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a se... |
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108,93 zł |
Exploring the Internet
ISBN: 9781892628008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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150,15 zł |
The Complete Stories
ISBN: 9780374525750 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New York Times Notable Book of the Year With an Introduction by Robert Giroux, The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud is "an essential American book," Richard Stern declared in the Chicago Tribune when the collection was published in hardcover. His praise was echoed by other reviewers and by readers, who embraced the book as they might a displaced person in one of Malamud's stories, now returned to us, complete and fulfilled and recognized at last. The volume gathers together fifty-five stories, from "Armistice"... New York Times Notable Book of the Year With an Introduction by Robert Giroux, The Co... |
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104,74 zł |
Dubin's Lives
ISBN: 9780374528829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon Dubin's Lives (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times as Malamud's "best novel since The Assistant. Possibly, it is the best he has written of all." Its protagonist is one of Malamud's finest characters; prize-winning biographer William Dubin, who learns from lives, or thinks he does: those he writes, those he shares, the life he lives. Now in his later middle age, he seeks his own secret self, and the obsession of biography is supplanted by the... With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon Dubin's Lives (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehma... |
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83,79 zł |
The Gymnasium: Exercises in Literary Taxidermy
ISBN: 9780999446201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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67,08 zł |
The Natural
ISBN: 9780099437024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Roy Hobbs, who knows himself to be - potentially - the greatest baseball player ever, has his career altered when a mad woman puts a violent end to his first attempt to join the league. Years later, at an age when most players retire, he tries, once again, to realize his lifetime's ambition.
Roy Hobbs, who knows himself to be - potentially - the greatest baseball player ever, has his career altered when a mad woman puts a violent end to hi...
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51,23 zł |
Franny
ISBN: 9780989633895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Malamud's new novel, Franny faces the biggest challenge of her life: simultaneously loving two men. The zany, engaging character first introduced in Three on a Couch has married the love of her life, Detective Nicholas Pagliara. Their idyllic life suddenly shatters when Nick, shot in a drug bust, drifts into a coma. Franny finds herself alone and pregnant, and her life begins to fall apart. She realizes that Nick may not come out of the coma-and if he does, he might never be the same. Her worst fears are realized when Nick wakes up and inexplicably vanishes from his hospital room. Franny...
In Malamud's new novel, Franny faces the biggest challenge of her life: simultaneously loving two men. The zany, engaging character first introduced i...
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70,15 zł |
Příručí
ISBN: 9788085680485 / Czeski / 1999 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bernard Malamud nám ve svém románu znovu ukazuje, že špína a utrpení sice člověka deptají, ale zároveň polidšťují a očišťují.
Bernard Malamud nám ve svém románu znovu ukazuje, že špína a utrpení sice člověka deptají, ale zároveň polidšťují a očišťují.
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27,92 zł |
Bernard Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1970s & 80s (LOA #367): The Tenants / Dubin's Lives / God's Grace / Stories & Other Writings
ISBN: 9781598537451 / Angielski / Inna / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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230,70 zł |
Dubin's Lives
ISBN: 9780099289869 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. William Dublin is middle-aged, a distinguished biographer seeking increased accomplishment and the key to his inner feelings. His marriage is stable if unexciting, and he lives comfortably with his wife in Vermont. Then his imagination is caught by Fanny, a young girl of twenty-three.
William Dublin is middle-aged, a distinguished biographer seeking increased accomplishment and the key to his inner feelings. His marriage is stable i...
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92,59 zł |
Exploring the Internet
ISBN: 9781892628015 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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230,39 zł |
Trapped
ISBN: 9780996197397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Marge wins the jackpot at an Atlantic City casino and goes to an exclusive plastic surgery hospital in Brazil, where she meets Dr. Avi Levy, a brillianti physician on the cutting edge of medical science. Dr. Levey pushes the boundaries and not only performs a sex change, but goes one step further, by doing an experimental procedure which allow Marge to bear children. The operation is successful, but the birth of astonishing twin boys presents a challenge. To complicate matters, the doctor finds himself attracted to Marge, which leads him to question his own sexual proclivities. This... Marge wins the jackpot at an Atlantic City casino and goes to an exclusive plastic surgery hospital in Brazil, where she meets Dr. Avi Levy, a bril... |
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70,15 zł |
The Magic Barrel
ISBN: 9780099436980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Many of the characters in these short stories are Jewish, but through the author's gentle exploration of their predicaments, he illuminates a region that is common to everyone.
Many of the characters in these short stories are Jewish, but through the author's gentle exploration of their predicaments, he illuminates a region t...
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70,79 zł |
The Timeless Machine
ISBN: 9780999446270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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67,04 zł |
African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism
ISBN: 9781784534950 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A new wave of research in black classicism has emerged in the 21st century that explores the role played by the classics in the larger cultural traditions of black America, Africa and the Caribbean. Addressing a gap in this scholarship, Margaret Malamud investigates why and how advocates for abolition and black civil rights (both black and white) deployed their knowledge of classical literature and history in their struggle for black liberty and equality in the United States.
African Americans boldly staked their own claims to the classical world: they deployed texts, ideas and images of... A new wave of research in black classicism has emerged in the 21st century that explores the role played by the classics in the larger cultural tradit...
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621,24 zł |
The Assistant: A Novel
ISBN: 9780374504847 / Angielski / Inna / 2003 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Assistant, Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls in love with Helen Bober; at the same time he begins to steal from the store. Like Malamud's best stories, this novel unerringly evokes an immigrant world of cramped circumstances and... The Assistant, Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who... |
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75,41 zł |
An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture
ISBN: 9781137009821 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. A fascinating exploration of the way in which animals are 'framed' - contextualized, decontextualized - in contemporary visual culture. Written in a highly engaging style, this book challenges the field, dealing with some highly controversial aspects of animal exploitation and boldly examines material that is seldom discussed within animal studies.
A fascinating exploration of the way in which animals are 'framed' - contextualized, decontextualized - in contemporary visual culture. Written in a h...
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193,63 zł |
I Found Happiness & Tragedy: Selections from the 2022 Literary Taxidermy Writing Competition
ISBN: 9781736097441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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49,44 zł |
The Fixer
ISBN: 9780857890948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Kiev, 1911. When a twelve-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the accusation of ritual murder is levelled at the Jews. Yakov Bok - a handyman hiding his Jewish identity from his anti-Semitic employer - is first outed and blamed. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit. What becomes of this man under pressure, for whom acquittal is made to seem as hopeless as conviction, is the subject of a terrifying masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction.
Kiev, 1911. When a twelve-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the accusation of ritual murder is levelled at th...
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56,35 zł |