wyszukanych pozycji: 122
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Buffalo Girls
ISBN: 9780743216296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: "Martha Jane -- better known as Calamity -- is just one of the handful of aging legends who travel to London as part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in Buffalo Girls. As he describes the insatiable curiosity of Calamity's Indian friend No Ears, Annie Oakley's shooting match with Lord Windhouveren, and other highlights of the tour, McMurtry turns the story of a band of hardy, irrepressible survivors into an unforgettable portrait of love, fellowship, dreams, and heartbreak.
In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: "Martha Jane -- better known as Calamity -- is just one of the...
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77,03 |
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Film Flam
ISBN: 9780743216241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows his Hollywood. In Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits.
With successful movies and television miniseries made from several of his novels -- Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, and Hud -- McMurtry writes with an outsider's irony of the industry and an insider's experience. In these essays he illuminates the plight of the screenwriter, cuts a clean, often... A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows his Hollywood. In Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrat...
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cena:
61,61 |
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Memoirs and Reflections
ISBN: 9781442648302 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring contribution to Canadian law, politics, and life. These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on various commissions of inquiry, and his... From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential caree... |
cena:
190,75 |
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Memoirs and Reflections
ISBN: 9781442629028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 582 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring contribution to Canadian law, politics, and life. These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on various commissions of inquiry, and his... From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential caree... |
cena:
171,42 |
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The Last Picture Show
ISBN: 9781631493591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
65,47 |
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Horseman, Pass by
ISBN: 9781631493553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
57,61 |
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La magie d'un monde
ISBN: 9783347500679 / Francuski / Twarda / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. La première histoire d'une princesse et sa famille à travers des difficultés avec une sorcière qui transform ceux qui ne fait pas ce qu'elle veut. Il y a trois autres histoires à venir!
La première histoire d'une princesse et sa famille à travers des difficultés avec une sorcière qui transform ceux qui ne fait pas ce qu'elle veut....
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cena:
67,10 |
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The Desert Rose
ISBN: 9780684853840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing about women -- their love for reckless, hopeless men; their ability to see the good in losers; and their peculiar combination of emotional strength and sudden weakness -- makes The Desert Rose the bittersweet, funny, and touching book that it is.
Harmony is a Las Vegas showgirl. At night she's a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs... Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing abo...
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cena:
53,95 |
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The Evening Star
ISBN: 9780684857510 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Larry McMurtry's Terms of Endearment touched readers in a way no other story has in recent years. The earthy humor and the powerful emotional impact that set this novel apart rise to brilliant new heights with The Evening Star. McMurtry takes us deep into the heart of Texas, and deep into the heart of one of the most memorable characters of our time, Aurora Greenway--along with her family, friends, and lovers--in a tale of affectionate wit, bittersweet tenderness, and the unexpected turns that life can take. This is Larry McMurtry at his very best: warm, compassionate, full...
Larry McMurtry's Terms of Endearment touched readers in a way no other story has in recent years. The earthy humor and the powerful emotional i...
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cena:
84,78 |
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The Last Kind Words Saloon
ISBN: 9780393351194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Tracing their legendary friendship from the settlement of Long Grass, Texas, to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, The Last Kind Words Saloon finds Wyatt and Doc living out the last days of a cowboy lifestyle that is already passing into history. In his stark and peerless prose McMurtry... In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the... |
cena:
57,61 |
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The Last Kind Words Saloon
ISBN: 9780871407863 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Opening in the settlement of Long Grass, Texas not quite in Kansas, and nearly New Mexico we encounter the taciturn Wyatt, whiling away his time in between bottles, and the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc, more adept at poker than extracting teeth. Now hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge more often with a mean look than a pistol Wyatt and Doc are living out the last days of a way of life that is passing into history, two men never more aware of the growing distance between their lives and their legends. Along with Wyatt's wife, Jessie, who runs the... Opening in the settlement of Long Grass, Texas not quite in Kansas, and nearly New Mexico we encounter the taciturn Wyatt, whiling away his time in... |
cena:
103,06 |
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Paradise
ISBN: 9780743215664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Long considered to be the brilliant dark horse of literary nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize-winning Larry McMurtry delivers a searing and reflective exploration of what paradise is, whether it exists, and how different it is from life in his Texas hometown. In 1999, Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads of America, set off for a trip to the paradise of Tahiti and the South Sea Islands in an old-fashioned tub of a cruise boat, at a time when his mother was slipping toward a paradise of her own. Opening up to her son in her final days, his mother makes a...
Long considered to be the brilliant dark horse of literary nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize-winning Larry McMurtry delivers a searing and reflective explora...
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cena:
50,10 |
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Cadillac Jack
ISBN: 9781631495090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
65,32 |
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Thalia: A Texas Trilogy
ISBN: 9781631493751 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels-- Horseman, Pass By (1961), * Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)-- all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains, where the forces of modernity challenge small- town American life. From a cattleranch rivalry that confirms... Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three n... |
cena:
154,10 |
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When the Light Goes
ISBN: 9781416534273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this masterful and often surprising sequel to the acclaimed Duane's Depressed, the Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author of Lonesome Dove has written a haunting, elegiac, and occasionally erotic novel about one of his most beloved characters. Duane Moore first made his appearance in The Last Picture Show and, like his author, he has aged but not lost his vigor or his taste for life. Back from a two-week trip to Egypt, Duane finds he cannot readjust to life in Thalia, the small, dusty, West Texas hometown in which he has spent all of his life. In the short time...
In this masterful and often surprising sequel to the acclaimed Duane's Depressed, the Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author of Lonesome D...
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cena:
57,80 |
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Ulice Laredo
ISBN: 9788384080313 / Polski / twarda / 2025 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. McMurtry napisał smutną, a jednocześnie zabawną powieść, w której uczcił nie tylko przeszłość swoich bohaterów, lecz także schyłek amerykańskiego Zachodu. - New York Times Jedno z najmocniejszych i najbardziej poruszających dzieł McMurtryego. - Los Angeles Times Kapitan Woodrow Call - za młodu wspólnik Gusa McCrae i strażnik Teksasu - został łowcą nagród i właśnie zlecono mu wytropienie groźnego meksykańskiego bandyty. W wyprawie towarzyszy mu mieszczuch ze Wschodniego Wybrzeża, niezbyt rozgarnięty zastępca szeryfa i jeden z ostatnich członków ekipy...
McMurtry napisał smutną, a jednocześnie zabawną powieść, w której uczcił nie tylko przeszłość swoich bohaterów, lecz także schyłek amery...
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cena:
99,90 |
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Crazy Horse: A Life
ISBN: 9780143034803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of this great Sioux warrior who became a reluctant leader at the Battle of Little Bighorn. With his uncanny gift for understanding the human psyche, Larry McMurtry animates the character of this remarkable figure, whose betrayal by white representatives of the U.S. government was a tragic turning point in the history of the West. A mythic figure puzzled over by generations of...
Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography...
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cena:
65,51 |
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All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
ISBN: 9781631493577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
61,47 |
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Heaven's Gold: Resurrecting Faith in Today's Youth
ISBN: 9781449787271 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Young people are leaving the church in staggering numbers as they go off to college, and church leaders do not know how to stop this exodus of youth. This study outlines why young people are leaving and what it will take to resurrect their faith, offering a foolproof plan how to accomplish that. Heaven's Gold takes the reader on a treasure hunt through Scripture from a fresh point of view that will attract young people, rather than drive them away. By turning the church into a spiritual fitness center, the fire of faith can be rekindled in each of us.
Young people are leaving the church in staggering numbers as they go off to college, and church leaders do not know how to stop this exodus of yout... |
cena:
119,42 |
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Some Can Whistle
ISBN: 9780743230162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy?" In a furious phone call from T.R., the daughter he's never met, Danny Deck gets the jolt of his life. A TV writer who's retired to his Texas mansion, Danny spends his days talking to the answering machines of his ex-lovers from New York to Paris and dreaming of the characters in the sitcom he's created. But suddenly, a hurricane called T.R. is storming into his life...
In his most moving and richly comic contemporary novel since Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the modern West he created so masterfully in The Last Picture Show and... "Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy?" In a furious phone call from T.R., the daughter he's never met, Danny Deck gets the jolt of his life. A TV writ...
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cena:
77,03 |