wyszukanych pozycji: 116
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Buffalo Girls
ISBN: 9780743216296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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75,77 |
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Memoirs and Reflections
ISBN: 9781442629028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 582 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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... |
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169,32 |
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Memoirs and Reflections
ISBN: 9781442648302 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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... |
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188,42 |
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Books: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781416583356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Now in paperback, Larry McMurtry's fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare antiquarian books: "a necessary and marvelous gift" (San Antonio Express-News). - Acclaimed author: Spanning a lifetime of literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded at a wide variety of genres, from coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show, to essays like In a Narrow Grave, to the reinvention of the "Western" on a grand scale like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. Here at last is the private McMurtry writing about himself:...
Now in paperback, Larry McMurtry's fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare antiqu...
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71,98 |
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Cadillac Jack
ISBN: 9781631495090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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64,25 |
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The Last Kind Words Saloon
ISBN: 9780393351194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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... |
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56,67 |
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The Last Kind Words Saloon
ISBN: 9780871407863 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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... |
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101,80 |
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Thalia: A Texas Trilogy
ISBN: 9781631493751 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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... |
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151,58 |
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Szlak umrzyka
ISBN: 9788377314661 / Polski / twarda / 2023 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Szlak umrzyka to, mimo że napisany jako trzeci w kolejności, chronologicznie pierwszy tom epickiej teatrologii o Dzikim Zachodzie. Przedstawione tu wydarzenia opowiadają genezę przyjaźni dwójki bohaterów bestsellerowego Na południe od Brazos: Augustusa McCrae i Woodrowa Calla, oraz jak ten pierwszy odnalazł miłość swojego życia, a drugi - matkę swego jedynego syna. Jest rok 1842. Gus i Call - młodzi, niedoświadczeni, ale pełni entuzjazmu poszukiwacze przygód - wstępują w szeregi słynnych strażników Teksasu, gdzie czeka ich brutalna konfrontacja z rzeczywistością. Ich...
Szlak umrzyka to, mimo że napisany jako trzeci w kolejności, chronologicznie pierwszy tom epickiej teatrologii o Dzikim Zachodzie. Przedstawione tu ...
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89,90 |
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
ISBN: 9780684870199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction -- as close to an autobiography as his readers are likely to get -- Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.
Using as a springboard an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin that he first read in Archer City's Dairy Queen, McMurtry examines the small-town way of life that big oil and big ranching have nearly destroyed. He praises the virtues of everything from a lime Dr. Pepper to the lost art of oral storytelling, and describes the brutal... In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction -- as close to an autobiography as his readers are likely to get -- Larry McMurtry has written a family portr...
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71,98 |
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Equilibrium: Man Is Not Disturbed by Events, but by the View He Takes of Them
ISBN: 9781403385307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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91,34 |
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Na południe od Brazos
ISBN: 9788384080306 / Polski / twarda / 2025 / 896 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Oddana po raz pierwszy do rąk czytelników w 1985 roku Na południe od Brazos Larryego McMurtryego to powieść wyjątkowa. Doceniona zarówno przez krytyków (nagroda Pulitzera za 1985 rok), jak i czytelników (średnia ocen na goodreads to 4,5 w pięciostopniowej skali, z kolei na lubimyczyac: 8,5 na 10 możliwych), doczekała się też wspaniałej ekranizacji w postaci miniserialu z życiowymi (jak sami przyznają) rolami wybitnych aktorów, Roberta Duvalla i Tommyego Lee Jonesa. Larry McMurtry stworzył western z krwi i kości, zachwycający nawet tych, którzy za westernami nie...
Oddana po raz pierwszy do rąk czytelników w 1985 roku Na południe od Brazos Larryego McMurtryego to powieść wyjątkowa. Doceniona zarówno przez ...
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129,90 |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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... |
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117,46 |
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Księżyc Komanczów
ISBN: 9788384080474 / Polski / twarda / 2025 / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Augustus McCrae i Woodrow Call, dwaj strażnicy Teksasu, mierzą się z ciężarem dojrzałości. Gus wciąż na nowo przeżywa swą miłość do Clary Forsythe, kobiety niezależnej i dumnej, podczas gdy Call, milczący i zamknięty w sobie, nie potrafi odwzajemnić uczucia Maggie Tilton - młodej prostytutki, która kocha go bez względu na wszystko. Choć różni ich niemal wszystko - temperament, spojrzenie na życie, potrzeba bliskości - łączy ich niegasnące poczucie obowiązku. Raz jeszcze ruszają do walki jako członkowie oddziału Strażników, by w towarzystwie tropiciela...
Augustus McCrae i Woodrow Call, dwaj strażnicy Teksasu, mierzą się z ciężarem dojrzałości. Gus wciąż na nowo przeżywa swą miłość do Clar...
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119,90 |
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Lonesome Dove
ISBN: 9781529099942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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65,37 |
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Equilibrium: Man is Not Disturbed by Events, But by the View He Takes of Them'
ISBN: 9781403385314 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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135,12 |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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60,46 |
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Pod Hollywood: A Third Memoir
ISBN: 9781439159965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "One thing I've always liked about Hollywood is its zip, or speed. The whole industry depends to some extent on talent spotting. The hundreds of agents, studio executives, and producers who roam the streets of the city of Los Angeles let very little in the way of talent slip by." In this final installment of the memoir trilogy that includes Books and Literary Life, Larry McMurtry, "the master of the show-stopping anecdote" (O: The Oprah Magazine) turns his own keenly observing eye to his rollercoaster romance with Hollywood. As both the creator of numerous works...
"One thing I've always liked about Hollywood is its zip, or speed. The whole industry depends to some extent on talent spotting. The hundreds of agent...
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Moving on
ISBN: 9781631493492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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71,83 |
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Rhino Ranch
ISBN: 9781439156407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) - Highly acclaimed, iconic author: Larry McMurtry is renowned for his elegiac prose, sharp wit, and engaging plotlines. His Thalia, Texas, series is among his most famous and Duane is an icon as much as his creator. - The Thalia Finale: Readers have followed the life of Duane through The Last Picture Show, Texasville, Duane's Depressed, and When the Light Goes . Rhino Ranch, the final episode in Duane's saga, represents the end of an era and is the most unusual and compelling novel in the series. - Irony, romance, and cycle of life: Duane...
- Highly acclaimed, iconic author: Larry McMurtry is renowned for his elegiac prose, sharp wit, and engaging plotlines. His Thalia, Texas, series is a...
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68,23 |