wyszukanych pozycji: 103
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Rock Springs
ISBN: 9780747585251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West - and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. This is a story collection about ordinary women, men and children.
Mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West - and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live t...
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55,58 |
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Be Mine
ISBN: 9781526661784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
50,52 |
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Canada
ISBN: 9781408831007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that lead to Dell Parsons' parents robbing a bank. They weren't reckless people, but in an instant, their actions alter fifteen-year-old Dell's sense of normal life forever. In the days that follow, he is saved before the authorities think to arrive. Driving across Montana, his life hurtles towards the unknown; a hotel in a deserted town, the violent and enigmatic Arthur Remlinger, and towards Canada itself. But, as Dell discovers, in this new world of...
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that le...
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55,58 |
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Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book
ISBN: 9781526676061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
50,52 |
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A Multitude of Sins
ISBN: 9780375726569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores, in this masterful collection of short stories, the grand theme of intimacy, love, and their failures.
With remarkable insight and candor, Richard Ford examines liaisons in and out and to the sides of marriage. An illicit visit to the Grand Canyon reveals a vastness even more profound. A couple weekending in Maine try to recapture the ardor that has disappeared from their life together. And on a spring evening, a young wife tells her husband of her affair with the host of the dinner party they re about to... One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores, in this masterful collection of short stories, the grand theme of ...
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73,22 |
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Independence Day
ISBN: 9781526676139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
51,92 |
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Sorry for Your Trouble: Stories
ISBN: 9780062969798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
65,47 |
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The Granta Book of the American Short Story: Volume 2
ISBN: 9781847080400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume presents a selection of the best works of American short fiction published in the last half of the 20th century. Featured authors include Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, Sherman Alexie, Junot Diaz, and Deborah Eisonberg.
This volume presents a selection of the best works of American short fiction published in the last half of the 20th century. Featured authors include ...
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69,17 |
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The Lay of the Land: Bascombe Trilogy (3)
ISBN: 9780679776673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. NATIONAL BESTSELLER
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Best Book of the Year A sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father -Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people. His uncertain youth behind him, we follow him through three days during the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving. But as a presidential election hangs in the balance, and a postnuclear-family Thanksgiving looms before him, Frank discovers that what he terms "the Permanent Period" is fraught with unforeseen perils. An... NATIONAL BESTSELLER
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Best Book of the Year A sportswriter and a re... |
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77,07 |
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Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work
ISBN: 9780062020413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Edited byRichard Ford and featuring stories by Russell Banks, Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff, Jhumpa Lahiri, JohnCheever, and many others, Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar is a profound and groundbreaking anthologyexploring resonant themes of employment, service, and daily obligations asunique windows into our culture, our society, and our very humanity. With ashare of proceeds going to assist the literacynonprofit 826Michigan, this unforgettable collection of short fiction from manyof contemporary literature's most powerful authors limns the diverse meanings of work in...
Edited byRichard Ford and featuring stories by Russell Banks, Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff, Jhumpa Lahiri, JohnCheever, and many others, Blue Collar,...
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cena:
77,03 |
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Verdammtes Glück : Roman
ISBN: 9783446260849 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
cena:
71,90 |
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Unabhängigkeitstag : Roman. Ausgezeichnet miot dem PEN/Faulkner Award 1996
ISBN: 9783423144421 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2017 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. "Frank Bascombe hat sich einen Platz neben Willy Loman und Harry Angstrom in unserer literarischen Landschaft verdient, und zwar mit trockenem Witz und einer Fin-de-Siècle-Weisheit, die ihm so schnell keiner nachmacht." The New York Times Book Review§
"Frank Bascombe hat sich einen Platz neben Willy Loman und Harry Angstrom in unserer literarischen Landschaft verdient, und zwar mit trockenem Witz un...
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71,90 |
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Wildlife
ISBN: 9780747585237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A masterful novel set in 1960s Montana
A masterful novel set in 1960s Montana
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cena:
51,92 |
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Valentinstag
ISBN: 9783446277328 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2023 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Richard Fords Frank Bascombe ist zurück. Lässiger und berührender hat noch niemand seinen Frieden mit dem Schicksal gemacht. "Ein großes Buch. Sarkastisch, unsentimental, voller Liebe." (Christian Brückner)
Richard Fords berühmteste Figur, Frank Bascombe, ist zurück. Und nun, mit 74, wird seine unangefochtene Meisterschaft, auf lässige Weise den Frieden mit sich und dem Leben zu machen, noch einmal extrem gefordert. Sein Sohn Paul, 47, ist krank, ihm bleibt nicht viel Zeit. Eng waren beide nie, doch jetzt verbindet sie die Bereitschaft, sich mit ungelenker Liebe auf das... Richard Fords Frank Bascombe ist zurück. Lässiger und berührender hat noch niemand seinen Frieden mit dem Schicksal gemacht. "Ein großes Buch. Sar...
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125,83 |
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Sorry for Your Trouble
ISBN: 9780062999108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
127,12 |
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Between Them: Remembering My Parents
ISBN: 9780062670342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental love How is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford's parents--Edna, a feisty, pretty Catholic-school girl with a difficult past; and Parker, a sweet-natured, soft-spoken traveling salesman--were rural Arkansans born at the turn of the twentieth century. Married in 1928, they lived "alone together" on the road, traveling throughout the South. Eventually they had one... From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental love ... |
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100,15 |
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A Multitude of Sins
ISBN: 9780747585282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An illicit visit to the Grand Canyon reveals a vastness even more profound; an exacting career woman celebrates Christmas with her adamantly post-nuclear family; a couple weekending in Maine try to recapture the ardour that has disappeared, both gradually and suddenly, from their lives; and more.
An illicit visit to the Grand Canyon reveals a vastness even more profound; an exacting career woman celebrates Christmas with her adamantly post-nucl...
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88,31 |
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Rock Springs: Stories
ISBN: 9780802144577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1987 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Richard Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American Westand from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there: a refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter and an unhappy girlfriend in a stolen, cranberry-colored Mercedes; a boy watching his family dissolve in a night of tragicomic violence; and two men and a woman swapping hard-luck stories in a frontier bar as they try to sweeten their luck....
In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1987 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Richard Ford mines lite...
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69,36 |
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Be Mine: A Frank Bascombe Novel
ISBN: 9780061692093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
73,17 |
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The Ultimate Good Luck
ISBN: 9780394750897 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him.
"His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico."--"New York Times Book Review" In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, w...
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69,36 |