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Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
ISBN: 9781841593173 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people.
Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mot...
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87,92 zł |
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Liars in Love
ISBN: 9780099518594 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A collection of seven short stories themed around troubled relations.
A collection of seven short stories themed around troubled relations.
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51,70 zł |
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The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
ISBN: 9780099518549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Richard Yates examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour.
Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mot...
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67,22 zł |
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Young Hearts Crying
ISBN: 9780307455963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In Young Hearts Crying, Yates movingly portrays a man and a woman from their courtship and marriage in the 1950s to their divorce in the 70s, chronicling their heartbreaking attempts to reach their highest ambitions. Michael Davenport dreams of being a poet after returning home from World War II Europe, and at first he and his new wife Lucy enjoy their life together. But as the decades pass and the success of others creates an oppressive fear of failure in both Michael and Lucy, their once bright future gives way to a life of adultery and isolation. With empathy and grace, Yates...
In Young Hearts Crying, Yates movingly portrays a man and a woman from their courtship and marriage in the 1950s to their divorce in the 70s, c...
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82,99 zł |
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Cold Spring Harbor: A Novel
ISBN: 9780385295963 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this classic novel Richard Yates, hailed as a preeminent chronicler of the American condition and author of the acclaimed Revolutionary Road, weaves a masterful, unflinching tale of two families brought together by chance, desperation, and desire.
Evan Shepard was born with good looks, bad luck, and a love for the open ro But it was on one such drive, with his father from rural Long Island into lower Manhattan, that Evan's life would be changed forever. When their car breaks down on a Greenwich Village street, Evan's father presses a random doorbell, looking for a telephone.... In this classic novel Richard Yates, hailed as a preeminent chronicler of the American condition and author of the acclaimed Revolutionary Road,
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67,22 zł |
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A Special Providence
ISBN: 9780099518631 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Robert Prentice is 18, and his dreams have disintegrated on the battlefields of Europe. At home, his mother, Alice, wraps herself in fantasy against the relentless disappointments of life. This novel describes post-war America, at odds with its identity, striving to combine prosperity and ideals, mercilessly exposed in the attempt to do so.
Robert Prentice is 18, and his dreams have disintegrated on the battlefields of Europe. At home, his mother, Alice, wraps herself in fantasy against t...
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51,70 zł |
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The Easter Parade
ISBN: 9780099518563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later her seemingly golden marriage. This novel follows the two sisters from their childhood in the 1920s through the challenges of their adult choices.
Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of h...
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51,70 zł |
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A Special Providence
ISBN: 9780413775191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Another great lost novel by the author of 'Revolutionary Road'. Robert Prentice is eighteen. His mother Alice Prentice is fifty-three. Both are damaged souls: Robert, by war, Alice, by thwarted dreams of prosperity. In two deeply humanizing portraits, the great American writer crafts a novel of postwar America, at once at odds with its own sense of identity and mercilessly prohibitive to its like-minded citizens.
Another great lost novel by the author of 'Revolutionary Road'. Robert Prentice is eighteen. His mother Alice Prentice is fifty-three. Both are damage...
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41,35 zł |
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A Good School
ISBN: 9780312420390 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American ficiton as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer. In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school. At once a meditation on the twilight of youth and an examination of America's entry into World War II, A Good School tells the stories of William Grove, the quiet boy who becomes an editor of the school newspaper; Jack Draper, a crippled chemistry teacher; and Edith Stone, the schoolmaster's young daughter, who... Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American ficiton as Updike,... |
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78,62 zł |
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Cold Spring Harbor
ISBN: 9780413774828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When the Shepards' car breaks down in pre-War New York City, a chain of events is set in motion that will transform the lives of the beautiful but stupid Evan Shepard, his doomed lover Rachel, and both their families.
When the Shepards' car breaks down in pre-War New York City, a chain of events is set in motion that will transform the lives of the beautiful but stu...
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41,35 zł |
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A Good School
ISBN: 9780099518587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. William Grove is a nervous teenager trying to fit in at his new boarding school. Jack Draper is a teacher whose wife is cheating on him. Edith Stone is the daughter of the English master who falls in love with the most popular boy in school. In this book, their stories twine together in the confines of the small community of Dorset Academy.
William Grove is a nervous teenager trying to fit in at his new boarding school. Jack Draper is a teacher whose wife is cheating on him. Edith Stone i...
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71,75 zł |
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Revolutionary Road, the Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness: Introduction by Richard Price
ISBN: 9780307270894 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami)
Three classic works--including the virtuosic Revolutionary Road, soon to be a major motion picture--that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master.
Richard Yates's first novel, Revolutionary Road is the unforgettable portrait of a marriage built on dreams that tragically never come to fruition. In The Easter Parade, he tells the story of two sisters whose parents' divorce overshadows their entire lives. And in the stories in Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, we witness men and women striving for better lives amid discouragement...
Three classic works--including the virtuosic Revolutionary Road, soon to be a major motion picture--that exemplify the remarkable gi... |
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139,78 zł |
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Revolutionary Road
ISBN: 9780099518624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Tells the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just round the corner. The author shows how Frank and April mortgage their hopes and ideals, betraying in the end not only each other, but their own best selves.
Tells the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that grea...
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51,70 zł |
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Disturbing the Peace
ISBN: 9780099518556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) John Wilder is a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son. But something is wrong. His family no longer interests him, his infidelities are leading him nowhere and he has begun to drink too much. Then one night, something inside John snaps and he calls his wife to tell her that he isn't coming home.
John Wilder is a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son. But something is wrong. His family no longer...
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51,70 zł |
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A Special Providence
ISBN: 9780307455956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Yates's second novel follows a young man, Robert Prentice, and his mother Alice, a sculptor. With haunting clarity, Yates crafts an unforgettable portrait of two people who cannot help but hope for more even as life challenges them both.
Yates's second novel follows a young man, Robert Prentice, and his mother Alice, a sculptor. With haunting clarity, Yates crafts an unforgettable port...
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78,62 zł |
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Revolutionary Road
ISBN: 9780837162218 / Angielski / Twarda / 1971 / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs. It's the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple who have lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.
From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of...
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331,38 zł |
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The Easter Parade
ISBN: 9780312278281 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage. Emily is precocious and independent, struggling with one unsatisfactory love affair after another. Richard Yates's classic novel is about how both women struggle to overcome their tarnished family's past, and how both finally reach for some semblance of renewal. In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. ... |
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78,62 zł |
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Young Hearts Crying
ISBN: 9780099518648 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy, has a private fortune that he won't touch in case it compromises his art. She in turn is never quite certain of what is expected of her. All she knows is that everyone else seems, somehow, happier.
Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy, has a private fortune ...
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56,87 zł |
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Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
ISBN: 9780099518570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A collection of stories of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women in the 1950s, the era when the American dream was finally coming true - and just beginning to ring a little hollow.
A collection of stories of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and th...
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51,70 zł |
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Cold Spring Harbor
ISBN: 9780099518532 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In the small suburban town of Cold Spring Harbor, Evan Shephard and his young bride Rachel yearn to escape the mistakes of their parents. But as they discover, families exert a hold as tight as fate, and every way out only ends up back home.
In the small suburban town of Cold Spring Harbor, Evan Shephard and his young bride Rachel yearn to escape the mistakes of their parents. But as they ...
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51,70 zł |
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