wyszukanych pozycji: 17
Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas
ISBN: 9780316166355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At the center of The Omega Force, which opens RIGHT LIVELIHOODS, is a buffoonish former government official in rocky recovery. Dr. "Jamie" Van Deusen is determined to protect his habitat--its golf courses (and Bloody Marys), pizza places (and beers) from "dark complected" foreign nationals. His patriotism and wild imagination are mainly fueled by a fall off the wagon. The collection's second novella, K & K, concerns a lonely young office manager at an insurance agency, where the office suggestion box is yielding unpleasant messages that escalate to a scary pitch. Ellie Knight- Cameron's...
At the center of The Omega Force, which opens RIGHT LIVELIHOODS, is a buffoonish former government official in rocky recovery. Dr. "Jamie" Van Deusen ...
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86,69 zł |
Demonology
ISBN: 9780316592109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Rick Moody's novels have earned him a reputation as a "breathtaking" writer (The New York Times) and "a writer of immense gifts" (The San Francisco Examiner). His remarkable short stories have led both the New Yorker and Harpers to single him out as one of the most original and admired voices in a generation.
These stories are abundant proof of Rick Moody's grace as a stylist and a shaper of interior lives. He writes with equal force about the blithe energies of youth ("Boys") and the rueful onset of middle age ("Hawaiian Night"), about Midwestern optimists ("Double Zero") and West coast... Rick Moody's novels have earned him a reputation as a "breathtaking" writer (The New York Times) and "a writer of immense gifts" (The San Francisco Ex...
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95,36 zł |
The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony
ISBN: 9781250214799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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91,02 zł |
The Ice Storm
ISBN: 9780349110301 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A black comedy, set in New England in 1973, by the author of Garden State. Amidst the worst storm for 30 years, families gather for a party, the highlight of which is a wife-swapping game. For two couples this supposedly harmless piece of liberal-minded entertainment spells permanent disaster.
A black comedy, set in New England in 1973, by the author of Garden State. Amidst the worst storm for 30 years, families gather for a party, the highl...
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50,63 zł |
The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven
ISBN: 9780316706285 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On the occasion of the paperback release of Demonology, Back Bay Books takes pleasure in making all four of Rick Moody's acclaimed earlier works of fiction available in handsome new paperback editions.
On the occasion of the paperback release of Demonology, Back Bay Books takes pleasure in making all four of Rick Moody's acclaimed earlier works of fi...
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86,69 zł |
The Diviners
ISBN: 9780316013277 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With savvy and structural mastery not unlike Tom Wolfe and Jonathan Franzen, Moody has penned a hilarious and generous novel about ambition, folly, and the tyranny of buzz.
With savvy and structural mastery not unlike Tom Wolfe and Jonathan Franzen, Moody has penned a hilarious and generous novel about ambition, folly, an...
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112,71 zł |
Purple America
ISBN: 9780316559775 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On the occasion of the paperback release of Demonology, Back Bay Books takes pleasure in making all four of Rick Moody's acclaimed earlier works of fiction available in handsome new paperback editions.
On the occasion of the paperback release of Demonology, Back Bay Books takes pleasure in making all four of Rick Moody's acclaimed earlier works of fi...
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95,36 zł |
The Spirit of Disruption: Landmark Work from The Normal School
ISBN: 9781944853464 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,38 zł |
The Ice Storm
ISBN: 9780316706001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, com face-to-face with the seething emotions behind the well-clipped lawns of their lives-in a novel widely hailed as a funny, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life.
The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and women swap par...
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95,36 zł |
The Four Fingers of Death
ISBN: 9780316118934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror film, The Crawling Hand. Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to Mars. Three space pods with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet's first colonists. When a secret mission to retrieve...
Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illn...
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143,06 zł |
Garden State
ISBN: 9780316557634 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On the occasion of the paperback release of Demonology, Back Bay Books takes pleasure in making all four of Rick Moody's acclaimed earlier works of fiction available in handsome new paperback editions.
On the occasion of the paperback release of Demonology, Back Bay Books takes pleasure in making all four of Rick Moody's acclaimed earlier works of fi...
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86,69 zł |
On Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening
ISBN: 9780316105217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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108,37 zł |
The Black Veil
ISBN: 9780316739016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this searing, brilliantly acclaimed memoir, one of the most admired writers of his generation reveals how a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other indulgences led him not to the palace of wisdom but to a psychiatric hospital in one of New York's less exalted boroughs.
In this searing, brilliantly acclaimed memoir, one of the most admired writers of his generation reveals how a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other ind...
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95,36 zł |
Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited
ISBN: 9780316579957 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Like many of their contemporaries, novelists Rick Moody and Darcey Steinke attended Sunday school as kids but drifted away from religion as adolescents. Now, as adults, they are grappling anew with the teachings of the Bible. Rejecting the hard-edged dogmas of many mainline denominations, they have reread the New Testament, reviewed their own life experiences -- and come up with their own personal interpretations of Christian tenets.
Moody and Steinke's renewed interest in Christianity struck a chord with other notable writers -- and the result is this extraordinary collection of original... Like many of their contemporaries, novelists Rick Moody and Darcey Steinke attended Sunday school as kids but drifted away from religion as adolescent...
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109,22 zł |
The Brown Reader: 50 Writers Remember College Hill
ISBN: 9781476765198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "To be up all night in the darkness of your youth but to be ready for the day to come...that was what going to Brown felt like." --Jeffrey Eugenides In celebration of Brown University's 250th anniversary, fifty remarkable, prizewinning writers and artists who went to Brown provide unique stories--many published for the first time--about their adventures on College Hill. Funny, poignant, subversive, and nostalgic, the essays, comics, and poems in this collection paint a vivid picture of college life, from the 1950s to the present, at one of America's most interesting universities....
"To be up all night in the darkness of your youth but to be ready for the day to come...that was what going to Brown felt like." --Jeffrey Eugenides <...
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86,69 zł |
Gobshite Quarterly 2023, #41/42: 20th. anniversary issue
ISBN: 9781648714672 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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130,10 zł |
Beat Writers at Work: The Paris Review
ISBN: 9780375752155 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the pages of The Paris Review, a collection of interviews with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and more Edited by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton, and with an introduction by Rick Moody, this anthology of "Writers at Work" interviews featuring the great figures of the Beat and Black Mountain movements is an in-depth look into one of the most famous literary tribes of the century. The Beats, with their mix of talent, bravado, and insight into the social and political climes of their time, continue to...
From the pages of The Paris Review, a collection of interviews with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Lawrence Fer...
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82,39 zł |