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Huck Out West: A Novel
ISBN: 9780393355499 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Public Burning
ISBN: 9780802135278 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A controversial best-seller in 1977, The Public Burning has since emerged as one of the most influential novels of our time. The first major work of contemporary fiction ever to use living historical figures as characters, the novel reimagines the three fateful days in 1953 that culminated with the execution of alleged atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Vice-President Richard Nixon - the voraciously ambitious bad boy of the Eisenhower regime - is the dominant narrator in an enormous cast that includes Betty Crocker, Joe McCarthy, the Marx Brothers, Walter Winchell, Uncle Sam, his...
A controversial best-seller in 1977, The Public Burning has since emerged as one of the most influential novels of our time. The first major work of c...
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Briar Rose
ISBN: 9780802135414 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A recreation of the tale of Sleeping Beauty tells of a prince tangled in the briars, a sleeping princess who dreams of a succession of kissing princes, and a grizzled fairy who inhabits the princess' dreams, inflaming her desires.
A recreation of the tale of Sleeping Beauty tells of a prince tangled in the briars, a sleeping princess who dreams of a succession of kissing princes...
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60,82 |
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The Origin of the Brunists
ISBN: 9780802137432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1969, Robert Coover's first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven lives. The only survivor, a peculiar man subject to religious visions, is adopted as a prophet and quickly gains a following. Rapidly disseminated through the magic of media exposure, the cult spreads across America, and as its members gather on the Mount of Redemption to await the apocalypse, Robert Coover lays bare the madness of religious frenzy and the sometimes greater madness of normal citizens. The Origin of the Brunists is...
Originally published in 1969, Robert Coover's first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims...
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Huck Out West
ISBN: 9780393608441 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. At the end of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory." In Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also "wrote by Huck," the boys do just that, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war. They are suddenly separated when Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than leave it, returning east with his new wife, Becky Thatcher, to learn the law from her father. Huck, abandoned and "dreadful lonely," hires himself out... At the end of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light o... |
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Pinocchio in Venice
ISBN: 9780802134851 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns with a major new novel set in Venice and featuring one of its most famous citizens, Pinocchio. The result is a brilliant philosophical discourse on what it means to be human; a hilarious, bawdy adventure; and a fitting tribute to the history, grandeur, and decay of Venice itself.
Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns with a major new novel set in Venice and featuring one of its most famous citizens, Pinocchio. T...
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Pricksongs and Descants: Fictions
ISBN: 9780802136671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume presents a collection of short stories based on traditional fairy tales that expose the futility of idealism.
This volume presents a collection of short stories based on traditional fairy tales that expose the futility of idealism.
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Pricksongs & Descants
ISBN: 9780141192956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In his carnivalesque and riotously inventive 'Pricksongs & Descants', Coover remakes old stories of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty, who marries her 'Beast' and spends a lifetime suffering his doggy stink.
In his carnivalesque and riotously inventive 'Pricksongs & Descants', Coover remakes old stories of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty, wh...
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Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions
ISBN: 9780393356649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid
ISBN: 9780141192994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Featuring two darkly funny and subversive novellas from Robert Coover, this volume features 'Spanking the Maid' and 'Briar Rose'.
Featuring two darkly funny and subversive novellas from Robert Coover, this volume features 'Spanking the Maid' and 'Briar Rose'.
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Gerald's Party
ISBN: 9780141192987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ros is dead. A bad actress but a tremendous lover, when she was alive her thighs pillowed cast members, crew, friends and acquaintances. Now, Gerald's party continues around her murdered corpse (it is, after all, just the first of the night) and the police make their brutal investigations.
Ros is dead. A bad actress but a tremendous lover, when she was alive her thighs pillowed cast members, crew, friends and acquaintances. Now, Gerald's...
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Open House
ISBN: 9781682193891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Spanking the Maid
ISBN: 9780802135407 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Though Coover's message is bleak, his delivery is wonderfully comic (Bharati Mukherjee, The Globe & Mail (Toronto)) in this spare, tantalizing, and perfect book, named by Daphne Merkin in The New Yorker as one of her favorite S/M books. Though Coover's message is bleak, his delivery is wonderfully comic (Bharati Mukherjee, The Globe & Mail (Toronto)) in this spare, tantalizing, and... |
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Gerald's Party
ISBN: 9780802135285 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Probes the personalities assembled at a party when the murder of a guest named Ros transforms an ordinary evening.
Probes the personalities assembled at a party when the murder of a guest named Ros transforms an ordinary evening.
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Ghost Town
ISBN: 9780802136664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the familiar form of the Western and turned it inside out. The lonesome stranger reaches the town - or rather, it reaches him - and he becomes part of its gunfights, saloon brawls, bawdy houses, train robberies, and, of course, the choice between the saloon chanteuse or the sweet-faced schoolmistress whom he loves. Throughout, Robert Coover reanimates the Western epics of Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour, infusing them with the Beckettian echoes, unique...
A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the fami...
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Seaview
ISBN: 9780976631163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The action of Toby Olson’s PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel Seaview sweeps eastward, following three men and two women across a wasted American continent to an apocalyptic confrontation on Cape Cod. Melinda hopes to reach the seaside where she was born before she dies of cancer. Allen, her husband, earns their way back by golf hustling, working the links en route. Outside of Tucson, the two meet up with a Pima Indian also headed toward the Cape to help a distant relative who has claims on a golf course there that is laid out on tribal grounds....
The action of Toby Olson’s PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel Seaview sweeps eastward, following three men and two women across a wast...
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The Lime Twig
ISBN: 9780140189827 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Three early novels by John Hawkes This volume brings together three early novels by John Hawkes. The Lime Twig is set in the underworld of postwar London; Second Skin is a tale of suicide and new life on two mythical islands; and Travesty is a monologue on fear and eroticism that takes place during a drive at night. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across...
Three early novels by John Hawkes This volume brings together three early novels by John Hawkes. The Lime Twig is set in the underwo...
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