wyszukanych pozycji: 12
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The 2009 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories
ISBN: 9781934832110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. These 11 stories, including Annie Weatherwax's prize-winning story, "The Possibility of Things," selected by Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Olen Butler, demonstrate the power and variety possible in this vibrant literary form.
These 11 stories, including Annie Weatherwax's prize-winning story, "The Possibility of Things," selected by Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Olen Butler,...
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81,77 |
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The Empire of Night
ISBN: 9780802124265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the third installment of his critically acclaimed Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler continues to win over readers with the artfulness of his World War I settings and his charismatic leading man, a Chicago war correspondent turned spy.
It is 1915, and President Woodrow Wilson is still assessing the war s threat to the United States. There is a mole in the British government, and Cobb s intelligence handlers send him to a castle on the Kentish coast to investigate a key suspect, Sir Albert Stockman. Working deep undercover, Cobb must also contend... In the third installment of his critically acclaimed Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler continues to win over r...
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77,07 |
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Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards
ISBN: 9780802142047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In his dazzling new book of stories, Butler explores America by finding artistic inspiration in an unlikely and fascinating place--the backs of postcards from the early 20th century.
In his dazzling new book of stories, Butler explores America by finding artistic inspiration in an unlikely and fascinating place--the backs of postca...
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77,07 |
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Hell
ISBN: 9780802145093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" is set in the underworld. Its main character, Hatcher McCord, is an evening-news presenter who has found himself in hell and is struggling to explain his bad fortune.
The new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" is set in the underworld. Its main character, Hatcher McC...
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cena:
53,95 |
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Twice Around a Marriage
ISBN: 9780875659381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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134,68 |
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories
ISBN: 9780802137982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Butler's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese is reissued. Includes two subsequently published stories that complete the collection's narrative journey, returning to the jungles of Vietnam.
Butler's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese is reissued. Includes tw...
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69,36 |
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The Hot Country: A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller
ISBN: 9780802121547 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Hot Country is an epic tale of war, love, and espionage. Christopher Marlowe Cobb is an American newspaper war correspondent who travels to Mexico in 1914 to report on the country's civil war, the invasion of Vera Cruz, and the controversial presidency of Victoriano Huerta, El Chacal (The Jackal). Covering the war in enemy territory and sweltering heat, Cobb falls in love with Luisa, a beautiful Mexican laundress, who is not as innocent as she seems.
Upon investigating a German ammunition ship docked in the marina, Cobb finds himself fired upon by unknown assailants, then... The Hot Country is an epic tale of war, love, and espionage. Christopher Marlowe Cobb is an American newspaper war correspondent who travels to...
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61,66 |
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The Star of Istanbul
ISBN: 9781843445678 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In the second book in Robert Olen Butler s Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, "The Star of Istanbul" is a classic tale of adventure, romance, and war. World War I is in full swing, and foreign correspondent Kit Cobb has been tasked with following a German intellectual and possible secret service agent into perilous waters aboard the "Lusitania." But Cobb is soon distracted from his mission by the sultry Selene Bourgani, a world-renowned actress who also appears to be working with German Intelligence. The more Cobb thinks he knows her, the less he really does, and the secrets Selene harbors have...
In the second book in Robert Olen Butler s Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, "The Star of Istanbul" is a classic tale of adventure, romance, and war. W...
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45,47 |
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The Best Peace Fiction: A Social Justice Anthology
ISBN: 9780826363039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
98,70 |
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Fragments
ISBN: 9780226268866 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Fragments is a story about how war can make everything explosive-even love-and how two friends try to put the pieces of their lives together again. " Fragments] makes the usual semi-autobiographical account of the Vietnam War] . . . seem flimsy and discursive in comparison. . . . The shapeliness and sense of larger design is] so elegantly executed in Fragments."-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "The plot is believable, the characters sharply drawn, the prose clean and distinctive. . . . Stand s] with Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, James...
Fragments is a story about how war can make everything explosive-even love-and how two friends try to put the pieces of their lives together ag...
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119,54 |
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From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction
ISBN: 9780802142573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University -- his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace necessary for composing honest, inspired fiction. Proposing that fiction is the exploration of the human condition with yearning as its compass, Butler reinterprets the traditional tools of the craft using the dynamics of desire. Offering a direct view into the mind and craft of a...
Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University -- his version of literary boot camp...
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cena:
73,22 |