wyszukanych pozycji: 75
The Professor of Desire
ISBN: 9780099389019 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities. Temptation comes to him in both its ordinary and spectacular forms. This book explores in all its painful ramifications, the pursuit and loss of erotic happiness.
David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilit...
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54,65 zł |
Der menschliche Makel : Roman. Nachwort von Denis Scheck. Ausgezeichnet mit dem PEN/Faulkner Award 2001
ISBN: 9783446262386 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Der mit Anthony Hopkins und Nicole Kidman verfilmte Roman jetzt in besonderer Ausstattung mit flexiblem Einband und Lesebändchen - und einem Nachwort von Denis Scheck.
Der mit Anthony Hopkins und Nicole Kidman verfilmte Roman jetzt in besonderer Ausstattung mit flexiblem Einband und Lesebändchen - und einem Nachwort...
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72,58 zł |
Nemesis
ISBN: 9780099542261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death.
In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis,...
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50,99 zł |
Philip Roth: Novels & Other Narratives 1986-1991 (LOA #185): The Counterlife / The Facts / Deception / Patrimony
ISBN: 9781598530308 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 767 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities, leading the critic Harold Bloom to proclaim Roth ?our foremost novelist since Faulkner.? Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assault on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time. By special arrangement with the author, The Library of America continues the definitive edition of Roth's collected works.
This fifth volume of The Library of America's... For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities, leading the critic Harold Blo...
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178,61 zł |
Patrimony: A True Story
ISBN: 9780679752936 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does so, discloses the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished his father's long, stubborn engagement with life."
Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old fat...
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82,79 zł |
My Life as a Man
ISBN: 9780099515319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Peter is a gifted young writer, and Maureen Tarnopol is the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen's death, Peter is still trying - and failing - to write his way free of it.
Peter is a gifted young writer, and Maureen Tarnopol is the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fra...
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50,99 zł |
The Breast
ISBN: 9780679749011 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis a daring, heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity."
Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned...
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69,72 zł |
When She Was Good
ISBN: 9780099484998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process.
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men ar...
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50,99 zł |
The Plot Against America: A Novel
ISBN: 9780358008811 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Soon to be an HBO Miniseries from executive producer David Simon ';A masterwork of counterfactual history.'The New Yorker Soon to be an HBO Miniseries from executive producer David Simon ';A masterwork of counterfactual history.'The New Yorker |
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122,47 zł |
The Human Stain
ISBN: 9780375726347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out...
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an agi...
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78,44 zł |
The Breast
ISBN: 9780099477518 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of this fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a funny exploration of the implications of metamorphosis.
Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned...
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45,89 zł |
Everyman
ISBN: 9780307277718 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from -one family's harrowing encounter with history- (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his...
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against Americ...
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81,65 zł |
Portnoy's Complaint
ISBN: 9780099399018 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A story that tells about the confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood.
A story that tells about the confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time ...
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50,99 zł |
Der menschliche Makel, 1 MP3-CD : Lesung mit Jürgen Hentsch (1 mp3-CD), Lesung. MP3 Format
ISBN: 9783742409249 / Niemiecki / Audio (mc/cd) / 2019 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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68,04 zł |
The Human Stain
ISBN: 9780099282198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Set in 1998, with the backdrop of the impeachment of a president, this book shows us an America where conflicting moralities and ideological divisions result in public denunciations and houndings, and where innocence is not always a good enough excuse.
Set in 1998, with the backdrop of the impeachment of a president, this book shows us an America where conflicting moralities and ideological divisions...
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50,99 zł |
Le rabaissement
ISBN: 9782070450442 / Francuski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Simon Axler geht es schlecht. Mit sechzig hat der ehemalige Theaterstar alles Selbstvertrauen verloren. Als ihn auch noch seine Frau verlässt, beginnt er eine riskante Beziehung mit der lesbischen Tochter eines Jugendfreundes. Was anfangs Trost zu spenden scheint, erweist sich als Wirklichkeitsflucht, die in die Katastrophe führt. Mit Ironie und ohne Gnade entblößt Philip Roth in seinem neuen Roman alle menschlichen Täuschungen Liebe und Macht, Leidenschaft und Prestige.
Simon Axler geht es schlecht. Mit sechzig hat der ehemalige Theaterstar alles Selbstvertrauen verloren. Als ihn auch noch seine Frau verlässt, beginn...
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43,89 zł |
The Humbling
ISBN: 9780307472588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his 60s, Axler has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance.
Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in h...
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74,08 zł |
American Pastoral: The renowned Pulitzer Prize-Winning novel
ISBN: 9780099771814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Seymour Levov, a devoted family man and inheritor of his father's factory, comes of age in thriving post-war America. His daughter Merry is the apple of his eye until America begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s, and Merry grows up to be a terrorist bent on destroying her father's paradise.
Seymour Levov, a devoted family man and inheritor of his father's factory, comes of age in thriving post-war America. His daughter Merry is the apple ...
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50,99 zł |
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
ISBN: 9780099520962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A work of candour and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. It concentrates on five episodes from Philip Roth's life.
A work of candour and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. It concentrates on five episode...
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56,09 zł |
When She Was Good
ISBN: 9780679759256 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose -goodness- is a terrible disease.
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process. With his unerring portraits of Lucy and her hapless, childlike husband, Roy, Roth has created an uncompromising work of... In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralist...
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87,15 zł |