wyszukanych pozycji: 70
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The Dying Animal
ISBN: 9780099422693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. David, white-haired & over 60, is a TV culture critic & lecturer at a New York college. He meets Consuela, a 24-year-old student, daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who puts his life into erotic disorder & haunts him for the next eight years.
David, white-haired & over 60, is a TV culture critic & lecturer at a New York college. He meets Consuela, a 24-year-old student, daughter of wealthy ...
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53,18 zł |
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I Married a Communist
ISBN: 9780099287834 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Radio actor Iron Rinn is a roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist turned popular performer, he marries America's reigning radio actress and silent movie star, Eve Frame. However, both his marriage and his life collapse.
Radio actor Iron Rinn is a roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist turned popul...
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53,18 zł |
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Mistrzowie. Spotkania z twórcami
ISBN: 9788378664000 / Polski / broszurowa / 2021 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Bardzo jestem do tej książki przywiązany, często do niej wracam. Philip Roth, klasyk amerykańskiej literatury, w dialogu z pisarzami i malarzem, których dzieło i postawa były dla niego inspiracją. Ten wielki powieściopisarz potrafił zaangażować się na rzecz innych twórców, pokazać ich magię, geniusz ich dzieła. Imponuje mi postawa Rotha, altruizm i szacunek artysty, wręcz podziw, dla innych artystów. Jakie to dziś wyjątkowe w narcystycznym świecie sztuki, jak piękne! Książka Rotha to opowieść o pokrewieństwie dusz, wdzięczności i poczuciu wspólnej misji. Jej...
Bardzo jestem do tej książki przywiązany, często do niej wracam. Philip Roth, klasyk amerykańskiej literatury, w dialogu z pisarzami i malarzem, ...
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37,99 zł |
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Nemesis
ISBN: 9780099542261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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53,18 zł |
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My Life as a Man
ISBN: 9780099515319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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53,18 zł |
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Zuckerman Unbound
ISBN: 9780679748991 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky ("Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?"), but he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisers, and sidewalk literary critics. The recent murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., lead an unsettled Zuckerman to wonder if "target" may be more than a figure of speech.
In Zuckerman... Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhatta...
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82,95 zł |
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The Counterlife
ISBN: 9780099481355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate. Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the mind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the sceptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's paid in the struggle...
The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irrev...
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56,22 zł |
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The Anatomy Lesson
ISBN: 9780099476610 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The finale to Roth's Zuckerman trilogy. Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious physical affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his life. His work was his life, but now his work is trekking from one doctor to the next.
The finale to Roth's Zuckerman trilogy. Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious physical affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoul...
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53,18 zł |
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Portnoyův komplex
ISBN: 8594169485836 / Czeski / audio (mc/cd) / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. V roce 1966 ulehl na gauč věhlasného newyorského cvokaře a rád by se mu vyzpovídal, neboť s jinou formou hříšné relaxace jeho víra nepočítá. Alexander Portnoy - židovský vzorňák v… ehm… Kristových letech, úspěšný právník v mladičkém oboru lidských práv a ze všeho nejvíc lovec žen posedlý sexem i sociálním altruismem - má totiž neurózu jako trám. Jak se pod dohledem dr. Spielvogela noří do hlubin svého rozčarování, loví odtud coby svědomitý sebemrskač křivdu za křivdou. A protože zároveň ne a ne přeseknout pupeční šňůru...
V roce 1966 ulehl na gauč věhlasného newyorského cvokaře a rád by se mu vyzpovídal, neboť s jinou formou hříšné relaxace jeho víra nepoč...
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76,56 zł |
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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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53,18 zł |
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The Human Stain
ISBN: 9781784875565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 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 his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret. But its not the secret of his affair, at seventy-one, with Faunia Farley, a woman half his age with a savagely wrecked past--a part-time farmhand and a janitor at the college where, until recently, he was the powerful...
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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53,18 zł |
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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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70,51 zł |
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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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72,74 zł |
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American Pastoral: The renowned Pulitzer Prize-Winning novel
ISBN: 9780099771814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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51,10 zł |
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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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78,80 zł |
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The Facts : A Novelist's Autobiography
ISBN: 9780099520962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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58,51 zł |
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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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66,36 zł |
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Reading Myself And Others
ISBN: 9780099485025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Collects the interviews, essays and articles that span a quarter of a century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and 'reveal a preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world.'
Collects the interviews, essays and articles that span a quarter of a century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and 'reveal a preoccupation with t...
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69,15 zł |
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Zuckerman Unbound
ISBN: 9780099477563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky, but he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisers, and literary critics. The recent murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., lead an unsettled Zuckerman to wonder if 'target' may be more than a figure of speech. In Zuckerman Unbound - the second volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman...
Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhatta...
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53,18 zł |
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American Pastoral: American Trilogy (1)
ISBN: 9780375701429 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Now a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, and Dakota Fanning Here is Philip Roth's masterpiece--an elegy for the American century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him. For... Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Now a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, and Dakota Fanning Here is Philip Rot... |
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74,66 zł |