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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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The Human Stain
ISBN: 9781784875565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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Portnoys Beschwerden : Roman
ISBN: 9783499255656 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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63,50 |
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Indignation
ISBN: 9780099523420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. America, 1951. Marcus Messner, from Newark, New Jersey, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. Far away from home, in the Midwestern college, Marcus has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.
America, 1951. Marcus Messner, from Newark, New Jersey, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg Colle...
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Letting Go
ISBN: 9780099485032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Set in Chicago in the fifties, this title chronicles an era when men and women were still constrained by the dictates of custom, community and family.
Set in Chicago in the fifties, this title chronicles an era when men and women were still constrained by the dictates of custom, community and family.
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109,98 |
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I Married a Communist
ISBN: 9780099287834 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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Sabbath's Theater
ISBN: 9780099582014 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is the story of Mickey Sabbath, a disgraced puppeteer who, after the death of his long-time mistress, embarks on a raging journey into dionysian extremism, madness and bitter understanding. Philip Roth won the 1995 National Book Award.
This is the story of Mickey Sabbath, a disgraced puppeteer who, after the death of his long-time mistress, embarks on a raging journey into dionysian ...
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American Pastoral
ISBN: 9780375701429 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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My Life as a Man
ISBN: 9780099515319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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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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Our Gang: Starring Trick and His Friends
ISBN: 9780099389118 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The character of Tricky presents one of the greatest hypocritical opportunists, an unprincipled self-seeker in this satirical vision of a debased national leadership speaking a language that is designed to make lies sound truthful.
The character of Tricky presents one of the greatest hypocritical opportunists, an unprincipled self-seeker in this satirical vision of a debased nati...
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73,30 |
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The Great American Novel
ISBN: 9780099889403 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A novel narrated by octogenarian ex-sportswriter Word Smith, who plans to write the 'Great American Novel' and also to tell the tragic and hilarious story of the Ruppert Mundys - the only homeless baseball team ever to play in the big league, who have disappeared from all official histories.
A novel narrated by octogenarian ex-sportswriter Word Smith, who plans to write the 'Great American Novel' and also to tell the tragic and hilarious s...
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89,02 |
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Portnoy's Complaint
ISBN: 9780679756453 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Portnoy's Complaint n. after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis,"...
Portnoy's Complaint n. after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually war...
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Pastoral Americana / American Pastoral
ISBN: 9788497936101 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,34 |
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Verschwörung gegen Amerika : Roman. Nachwort von Denis Scheck.
ISBN: 9783446262393 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Philip Roths großer Roman über die Demokratie und ihre Gefährdung von innen jetzt in besonderer Ausstattung mit flexiblem Einband und Lesebändchen - und einem Nachwort von Denis Scheck.
Philip Roths großer Roman über die Demokratie und ihre Gefährdung von innen jetzt in besonderer Ausstattung mit flexiblem Einband und Lesebändchen...
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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. 8-10 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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The Breast
ISBN: 9780099477518 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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The Plot Against America
ISBN: 9780099478560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. He publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany. This book recounts the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst.
When Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. He publicly blamed the Jews for pushing Ame...
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American Pastoral
ISBN: 9781784875541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate Americans rise and fall—of a strong, confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces of social disorder. Seymour Swede Levov—a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his fathers Newark glove factory—comes of age in thriving, triumphant postwar America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. Not even the most private, well-intentioned citizen, it seems, gets to sidestep the sweep of history. With vigorous realism,...
American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate Americans rise and fall—of a strong, confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces ...
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Nemesis
ISBN: 9780307475008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives.
Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As the devastating disease begins to ravage Bucky s playground, Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: fear, panic, anger,... Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives....
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