wyszukanych pozycji: 120
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Film Flam
ISBN: 9780743216241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows his Hollywood. In Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits.
With successful movies and television miniseries made from several of his novels -- Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, and Hud -- McMurtry writes with an outsider's irony of the industry and an insider's experience. In these essays he illuminates the plight of the screenwriter, cuts a clean, often... A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows his Hollywood. In Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrat...
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61,11 |
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Buffalo Girls
ISBN: 9780743216296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: "Martha Jane -- better known as Calamity -- is just one of the handful of aging legends who travel to London as part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in Buffalo Girls. As he describes the insatiable curiosity of Calamity's Indian friend No Ears, Annie Oakley's shooting match with Lord Windhouveren, and other highlights of the tour, McMurtry turns the story of a band of hardy, irrepressible survivors into an unforgettable portrait of love, fellowship, dreams, and heartbreak.
In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: "Martha Jane -- better known as Calamity -- is just one of the...
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cena:
76,40 |
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Memoirs and Reflections
ISBN: 9781442648302 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring contribution to Canadian law, politics, and life. These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on various commissions of inquiry, and his... From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential caree... |
cena:
190,37 |
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Memoirs and Reflections
ISBN: 9781442629028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 582 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring contribution to Canadian law, politics, and life. These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on various commissions of inquiry, and his... From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential caree... |
cena:
171,08 |
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Native Heart: The Life and Times of Ned Christie, Cherokee Patriot and Renegade
ISBN: 9781448662968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
35,92 |
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
ISBN: 9780684870199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction -- as close to an autobiography as his readers are likely to get -- Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.
Using as a springboard an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin that he first read in Archer City's Dairy Queen, McMurtry examines the small-town way of life that big oil and big ranching have nearly destroyed. He praises the virtues of everything from a lime Dr. Pepper to the lost art of oral storytelling, and describes the brutal... In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction -- as close to an autobiography as his readers are likely to get -- Larry McMurtry has written a family portr...
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cena:
72,58 |
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Desert Rose
ISBN: 9781447274667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove and Terms of Endearment.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove and Terms of Endearment.
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cena:
51,40 |
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The Last Picture Show
ISBN: 9781631493591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
64,93 |
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When the Light Goes
ISBN: 9781416534273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this masterful and often surprising sequel to the acclaimed Duane's Depressed, the Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author of Lonesome Dove has written a haunting, elegiac, and occasionally erotic novel about one of his most beloved characters. Duane Moore first made his appearance in The Last Picture Show and, like his author, he has aged but not lost his vigor or his taste for life. Back from a two-week trip to Egypt, Duane finds he cannot readjust to life in Thalia, the small, dusty, West Texas hometown in which he has spent all of his life. In the short time...
In this masterful and often surprising sequel to the acclaimed Duane's Depressed, the Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author of Lonesome D...
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cena:
57,33 |
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Horseman, Pass by
ISBN: 9781631493553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
57,14 |
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The Late Child
ISBN: 9780743222549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An unforgettable addition to his widely acclaimed body of work, The Late Child is Larry McMurtry's tender, funny, and poignant sequel to The Desert Rose. McMurtry delivers another rich cast of characters -- and a heartfelt, bittersweet story that unfolds on the open road, in one woman's search for strength, understanding, and hope.
Harmony is the optimistic, resilient Las Vegas ex-showgirl who returns home one day to the news that her beloved daughter has died, in New York, of AIDS. She manages to stay afloat, buoyed by her precocious five-year-old son, Eddie, and her two... An unforgettable addition to his widely acclaimed body of work, The Late Child is Larry McMurtry's tender, funny, and poignant sequel to The...
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cena:
110,80 |
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La magie d'un monde
ISBN: 9783347500662 / Francuski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. La première histoire d'une princesse et sa famille à travers des difficultés avec une sorcière qui transform ceux qui ne fait pas ce qu'elle veut. Il y a trois autres histoires à venir!
La première histoire d'une princesse et sa famille à travers des difficultés avec une sorcière qui transform ceux qui ne fait pas ce qu'elle veut....
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40,16 |
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Books: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781416583356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Now in paperback, Larry McMurtry's fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare antiquarian books: "a necessary and marvelous gift" (San Antonio Express-News). - Acclaimed author: Spanning a lifetime of literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded at a wide variety of genres, from coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show, to essays like In a Narrow Grave, to the reinvention of the "Western" on a grand scale like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. Here at last is the private McMurtry writing about himself:...
Now in paperback, Larry McMurtry's fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare antiqu...
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72,58 |
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Terms of Endearment
ISBN: 9780684853901 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere: Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma.
Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around her, including a string of devoted suitors. Widowed and overprotective of her daughter, Aurora adapts at her own pace until life sends two enormous challenges her way: Emma's hasty marriage and subsequent battle with cancer. Terms of Endearment is the Oscar-winning story of a memorable... In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts...
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cena:
80,22 |
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Cadillac Jack
ISBN: 9781631495090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
64,79 |
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The Last Kind Words Saloon
ISBN: 9780393351194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Tracing their legendary friendship from the settlement of Long Grass, Texas, to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, The Last Kind Words Saloon finds Wyatt and Doc living out the last days of a cowboy lifestyle that is already passing into history. In his stark and peerless prose McMurtry... In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the... |
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57,14 |
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The Last Kind Words Saloon
ISBN: 9780871407863 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Opening in the settlement of Long Grass, Texas not quite in Kansas, and nearly New Mexico we encounter the taciturn Wyatt, whiling away his time in between bottles, and the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc, more adept at poker than extracting teeth. Now hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge more often with a mean look than a pistol Wyatt and Doc are living out the last days of a way of life that is passing into history, two men never more aware of the growing distance between their lives and their legends. Along with Wyatt's wife, Jessie, who runs the... Opening in the settlement of Long Grass, Texas not quite in Kansas, and nearly New Mexico we encounter the taciturn Wyatt, whiling away his time in... |
cena:
102,85 |
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Thalia: A Texas Trilogy
ISBN: 9781631493751 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels-- Horseman, Pass By (1961), * Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)-- all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains, where the forces of modernity challenge small- town American life. From a cattleranch rivalry that confirms... Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three n... |
cena:
152,84 |
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Szlak umrzyka
ISBN: 9788377314661 / Polski / twarda / 2023 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Szlak umrzyka to, mimo że napisany jako trzeci w kolejności, chronologicznie pierwszy tom epickiej teatrologii o Dzikim Zachodzie. Przedstawione tu wydarzenia opowiadają genezę przyjaźni dwójki bohaterów bestsellerowego Na południe od Brazos: Augustusa McCrae i Woodrowa Calla, oraz jak ten pierwszy odnalazł miłość swojego życia, a drugi - matkę swego jedynego syna. Jest rok 1842. Gus i Call - młodzi, niedoświadczeni, ale pełni entuzjazmu poszukiwacze przygód - wstępują w szeregi słynnych strażników Teksasu, gdzie czeka ich brutalna konfrontacja z rzeczywistością. Ich...
Szlak umrzyka to, mimo że napisany jako trzeci w kolejności, chronologicznie pierwszy tom epickiej teatrologii o Dzikim Zachodzie. Przedstawione tu ...
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cena:
89,90 |
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Equilibrium: Man Is Not Disturbed by Events, but by the View He Takes of Them
ISBN: 9781403385307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
92,10 |