wyszukanych pozycji: 32
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Rule of the Bone
ISBN: 9780747585312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A stunning novel of our times with a unique character - Bone - who will stay with you long after this book has ended
A stunning novel of our times with a unique character - Bone - who will stay with you long after this book has ended
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91,88 zł |
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Outer Banks
ISBN: 9780061544521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An Omnibus Edition of Three Classic Early Novels from the Critically Acclaimed Author of Cloudsplitter and Affliction Family Life: Russell Banks's first novel is an adult fairy tale of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom where the myriad dramas of domesticity blend with an outrageous slew of murders, mayhem, coups, debauches, world tours, and love in all guises, transcendent or otherwise. Hamilton Stark: This tale of a solitary, boorish, misanthropic New Hampshire pipe fitter--the sole inhabitant of the house from which he... An Omnibus Edition of Three Classic Early Novels from the Critically Acclaimed Author of Cloudsplitter and Affliction |
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77,96 zł |
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The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks
ISBN: 9780060931254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written. As is characteristic of all of Bank's works, these stories resonate with irony and compassion, honesty and insight, extending into the vast territory of the heart and the world, from working-class New England to Florida and the Caribbean and Africa. Broad in scope and rich in imagination, The Angel on the Roof affirms...
With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially ...
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77,96 zł |
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Foregone
ISBN: 9780857304599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The new novel from two time Pulitzer Prize nominee Russell Banks. Famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologise his mythologised life.
The new novel from two time Pulitzer Prize nominee Russell Banks. Famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, who fled to Cana...
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77,29 zł |
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Lost Memory of Skin
ISBN: 9781846685774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather.
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, ...
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70,25 zł |
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Lost Memory of Skin
ISBN: 9780061857645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive realities of this country." "Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell Banks." Lost Memory of Skin is a provocative novel of spiritual and moral redemption from Russell Banks, the author of Affliction, Rule of the Bone, Continental Drift, Cloudsplitter, and other acclaimed masterworks of contemporary American fiction.... "Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive ... |
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61,54 zł |
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American Spirits
ISBN: 9781915798923 / Miękka / 2024 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,10 zł |
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Continental Drift
ISBN: 9780060854942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers, Russell Banks's Continental Drift is a masterful novel of hope lost and gained, and a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seductions and realities of the American dream. A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers, Russell Banks's Continental Drift is ... |
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69,75 zł |
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Foregone
ISBN: 9780063036765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,86 zł |
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The Reserve
ISBN: 9780747596530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An addictively readable story of lives lived under the encroaching shadow of WWII
An addictively readable story of lives lived under the encroaching shadow of WWII
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91,88 zł |
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The Reserve
ISBN: 9780061430268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness--and explores what happens when two powerful personalities, trapped at opposite ends of a social divide, begin to break the rules. Moving from the secluded beauty of the Adirondack wilderness to the skies above war-torn Spain and Fascist Germany, The Reserve is a clever, incisive, and passionately romantic novel of suspense that adds a new dimension to this acclaimed... Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises da... |
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61,54 zł |
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The Reserve
ISBN: 9780061469022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's newest novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness-and explores what happens when two powerful personalities begin to break the rules. Vanessa Cole is a wild, stunningly beautiful heiress with a scandalous past. But on July 4, 1936, at her family's country home in the Adirondack Mountains, two events coincide to permanently alter the course of Vanessa's life: her father dies suddenly of a heart attack, and a mysteriously seductive local artist, Jordan... Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's newest novel raises dangerous questions about class,... |
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119,51 zł |
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The Darling
ISBN: 9780060957353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is the story of Hannah Musgrave, a political radical and member of the Weather Underground. Hannah flees America for West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends of the notorious warlord and ex-president, Charles Taylor. Hannah's encounter with Taylor ultimately triggers a series of events whose momentum catches Hannah's family in its grip and forces her to make a heartrending choice. Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is the story of Hannah Musgrave, a political radical and member o... |
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86,17 zł |
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The Magic Kingdom
ISBN: 9780593468616 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,90 zł |
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A Permanent Member of the Family
ISBN: 9780061857669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Suffused with Russell Banks's trademark lyricism and reckless humor, the twelve stories in A Permanent Member of the Family examine the myriad ways we try--and sometimes fail--to connect with one another, as we seek a home in the world. In the title story, a father looks back on the legend of the cherished family dog whose divided loyalties mirrored the fragmenting of his marriage. "A Former Marine" asks, to chilling effect, if one can ever stop being a parent. And in the haunting, evocative "Veronica," a mysterious woman searching for her daughter may not be who she claims... Suffused with Russell Banks's trademark lyricism and reckless humor, the twelve stories in A Permanent Member of the Family examine the my... |
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73,90 zł |
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The Darling
ISBN: 9780747578901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A vast, complex novel about colonialism and its legacy on modern-day Africa
A vast, complex novel about colonialism and its legacy on modern-day Africa
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91,88 zł |
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Hamilton Stark
ISBN: 9780060977054 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years. Hamilton Stark is a boor, a misanthrope, a handsome man: funny, passionately honest, and a good dancer. The narrator, a middle-aged writer, decides to write about Stark as a hero whose anger and solitude represent passion and wisdom. At the same time that he tells Hamilton Stark's story, he describes the process of writing the novel and the... Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five ... |
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73,86 zł |
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American Spirits
ISBN: 9780593536773 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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114,95 zł |
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Voyager: Travel Writings
ISBN: 9780061857683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Banks's narrative seductively juxtaposes rambles through lush volcanic mountains, white sand beaches and coral reefs with a barrage of memories of the hash he's made of his private life." --The New York Times Book Review Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. This longing for escape has taken him from the "bright green islands and turquoise seas" of the Caribbean islands to peaks in the Himalayas, the Andes, and beyond. In each of these remarkable essays, Banks considers his life and the world. In Everglades National... "Banks's narrative seductively juxtaposes rambles through lush volcanic mountains, white sand beaches and coral reefs with a barrage of memories of... |
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82,07 zł |