wyszukanych pozycji: 178
The Marine and the Flower Child
ISBN: 9781480956063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
288,46 zł |
Story of My Life
ISBN: 9780747584902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Smart, sassy and cynical, Alison lives for the moment. Young and beautiful, hip and indulgent, sex-crazed and alcohol-fuelled, she can neither pay her fees for drama school nor track down her indifferent father. She juggles rent money with abortion fees, l
Smart, sassy and cynical, Alison lives for the moment. Young and beautiful, hip and indulgent, sex-crazed and alcohol-fuelled, she can neither pay her...
|
|
cena:
82,64 zł |
A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine
ISBN: 9781400096374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In A Hedonist in the Cellar, Jay McInerney gathers more than five years' worth of essays and continues his exploration of what's new, what's enduring, and what's surprising-giving his palate a complete workout and the reader an indispensable, idiosyncratic guide to a world of almost infinite variety. Filled with delights oenophiles everywhere will savor, this is a collection driven not only by wine itself but also the people who make it. An entertaining, irresistible book that is essential for anyone enthralled by the myriad pleasures of wine.
In A Hedonist in the Cellar, Jay McInerney gathers more than five years' worth of essays and continues his exploration of what's new, what's e...
|
|
cena:
80,60 zł |
The Last of the Savages
ISBN: 9780679749523 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls comes a chronicle of a generation, as enacted by two men who represent all the passions and extremes of the class of 1969. Patrick Keane and Will Savage meet at prep school at the beginning of the explosive '60s. Over the next 30 years, they remain friends even as they pursue radically divergent destinies--and harbor secrets that defy rebellion and conformity.
From the bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls comes a chronicle of a generation, as enacted by two men who represent all...
|
|
cena:
76,36 zł |
Brightness Falls
ISBN: 9781408876954 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Corrine Calloway is a young stockbroker on Wall Street, her husband Russell an underpaid but ambitious publishing editor. The happily married couple head into New York’s 1980s gold rush, awash with prospects and promise, where the best and brightest vie with the worst and most craven for riches, fame and the love of beautiful people. But the Calloways soon discover that what goes up must come crashing down, both on Wall Street and at home. Brightness Falls captures lives-in-the-making: men and women confronting adulthood with wit and low behaviour, fear and confusion, and, just...
Corrine Calloway is a young stockbroker on Wall Street, her husband Russell an underpaid but ambitious publishing editor. The happily married couple h...
|
|
cena:
71,61 zł |
Model Behaviour
ISBN: 9780747585213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "I'm sick of all this pointless glamour," his glamorous girlfriend said. "I want a simple life." If only Connor McNab had listened. Now Philomena is off to California, allegedly on a fashion shoot, but he doesn't know where she is staying and a sinking fee
"I'm sick of all this pointless glamour," his glamorous girlfriend said. "I want a simple life." If only Connor McNab had listened. Now Philomena is o...
|
|
cena:
82,64 zł |
Ransom
ISBN: 9780394741185 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ransom, Jay McInerney's second novel, belongs to the distinguished tradition of novels about exile. Living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, Christopher Ransom seeks a purity and simplicity he could not find at home, and tries to exorcise the terror he encountered earlier in his travels--a blur of violence and death at the Khyber Pass.Ransom has managed to regain control, chiefly through the rigors of karate. Supporting himself by teaching English to eager Japanese businessmen, he finds company with impresario Miles Ryder and fellow expatriates whose headquarters is Buffalo Rome,...
Ransom, Jay McInerney's second novel, belongs to the distinguished tradition of novels about exile. Living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Jap...
|
|
cena:
63,63 zł |
Story of My Life
ISBN: 9780802144584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Originally published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1988, and now reissued by Grove Press, "The Story of My Life" by Jay McInerney is a hilarious, sobering portrait of 1980s New York City featuring twenty-something actress Alison Poole and her coterie of club-hopping, coke-addicted friends. In this breathlessly paced novel, McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of "Bright Lights, Big City." Alison Poole is a budding actress already fatally well versed in hopping the clubs, shopping Chanel, falling in and out of lust, and abusing other people s credit cards. As Alison races toward emotional...
Originally published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1988, and now reissued by Grove Press, "The Story of My Life" by Jay McInerney is a hilarious, sober...
|
|
cena:
59,18 zł |
A Hedonist in the Cellar : Adventures in Wine
ISBN: 9780747591320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jay McInerney, internationally celebrated author of Bright Lights, Big City, turns his hand here to his lifelong love affair with wine. Peals of wisdom are offered on the subjects of the best wine for romantics, the parallels between Californian wines and floundering Hollywood stars, the choice of wine for the author's own debauched forty-eighth birthday party, the 'high-testosterone grape' that is Colin Farrell, absinthe, 'the wild green fairy', and what wine is best drunk with chocolate. At the same time McInerney is a genuine connoisseur, taking the reader on a tour through the wine...
Jay McInerney, internationally celebrated author of Bright Lights, Big City, turns his hand here to his lifelong love affair with wine. Peals of wisdo...
|
|
cena:
82,64 zł |
The Last of the Savages: rejacketed
ISBN: 9781408800959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When staid Patrick Keane meets his roommate at a New England boarding-school, a strange, enduring friendship of extremes is forged. For Will Savage, privileged white son of the Mississippi Delta, has embraced black soul music and adopted its raw, searing anthems as his own.
When staid Patrick Keane meets his roommate at a New England boarding-school, a strange, enduring friendship of extremes is forged. For Will Savage, p...
|
|
cena:
82,64 zł |
Brightness Falls
ISBN: 9780679745327 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us a novel that is stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting. Combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us a novel tha... |
|
cena:
84,84 zł |
Bright, Precious Days
ISBN: 9781408876558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'Stylish observation . Suspenseful and well told' Lionel Shriver, Financial Times
'Stylish observation . Suspenseful and well told' Lionel Shriver, Financial Times
|
|
cena:
88,32 zł |
How It Ended
ISBN: 9780747585206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A transsexual prostitute accidentally propositions his own father. A senator's serial infidelities leave him in hot water. And two young lovers spend Christmas together high on different drugs. This work aims to expose the dark underbelly of the American d
A transsexual prostitute accidentally propositions his own father. A senator's serial infidelities leave him in hot water. And two young lovers spend ...
|
|
cena:
82,64 zł |
Model Behavior
ISBN: 9780679749530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A Great Gatsby for the end of the century." -- The Baltimore Sun
Jay McInerney's first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, helped bring about a revolution in contemporary fiction in trade paperback. But more importantly, its publication brought us a major writer of great literary talent and incisive perception. In his latest novel, Model Behavior, McInerney offers us the portrait of a doubting devotee of the city where vocation, career, and ambition (which only occassionally coincide) run head-on with friendship and love--or merely desire. We see Conor... "A Great Gatsby for the end of the century." -- The Baltimore Sun
Jay McInerney's first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, helpe... |
|
cena:
76,36 zł |
Nobility and the Making of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9781350346369 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
445,14 zł |
Bright Lights, Big City
ISBN: 9780394726410 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of dawn. With nothing but goodwill, controlled substances, and wit to sustain him in this anti-quest, he runs until he reaches his reckoning point, where he is forced to acknowledge loss and, possibly, to rediscover his better instincts. This...
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The ...
|
|
cena:
72,11 zł |
Ransom
ISBN: 9780747585190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, Christopher Ransom seeks a purity and simplicity he could not find at home, and tries to exorcise the terror he encountered earlier in his travels. He teaches English to eager Japanese businessmen. But soon he
Living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, Christopher Ransom seeks a purity and simplicity he could not find at home, and tries to exorcise the t...
|
|
cena:
82,64 zł |
The Last Bachelor
ISBN: 9781408800713 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In true McInerney style, this new collection of stories examines post 9/11 America in all its dark and morally complex glory.
In true McInerney style, this new collection of stories examines post 9/11 America in all its dark and morally complex glory.
|
|
cena:
82,64 zł |
Bright Lights, Big City
ISBN: 9781408889398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
57,13 zł |
Made for Each Other
ISBN: 9781787414242 / Twarda / 2021 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
83,12 zł |