wyszukanych pozycji: 83
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Song of Solomon: Introduction by Reynolds Price
ISBN: 9780679445043 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych.
In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morrison as a major voice in contemporary fiction.
Song of Solomon begins with one of the most arresting scenes in our century's literature: a dreamlike tableau depicting a man poised on a roof, about to fly into the air, while cloth rose petals swirl above the snow-covered ground and, in the astonished crowd below, one woman sings as...
In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life i... |
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Beloved: A special edition of the award-winning classic
ISBN: 9781784878672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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85,91 |
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Paradise
ISBN: 9780804169882 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. -They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.- So begins Toni Morrison's Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair... -They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.- So begins Toni Morrison's Paradise, which opens with a hor... |
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68,99 |
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A Mercy
ISBN: 9780307276766 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. National Bestseller One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new... National Bestseller One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year In the 1680s the slave trade in the Am... |
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Love
ISBN: 9780099455493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. But, he himself is driven by secret forces.
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he s...
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Toni Morrison Box Set: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved
ISBN: 9780593082164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Home
ISBN: 9780099555940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. It begins with a letter from a woman Frank has never met. A pleading letter. A letter that closed his throat. 'Come fast. She be dead if you tarry.' And that is it all it takes.
It begins with a letter from a woman Frank has never met. A pleading letter. A letter that closed his throat. 'Come fast. She be dead if you tarry.' A...
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Beloved
ISBN: 9781400033416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering...
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lu...
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The Bluest Eye
ISBN: 9781784879105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Recitatif: A Story
ISBN: 9780593315033 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Sula
ISBN: 9780099760016 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A novel set in a small town in Ohio, focusing on two girls, Nell and Sula, both black, both poor, who share their dreams until Sula escapes to live a vagrant city life for ten years. When she returns, the bond of their friendship is broken.
A novel set in a small town in Ohio, focusing on two girls, Nell and Sula, both black, both poor, who share their dreams until Sula escapes to live a ...
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Tar Baby
ISBN: 9781400033447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fa...
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Tar Baby
ISBN: 9781784877279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Recitatif
ISBN: 9781784744786 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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God Help the Child
ISBN: 9780307740922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Star At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride's mother herself,...
A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, ...
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Paradise
ISBN: 9780099768210 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The theme of this novel is the anatomy of an internecine war, cultural, religious and racial. It is waged between a community of nuns and the strays and misfits who arrive at their convent for safe haven, and those who dwell in the surrounding black township in Oklahoma.
The theme of this novel is the anatomy of an internecine war, cultural, religious and racial. It is waged between a community of nuns and the strays a...
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The Bluest Eye
ISBN: 9780375411557 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the sto...
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Love
ISBN: 9781784878535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,52 |
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Race: Vintage Minis
ISBN: 9781784872779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Language by Xiaolu Guo Death by Julian Barnes Love by Jeanette Winterson Home by Salman Rushdie
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Language by Xiaolu Guo Death by Julian Barnes Love by Jeane...
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Beloved
ISBN: 9781857152685 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter, Beloved, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim retribution.
It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The world of Sethe, however, is...
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