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Infinite Jest
ISBN: 9780349121086 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 1104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. * The cult novel by one of America's most acclaimed authors, reissued with a fresh new jacket look
* The cult novel by one of America's most acclaimed authors, reissued with a fresh new jacket look
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85,91 |
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The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
ISBN: 9780316074230 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "The Pale King" remained unfinished at the time of Wallace's death, but it is a deeply intriguing and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with questions of life's meaning and of the ultimate value of work and family.
"The Pale King" remained unfinished at the time of Wallace's death, but it is a deeply intriguing and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as ...
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180,62 |
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
ISBN: 9780316182409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 976 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here--with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work--essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," excerpts from his novels "The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, "and "The Pale King, "and legendary stories like "The Depressed Person."
Wallace's explorations of morality,... Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here--with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary b...
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96,03 |
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The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
ISBN: 9780316074223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has. The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply...
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he...
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96,03 |
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
ISBN: 9780316013321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in...
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fa...
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76,82 |
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Girl with Curious Hair
ISBN: 9780393027570 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Re...
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203,64 |
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Both Flesh and Not: Essays
ISBN: 9780316182386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time. Never has Wallace's seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this compilation of work spanning nearly 20 years of writing. Here, Wallace turns his critical eye with equal enthusiasm toward Roger Federer and Jorge Luis Borges; Terminator 2 and The Best of the Prose... Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times...
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76,82 |
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men : Stories
ISBN: 9780316925198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.
Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person, ' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World, ' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, ' a dark, hilarious... In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and sedu...
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72,98 |
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
ISBN: 9780241961964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 976 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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96,02 |
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Something to Do with Paying Attention
ISBN: 9781946022271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,17 |
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
ISBN: 9780349110011 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. *Razor-sharp cultural commentary and hilarious social observation from the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST.
*Razor-sharp cultural commentary and hilarious social observation from the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST.
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65,69 |
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Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments
ISBN: 9780349119526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays from the award-winning author of the bestseller INFINITE JEST
A brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays from the award-winning author of the bestseller INFINITE JEST
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65,69 |
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Das hier ist Wasser. This is water : Anstiftung zum Denken. Gedanken zu einer Lebensführung der Anteilnahme, vorgebracht bei einem wichtigen Anlass. Dtsch.-Engl.
ISBN: 9783462044188 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 61 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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35,95 |
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Signifying Rappers
ISBN: 9780241968314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Set against the legendary 1980s scene, this book maps the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom, with an energy and exuberance which is as fresh today as when it was written.
Set against the legendary 1980s scene, this book maps the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom, with an energy...
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67,38 |
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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
ISBN: 9780316068222 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the...
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech ...
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
ISBN: 9780393003383 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? The nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's answer to this question not only surprised him but also shook the very foundations upon which math had been built. Cantor's counterintuitive discovery of a progression of larger and larger infinities created controversy in his time and may have hastened his mental breakdown, but it also helped lead to the development of set theory, analytic philosophy, and even computer technology Smart, challenging, and thoroughly rewarding, Wallace's tour de force brings...
Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? The nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's answer to this quest...
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192,11 |
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Both Flesh And Not
ISBN: 9780141046754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Combines the author's essays with work published in the UK. This title collects fifteen essays.
Combines the author's essays with work published in the UK. This title collects fifteen essays.
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60,63 |
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The Best American Essays
ISBN: 9780618709274 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Edited by the critically acclaimed writer David Foster Wallace, this years collection includes such contributors as Jo Ann Beard, Mark Danner, Malcolm Gladwell, Louis Menand, Molly Peacock, and others.
Edited by the critically acclaimed writer David Foster Wallace, this years collection includes such contributors as Jo Ann Beard, Mark Danner, Malcolm...
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76,67 |
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Am Beispiel des Hummers
ISBN: 9783462041262 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2010 / 63 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. "Es bleibt die Tatsache, dass sich der Hummer verzweifelt wehrt ..."§Jedes Jahr findet im amerikanischen Bundesstaat Maine das Maine Lobster Festival statt, bei dem innerhalb von vier Tagen mehr als 9.000 kg frischer Hummer verspeist werden, gekocht im größten Topf der Welt. David Foster Wallace besuchte 2003 dieses Festival, um im Auftrag der Feinschmeckerzeitschrift Gourmet eine Reportage zu schreiben. Wie schon bei "Schrecklich amüsant", der Beschreibung einer Kreuzfahrt, sind seine Beobachtungen so überraschend wie scharfsinnig.§Die Wahl der Maine Seegöttin, ein Kochwettbewerb, ein...
"Es bleibt die Tatsache, dass sich der Hummer verzweifelt wehrt ..."§Jedes Jahr findet im amerikanischen Bundesstaat Maine das Maine Lobster Festival...
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Vergessenheit : Storys
ISBN: 9783499248320 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2010 / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. §B§Der Chronist unserer rasenden Depression§§S§Nach dem Tod von David Foster Wallace schrieb Richard Powers, er sei der Beste unserer Generation gewesen. In diesem letzten Erzählungsband nimmt Wallace mit Schärfe und Witz die Deformationen des Menschen im Medienzeitalter aufs Korn. Und das mit großer Meisterschaft, egal, ob er von den üblen Folgen einer Schönheitsoperation erzählt oder vom Versuch eines Paares, in einem Schlaflabor zu ermitteln, wer durch sein Schnarchen wann wen vom Schlafen abhält.
§B§Der Chronist unserer rasenden Depression§§S§Nach dem Tod von David Foster Wallace schrieb Richard Powers, er sei der Beste unserer Generation...
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