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Fascination
ISBN: 9780241957264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In William Boyd's array of styles and narratives, readers are moved from 1930s Germany to Los Angeles in the Second World War, from contemporary Oxford to 19th century Russia.
In William Boyd's array of styles and narratives, readers are moved from 1930s Germany to Los Angeles in the Second World War, from contemporary Oxfor...
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The Predicament
ISBN: 9780241761144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Ordinary Thunderstorms
ISBN: 9780061876752 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents, through which Adam loses everything--home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, cell phone--never to get them back. William Boyd's electrifying follow-up to the Costa Award-winning Restless,... One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a ... |
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Eines Menschen Herz
ISBN: 9783311150657 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Logan Mountstuart ist ein Lebemann mit vielen Talenten und ebenso vielen Schwächen. 1906 in Uruguay geboren, wird er Schriftsteller, heiratet in den englischen Landadel ein, trifft Berühmtheiten, wird Kunsthändler, dann Berichterstatter im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg, schließlich Spion. Ein ungewöhnliches Leben und dennoch typisch, denn auf der Suche nach Liebe und Glück macht er die gleichen Fehler wie wir alle. Irgendwann landet er in einem Schweizer Gefängnis, arm und verbittert. Schließlich, als alter Mann, wird er glücklich - beinahe. Das Leben ist eine Achterbahn mit Höhen und...
Logan Mountstuart ist ein Lebemann mit vielen Talenten und ebenso vielen Schwächen. 1906 in Uruguay geboren, wird er Schriftsteller, heiratet in den ...
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71,57 |
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The New Confessions
ISBN: 9780375705038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In this extraordinary novel, William Boyd presents the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and exhilarating life as one of the most unappreciated geniuses of the twentieth century is equal parts Laurence Stern, Charles Dickens, Robertson Davies, and Saul Bellow, and a hundred percent William Boyd.
From his birth in 1899, Todd was doomed. Emerging from his angst-filled childhood, he rushes into the throes of the twentieth century on the Western Front during the Great War, and quickly changes his role on the battlefield from cannon fodder to cameraman. When he becomes a prisoner... In this extraordinary novel, William Boyd presents the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and exhilarating life as one of the most unappr...
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The Blue Afternoon, Volume 1
ISBN: 9780679772606 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times), Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrative traditions of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. In 1936 Los angeles, as her long-estranged father tells architect Kay Fischer the story behind her secret parentage, he plunges readers into a tale of grisly murders and an illicit passion that still obsseses him 30 years later.
"A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times), Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrati...
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Love is Blind
ISBN: 9780241295922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week This is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman...
'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judg...
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An Ice-cream War
ISBN: 9780241970751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Primarily a gripping story of the men and women swept up by the passions of love and battle, William Boyd's magnificently entertaining novel also elicits the cruel futility and tragedy of it all.
Primarily a gripping story of the men and women swept up by the passions of love and battle, William Boyd's magnificently entertaining novel also elic...
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All die Wege, die wir nicht gegangen sind
ISBN: 9783896677808 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Bethany Mellmoth hat sich ein großes Ziel gesetzt. Sie will Schriftstellerin werden. Oder vielleicht doch Fotografin? Oder Schauspielerin? So schnell sie einen Plan fasst, so schnell ist er wieder passé. Irgendetwas kommt eben immer dazwischen. Und auch in der Liebe hat Bethany kein glückliches Händchen. An Verehrern ist kein Mangel, nur taugt leider keiner von ihnen. Und als wäre das alles nicht genug, muss Bethany sich auch noch mit den Liebeswirren ihrer Eltern befassen. So stolpert sie durch ihr Leben in London - von Job zu Job, von Mann zu Mann, von Pleite zu Pleite - und lässt...
Bethany Mellmoth hat sich ein großes Ziel gesetzt. Sie will Schriftstellerin werden. Oder vielleicht doch Fotografin? Oder Schauspielerin? So schnell...
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58,15 |
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Armadillo
ISBN: 9780141044187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - does not understand why his world is being torn apart, though he does know that for the most part it is made up of bluster and hypocrisy. His business, trying to keep insurance companies from paying out the money they've promised, is a con game run with the protection of the law. One winter's morning, Lorimer goes to keep a perfectly routine business appointment and finds a hanged man. A bad start to the day, by any standards, and an ominous portent of things to come.
Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - does not understand why his world is being torn apart, though he does k...
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The Predicament
ISBN: 9780241761137 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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100,64 |
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Trio
ISBN: 9780241990261 / CD-Audio / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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102,27 |
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The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South
ISBN: 9781421418780 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed across the southern states. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, pine trees had become the region's number one cash crop, and the South dominated national and international production of pulp and paper based on the intensive cultivation of timber. In The Slain Wood, William Boyd chronicles the dramatic growth of the pulp... When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched ... |
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The Blue Afternoon
ISBN: 9780141046907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young, ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past, initially in search of a murderer, but finally in celebration of a glorious, undying love.
Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young, ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. With...
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The Argument
ISBN: 9781474236508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) That's why we shout and scream at each other. Clears the air. A kind of truth begins to emerge. We see clearer. As their families and friends become embroiled in Pip and Meredith's separation, past prejudices, harsh judgements and painful truths come to light. The arguments that... That's why we shout and scream at each other. Clears the air. A kind of truth begins to emerge. We see clearer. |
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61,31 |
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Any Human Heart: A BBC Two Between the Covers pick
ISBN: 9780241981450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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45,24 |
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An Ice-cream War
ISBN: 9780241953563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) An Ice-Cream War was the debut novel of William Boyd who would go on to be recognized as 'the finest storyteller of his generation' (Sebastian Faulks). It follows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the fighting in German East Africa during the First World War, their lives converging amid battle, betrayal, love, comedy and tragedy.
An Ice-Cream War was the debut novel of William Boyd who would go on to be recognized as 'the finest storyteller of his generation' (Sebastian Faulks)...
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The Romantic
ISBN: 9780241994078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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The Dream Lover: Short Stories
ISBN: 9780747592297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A collection of twenty-four tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood.
A collection of twenty-four tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood.
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55,31 |
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The Destiny of Nathalie X
ISBN: 9780679767848 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This new collection of eleven stories by the author of The Blue Afternoon takes readers back in time from a contemporary Hollywood film shoot to World War I in Vienna, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters. Artful, witty, moving, The Destiny of Nathalie X is a confirmation of Boyd's standing as a master storyteller. 208 pp. Author tour. 15,000 print.
"From the Hardcover edition. This new collection of eleven stories by the author of The Blue Afternoon takes readers back in time from a contemporary Hollywood film shoot to World...
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