wyszukanych pozycji: 86
An Ice-cream War
ISBN: 9780241953563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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51,35 zł |
Brazzaville Beach
ISBN: 9780141044194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'I live on Brazzaville Beach ... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ... One in England, first, and then one in Africa.' On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling honesty that not only intrigues and disturbs but is also completely enthralling.
'I live on Brazzaville Beach ... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ... One in England, first, and then one...
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51,35 zł |
Unser Mann in Afrika
ISBN: 9783311150947 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Der Brite Morgan Leafy ist Botschaftssekretär Ihrer Majestät im westafrikanischen Kinjanja. Er soll die kulturelle Souveränität der ehemaligen Kolonialherren repräsentieren, ist allerdings nicht gerade ein diplomatisches Naturtalent. Seine Schwäche für schöne Frauen, übermäßiger Alkoholkonsum und die Abneigung dem Land gegenüber erschweren ihm den Job. Hoffnungslos verfängt er sich in den Fallstricken der korrupten Lokalpolitik, und die zarte Romanze mit Priscilla, der Tochter seines Chefs, endet, bevor sie angefangen hat. Als dann noch eine Leiche auftaucht, die er partout nicht...
Der Brite Morgan Leafy ist Botschaftssekretär Ihrer Majestät im westafrikanischen Kinjanja. Er soll die kulturelle Souveränität der ehemaligen Kol...
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68,51 zł |
The Argument
ISBN: 9781474236508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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71,04 zł |
The Romantic
ISBN: 9780241994078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,35 zł |
On the Yankee Station: Stories
ISBN: 9780375705113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his first collection of stories, William Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives. From California poolsides to the battlegrounds of Vietnam, here is a world populated by weary souls who turn to fantasy as their sole escape from life's inequities. Stranded in an African hotel during a coup, an oafish Englishman impresses a young stewardess with stories of an enchanted life completely at odds with his sordid existence in The Coup. In the title story, an arrogant, sadistic American pilot in Vietnam...
In his first collection of stories, William Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem ...
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63,63 zł |
Restless
ISBN: 9780747586203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The major and stunning new novel about wartime espionage from bestselling author William Boyd
The major and stunning new novel about wartime espionage from bestselling author William Boyd
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51,35 zł |
The Blue Afternoon
ISBN: 9780141046907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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51,35 zł |
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth
ISBN: 9780241979761 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A dazzling collection of short stories from one of Britain's best novelists. The collection depicts the random encounters that bring the past bubbling to the surface; the impulsive decisions that irrevocably shape a life; and the endless hesitations that wickedly complicate it. The funny, surprising and moving stories are a confirmation of Boyd's powers as one of our most original storytellers.
A dazzling collection of short stories from one of Britain's best novelists. The collection depicts the random encounters that bring the past bubbling...
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53,45 zł |
The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd
ISBN: 9780241987339 / Miękka / 2023 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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56,48 zł |
The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South
ISBN: 9781421418780 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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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255,86 zł |
Trio
ISBN: 9783311100720 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2021 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Es ist der Sommer 1968: In Paris gehen die Studenten auf die Straße, in Vietnam wütet der Krieg, Martin Luther King wird ermordet. Wahrend die Welt in Aufruhr ist, wird im sonnigen Brighton ein aparter Kinofilm gedreht. Hier kreuzen sich die Wege eines Filmproduzenten, einer Schriftstellerin und einer Schauspielerin. Alle drei führen ein Doppelleben: Elfrida, der keine Zeile mehr einfallt und deren Ehe zerrüttet ist, ertrankt ihren Frust in Wodka. Talbot, der Filmproduzent, hat ein geheimes Hobby und macht gute Miene zum bosem Spiel, denn er weiß, dass sein Geschaftspartner versucht ihn...
Es ist der Sommer 1968: In Paris gehen die Studenten auf die Straße, in Vietnam wütet der Krieg, Martin Luther King wird ermordet. Wahrend die Welt ...
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100,49 zł |
The Blue Afternoon, Volume 1
ISBN: 9780679772606 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "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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80,60 zł |
Stars and Bars
ISBN: 9780141046921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, down-home Bible-basher and sharp-suited hood, of paralysing personal frankness and surreally fantasized facilities, is hard enough for an Englishman to fit in to. Henderson could never shed enough inhibitions to become just another weirdo. Or could he? This hilarious fish-out-of-water comedy, which Boyd also adapted for screen for the 1980s film starring Daniel Day Lewis, was described in the Guardian as, 'Splittingly shrewd and engaging ... with an extra and uneasy little something...
All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, down-home Bible-basher and sharp-suited h...
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51,35 zł |
Love is Blind, Audio-CD : Ungekürzte Ausgabe, Lesung
ISBN: 9780241979808 / Angielski / CD-Audio / 2018 / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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107,73 zł |
Armadillo
ISBN: 9780141044187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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51,35 zł |
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth
ISBN: 9780241295885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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77,65 zł |