wyszukanych pozycji: 8
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Arcadio
ISBN: 9780810150065 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Completed while he was dying, William Goyen's Arcadio is one of the most affecting and imaginative farewells to life ever written. Arcadio is a half man, half woman raised in a whorehouse and for years the veteran exhibitionist in an itinerant circus sideshow. After he escapes he searches for his lost family, and during the journey tells the fantastic story of his life.
Completed while he was dying, William Goyen's Arcadio is one of the most affecting and imaginative farewells to life ever written. Arcadio is a...
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63,62 |
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William Goyen: Selected Letters from a Writer's Life
ISBN: 9780292729643 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 471 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Proclaimed "one of the great American writers of short fiction" by the New York Times Book Review, William Goyen (1915-1983) had a quintessentially American literary career, in which national recognition came only after years of struggle to find his authentic voice, his audience, and an artistic milieu in which to create. These letters, which span the years 1937 to 1983, offer a compelling testament to what it means to be a writer in America. A prolific correspondent, Goyen wrote regularly to friends, family, editors, and other writers. Among the letters selected here... Proclaimed "one of the great American writers of short fiction" by the New York Times Book Review, William Goyen (1915-1983) had a qu... |
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Come the Restorer
ISBN: 9780810150645 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. William Goyen's fifth novel is a fable of sexuality, Texas country life in the first half of the twentieth century, religious revivalism, and the money madness and ecological destruction caused by the oil boom. The narrative is composed of the brief linked episodes and tales that are Goyen's trademark, and is written with an ear for the rhythms of regional speech that was his particular gift.
William Goyen's fifth novel is a fable of sexuality, Texas country life in the first half of the twentieth century, religious revivalism, and the mone...
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68,52 |
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Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews
ISBN: 9780292722255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. William Goyen (1915-1983) was an American original, acclaimed nationally and internationally, and one of the most important writers ever to be associated with the regional culture and literary history of Texas. Called "one of the great American writers of short fiction" by the New York Times Book Review, Goyen also authored the novels The House of Breath, In a Farther Country, Come, the Restorer, and Arcadio, as well as plays, poetry, and nonfiction. His literary works manifest an intimate intensity of feeling and an inimitable tone of... William Goyen (1915-1983) was an American original, acclaimed nationally and internationally, and one of the most important writers ever to be asso... |
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97,90 |
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Half a Look of Cain: A Fantastical Narrative
ISBN: 9780810150317 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An early Goyen novel ca.1960 now published for the first time. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
An early Goyen novel ca.1960 now published for the first time. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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107,70 |
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Half a Look of Cain: A Fantastical Narrative
ISBN: 9780810150881 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "I was twenty when I followed away from my town a trapeze family, aerialists, a group of beautiful winged people, mother, father, son and daughter. They were the Ishbels". Chris, whose leg is injured, and his lover Stella, with whom he lives in a ruined, abandoned house; Chris's male nurse; Marvello the circus aerialist; a lighthouse keeper; a flagpole sitter in small-town America - these are the creatures of William Goyen's visionary fable of love, lust, and loneliness. Half a Look of Cain: A Fantastical Narrative was written in the 1950s and early 1960s, and is now being published for the...
"I was twenty when I followed away from my town a trapeze family, aerialists, a group of beautiful winged people, mother, father, son and daughter. Th...
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83,21 |
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In a Farther Country
ISBN: 9780810150393 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. William Goyen's second novel, In a Farther Country is perhaps the most charming of all his work. Marietta McGee-Chavez and her friends and acquaintances populate a world that is as much imagination as it is reality. Within it, they experience dreams and reality, sexual desire and loneliness, triumph and defeat.
William Goyen's second novel, In a Farther Country is perhaps the most charming of all his work. Marietta McGee-Chavez and her friends and acquaintanc...
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63,62 |
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The House of Breath
ISBN: 9780810150676 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Readers can now rediscover one of William Goyen's most important works in this restoration of the original text. "The House of Breath" eschews traditional conventions of plot and character presentation. The book is written as an ethereal address to the people and places the narrator remembers from his childhood in a small Texas town. More than a story, it is a meditation on the nature of identity, origins, and memory.
Readers can now rediscover one of William Goyen's most important works in this restoration of the original text. "The House of Breath" eschews traditi...
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68,52 |