wyszukanych pozycji: 48
The World and Other Places: Stories
ISBN: 9780375702365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks are transformed by fairies, the rich wear coal jewelry on an island of diamonds, and the living laminate their dead. Here is a universe where rooms go missing, women give birth to their lovers, and the young contemplate God's creative powers through pet tortoises.
With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is ille...
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82,99 zł |
Auf den Körper geschrieben
ISBN: 9783036961026 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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59,65 zł |
Weight
ISBN: 9781786892492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A strikingly original and profound slice of mythology from the award-winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
A strikingly original and profound slice of mythology from the award-winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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51,58 zł |
Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd
ISBN: 9780099598282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. This book features a question and a quest: How shall I live?
Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the sa...
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51,58 zł |
Written on the Body
ISBN: 9780099598275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.
Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavi...
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51,58 zł |
The World and Other Places
ISBN: 9780099274537 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A collection of short stories that reveals various facets of an extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, it creates physical and psychological worlds that are at once familiar and yet shockingly strange.
A collection of short stories that reveals various facets of an extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, it creates ...
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56,74 zł |
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
ISBN: 9781784879044 / Miękka / 2024 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,58 zł |
Sexing the Cherry
ISBN: 9780802135780 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woman and grows up to travel the world like Gulliver, though he finds that the world s most curious oddities come from his own mind. Winterson leads the reader from discussions on the nature of time to Jordan s fascination with journeys concealed within other journeys, all with a dizzying speed that shoots the reader from epiphany to shimmering epiphany."
In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woma...
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74,26 zł |
Frankissstein
ISBN: 9783036961156 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Klug und mit unvergleichlichem Witz lässt Jeanette Winterson die Grenzen zwischen menschlicher und künstlicher Intelligenz und zwischen biologischer und sexueller Identität verschwinden. Eine einzigartige Geschichte über Variationen der Liebe und das Menschsein selbst.
Klug und mit unvergleichlichem Witz lässt Jeanette Winterson die Grenzen zwischen menschlicher und künstlicher Intelligenz und zwischen biologischer...
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64,24 zł |
Orangen sind nicht die einzige Frucht
ISBN: 9783036959993 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2019 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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64,24 zł |
The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
ISBN: 9780099598190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't know a lot about who she is or where she's come from - but she's about to find out.
A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her moth...
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51,58 zł |
Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
ISBN: 9780099590019 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A collection of pieces on modernism, autobiography, style, and painting, arguing the importance of art in our lives. The essays also discuss intimately the author's relationship to her own work and the books that she loves.
A collection of pieces on modernism, autobiography, style, and painting, arguing the importance of art in our lives. The essays also discuss intimatel...
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67,06 zł |
The Stone Gods
ISBN: 9780156035729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Playful, passionate, provocative, and frequently very funny, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods is a story about Earth, about love, and about stories themselves.
On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet--pristine and plentiful, as our own was 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade Robo sapien Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they're assigned to colonize the new blue planet. But when a technical maneuver intended to make it habitable backfires,... Playful, passionate, provocative, and frequently very funny, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods is a story about Earth, about love, and ... |
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82,95 zł |
Gut Symmetries
ISBN: 9780679777427 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and any accurate Grand Unified Theory (GUT) must encompass desire alongside electromagnetism and gravity.
One starry night on a boat in the mid-Atlantic, Alice, a brilliant English theoretical physicist, begins an affair with Jove, her remorselessly seductive American counterpart. But Jove is married. When Alice confronts his wife, Stella, she swiftly falls in love with her, with consequences that are by turns horrifying, comic, and arousing.... The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and an...
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65,52 zł |
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
ISBN: 9781784877484 / Angielski / Inna / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,58 zł |
Frankissstein: A Love Story
ISBN: 9781784709952 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,58 zł |
Lighthousekeeping
ISBN: 9780156032896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman. Dark lived two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love. For Silver, Dark's life becomes a map through her own darkness, into her own story, and, finally, into love.
One of the most original and... Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken...
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74,04 zł |
Zimowa opowieść Przepaść czasu
ISBN: 9788327154354 / Polski / Twarda / 2015 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Pierwszy tom z cyklu PROJEKT SZEKSPIR
Światowej sławy pisarze na nowo interpretują dzieła mistrza dramatu Jeanette Winterson podejmuje się interpretacji "Zimowej opowieści". Pisarka, która sama jest sierotą, opowiada historię Perdity, porzuconej dziewczynki. W książce Winterson pobrzmiewają echa dramatu Szekspira, jednak powieść rozgrywająca się Ameryce i Londynie z czasów po kryzysie finansowym jest na wskroś współczesna. Pokazuje, że niezależnie od tego, jak bardzo ludzie się od siebie oddalają, to, co zostało zagubione, zostanie odnalezione. Pierwszy tom z cyklu PROJEKT SZEKSPIR
Światowej sławy pisarze na nowo interpretują dzieła mistrza dramatu Jeanette Winterson podejmuje si... |
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Gut Symmetries
ISBN: 9781847087317 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Set on board the QE2, and in New York and Liverpool, Gut Symmetries welds together sex and science into a celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess.
Set on board the QE2, and in New York and Liverpool, Gut Symmetries welds together sex and science into a celebration of love in all its frailty, conf...
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46,42 zł |
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
ISBN: 9780802120878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. -Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love.---Vogue
-Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous. It hums with a dark refulgence from its first pages. . . . Singular and electric . . . Winterson's] life with her adoptive parents was often appalling, but it made her the writer she is.---The New York Times - Winterson is] one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time--searingly honest yet effortlessly lithe as she slides between forms, exuberant and unerring, demanding emotional and intellectual expansion of herself and of us. . .... -Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love.---Vogue
-Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous. It hums wi... |
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78,62 zł |