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Disappearing Ingenue
ISBN: 9780385721899 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This wildly imaginative collection presents the misadventures of unlikely heroine Eleanor Stoddard as she tries to lead an exemplary life but finds that things just keep going awry. In the summer after sixth grade, she dreams of being as courageous as Anne Frank. As a teenager, her sudden devotion to Catholicism coincides with her crush on a nun. As a suburban housewife who suspects her husband of having an affair, she imitates Nancy Drew to try to solve her own personal mystery. And as a middle-aged woman, she embarks on a trek through Central America accompanied by a rescued laboratory...
This wildly imaginative collection presents the misadventures of unlikely heroine Eleanor Stoddard as she tries to lead an exemplary life but finds th...
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Eight Tales from the Major Phase: In the Cage and Others
ISBN: 9780393002867 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a collection of eight tales of Henry James's high maturity: The Author of Beltraffio, Brooksmith, The Altar of the Dead, The Figure in the Carpet, In The Cage, Broken Wings, The Great Good Place, The Jolly Corner. This book is a collection of eight tales of Henry James's high maturity: The Author of Beltraffio, Brooksmith, The Altar of the Dead, The Figure in... |
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Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780393301687 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this tender, comic novel, Larry Boosinger--graduate student, writer, garage attendant, escaped convict (and perhaps a person)--has one foot in late adolescence while he searches frantically for a place to put the other. Beset by illusions, attracted by paradoxes, Larry carries on his allegorical fistfight with life. He operates in a movie-created world where attempts are made at perfection. Enamored of the romantic ideals of old movies, popular songs, and his own personal hero, F. Scott Fitzgerald, he seeks experience that will match his expectations.
In this tender, comic novel, Larry Boosinger--graduate student, writer, garage attendant, escaped convict (and perhaps a person)--has one foot in late...
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77,07 |
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Dislocations: Stories
ISBN: 9780393306811 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These moving and insightful stories help us to find our place in a world in which we have all become rootless travelers. Janette Turner Hospital's characters are exiles who share an intimate knowledge of dislocation: from their culture, from their native countries, from themselves. Her intimate stories capture the turning points in her characters lives from Indian lovers on a last romantic weekend before their arranged marriages to a daughter's welcome home after years of travel. Janette Turner Hospital is a wanderer herself. A native of Australia, she has lived in India, England, Canada, and...
These moving and insightful stories help us to find our place in a world in which we have all become rootless travelers. Janette Turner Hospital's cha...
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The Coming Triumph of the Free World: Stories
ISBN: 9780393307467 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. DeMarinis is a wizard shaking to its literary roots the short-story genre. Matthew Gilbert, Boston Globe
DeMarinis is a wizard shaking to its literary roots the short-story genre. Matthew Gilbert, Boston Globe
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76,88 |
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The Fireman's Wife and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780393307900 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Bausch gets deep inside of people's lives. Richard Bausch gets deep inside of people's lives. He speaks eloquently for and to all of us about the intricacies of relationships their fragility and their inherent possibility for explosion. His work has been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, and the Atlantic Monthly; two of the stories in this collection were chosen for Best American Short Stories."
Richard Bausch gets deep inside of people's lives. Richard Bausch gets deep inside of people's lives. He speaks eloquently for and to all of us about ...
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Stories of God
ISBN: 9780393308822 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rainer Maria Rilke felt that the world and all its joys most truly belonged to the young, and in 'Stories of God' he captured for them the magic, charm and wisdom of fairy and folk tales.
Rainer Maria Rilke felt that the world and all its joys most truly belonged to the young, and in 'Stories of God' he captured for them the magic, char...
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69,17 |
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The Acid House
ISBN: 9780393312805 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. He is called "the Scottish Celine of the 1990s" (Guardian) and "a mad, postmodern Roald Dahl" (Weekend Scotsman). Using a range of approaches from bitter realism to demented fantasy, Irvine Welsh is able to evoke the essential humanity, well hidden as it is, of his generally depraved, lazy, manipulative, and vicious characters. He specializes particularly in cosmic reversals God turn a hapless footballer into a fly; an acid head and a newborn infant exchange consciousnesses with sardonically unexpected results always displaying a corrosive wit and a telling accuracy of language and detail....
He is called "the Scottish Celine of the 1990s" (Guardian) and "a mad, postmodern Roald Dahl" (Weekend Scotsman). Using a range of approaches from bit...
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88,44 |
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The Nature of Longing
ISBN: 9780393313796 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award, this book by a genuine new talent crosses the racial and gender divide.
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award, this book by a genuine new talent crosses the racial and gender divide.
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84,59 |
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The Rendezvous and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780393313802 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the tone of this collection ranges effortlessly from the humorous to the dramatic, the most characteristic and memorable stories often have to do with a glimpse of savage, destructive forces through the fragile shell of human civilization. The threatened chaos may be psychological, as in "On the Wolfsberg," or it may be lurking in the natural world, as in "A Passage of the Frontier," or, as in the dark masterpiece "The Chian Wine," it is suddenly discovered in the ancient, irrational impulses of human nature The setting may be the marshes of western Ireland, the Pyrenees, or the...
Although the tone of this collection ranges effortlessly from the humorous to the dramatic, the most characteristic and memorable stories often have t...
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61,81 |
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Walking the Dog: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780393314533 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As always, MacLaverty's writing is vivid, exact, and pellucid, his characters perfectly observed, the surface of the prose deceptively still. It is only after we enter the world of the stories that we begin to make out the huge shapes that move there: loss, love, disappointment, fierce joy. This is a powerful, honest, and moving book by one of the great storytellers of our age.
As always, MacLaverty's writing is vivid, exact, and pellucid, his characters perfectly observed, the surface of the prose deceptively still. It is on...
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76,88 |
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Large Animals in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780393316483 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, these stories present quirky takes on contemporary life in which animals, not always large, lurk around the edges. "Ms. Brenner's achievement in these ironic, understanding tales is making sure that even the small losses her characters suffer do not fail to move us".--"New York Times Book Review".
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, these stories present quirky takes on contemporary life in which animals, not always large, l...
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73,03 |
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Busted Scotch: Selected Stories
ISBN: 9780393317770 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These 35 short stories--most published in this country for the first time--bring to mind, "at various moments, such diverse masterpieces . . . as James Joyce's "Dubliners" . . . and the parables of Kafka" ("The Village Voice").
These 35 short stories--most published in this country for the first time--bring to mind, "at various moments, such diverse masterpieces . . . as Jame...
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84,78 |
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Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings
ISBN: 9780393318135 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Pamala Bordelon was researching a work on the Florida Federal Writers Project, she discovered writings in the collection that were unmistakably from the hand of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the leading writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Over half of the works included here have not been published or are only available in the Library of America edition of Hurston's works. As Hurston's fans know, all of her novels draw upon her deep interest in folklore, particularly from her home state of Florida. Here we see the roots of that work, from the wonderful folktale of the monstrous alligator...
When Pamala Bordelon was researching a work on the Florida Federal Writers Project, she discovered writings in the collection that were unmistakably f...
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76,88 |
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Legacies: Stories
ISBN: 9780393318692 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starling Lawrence's evocative and subtle stories are about illuminations that alter the course of ordinary lives, about moments where the known world is dissolved in fierce recognition. In stories such as "Legacy" or "The Chosen People" the defining moment takes place in childhood, and we are left to wonder what burden of memory these events will impose. For the protagonists of "Butterflies" and "The Crown of Light," or for the narrator of "Immortality," a seed that has been sown years earlier comes to flower under very specific circumstances. "Eight fictional reflections on the nature of...
Starling Lawrence's evocative and subtle stories are about illuminations that alter the course of ordinary lives, about moments where the known world ...
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84,59 |
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Bucket of Tongues
ISBN: 9780393318975 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of the award-winning book, Lone Star Swing comes an extraordinary collection of short stories that show readers real life--and real death--in all its many guises. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.
From the author of the award-winning book, Lone Star Swing comes an extraordinary collection of short stories that show readers real life--and real de...
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Besieged
ISBN: 9780393320749 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. His work has been described by the New York Times Book Review as an "elegant pathology report on the modern soul," and the Village Voice calls his prose "art that burrows into troubling new territory even as it glides by like a dream." Besieged shows his gift for exploring the undertones of contemporary experience at its most haunting and electrically charged. Against a variety of stunningly evoked backgrounds from the teeming banks of the Ganges in Varanasi to a homeless shelter in New York these powerful, intensely focused narratives reverberate, as Michiko Kakutani put it in the New York...
His work has been described by the New York Times Book Review as an "elegant pathology report on the modern soul," and the Village Voice calls his pro...
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84,59 |
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Street Games
ISBN: 9780393322071 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "All the stories in this remarkable cycle of stories are assigned an address. Each is also a separate life, yet part of the larger life that a neighborhood is; this book] is an artist's inhabiting of other lives out of love, compassion, anger, and pain. Like the neighborhood, the stories are various. The mother of a damaged child tells us, 'I know how he dreams me. I know because I dream his dreams.' A male bureaucrat laments, 'I am too bored to move. No man can leave his wife for reasons like these....' In these stories, Rosellen Brown is Anglo, Puerto Rican, African American, Caucasian,...
"All the stories in this remarkable cycle of stories are assigned an address. Each is also a separate life, yet part of the larger life that a neighbo...
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76,88 |
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Kafka Americana
ISBN: 9780393322538 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Previously published only in a signed, limited edition, Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. Norton now brings this reimagination of our labyrinthine world to a wider audience. In an act of literary appropriation, Lethem and Scholz seize a helpless Kafka by the lapels and thrust him into the cultural wreckage of twentieth-century America. In the collaboratively written "Receding Horizon," Hollywood welcomes Kafka as scriptwriter for Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, with appropriately morbid results. Scholz's "The Amount to Carry" transports "the legal secretary of the Workman's...
Previously published only in a signed, limited edition, Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. Norton now brings this reimagination of our labyrint...
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65,32 |
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In the Snow Forest: Three Novellas
ISBN: 9780393322651 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Montana, Wyoming, and the Trinity Alps of northern California are the landscapes of these elegant, rough-hewn narratives where people yearn for grace even as their chances are running out. "Roy Parvin has a sense of what people will do when they have reached their particular limits," says Charles Baxter, "and these wonderful tales are like visions." A recently paroled ex-con tries to outrun a violent past. An out-of-work logger finds an unexpected kind of love. And a woman's journey by rail through a western snowscape becomes a bittersweet tale of redemption.
Montana, Wyoming, and the Trinity Alps of northern California are the landscapes of these elegant, rough-hewn narratives where people yearn for grace ...
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76,88 |
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