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Cities of Plain

	Autor: Cormac McCarthy Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 1998 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-330-36904-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 34.3 zł	Nasza cena: 34.3 zł Kup teraz!

2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Brad PittAbridgment approved by the authorIn this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham--nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know--are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached więcej...

Blue Horizon

	Autor: Smith Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-330-37631-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 34.3 zł	Nasza cena: 34.3 zł Kup teraz!

Following on from 'Monsoon' the next generation of Courtneys are out to stake their claim in South Africa. The journey they make takes them through the untouched wilderness of a beautiful land filled with warring tribes and dangerous animals. więcej...

Lucky

	Autor: Sebold Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-330-41836-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 41.2 zł	Nasza cena: 41.2 zł Kup teraz!

Raped and beaten as an 18-year-old Syracuse University student, Alice Sebold recounts the story of her rape, the trial and conviction of her rapist, and her recovery. Her book also tells the story of its own coming into being. Immediately after the rape, Sebold vowed to write about it, and worked it out in various forms before sculpting it into its final shape 18 years later while completing a graduate degree in fiction writing. Sebold burst onto the literary scene with her bestselling novel, THE LOVELY BONES, about a young więcej...

Grass for His Pillow

	Autor: Hearn Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-330-42734-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 41.2 zł	Nasza cena: 41.2 zł Kup teraz!

In this sequel to ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR, Takeo repudiates the crown he is heir to and, instead, studies with the Tribe, a clan of assassins--though he hates the idea of killing. The princess Kaede, who loves him, has troubles of her own as she tries to mend the rents in her family that have arisen from the defeat of her father. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. więcej...

Eventide

	Autor: K. Haruf Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-330-43400-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 28.4 zł	Nasza cena: 28.4 zł Kup teraz!

The citizens of Holt, Colorado, return in Kent Haruf's follow-up to his bestselling 1999 novel, PLAINSONG. His characters' problems are myriad: poverty, ignorance, schoolyard bullies, dying elders. But in American small towns, people help each other out, tangling their lives together without hesitation in the process--and Haruf's moving and elegiac fiction embodies that truth. As spring slowly comes to Holt, the McPheron brothers, Harold and Raymond--who are Haruf's focus this time--and their neighbors find that they have więcej...

Mystic Masseur

	Autor: V. Naipaul Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 1957 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-330-48704-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 38.2 zł	Nasza cena: 38.2 zł Kup teraz!

V S. Naipaul's first novel - funny, endlessly inventive and brilliantly imagined The Mystic Masseur traces the story of Ganesh who, at the beginning of the novel is a struggling masseur when, as the narrator puts it, 'masseurs were ten a penny in Trinidad'. From failed primary school teacher and masseur to author, revered mystic and MBE, his is a journey memorable for its hilarious and bewildering success. Naipaul's clarity of style, humorous touch and powerful characterisation are all in evidence in this first book. This więcej...

Middle Passage

	Autor: V. Naipaul Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-330-48706-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 38.2 zł	Nasza cena: 38.2 zł Kup teraz!

Naipaul's first travel book - travelling from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean Naipaul's first work of travel writing is an account of his journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. It is both a journey to the familiar and to the strange and Naipaul records it all with immense sensitivity, honesty and clear analysis. He journeys to British Guiana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica forms a provocative and at times piercingly tunny study of societies whose common heritage of colonialism więcej...

Loss of El Dorado

	Autor: V. Naipaul Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-330-48707-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 38.2 zł	Nasza cena: 38.2 zł Kup teraz!

A passionate and vivid recreation of the history of Trinidad The Loss of El Dorado exposes the barbaric cruelties of slavery and torture and their consequences on all strata of society - from the idealist to the reactionary - in a moving account which penetrates aspects of a complex society more often overlooked by professional historians. It is made up of two forgotten stories - the first being Walter Ralegh's raid on Trinidad and South America in 1595 and ends with his return in 1617, paroled from Tower of London. The więcej...

Once in a House on Fire

	Autor: Ashworth Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-330-49188-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 31.4 zł	Nasza cena: 31.4 zł Kup teraz!

When Andrea Ashworth's childhood memoir was published in 1998 it left critics stunned; it became an international bestseller and continues to move readers around the world. Set in grim 1970s Manchester, Once in a House on Fire tells the true story of three sisters and their mother, a close-knit and loving family forced to battle with poverty, abuse and the effects of depression. What makes Ashworth's memoir truly astounding is that her tale of hardship is so beautifully written, so compellingly told, so funny and endearing więcej...

Piano Tuner

	Autor: Mason Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-330-49266-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 34.3 zł	Nasza cena: 34.3 zł Kup teraz!

During the Anglo-Burmese Wars of the 1880s, a London piano tuner named Edgar Drake is recruited to tune the piano for an army surgeon in Burma. What he finds when he gets there--about the surgeon, about Burma's political situation, and about himself--is a revelation both to the piano tuner and to the reader. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. więcej...

Season for the Dead

	Autor: Hewson Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-330-49363-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 41.2 zł	Nasza cena: 41.2 zł Kup teraz!

In a hushed Vatican reading room, the scene was shocking: a crazed professor shot dead after brandishing evidence of a grisly crime. Moments later, two bodies are found in a nearby church, each with a gruesome calling card from the killer.' 'As the August heat takes Rome in its fiery grip, the news of two brutal murders holds the city in thrall. And as the media gathers and Vatican officials close ranks, a young detective is sent to the forefront of the case. Nic Costa is the son of an infamous Italian Communist, a connoisseur więcej...

Among The Believers

	Autor: V. Naipaul Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-330-41333-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 44.1 zł	Nasza cena: 44.1 zł Kup teraz!

An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism Among the Believers is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world. It is a uniquely valuable insight into modern Islam, and the comforting simplifications of religious fanaticism. więcej...

Pesthouse

	Autor: Crace Jim Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780330456906 Ilość stron: 310 Cena : 30.15 zł	Nasza cena: 30.15 zł Kup teraz!

Jim Crace is a writer of great gifts. He is the poet of detail, the laureate of the mineral, the bacterial and the gaseous. The people in his books are often the subjects of these forces, their lives and struggles the background to an unending and strangely lyrical but implacable play of forces beyond their control. Crace is not a writer of the moment; he is not a realist writer nor a writer looking for the witty aperçu about contemporary society, although his books contain allegorical references to the present. Instead więcej...

At the Same Time

	Autor: Sontag Susan Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780312426712 Ilość stron: 235 Cena : 50.4 zł	Nasza cena: 50.4 zł Kup teraz!

Literature and politics are inextricably intertwined and unified by moral purpose in this powerful collection of pieces (a couple not previously published in English or at all) by iconic critic and novelist Sontag (Regarding the Pain of Others), who died in 2004. Sontag was a dedicated champion of literature in translation, and the book opens with several introductions to such works, led off by a meditation on beauty. The section might have been called "Art and Ardor," so laced is it with artistic passion, both więcej...

Bad Mother's Handbook

	Autor: Long Kate Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780330419338 Ilość stron: 366 Cena : 36 zł	Nasza cena: 36 zł Kup teraz!

I've waited a long time for a book like this. Kate Long tells it like it is. She understands the lives the 'real' women lead. There are no handsome barristers waiting to make their way into the pages of a woman's diary, no impossibly glossy homes, and designer clothes. These women live in a cramped council house, struggling to get along with each other, and manage their relationships outside the home.This is a book full of warmth and honesty, some of it painfully so.Nan, Karen and Charlotte (Charlie), three generations of więcej...

Queen Mum

	Autor: Long Kate Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780330450058 Ilość stron: 328 Cena : 32.4 zł	Nasza cena: 32.4 zł Kup teraz!

Queen Mum is the story of married mum Ally and her relationship with the family next door, in particular the beautiful Juno, who seems to glide through life with effortless grace. But when Juno takes part in the reality-tv show ?Queen Mum?, Ally discovers a whole new side to the woman she thought was her best friend.When I wrote this novel I wanted to look at the way in which we edit reality every day to fit in with our individual world view. As far as I can see, reality-tv is only an extension of this.You can see me talking więcej...

Grace

	Autor: Ullmann Linn Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780330434324 Ilość stron: 136 Cena : 37.8 zł	Nasza cena: 37.8 zł Kup teraz!

A stunning novel about how the most banal of lives can be touched by grace in the most unexpected ways Johan has bargained with Death for years: when he was a boy, he prayed that Death take his father, not his mother; when he was a man, Death kindly removed his wife, Alice, allowing him to marry Mai, the love of his life. Now, Death has come for him, and Johan needs to strike one last bargain: when the moment arrives, he wants Mai to promise that she will help him on his way out of the world. Johan has been mainly a paragon więcej...

Flesh and Blood

	Autor: Cunningham Michael Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780312426682 Ilość stron: 466 Cena : 49.95 zł	Nasza cena: 49.95 zł Kup teraz!

From the bestselling author of The Hours and Specimen Days comes a generous, masterfully crafted novel with all the power of a Greek tragedy. The epic tale of an American family, Flesh and Blood follows three generations of the Stassos clan as it is transformed by ambition, love, and history. Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant, marries Mary Cuccio, an Italian-American girl, and they have three children, each fated to a complex life. Susan is oppressed by her beauty and her father's affections; Billy is brilliant, and więcej...

The Harsh Cry of the Heron

	Autor: Hearn Lian Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780330446334 Ilość stron: 632 Cena : 32.04 zł	Nasza cena: 32.04 zł Kup teraz!

Otori Takeo and Kaede have ruled the Three Countries peacefully for over sixteen years, following the events laid out in the epic Tales of the Otori. They have three daughters: Shigeko, fifteen years old and heir to the Otori, and Maya and Miki, thirteen-year-old twins who have inherited the supernatural skills of their father. Kaede knows nothing of the prophecy that Takeo will die at the hands of his son and longs to give him a male child. Nor does she know of the boy he fathered sixteen years ago ? a boy whose heart is więcej...

A Far Country

	Autor: Mason Daniel Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780330492737 Ilość stron: 266 Cena : 86.4 zł	Nasza cena: 86.4 zł Kup teraz!

A Far Country, Daniel Mason's long-awaited second novel, is set in an unnamed part of South America, where 14-year-old Isabel leaves her drought-stricken rural home for an urban slum. She arrives in 'the settlements', expecting to be reunited with her much-loved older brother, Isaias, only to find that he has disappeared. Isabel spends her days caring for her cousin's baby, dealing with the confusing pressures of adolescence. Though she is still a child, she must face the responsibilities of adulthood in an alien and frightening więcej...

Prisoners

	Autor: Goldberg Jeffrey Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780330488198 Ilość stron: 316 Cena : 54 zł	Nasza cena: 54 zł Kup teraz!

Prisoners is a remarkable book: spare, impassioned, energetic, and unstinting in its candour about both the darkness and the hope buried within the animosities of the Middle East. więcej...

Emerald Germs of Ireland

	Autor: Patrick McCabe Wydawnictwo: Picador Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 0-330-39375-8 Ilość stron: 380 Cena : 5.3 zł	Nasza cena: 5.3 zł Kup teraz!

Bohaterem książki jest Pat McNab, seryjny morderca. więcej...

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