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Joshua Ferris

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Máte pocit, že vaše firma je jeden velký blázinec a vaši kolegové to nemůžou mít v hlavě v pořádku? Joshua Ferris vás ve své prvotině pomocí svého osobitého humoru s nadhledem přesvědčí, že jste vlastně všichni úplně normální. Jeho román vás zavede do zdánlivě obyčejné reklamní agentury v Chicagu, kde si kolegové dělají naschvály, prožívají svá trápení, zamilovávají se a kradou si židle stejně jako u vás v kanceláři.
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Poslání Charlieho Barnese


Poslání Charlieho Barnese je humorným, a přitom hlubokým zamyšlením nad životními hodnotami, rodinnými vztahy a nad tím, jaké zdání o sobě budíme a jak se příběh, který o sobě vyprávíme, shoduje s tím, jaký život skutečně žijeme. Charlie Barnes to rozhodně nemá v životě jednoduché. Přesto tento nenapravitelný intrikán a věčný romantik nepřestává usilovat o to, aby se vymanil ze současných neuspokojivých poměrů a vydal se vstříc americkému snu. Pak ale přijde pohroma v podobě hospodářské krize a vážné nemoci a Charlie musí svůj život velmi rychle přehodnotit. Ale jaký ten jeho život vlastně je? Jaký je Charlie vůbec člověk? Podle čeho jej můžeme posuzovat? Vždyť sám se vidí jinýma očima než vypravěč příběhu. Pak jsou tu jeho děti, bývalé manželky, klienti, přátelé, známí… a každý z nich má o Charliem odlišnou představu. Lidé jsou často úplně jiní, než jakými se zdají. A první dojem bývá stejně falešný jako fraška, kterou mnozí z nás svému okolí předvádějí.
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Máte pocit, že vaše firma je jeden velký blázinec a vaši kolegové to nemůžou mít v hlavě v pořádku? Joshua Ferris vás ve své prvotině pomocí svého osobitého humoru s nadhledem přesvědčí, že jste vlastně všichni úplně normální. Jeho román vás zavede do zdánlivě obyčejné reklamní agentury v Chicagu, kde si kolegové dělají naschvály, prožívají svá trápení, zamilovávají se a kradou si židle stejně jako u vás v kanceláři.
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4,08 € 13,60 €

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In his extraordinary novel Joshua Ferris delineates with great tenderness and a rare and inimitable wit the devastating story of a life taken for granted and what happens when that life is torn away without explanation or warning. THE UNNAMED establishes Joshua Ferris as the new king of American fiction, following in the footsteps of Don Delillo and Jonathan Franzen as one of the great US novelists of our times.
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2,69 € 8,95 €

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Then We Come To The End


They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from firends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues. Theres Chris Yop, who is clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Maso n, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl Garbedian, secretly taking someone elses medication; Marcia Dwyer, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, whos just - well, just Benny. Amidst the boredom, redundan cies, walter-cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them. Then We Came to the End is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. Its the story o f your life, and mine.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.
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Then We Came to the End


Joshua Ferris' Then We Came To The End - part of the limited edition PENGUIN STREET ART series: timeless writing, enduring design. 'We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fifteen' They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues. There's Chris Yop, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl Garbedian, secretly taking someone else's medication; Marcia Dwyer, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, who's just - well, just Benny. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them. 'Outstanding . . . incisive, urgent, funny and snappily written' Sunday Times Joshua Ferris was born in Illinois in 1974. He is the author of Then We Came to the End, which was published in 2007 and was nominated for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and The Unnamed. In 2010 he was selected for the New Yorker's prestigious '20 under 40' list as one of the best young American writers of fiction. He lives in New York. The PENGUIN STREET ART series marries timeless writing with enduring design. Some of the world's leading street artists have designed new covers especially for ten classic contemporary books from Penguin: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd / Armadillo by William Boyd / And The Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave / What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe / Americana by Don DeLillo / Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris / The Reluctant Fundamentalistby Mohsin Hamid / The Believers by Zoe Heller /How to Be Good by Nick Hornby / Lights out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair
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11,88 € 12,50 €

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour


There's nothing like a dental chair to remind a man that he's alone in the world, subject to pain, blood, decay, and a slow attenuation back down to the elements.' Paul O'Rourke - dentist extraordinaire, reluctant New Yorker, avowed atheist, disaffected Red Sox fan, and a connoisseur of the afternoon mochaccino - is a man out of touch with modern life. While his thriving dental practice occupies his days, his insomniac nights are filled with speculation and regret, as he ponders his mistakes with his ex-girlfriend (and receptionist) Connie, questions all the rituals that give his life meaning, and alternately marvels at and rails against the optimism and ignorance of the rest of humanity. So it goes, until someone begins to impersonate Paul online. Deeply committed to an analog life, Paul watches in impotent horror as a website, a Facebook page, and a Twitter account are created in his name to promote a little-known ancient religion. And yet what began as an outrageous violation of privacy soon becomes something far more soul-frightening: the possibility that the virtual 'Paul' might be a better version of the man in the flesh. Suddenly, everything Paul believes, or doesn't, seems to be at stake...Joshua Ferris's dazzlingly inventive, brutally comic new novel cuts to the very heart of modern existence: the meaning of life, the certainty of death, and the importance of good oral hygiene.
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Vstát znovu se slepicema


Paul O’Rourke má slušnou zubařskou praxi a k ní ještě slušnější krizi středního věku. Anebo, řečeno jednodušeji, neví, co sám se sebou: nesnáší stroje a přístroje, ale miluje svůj iPhone; zuřivě fandí Red Sox, ale každé jejich vítězství mu způsobí depresi; rád by byl ateistou, ale pořád se té víry nějak ne a ne pustit. A když si někdo přisvojí jeho totožnost a začne si jeho jménem zakládat pohoršující webové stránky a účty na Facebooku a Twiteru, najednou mu přestane být jasné, kdo vlastně je. A pátrání po podvodníkovi ho postaví před otřesnou otázku, jestli to vlastně ten padouch nevzal za lepší konec, než on sám, jestli „ten druhý“, vlastně není lepší Paul O’Rourke než on. Třetí román amerického autora (1974), který se v posledních letech prosazuje jako jeden z nejvýraznějších literárních hlasů své generace.
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To Rise Again at a Decent Hour


Introducing Paul O'Rourke: New Yorker, dentist and reluctant non-believer. Modern life disappoints him, and love never solves any of his problems. Then someone steals his identity and starts impersonating Paul online. A cruel invasion of privacy, the real horror is yet to come: this virtual 'Paul', preaching an obscure, ancient religion, might just be a better, happier person than the real deal. Anxious to find out who is responsible for this disturbing turn of events, Paul embarks on a quest which will see him confront the meaning of life, the inevitability of death and the importance of good oral hygiene.
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11,35 € 11,95 €

Unnamed


Joshua Ferris' The Unnamed has been hailed as 'the first great book of the decade' (GQ). In an America gone awry with strange weather, New York lawyer Tim Farnsworth suffers a peculiar affliction: the inability to stop walking. While his wife, Jane, struggles to keep their family together in the face of the unfathomable, Tim alone must battle to survive pitiless surroundings, encounters with hostile strangers, and the unrelenting demands of his own body. These challenges force Tim to ask life's most pressing questions, which he answers in a final return on foot across country to reunite with his wife and daughter. Stripped of all defences, and the sense of hope that lies at the very heart of the American dream, Farnsworth is compelled to confront the terrifying reality of what it is to be a human being. "A writer almost uniquely in tune with modern life...Ferris' flashes of brilliance are many". (Evening Standard). "Original, affecting. An almost unbearable love story, between remissions of intense connection and the human inevitability of parting, between the haven of marriage and all that lies beyond". (Observer). "A stunner, an unnerving portrait of a man stripped of civilization's defenses". (New Yorker). Joshua Ferris was born in Illinois in 1974. He is the author of Then We Came to the End (2007), which was nominated for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and the highly acclaimed The Unnamed. In 2010 he was selected for the New Yorker's prestigious '20 under 40' list. His most recent novel, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 and the Dylan Thomas Prize 2014. He lives in New York.
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11,35 € 11,95 €

The Dinner Party and Other Stories


'He reflected in future retrospect on the evening and foretold every gesture, every word. "I can't do it," he said. "I can predict everything that will happen from the moment they arrive to the little kiss on the cheek goodbye and I just can't goddamn do it."'The Dinner Party immerses us in the comic and strange realities of modern life, as we journey through the lives of the unlovable, the unloved, and those who love too much: Jack, who nervously tries to befriend the surly removal man by buying him a latte and a croissant; Sarah, who endlessly imagines how her evening would have been better had she only chosen a different restaurant; Joe, who spends a night alone at the office and surreptitiously starts to rearrange his colleagues' belongings.These are stories about the infinite possibilities of a person's life, from an agonizingly funny and original writer.
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15,68 € 16,50 €

The Dinner Party


He reflected in future retrospect on the evening and foretold every gesture, every word. "I can't do it," he said. "I can predict everything that will happen from the moment they arrive to the little kiss on the cheek goodbye and I just can't goddamn do it."' The Dinner Party immerses us in the comic and strange realities of modern life, as we journey through the lives of the unlovable, the unloved, and those who love too much: Jack, who nervously tries to befriend the surly removal man by buying him a latte and a croissant; Sarah, who endlessly imagines how her evening would have been better had she only chosen a different restaurant; Joe, who spends a night alone at the office and surreptitiously starts to rearrange his colleagues' belongings. These are stories about the infinite possibilities of a person's life, from an agonizingly funny and original writer.
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10,93 € 11,50 €

Unnamed


In his extraordinary novel Joshua Ferris delineates with great tenderness and a rare and inimitable wit the devastating story of a life taken for granted and what happens when that life is torn away without explanation or warning. THE UNNAMED establishes Joshua Ferris as the new king of American fiction, following in the footsteps of Don Delillo and Jonathan Franzen as one of the great US novelists of our times.
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A Calling for Charlie Barnes


Charlie Barnes, sixty-eight years old, reasonable man, small-business owner is facing the abyss and it's time to reckon with how he has lived his life so far. What happened to all those great ideas that were snatched from the jaws of success? And what was with all those unsuccessful marriages? Well, who's counting the wives when Barbara, his fifth and most permanent wife, is such a rock solid pillar of society? Maybe Jake Barnes, son of Charlie and writer of his story is counting. Now that his father seems to be on the way out, Jake begins to wonder what Charlie Barnes's desperate dreams of success have really added up to. If his father's life was a series of fantasies, then how is it possible for his son to tell the truth about him? And will Jake have to confront the fact that in their ambitions, and their delusions, they might not actually be so very different? Joshua Ferris's new novel is both a profoundly tender and brutally funny portrayal of a life lost in the American dream.
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Máte pocit, že vaše firma je jeden velký blázinec a vaši kolegové to nemůžou mít v hlavě v pořádku? Joshua Ferris vás ve své prvotině pomocí svého osobitého humoru s nadhledem přesvědčí, že jste vlastně všichni úplně normální. Jeho román vás zavede do zdánlivě obyčejné reklamní agentury v Chicagu, kde si kolegové dělají naschvály, prožívají svá trápení, zamilovávají se a kradou si židle stejně jako u vás v kanceláři.
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