Jako by se tu někdo snažil nevydat ani hlásku
Tom se probudí uprostřed noci. Slyší nějaký šramot. Jako by vycházel z prken z podlahy. Jako by vycházel ze zdi a ze schodů na chodbě. Tiché strašidelné zvuky, jako by se tu někdo snažil nevydat ani hlásku. Co to jen může být? Tom vzbudí tátu a spolu se odvážně vydají na dobrodružnou cestu po domě, aby vypátrali, kdo tu vydává ty strašidelné zvuky.
Jako by se tu někdo snažil nevydat ani hlásku je příběh z oceněného románu Johna Irvinga pro dospělé Rok vdovou. Poprvé se tu objevuje v knižní podobě pro děti příběh spisovatelova syna, který se bál tajemných nočních zvuků, s půvabně hororovými ilustracemi Tatjany Hauptmannové, jež určitě upoutají a okouzlí děti po celém světě.
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9,31 €
Lacná kniha Imaginary Girlfriend: A Memoir (-90%)
From a novelist known for the complexity of his novels - they are also long - comes an autobiography of compelling simplicity; it is also short. Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend" is a lucid portrait of the writers and wrestlers who played a mentor role in John Irving's development as a novelist, a wrestler and a wrestling coach. Moreover, this candid memoir portrays a father's dedication to his children: Irving coached his sons Colin and Brendan to New England championship titles - a championship that, as a competitor, he himself was denied. John Irving began writing and wrestling when he was fourteen. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, he was certified as a referee for twenty-four and he coached the sport until he was forty-seven. His thirty-three years in wrestling are three times those he spent as a student and a teacher of Creative Writing; yet his concise autobiography details the interrelationship of the disciplines of writing and wrestling - from the days when Irving was a beginner at both pursuits until his fourth wrestling-related surgery at the age of fifty-three. "The Imaginary Girlfriend" is both a work of the utmost literary accomplishment and a paradigm for living."
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Water Method Man
Fred 'Bogus' Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. He also happens to have a complaint more serious than Portnoy's. Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that he'll make something of his life, and is about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first. The Water-Method Man" is a work of cosummate artistry and comic invention, bizarre imagery and sharp social and psychological observation."
Lacná kniha Je te Retrouverai (-95%)
Seuls depuis la fuite de William, un organiste qui collectionne les conqutes féminines et les tatouages, Alice et son fils partent pour l'Amérique. L'enfant grandit entre filles matelots, chastes institutrices et imprésarios douteux. A vingt ans, Jack Burns brille au firmament de Hollywood et collectionne les femmes. Pour autant, rien ne remplace jamais le regard d'un pre...
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Setting Free the Bears
This 'sensual, moving, truly remarkable novel' (Time) was written between 1965 and 1967. It concerns a plot to release all the animals from the Vienna Zoo. 'Imagine a mixture of Till Eulenspiegel and Ken Kesey and you've got the range of the merry pranksters who hot-rod through Mr Irving's book, tossing flowers, stealing salt-shakers, and planning the biggest caper of their young lives' (New York Times). Essential reading for all John Irving fans, here is a mouth-watering foretaste of 'The Pension Grillparzer' in The World According to Garp and to the Berry Family's journey to Vienna in The Hotel New Hampshire.
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9,60 €
Imaginary Girlfriend: A Memoir
From a novelist known for the complexity of his novels - they are also long - comes an autobiography of compelling simplicity; it is also short. Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend" is a lucid portrait of the writers and wrestlers who played a mentor role in John Irving's development as a novelist, a wrestler and a wrestling coach. Moreover, this candid memoir portrays a father's dedication to his children: Irving coached his sons Colin and Brendan to New England championship titles - a championship that, as a competitor, he himself was denied. John Irving began writing and wrestling when he was fourteen. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, he was certified as a referee for twenty-four and he coached the sport until he was forty-seven. His thirty-three years in wrestling are three times those he spent as a student and a teacher of Creative Writing; yet his concise autobiography details the interrelationship of the disciplines of writing and wrestling - from the days when Irving was a beginner at both pursuits until his fourth wrestling-related surgery at the age of fifty-three. "The Imaginary Girlfriend" is both a work of the utmost literary accomplishment and a paradigm for living."
Das Hotel New Hampshire
Eine gefühlvolle Familiengeschichte, in der motorradfahrende und feministische Bären, weiße Vergewaltiger und schwarze Rächer, ein Wiener Hotel voller Huren und Anarchisten, ein Familienhund mit Flatulenz im Endstadium, Arthur Schnitzler, Moby Dick, der große Gatsby, Gewichtheber, Geschwisterliebe und Freud vorkommen - nicht der Freud, sondern Freud der Bärenführer.
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15,00 €
Je te Retrouverai
Seuls depuis la fuite de William, un organiste qui collectionne les conqutes féminines et les tatouages, Alice et son fils partent pour l'Amérique. L'enfant grandit entre filles matelots, chastes institutrices et imprésarios douteux. A vingt ans, Jack Burns brille au firmament de Hollywood et collectionne les femmes. Pour autant, rien ne remplace jamais le regard d'un pre...
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15,10 €
Last Night in Twisted River
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County - to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto - pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving's twelfth novel - depicts the recent half-century in the United States as 'a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course'. From the novel's taut opening sentence - 'The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long' - to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving's breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp. What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice - the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: 'We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly - as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth - the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives'.
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Die Vierte Hand
Während einer Indienreportage wird einem New Yorker Journalisten vor laufender Kamera die linke Hand von einem hungrigen Zirkuslöwen aufgefressen, Millionen Fernsehzuschauer sind Zeugen des Unfalls. In Boston wartet ein verschrobener Handchirurg auf eine Gelegenheit, die erste amerikanische Handtransplantation vorzunehmen. Und eine junge Ehefrau in Wisconsin hat es sich in den Kopf gesetzt, dem einhändigen Reporter die linke Hand ihres Mannes zu geben - wenn dieser stirbt. Doch der Mann ist jung und kerngesund.
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14,00 €
A son of the circus
Born a Parsi in Bombay and educated in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen, an orthopedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Periodically, he returns to India. Once 20 years ago, Dr Darwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa
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8,95 €
My Movie Business
My Movie Business is essentially about making the screen version of The Cider House Rules. As such, it's concerned primarily with the intricacies of condensing a 500-plus page novel into two hours of screen time, discussing necessary adaptations of the plotline, the treatment or cutting of characters and the shooting of specific scenes
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6,31 €
Modlitba za Owena Meanyho
Nové vydání v pořadí sedmého románu amerického spisovatele Johna Irvinga, autora světově proslulého bestselleru Svět podle Garpa, vypráví příběh prazvláštně nadaného chlapce Owena Meanyho, posmívaného mezi svými vrstevníky, ze kterého se však posléze stává mladík nebývalé autority, prorok, jenž prožívá absurdní novodobou paralelu s životem Ježíše Krista.
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13,56 €
The 158-Pound marriage
Severin Einter is not a man to take things ligthy. His loving, like his wrestling, is decidedly heavyweight...a fact not lost on Utch, a lovely Viennese lady whose husband is rather taken (literally) by the delicate Edith, Severin's underweight wife.
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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11,58 €
Until I find you
Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns. His mother, Alice, is a Toronto tattoo artist. His father, William, is an Edinburgh organist who is addicted to being tattooed. When Jack is four, he travels with Alice to several North Sea ports - Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, and Amsterdam, in search of his father, who is missing. But Alice is a mystery, and William can't be found. Even Jack's memories are subject to doubt. Jack Burns goes to schools in Canada and New England, but what shapes him are his relationships with older women. Mr Irving renders Jack's life as an actor in Hollywood with the same richness of detail and range of emotions he uses to describe the tattoo parlours in those North Sea ports and the reverberating music Jack heard as a child in European churches.
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27,52 €
