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Ready for the adventure of a lifetime? Gape at the icebergs looming over your ship, stand awestruck in the midst of a teeming penguin colony, or glimpse a minke whale surfacing next to your Zodiac - Antarctica will astound and transform you. Written by authors with intimate knowledge of the region, this bestselling guide is your essential companion to The Ice. GET THE INSIDE SCOOP - loads of specialist contributions by experts in...
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With admirable enterprise, Bloomsbury books have asked a number of top writers to describe the city they love most; 30 Days in Sydney represents Peter Carey's turn with a unique take on the Aussie metropolis. Subtitled 'a wildly distorted account' it is pretty much that: an oblique, poignant, entertaining and rather candid look at the city. Using his prize-winning novelist's eye for telling detail, and the objectivity of the relative outsider...
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The history of twentieth-century Australia is seen through the exploits and adventures of conman Herbert Badgery, as the 139-year-old "illywhacker" recalls his diverse careers as an aviator, car salesman, seducer, patriarch, and snake catcher. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. NYT.
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The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector now gives readers a hero, the malformed but ferociously wilful Tristan Smith, who becomes the object of the world's byzantine political intrigues, even as he attains stardom in a bizarre Sirkus that is part passion play and part Mortal Kombat.
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Oscar Hopkins is a high-strung preacher's kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees. Lucinda Leplastrier is a frizzy-haired heiress who impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. In the early parts of this lushly written book, author Peter Carey renders the seminal turning points in his protagonists' childhoods as exquisite 19th-century set pieces. Young Oscar, denied the heavenly fruit of a...
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| Autor: |
Peter Carey |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Bellona |
| Liczba stron: |
304 |
| Data wydania: |
2006 |
| ISBN: |
83-11-10526-X |
| Oprawa: |
miękka |
| Format: |
13,5 x 20,5 cm |
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Powieść ZŁODZIEJSTWO CZYLI HISTORIA MIŁOSNA pretenduje do tegorocznej nagrody Booker Prize Bestsellerowa, jeszcze nie wydana w Anglii i USA, powieść poczytnego i wydawanego w Polsce autora, osadzona w środowisku handlarzy dziełami sztuki, dziejąca sie w Australii, na Manhattanie i w Tokio. Bohater powieści Michael Boone, australijski malarz , niegdyś rozchwytywany i znany artysta, w wyniku serii osobistych katastrof (rozwód, utrata syna,...
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