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The Bridge / Iain Banks. - London : Abacus, 2008. - 386 stron ; 20 cm.

Author

Banks Iain (1954-2013) Autor

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura angielska

Subject

Wypadki i katastrofy drogowe Ofiary katastrof i wypadków Podświadomość Rzeczywistość alternatywna Bliskie związki międzyludzkie

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Powieść Fantastyka

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Abacus

Na górze okładki: "The most imaginative novelist of his generetion" The Times.

Na dole okładki: "Great artistry, great virtuosity...great exuberance" New Statesman.

A darkly brilliant novel of self-discovery the cutting edge of experimental fiction. It leads from nowhere to nowhere, the mysterious world-spanning structure on which everyone seems to live. Rescued from the sea, devoid of personality or memory, all John Orr knows is the Bridge, his persistent dreams of war, and his desire for Chief Engineer Arrol's provocative daughter, Abberlaine.

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Old Filth / Jane Gardam. - London : Abacus, 2004. - 259, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

Author

Gardam Jane (1928-). Autor

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Literatura angielska

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Chłopcy Rodzina Internaty Kształcenie Sędziowie Malezja Anglia (Wielka Brytania)

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Abacus

Na górze okładki: Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2005.

Na dole okładki: "A masterpiece" Guardian.

Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an eighty-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life. He slips back into the past with ever mounting frequency and intensity, and on the tide of these vivid, lyrical musings, Feathers approaches a reckoning with his own history. Not all the old filth, it seems, can be cleaned away.

Borrowing from biography and history, Jane Gardam has written a literary masterpiece reminiscent of Rudyard Kipling's Baa Baa, Black Sheep that retraces much of the twentieth century's torrid and momentous history. Feathers' childhood in Malaya during the British Empire's heyday, his schooling in pre-war England, his professional success in Southeast Asia and his return to England toward the end of the millennium, are vantage points from which the reader can observe the march forward of an eventful era and the steady progress of that man, Sir Edward Feathers, Old Filth himself, who embodies the century's fate.

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Less / Andrew Sean Greer. - London : Abacus, 2018. - 261 stron ; 20 cm.

Author

Greer Andrew Sean. Autor

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Literatura amerykańska

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Homoseksualizm Humor Kryzys wieku średniego Miłość Pisarze Podróże dookoła świata

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Abacus

Na okładce: "I adore this book" Armistead Maupin, " I recommend it with my whole heart" Ann Patchett.

Na okładce: "You will sob little tears of joy" Nell Zink, "Marvellously, endearringly, unexpectedly funny" Gary Shteyngart.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2018r.

A love story, a satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, by an author The New York Times has hailed as “inspired, lyrical,” “elegiac,” “ingenious,” as well as “too sappy by half,” Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.

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The Department of Sensitive Crimes / Älexander McCall Smith. - London : Abacus, 2019. - 243, [14] stron ; 20 cm.

(The Detective Varg Novels / Älexander McCall Smith ; 1)

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McCall Smith Alexander (1948- ). Autor McCall Smith Alexander (1948- ). Detective Varg Novels

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Książki Proza

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Literatura szkocka

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Ulf Varg (postać fikcyjna) Śledztwo i dochodzenie Relacje międzyludzkie Malmö (Szwecja)

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Abacus

Ulf Varg works in Malmö's Department of Sensitive Crimes. Like all Scandinavian detectives, he has his issues. In this case, these include his unresolved feelings for his colleague Anna, his impatience over the seeming incompetence of his irritating colleague Blomquist and his concerns for the health of his hearing-impaired dog Martin, the only dog in Sweden (and possibly all Scandinavia) who can lip-read...

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The Road To Nab End : A Lancashire Childhood / William Woodruff. - London : Abacus, 2002. - 407 stron : fotografie ; 20 cm.

Author

Woodruff William (1916-2008) Autor

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Literatura angielska

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Woodruff, William (1916-2008) Chłopcy Dzieciństwo Kryzys gospodarczy Tkacze Osoby ubogie Anglia (Wielka Brytania) Lancashire (Wielka Brytania)

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Powieść autobiograficzna Pamiętniki i wspomnienia

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Abacus

Na górze okładki: "A masterpiece" Independent.

Na okładce: As Read On Radio 4.

Na okładce pod tytułem: An Extraordinary Northern Childhood.

William Woodruff (12 September 1916 – 23 September 2008) was a professor of world history and author. His two autobiographical works, The Road to Nab End and its sequel Beyond Nab End, both became bestsellers in the United Kingdom. The memoirs, covering Woodruff's impoverished upbringing in an English weaving community during the Great Depression, contain significant amounts of social commentary about the conditions in which he lived.

The Road to Nab End is a marvelously evocative account of growing up poor in a British mill town. From William Woodruff's birth in 1916 until he ran away to London at the age of sixteen, he lived in the heart of Blackburn's weaving community in the north of England, where the crash of 1920 left his family in extreme poverty.

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The Last time they met / Anita Shreve. - London : Abacus, 2002. - 360 stron ; 20 cm.

Author

Shreve Anita (1946-2018) Autor

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

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Spotkanie po latach Relacje międzyludzkie Miłość Pisarze Stany Zjednoczone (USA) Toronto (Kanada) Kenia

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Powieść Powieść obyczajowa

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Abacus (Londyn)

When Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes meet at a conference reception in Toronto, it is the first time they have seen each other in twenty-six years and each has been marked by age and personal tragedy.

The novel moves backwards in time, starting at the age of fifty-two to follow the lovers through time and across continents, exploring the passion that pulls them together and the circumstances that have forced them apart.

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There are copies available to loan: sygn. O 15666 (1 egz.)