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Fierce attachments : [a memoir] / Vivian Gornick. - London : Daunt Books, 2015. - 201, [3] strony ; 20 cm.
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence.
Unsparing, deeply courageous, "Fierce Attachments" is one of the most remarkable documents of family feeling that has been written, a classic that helped start the memoir boom and remains one of the most moving examples of the genre.
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A Quiet Life / Beryl Bainbridge. - [miejsce nieznane] : Daunt Books : Legimi, 2025.
'One of the funniest books I have ever read.' Hilary Mantel Seventeen-year-old Alan can't stand rows. And although the Second World War has ended, peace only hangs by a thread at home: his troublesome sister Madge creeps off for night-time liaisons with a German POW, and while their ineffectual father – broken by the hardships of war and an unhappy marriage – can't put food on the table, their mother pursues her escapist fantasies in romantic novels and love affairs. As the family heads inexorably towards disaster, obedient, faithful Alan, the focus of their jibes and resentment, is trapped in the middle of them all. Beryl Bainbridge's classic early novel is a vintage story of English domestic life, laced with sadness, irony and wicked black humour.
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An old snapshot shows a group of friends lounging in the sunshine, on a weekend in the country. They're there at the invitation of Claude and his wife Julia. The girl in the centre is dreamy Lily, whose latest failed love affair forms the purpose of the weekender gathering, as Lily's friends set out to help her ensnare an unwitting father for her unborn child. Next to her is Norman, a Marxist romantic hell-bent on seducing his milk-white hostess; behind them is old, persecuted Shebah; and slightly apart, the young man on whom all hopes are pinned: quiet, pleasant Edward. Told through the fractured narratives of Claude, Lily, Shebah and Norman, a darkly comic weekend of friendship and failure unravels.
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Shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize, and with a new introduction by Yiyun Li, a darkly comic novel of class, the long shadow of war, and unrequited first love. Liverpool, 1950. Sixteen-year-old Stella is hired as assistant stage manager by a repertory theatre company and soon falls into a heady infatuation with the director, Meredith – failing to notice how he shows not only no interest in her, but in any woman. When the celebrated actor O'Hara arrives to take the lead in their production of Peter Pan, it sets in motion a drama offstage of lost innocence, tragedy and miscommunication. Peopled by a cast of eccentric characters and the air thick with the scent of greasepaint and cigarettes, An Awfully Big Adventure is an evocative and sharp-edged novel for fans of Penelope Fitzgerald, Muriel Spark and Camilla Grudova.
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The complete short stories of Beryl Bainbridge, including the novella Filthy Lucre – written when the author was only thirteen years old. Bainbridge's exquisite, devastating skill for skewering characters in all their pomposity, fallibilities, vulnerability and humour, not to mention their capability for cruelty, is fully on display in this collection, accompanied by classic Bainbridge backdrops of seedy hotel rooms, dusty theatres and the twilight zone of lodging houses. Evoking brilliantly their tobacco-tinged era, these stories excavate humanity and showcase Bainbridge's sly turn of phrase, ruthless wit and pitch-black imagination.
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A gripping portrayal of female transgression and the intoxicating spell that adolescent friendship can cast. A young girl returns from boarding school to her sleepy Merseyside hometown and waits to be reunited with her childhood friend, Harriet, the chief architect of all their past mischief. Listlessly roaming the shoreline each evening, she repeatedly encounters 'the Tsar', Peter Biggs. Middle-aged, unhappily married and often unsober, he is repulsive. And yet, somehow, dangerously fascinating . . . When Harriet finally arrives, over the course of the holidays she draws her friend into a scheme to beguile and then humiliate the Tsar, leading to a disastrous and shocking end. Beryl Bainbridge's classic first novel remains as subversive today as when it was written.
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Injury Time / Beryl Bainbridge. - [miejsce nieznane] : Daunt Books : Legimi, 2025.
'I found myself laughing till the tears ran down my cheeks.' Auberon Waugh Edward is throwing a dinner party with Binny, his mistress. Aware that she has long been denied the small intimacies that his wife takes for granted – choosing a birthday present for his sister, for example, or sorting his socks – he wants to give her a chance to feel more involved in his life. Between a late start, and him having to be away by half past ten, things are a little awkward to begin with; but they soon seem to be going well. When some uninvited guests turn up, however, it looks as though Edward isn't going to make it home on time after all . . .
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'Cunningly clever, wry, dry, sharply pointed.' Evening Standard Ann is fulfilling her snobbish mother's ambitions: she's a BBC secretary, recently engaged to a successful academic. Outside her Hampstead flat, the Swinging Sixties are happening elsewhere, to other people. That is, until she meets the generous and cunning playwright William. Ann is first seduced, then transfixed. As William's nebulous past, present and future swirl kaleidoscopically around her, she finds herself irrevocably and irreparably changed. A darkly comic study of self-deception and the repercussions of sexual freedom, Sweet William is for fans of Harold Pinter, Tessa Hadley and Penelope Mortimer.
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A haunting and incisive group portrait of the crewmembers aboard Captain Scott's doomed Antarctic expedition. They set off from Cardiff in 1910, racing to plant the first flag in the South Pole: the burly Petty Officer Taff Evans; the introspective scientist Edward Wilson; the sanguine Lieutenant Birdie Bowers; the brooding Captain Lawrence Oates; and their tragic, conflicted leader, Captain Scott. As each man narrates his own version of events, perspectives fracture, and the misguided courage and reckless optimism that characterised the voyage are thrown into stark relief. One of Beryl Bainbridge's most acclaimed novels, The Birthday Boys evokes not only the terrible beauty of the Antarctic and the remarkable bravery of its explorers, but also the imperial hubris of late Edwardian society at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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Shortlisted for the 1974 Booker Prize, and with a new introduction by A. K. Blakemore, a razor-sharp and mercilessly funny novel of friendship, class and desire. Freda and Brenda divide the bed they share with a barricade of books, then spend their days working side by side in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A picnic out at Windsor Park for the two women and their colleagues offers promise for Freda and terror for Brenda. Passions run high before coming to a brutal and startling end. With an unforgettably dark heart, The Bottle Factory Outing is laugh-out-loud funny, grubbily evocative and slyly weird, and is for fans of Muriel Spark, Anita Brookner and early Ian McEwan.
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'The book I wish I'd written . . . Witty, chilling, every word in place.' Hilary Mantel Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and munitions factories. Seventeen-year-old Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, an American soldier, at a neighbour's party, she falls in love almost as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. Where Liverpool is grim and impoverished, America is gay and rich – Rita knows; she's seen it in the movies. But Nellie and Margo are not nearly so blind . . . Shortlisted for the 1973 Booker Prize, The Dressmaker is a darkly comic tale about the unexpected consequences of a young girl's heartbreak.
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Based on the true story of a Victorian schoolmaster who bludgeoned his wife to death on a Sunday afternoon. Reverend John Selby Watson is a respectable schoolmaster. His offer of marriage to Anne Armstrong is, for her, a route out of poverty: she seizes it. But learned, bookish Watson has little to offer his passionate, tempestuous wife in the way of affection, and the marriage soon curdles and sours. When Watson is dismissed from the school where he teaches, he finds himself devoid of purpose. With no distraction from each other, the couple's bickering and arguments ratchet up and events begin to lead, inexorably, towards their tragic and violent conclusion. A gripping and ultimately deeply moving portrait of two incompatible lives destroyed by curtailed dreams, for fans of Patricia Highsmith and Muriel Spark.
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When quiet, reliable lawyer Douglas Ashburner begins an extra-marital affair with Nina, a bossy, temperamental artist with a penchant for risky sex, he finds it all a terrible strain. Needing a break, he does not head off on the fishing holiday he tells his wife is the plan. Instead, he flies to Moscow with Nina, as a guest of the Soviet Artists Union. It's not long before Ashburner regrets his decision: he promptly loses his luggage, the food is dreadful, he receives a baffling phone call from someone claiming to be his brother. When Nina slips out to lunch and never returns, things go from bad to disastrous to downright hallucinatory. Winter Garden is ripe with scathing wit, eccentric characters and a richly morbid atmosphere, and is for fans of Kingsley Amis.
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Young Adolf / Beryl Bainbridge. - [miejsce nieznane] : Daunt Books : Legimi, 2025.
An audacious, unnerving satire of the twentieth century's most notorious figure. Liverpool, 1912. Young Adolf Hitler, a recent art-school dropout on the run from military service in Austria, turns up to stay with his brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget. Idle and dirty, Adolf spends his days sprawled on the couch, gripped by paranoia that Austrian officials are tailing him. Adolf's poor conduct – constant sponging, an ill temper, and a refusal to assist in Alois' questionable business ventures – quickly draws the ire of his family. Surely this is a young man who will never amount to anything?
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I Remember / Joe Brainard. - [miejsce nieznane] : Daunt Books : Legimi, 2025.
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An enduring gem, Joe Brainard's I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic. Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each beginning with the refrain 'I remember': 'I remember that little jerk you give just before you fall asleep. Like falling.' Recollections – jokes, confessions, daydreams and memories – were carefully, lovingly woven together. They were of family and friends; of movie stars; of early heterosexual fumblings and later gay life. Brainard's pared-back prose dodged both self-pity and judgement of others, and was written with an ear for musical cadence and an extraordinary painter's eye. The result is witty, incantatory, profound and wholly captivating.
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Other People / Celia Dale. - [miejsce nieznane] : Daunt Books : Legimi, 2025.
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It is summer in small town Havenport. Protected from the world by her devoted mother, fifteen-year-old June is content and completely self-absorbed. Her biggest concern is where she will be holidaying this year. When June's father reappears after twelve years in Australia, she is thrust abruptly into a different life: new house, town, school. She soon suspects that she does not know the full story about her father, and when she meets Tony Townsend, he and his London life suddenly promise a glamorous and alluring alternative . . . Other People is a compelling coming-of-age novel, told with Dale's trademark wit, observation and canny dissection of relationships.
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What a strange person you are. We've said almost nothing to each other for so long and then all of a sudden you write me a long letter. Giuseppe is leaving his flat in Rome, where he has lived for more than twenty years, to go and live with his brother in America. He must say goodbye to his cousin Roberta, his former lover Lucrezia and her husband Piero, and all his friends who used to gather for weekends at Le Margherite, Lucrezia's splendid house in the country. But even before Giuseppe's departure, friendships have begun to fracture as frustrated yearnings and past infidelities strain the bonds. The sale of Le Margherite marks the end of an era, and its old inhabitants and visitors are left to pursue happiness on their own. Their stories unfold through an exchange of letters that reveal with great poignancy the thoughts, passions and desires of the protagonists..
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Lifeblood / Mina Holland. - [miejsce nieznane] : Daunt Books : Legimi, 2025.
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A raw, honest and moving memoir of caring for a baby with a rare and life-threatening illness. When Vida is born to Mina and husband Freddie, it is love at first sight. She is perfect. But it is also clear from early on that something is not right. This is the story of how Vida came to be diagnosed with rare blood disorder Diamond-Blackfan Anaemia, and how Mina and her family's lives were transformed by the experience of having a child with such a serious condition. Together, they move with fierce tenacity into a future that Mina never expected, but one that is rich with love, hope and community. Intensely personal and yet exploring universal truths, Lifeblood is a beautiful and profound memoir of learning to look beyond the normal and cherish the precious present.
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That's All I Know / Elisa Levi. - [miejsce nieznane] : Daunt Books : Legimi, 2025.
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A propulsive, bewitching novel about home and family, the ache of unrealised dreams and the quiet tragedy of unrequited love. Nineteen-year-old Lea is from a village that is out of time, out of jobs and out of hope. She and her friends, however, are vivid and electric with life. They yearn, they dance, they fuck, they fight. And around them, a world that isn't quite our own vibrates with strangeness and threat. Now Lea is here, sitting on a bench, telling a silent stranger her life story. Because yesterday, change was finally unavoidable. A novel of rural entrapment and coming of age, Elisa Levi's That's All I Know bears the traces of Beckett and Lorca, rings with the echo of folktales and has a fierce, unapologetic vitality at its heart. Startlingly odd and deeply moving, it is the work of a profound and singular talent.
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Intimate with chlorinated space; weightless yet limited; closed off to taste, sound, and most sight: this is a swimmer's state. When ten-year-old Leanne Shapton joins a swim team, she finds an affinity for its rhythms – and spends years training, making it to the Olympic trials twice. Swimming Studies reflects on her time immersed in a world of rigour and determination, routine and competition. Vivid details of a life spent largely underwater emerge: adolescence in suburban Canada, dawn risings for morning practice, bus rides with teammates, a growing collection of swimsuits, dips in lakes and oceans. When she trades athletic pursuits for artistic ones, the metrics of moving through water endure. In elegant, spare writing, Shapton renders swimming as a mode of experiencing time, movement, and perspective, capable of shaping our lives in every environment. The result is captivating and profound: a modern classic of sport writing and memoir from a singular talent.
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