SOWA OPAC : Ursynoteka

2 results

Book

In basket

rate

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves / Karen Joy Fowler - Wydanie 2. - New York : Plume Book, 2014. - 310 strona ; 18 cm.

Author

Fowler, Karen Joy (1950- ). Autor

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

Subject

Kobieta Rodzina Samopoznanie Ludzie a zwierzęta Przyjaźń Wybory życiowe

Genre/Form

Powieść psychologiczna

The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family, ordinary in every way but one... Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. “I was raised with a chimpanzee,” she explains. “I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern’s expulsion...she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister.” As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence. In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to date—a tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences.

available to loan

This item is available in one branch. Expand information to see details.

Dembowskiego 12 (W131)

There are copies available to loan: sygn. 821-3 amer. PP. (1 egz.)

Book

In basket

rate

Jazz / Toni Morrison. - New York : A Plume Book, 1993. - 229 s. ; 21 cm.

Author

Morrison, Toni (1931-2019).

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

Subject

Język angielski

Genre/Form

Powieść

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life. Jazz is the story of a triangle of passion, jealousy, murder, and redemption, of sex and spirituality, of slavery and liberation, of country and city, of being male and female, African American, and above all of being human. Like the music of its title, it is a dazzlingly lyric play on elemental themes, as soaring and daring as a Charlie Parker solo, as heartbreakingly powerful as the blues. It is Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison at her best.

available to loan

This item is available in one branch. Expand information to see details.

Dembowskiego 12 (W131)

There are copies available to loan: sygn. 821-3 amer. (1 egz.)