The Origin of Others (Morrison Toni)(Pevná vazba)

The Origin of Others (Morrison Toni)(Pevná vazba)

America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others?

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Morrison Toni)(Pevná vazba)

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to 'put forth an argument for extending the study of American

Beloved (Morrison Toni)(Pevná vazba)

Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and

Beloved (Morrison Toni)(Pevná vazba)

The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim

The Black Book (Harris Middleton A.)(Pevná vazba)

A new edition of the classic New York Times bestseller edited by Toni Morrison, offering an encyclopedic look at the black experience in America from 1619 through the 1940s with the original cover restored. 'I am so pleased the book is alive again. I still think there is no other work that tells

Recitatif - Toni Morrisonová

Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls' shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only to meet again later at a diner, a grocery store and then at a protest. The two women are seemingly at

Song Of Solomon (Morrison Toni)(Pevná vazba)

The story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spirituality. Through the enlightenment of one man the novel recapitulates the history of slavery and

The Bluest Eye (Morrison Toni)(Pevná vazba)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME - From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner--a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison's acclaimed first novel, Pecola

Superman by Grant Morrison Omnibus (Morrison Grant)(Pevná vazba)

Grant Morrison, one of the greatest storytellers of his generation, weaves the history of Clark Kent's early days in Metropolis in this Man of Steel cornerstone of the DC Universe Collecting the entirety of Morrison's epic saga, this New 52 era Superman omnibus celebrates and explores new facets

Processed Cheese (Wright Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

From an 'astonishing' writer (Toni Morrison), the savagely funny story of a couple who unexpectedly come into some money in a wealth-obsessed America deranged by Mammon.A bag of money drops out of the sky, literally, into the path of a cash-starved citizen named Graveyard. He carries it home to his

Beloved: Special Edition (Morrison Toni)(Pevná vazba)

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. This spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword. Sethe, its protagonist, was

Sula (Morrison Toni)(Paperback / softback)

As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. This is a story of fear - the fear that traps us,

Toni Morrison (Peach Linden)(Paperback)

The novels of Toni Morrison, the first African-American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, are powerful not just because of their content - her themes include infanticide, rape, child abuse, murder and sexual jealousy - but because of their innovative form and language. This succinct

Toni Morrison and the Natural World: An Ecology of Color (Wardi Anissa Janine)(Pevná vazba)

Critics have routinely excluded African American literature from ecocritical inquiry despite the fact that the literary tradition has, from its inception, proved to be steeped in environmental concerns that address elements of the natural world and relate nature to the transatlantic slave trade,

Toni Morrison Box Set: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved (Morrison Toni)(Paperback)

A box set of Toni Morrison's principal works, featuring The Bluest Eye (her first novel), Beloved (Pulitzer Prize winner), and Song of Solomon (National Book Critics Award winner). Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, Beloved transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as

Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus Vol. 1 (Morrison Grant)(Pevná vazba)

One of the greatest storytellers of his generation, Grant Morrison's arrival in the world of the Dark Knight changed the character forever. Now collecting the entirety of this epic saga, this first of three omnibus collections introduces Batman to his son, Damian Wayne, and takes the Caped Crusader

Jasper Morrison: The Good Life: Perceptions of the Ordinary (Morrison Jasper)(Pevná vazba)

Photo essays imagining the stories behind a series of seemingly ordinary situationsJust what is it that catches the eye, and why? What's the significance of a broken flowerpot, a pair of identical tables side by side, a garden hose wrapped around an old car wheel? In this collection of photo

Paradise (Morrison Toni)(Paperback)

In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present. 'They

The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir (Koh E. J.)(Pevná vazba)

The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh's parents return to South Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. Overnight, Eun Ji finds

Jasper Morrison: The Hard Life (Morrison Jasper)(Pevná vazba)

By what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appear in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial and error, individual craftsmanship, and an

Edge of the Grave (Morrison Robbie)(Pevná vazba)

Edge of the Grave is the first novel in a historical crime series set against the backdrop of 1930s Glasgow. For fans of William McIlvanney's Laidlaw, Denise Mina and Philip

Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World (Morrison Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

A celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary--one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages--and an exploration of its lasting legacy. Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions

Last of the Wooden Walls - An Illustrated History of the Ton Class Minesweepers and Minehunters (Ton Class Association)(Pevná vazba)

The Beatles Yellow Submarine (Morrison Bill)(Pevná vazba)

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine comes this fully authorized graphic novel