SOWA OPAC : Biblioteka Publiczna Miasta i Gminy Barcin im. Jakuba Wojciechowskiego

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How Do People Stay the Same / Mark Bowles. - [miejsce nieznane] : Galley Beggar Press : Legimi, 2026.

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Bowles Mark. Autor

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When we first meet Patrick Boyd, he seems to be on top of things. His journal entries are full of joy. He delights especially in his son Thomas – a boy who calls him 'daddy', who fills his days with sweetness and who tells him wonderful things. But as How Do People Stay the Same follows Patrick's journal backwards through the years, the contentment of the present is left behind and we are led to a lonelier, sadder existence. We start to understand that Patrick's life is not straightforward, but a series of loops and returns, leaps and lulls – breaking apart and reforming under the pressures of depression, love, memory and time. We start to wonder how he will ever get to that brighter future. The result is a fearsomely real, yet gently uplifting novel – full of warmth and tenderness, as well as the exquisite prose and lacerating wit of Mark Bowles' prize-winning debut All My Precious Madness.

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Telenovela / Gonzalo Garcia. - [miejsce nieznane] : Galley Beggar Press : Legimi, 2025.

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Garcia Gonzalo. Autor

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TELENOVELA explores the secret lives of a family swept up in the final days of Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile. There is Lucho: bullied by fellow soldiers for his love of poetry, thwarted in his ambitions to become a writer. He seems like a loving father. He seems loveable. And maybe he is. But as TELENOVELA unfolds, other things come to light about Lucho that are less easy to indulge – or forgive. There is Ramona, Lucho's wife: tormented by anxiety, overwhelmed by body image problems. Ramona once hoped to become a telenovela star; she secretly daydreams that she might still get her big break. She seems like an innocent. … But is she? Then there is Pablo, their son: dreamy, gentle, eager to form his own band and write some worthwhile songs. Desperate to be cool... And increasingly, just desperate. These people are deeply human - but Telenovela makes us understand how inhumane they can also be. How easy it is to be complicit in authoritarian regimes - and how personal stories can take on universal significance..

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After Sappho / Selby Wynn Schwartz. - [miejsce nieznane] : Galley Beggar Press : Legimi, 2022.

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Schwartz Selby Wynn. Autor

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It's 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her – and who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name; and her life, alongside it. 1902. Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money for the ferry, nothing for lunch; her paintbrushes are bald and clotted... But she is sure she can sell a painting – and is fervent in her belief that the island is detached from all fates she has previously suffered.... In 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: I want to make life fuller – and fuller.Sarah Bernhardt – Colette – Eleanora Duse – Lina Poletti – Josephine Baker – Virginia Woolf... these are just a few of the women sharing the pages of a book as fierce as it is luminous. Lush and poetic; furious and funny; in After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz has created a novel that celebrates the women and trailblazers of the past – their constant efforts to push against the boundaries of what it means, and can mean, to be a woman – that also offers hope for our present, and our futures.

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