Biblioteki Polonii Amerykańskiej
Biblioteka Instytutu Józefa Piłsudskiego w Ameryce
Library of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America		 Biblioteka imienia Alfreda Jurzykowskiego Polskiego Instytutu Naukowego w Ameryce
The Alfred Jurzykowski Memorial Library of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America		 Biblioteka Marjanczyków Polskiej Fundacji Kulturalnej
The Marjanczyk Library of the Polish Cultural Foundation
Biblioteka Fundacji Kościuszkowskiej
Library of the Kosciuszko Foundation

Powolny człowiek / J. M. Coetzee ; przekł. Magdalena Konikowska.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: Polish Original language: English Publication details: Kraków : Wydawnictwo Znak, 2006.Description: 255 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 8324007202
  • 9788324007202
Uniform titles:
  • Slow man Polish
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Polish translation of "Slow man". When photographer Paul Rayment loses his leg in a bicycle accident, his solitary life is irrevocably changed. Stubbornly refusing a prosthesis, Paul returns to his bachelor's apartment in Adelaide, uncomfortable with his new dependency on others. He is given to bouts of hopelessness as he looks back on his sixty years of life, but his spirits rise when he finds himself falling in love with Marijana, his practical, down-to-earth Croatian nurse. As Paul contemplates how to win her heart, he is visited by the mysterious writer Elizabeth Costello, who challenges Paul to take an active role in his own life.
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Books Books The Marjanczyk Library of the Polish Cultural Foundation PR9369.3.C58 P696 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan Copy is a gift from Newark Public Library ML15993518

Polish translation of "Slow man". When photographer Paul Rayment loses his leg in a bicycle accident, his solitary life is irrevocably changed. Stubbornly refusing a prosthesis, Paul returns to his bachelor's apartment in Adelaide, uncomfortable with his new dependency on others. He is given to bouts of hopelessness as he looks back on his sixty years of life, but his spirits rise when he finds himself falling in love with Marijana, his practical, down-to-earth Croatian nurse. As Paul contemplates how to win her heart, he is visited by the mysterious writer Elizabeth Costello, who challenges Paul to take an active role in his own life.

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