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Tama Janowitz

    12. duben 1957

    Tama Janowitzová je americká prozaička a autorka povídek, která se proslavila svými díly zachycujícími život v New Yorku. Její styl, často spojovaný s literární skupinou "brat pack", proniká do esence městské existence s ostrou perspektivou. Zaměřuje se na témata moderního života a hledání identity v hektickém prostředí, čímž čtenářům nabízí pronikavý pohled na společenské a osobní boje. Její psaní je ceněné pro svou upřímnost a schopnost zachytit ducha doby.

    Tama Janowitz
    Peyton Amberg
    A Cannibal in Manhattan
    American Dad
    Area Code 212
    The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group
    Otroci New Yorku
    • Otroci New Yorku

      • 216 stránek
      • 8 hodin čtení
      3,3(54)Ohodnotit

      Eleanor, její přítel a výtvarník Stash, nezaměstnaný hudebník Fred a problematický Bob – a spolu s nimi další a další otroci New Yorku, jejich vzájemné vztahy a osudy vytvářejí kostru drsného světa knihy Tamy Janowitzové (vyšlo r. 1986), se ve své době stala skutečnou literární senzací. Povídkový cyklus se odehrává v East Village, kde se objevuje veškerá groteskní spodina chudých umělců, kteří čekají na „něco velkého“. Kniha byla r. 1989 zfilmována (rež. James Ivory).

      Otroci New Yorku
    • The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group

      • 266 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení
      3,4(17)Ohodnotit

      Paints a funny picture of today's male-female relationship wars, messy sex roles and romantic expectations. Pamela finds herself unwillingly in the middle of an adventure at home and abroad. The author also wrote "American Dad", "Slaves of New York" and "A Cannibal in Manhattan".

      The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group
    • Area Code 212

      New York Days, New York Nights

      • 352 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
      3,5(84)Ohodnotit

      I was walking down the street and a homeless person on the corner yelled to me, 'Hey, honey - you having a bad hair day?' Welcome to the wonderful world of Tama Janowitz, New York's wittiest and deader than deadpan social scene chronicler. Littered with idiosyncratic delights and oddities, here are hilarious stories of her eighties blind date club with Andy Warhol; her brief moment of celebrity as an elderly teenage extra in a ZZ Top video; and testing as mentally retarded on an IQ test. Janowitz gives us her unique low-down on hairless dogs and ferrets, babies and Brooklyn, big hair and bad hair days - and survival tips for real life girls. Self-deprecating, funny and often touching, AREA CODE 212 is a sparkling and deeply amusing collection.

      Area Code 212
    • American Dad

      • 272 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení
      3,4(149)Ohodnotit

      American Dad is Tama Janowitz's hilarious first novel. Through the eyes of the young Earl Przepasniak ("a name unwieldy as a tumour"), it narrates the outrageous and tender story of Mavis, poet and mother, and Robert, the American dad. Earl's life revolves around the deeply wounding split of his parents and his attempts, through a less-than-idyllic childhood and the inexorable onslaught of manhood, to overcome the irresistible force of his father. But it is only when his parents meet their respective fates that Earl can feel not only loyal and guilty, but also free...

      American Dad
    • A Cannibal in Manhattan

      • 304 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení

      Mgungu, a South Seas islander and former cannibal, is dragged to predatory Manhattan by a young heiress.

      A Cannibal in Manhattan
    • Peyton Amberg

      • 352 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení

      'What was the use of living in a porn film now, at her age?' pondered Peyton Amberg, alone in a glamorous Hong Kong hotel room. At twenty, when she could have pulled a film star, she'd had no sex drive at all. Then she - and her mother - had wanted love and commitment so she married the 'nebbishy Jewish dentist' who thought she was a goddess but left her cold. Now she is on a world tour of past loves and lusty last stands which are getting to feel painfully insalubrious. As the young man she pursues in Antwerp says: 'You must be as old as my mother…Lady, you must be fifty.' Tama Janowitz manages to be both intoxicatingly funny and sobering at once in this unforgettable portrait of a woman at a crossroads. From Hong Kong to Rio, via Milan and an English country house, Peyton Amberg has pursued her flings. And now what she wants to know is, when had women taken over the man's role and why was the whole set-up so goddamn humiliating?

      Peyton Amberg
    • New York

      • 976 stránek
      • 35 hodin čtení

      Diverse and vivacious, artistic, audacious, and always inspirational, there are many definitions of New York.In a photographic tour that goes beyond the clichés of this spirited city, Assouline presents a unique portrait of New York City with pictures that are at once modern, elegant, and bold. From its intimate details to its iconic architecture, here are over 900 images that illuminate the mantra, Only in New York. There is Central Park and Carnegie Hall, of course, but also Mott Street, Jackson Heights and the Apollo.With an entertaining introduction by Tama Janowitz and an appendix of Assouline s favourite hotels, restaurants, museums, and special services, New York is the quintessential illustrated volume on the world s greatest city.

      New York
    • Was trägt der Kannibale in Manhattan? Unterm Pelzmantel lediglich den Flaschenkürbis, einen Hundezahngürtel und das Halsband aus menschlichen Kieferknochen. Was ißt der Kannibale beim Picknick in Manhattan? Weintrauben, Zuckergußtorte mit Mandarinenscheibchen, tranchierte Brathähnchen und Bounty-Riegel. Der Kannibale in Manhattan ist einfach gut drauf.

      Ein Kannibale in Manhattan
    • Sonnenstich - Erzählungen - bk2130; Goldmann Verlag; Tama Janowitz; pocket_book; 1989

      Sonnenstich. Erzählungen.