Książka twarzy

'This is my Facebook,' the author says: a profile of how he writes and what he lives by. Next to his own face are dozens of 'friends': Chandler, Chateaubriand, Baudelaire, Krasiński, Słowacki, the football coaches Beenhakker and Górski, Agassi. There are pieces on absurd journeys, Angel perfume, Bogart's looks, melancholy vampires and meeting Björn Borg. The five essays on sport are the most intimate: about childhood and a father seen by his son, sport binding them more than anything, and about growing up in Warsaw's Grochów in the 1970s.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

448 pages in the original

Set in

Poland

First published

2011 by Świat Książki

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9788324724727 (original)