Look who's on the "Dick Gibson Radio Show": Arnold the Memory Expert ("I've memorized the entire West Coast shoreline - except for cloud cover and fog banks"). Bernie Perk...

- 95 книг
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95 книг

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Told with great lyrical beauty and power, James Agee's novel is an exquisitely tender account of the pain and bewilderment of loss.
Driving back home to Knoxville, Tenne...
... Армия. Просто - армия.
Армия интеллектуалов-офицеров и бесстрашных солдат - или армия издерганных мальчишек, умирающих неизвестно за что, и пожилых циников, которым д...
The author of Wonder Boys returns with a powerful and wonderfully written collection of stories. Caught at moments of change, Chabon's men and women, children and husbands...
Book DescriptionAs products of the same urban landscape, Pete Hamill and Frank Sinatra have both been credited with giving the American city a voice. In this widely acclai...
A group of mismatched adults sets out on an ecological survey. Their airship is brought down, marooning them on an offshore island near Sumatra. The group splits into two ...
Она читает снег, как раскрытую книгу. Она верит числам, но не верит людям. Особенно - официальным лицам, тем, кто пытается ей доказать, что мальчик-гренландец просто играл...
"Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys aband...
Если стрелять, так стрелять много, и тогда рано или поздно попадешь в цель. Меткость вовсе не обязательна для людей, которые самым веским аргументом считают выстрел в заты...
The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Ha...
<p>Роман У. Фолкнера «Когда я умирала» — уникален. Авторской речи нет вовсе, книга разорвана на цепь монологов, иногда длинных, иногда кратких, а то и вовсе в одну-две фра...
The multi-award-winning, widely-acclaimed mystery master Donald E. Westlake delivers a masterpiece with this brilliant, laser-sharp tale of the deadly consequences of corp...
Действие романа "Тайная история", разошедшегося в США пятимиллионным тиражом, разворачивается в небольшом колледже в Вермонте, куда девятнадцатилетний Ричард Пэйпен приезж...
In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order.
Barnaby Gaitlin has ...
A remarkable portrait of one of American labor's most enduring legends
Blending fact with fiction, Wallace Stegner retells the story of Joe Hill - the Wobbly bard who bec...
"Darkly comic...satirical... lyrical...remarkable." --The New Yorker
"Once every few years a novel will fill me with an almost magical joy...Everything in Spencer's lates...
The Illusionist is the sensuous and haunting tale of Dean Lily, an amateur magician whose arrival in Sparta, New York, upsets the landscape of this small town on the wane....
'The best account I have ever read of this 'saddest affair' is Richard Slotkin's novel. And The Crater is more than a battle narrative - superb though it is in that respec...
Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, the tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal app...



















