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Leonard Michaels (January 2, 1933 - May 10, 2003) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays. He was born in New York City to Jewish parents; his father w...
Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human condition. It tells the story of two young boxers out of Stockton, Californ...
From the 1930s through the race riots of 1967, the members of the Wendall family, living in inner-city Detroit, struggle to understand the obscure forces constantly tearin...
Set in a small west of Scotland town in the 1950's, this novel by the author of "Straw Dogs" is the powerful and violent story of Duncan Logan, an adolescent growing up fa...
Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under her spell, her perfect...
Айрис Мердок — самая «английская» писательница XX века, выдающийся мастер тонкой психологии. Книги ее вошли в золотой фонд мировой литературы, удостаивались самых престижн...
Two prisoners of war make a daring escape from their captors, fleeing across a hostile and alien terrain towards safety across the border, more than four hundred miles awa...
This book is the winner of the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969. It was 1956 and he was in Port Said. About these two facts Townrow was reasonably certain. He had been summo...
«Дорогостоящая публика» продается дорого… Дорого придется заплатить за тело женщины, которая видит мир через призму модных бутиков. Дорогой ценой достанется дружба мужчины...
This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure’s nightmarish decent into the underside of American life and his resurrect...
Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately,...
Роман известного американского индейского писателя "Дом, из рассвета сотворенный" (1968) повествует об индейском юноше Авеле, наделенном особой эмоциональной чуткостью, о ...
Роман американского раввина и писателя Хаима Пóтока (1929–2002) «Избранник», вышедший в 1967 году, 39 недель держался в списке бестселлеров «Нью-Йорк таймс», был быстро эк...
В творчестве американской писательницы Джойс Кэрол Оутс явно прослеживается интерес к сильной нестандартной личности. Героиня романа `Сад радостей земных` Клара Уолпол соч...
When Why Are We in Vietnam? was published in 1967, almost twenty years after The Naked and the Dead, the critical response was ecstatic. The novel fully confirmed Mailer's...
Самый известный роман Торнтона Уайлдера, признанный жемчужиной американской реалистической прозы XX века.
Тонкая, полная глубокого психологизма история жизни братьев и се...
Самый популярный роман Уильяма Стайрона, который, с одной сто-роны, принес целую коллекцию престижных призов, а с другой – вызвал шквал гневных откликов прессы и критиков,...
"A Dream of Kings" tells the tale of Leonidas Matsoukas, a half-charlatan and half-concerned adviser, who is by turns a compulsive gambler and adulterer. But Matsoukas's d...
<p>Will Barrett is a 25-year-old wanderer from the South living in New York City, detached from his roots and with no plans for the future - until the purchase of a telesc...