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Тiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West to take up a more wholesome life. But things fester in America's utter South. And Skel...
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In Searches & Seizures, Elkin tells the story of the criminal, the lovelorn, and the grieving, each searching desperately for fulfillment, while on the verge of receiving ...
The elderly couple in this fine novel, a retired schoolteacher and the doctor with whom she has had a lifelong, tender love affair, find that, almost by accident, they hav...
Innocent, old-fashioned, self-aware, Cheever's people are summoned by strange and improbable events to ponder the values they have been taught to trust...decency, common s...
Томас Пинчон — наряду с Сэлинджером, «великий американский затворник», один из крупнейших писателей мировой литературы XX, а теперь и XXI века, после первых же публикаций ...
Shiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul and author of Firefles and The Chip-Chip Gatherers. The Chip-Chip Gatherers, his second novel, was winner of the Whitbread L...
«Черный принц» вошел в золотой фонд мировой литературы (а также в шорт-лист Букеровской премии) и создал Айрис Мердок славу самой «английской» писательницы XX века. «Черны...
If Liverpool in 1944 was grim for Rita and her aunts Nellie and Margo, Rita knew that life in America was gay and rich - she'd seen it in the movies. So when a GI came to ...
Winner of the Booker Prize.
India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsio...
Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beauti...
The Classic Freewheeling Look at Race Relations Through the Ages
Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and upr...
This National Book Award nominee takes us to a not-so-mythical Latin Americancountry where intrigue, violence, and military coups occur as often as takinga breath.
These are the friends of Eddie Jackie Brown, the gun leader; Dillon, part-time contract killer; Jimmy Scalisi, gang leader. All the hoods, gunmen, drivers, thieves and exe...
Geronimo Rex, Barry Hannah's brilliant first novel, which was nominated for the National Book Award, is full of the rare verve and flawless turns of phrase that have defin...
Androgyny is destiny. "Miss, you're also a boy!" a gynecologist
harrumphs in Hermaphrodeity, a grand comedy of gender
surprises. Boy or girl--choose one. Millie or Willi...
