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For most of us, remembering the Holocaust requires effort; we listen to stories, watch films, read histories. But the people who came to be called “survivors” could not av...
Не знаю, какая польза столько всего знать, быть толковыми, как словари, если вам от этого никакого счастья.
Дж.Д. Сэлинджер
Фрэнни и Зуи младшие в семье Глассов. Они пов...
It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their rece...
In A New Life, Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.
When Sy ...
Прошло полвека со времени первой публикации, но "Поправка-22" по-прежнему остается краеугольным камнем американской литературы и одной из самых знаменитых книг всех времен...
The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.
The Moviego...
This is the story of a middle-aged priest, and the several worlds in which he finds himself: the exuberant, turbulent, bubbling Irish-American world in which he was born a...
James Cutler, a high school physics teacher, is shattered by the suicide of his most promising student. Hoping to gain perspective and peace of mind, he travels with his w...
26-летний Гарри Энгстром по прозвищу Кролик когда-то блистал на баскетбольной площадке и был парнем хоть куда. Но сейчас он занят рекламированием кухонных принадлежностей,...
Elizabeth Spencer is captivated by Italy. Some of her most acclaimed work is set there. Collected in this volume are "The Light in the Piazza, " which is her signature pie...
Роман, не однажды сравнивавшийся критиками со "Звуком и яростью" У. Фолкнера.
Проза, балансирующая на тонкой грани между реализмом, гротеском, притчей и социальной сатиро...
Although Tom Scanlon would just as soon spend it alone, his ninetieth birthday becomes the occasion for a family gathering in the Midwestern town of Lone Tree. The unlikel...
Уютный мирок привилегированной закрытой школы-интерната накрыла тень Второй мировой войны, и все, что казалось в нем привычным и незыблемым, вдруг утратило ясность и одноз...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the o...
Kay Boyle's deeply moving new novel (her first since The Seagull on the Step) is set in a small Hessian town during the American military occupation of Germany. Its charac...
Auchincloss is known for his closely observed portraits of old New York and New England society. Among his books are the multi-generational sagas The House of Five Talents...
When John Donner returns to the East Coast after spending some time out west, he finds his home town submerged under the dark waters of a new lake—created in the construct...
История маленького сонного городка на юге Америки, поведанная маленькой девочкой. История ее брата Джима, друга Дилла и ее отца – честного, принципиального адвоката Аттику...
Я пропоную тобі те, про що ти так давно мріяв. Те, що личить твоїм амбіціям. Посада у престижній адвокатській конторі, солідна зарплатня, елітні апартаменти в Нью-Йорку та...
