The hallowed halls of Moo University, a midwestern agricultural institution (aka "cow college"), are rife with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and aca...
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Национальная книжная премия общества критиков США
Сергей Осипов202 книги
Сергей ОсиповНациональная книжная премия общества критиков США
After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2 — Richard Powers — returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the...
In December 1937 the city of Nanking, China, falls to brutal Japanese invaders. Thus begins a compelling drama wherein the teenaged daughter of an eminent scholar is force...
The Pulitzer-Prize Winning novel for 1996.In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Richard Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most unforgettable characters in Am...
Published posthumously in 1995, Mrs. Ted Bliss tells the story of an eighty-two-year-old widow starting life anew after the death of her husband. As Dorothy Bliss learns t...
When John Calvin Marshall graduated from Harvard in 1956 with a Ph.D. in philosophy, he was prepared for a life of teaching and relative tranquility. But History had anoth...
Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story of the Mirabal sisters, three young wiv...
A dazzling fourth novel by the author of The Recognitions, Carpenter's Gothic, and JR uses his considerable powers of observation and satirical sensibilities to take on th...
Нью-Йорк, дом престарелых. Здесь происходят бурные романы, здесь ставят "Гамлета", разворачиваются настоящие театральные интриги, и порой актера увозят прямо со сцены на к...
This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth in a kitchen in Manitoba, Canada, to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Through Daisy's lif...
Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened b...
The story of Mary Wollstonecraft, a pioneer feminist and author of the radical classic A Vindication of the Rights of Women, is an impassioned, beautifully written portrai...
Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere of 1900--a time when many Americans were looking for signs foretelling the end of the world--Feather Crowns is the story of a young woman...
Незадачливый журналист после семейной трагедии возвращается из Нью-Йорка на о. Ньюфаундленд, землю своих предков. Трагикомичная романтическая история о нескольких поколени...
A Lesson Before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three...
A novel about going to sea and the difficulty of trying to find a way back again. If one half of the characters live their secret, interior lives apart from society, then ...
Flattered by the attentions of a senator she meets at a Fourth of July beach party on Grayling Island, Kelly Kelleher accepts a ride from him, taking a first step toward h...
Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" (USA Today)
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Set in North Carolina, these are stories about blacks and whites, young and old, rural and sophisticated, the real and fantastical. Named a New York Times Notable Book of ...
Роман "Кони, кони..." - это великолепное сочетание вестерна, героической саги и мелодрамы. Юные герои романа однажды садятся на коней и, переправившись через реку, отделяю...