Organised around the idea that "you can't know what a magnetic field is like unless you're inside of it," Ron Loewinsohn's first novel opens from the disturbing perspectiv...
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Национальная книжная премия общества критиков США
Сергей Осипов202 книги
Сергей ОсиповНациональная книжная премия общества критиков США
A story of 20th-century womanhood, of Gram, the Queen of Persia herself, who rules a house where five daughters and four granddaughters spin out the tragedies and triumphs...
Raymond Carver’s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very diffe...
The writer Nathan Zukerman comes down with a mysterious physical affliction--pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso and taking possession of h...
Роман `Железный бурьян` (1983) отмечен Пулицеровской премией.
Френсис Фелан, бывший бейсболист и отец семейства, а ныне бродяга, подрабатывающий рытьем могил, совершает с...
"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner...
Действие романа происходит в сельской местности штата Джорджия в 30-е годы ХХ века. На самой нижней ступени общества - чернокожие женщины. Жизнь то и дело подтверждает эту...
В романе Энн Тайлер дана история американской семьи, утрачивающей под воздействием дегуманизирующих сил буржуазной цивилизации внутренние связи и в итоге распадающейся. В ...
A collection of five stories which play upon the theme of deception and the inability to see.
Considered by many to be Elkin's magnum opus, George Mills is, an ambitious, digressive and endlessly entertaining account of the 1,000 year history of the George Millses....
Seven men, friends and strangers, gather in a house in Berkeley. They intend to start a men’s club, the purpose of which isn’t immediately clear to any of them; but very q...
Дональд Бартельми (1931-1989) - один из крупнейших (наряду с Пинчоном, Бартом и Данливи) представителей американской `школы черного юмора`. Непревзойденный мастер короткой...
Set in a post-apocalyptic England, RIDDLEY WALKER tells the tale of one twelve year old boy and his journey through the ruins of civilisation. After the death of his fathe...
An emotional, dramatic and philosophical novel about Americans drawn into a small Central American country on the brink of revolution.
An Astonishing Saga of Politics, ...
"Кролик разбогател" - удостоенная Пулитцеровской премии третья книга тетралогии Джона Апдайка о Гарри Энгстроме по прозвищу Кролик.
Гарри больше не в силах бунтовать и б...
In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us ever...
<p>Will Barrett (also the hero of Percy's The Last Gentleman) is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living....
Morgan Gower works at Cullen's hardware store in north Baltimore. He has seven daughters and a warmhearted wife, but as he journeys into the gray area of middle age, he fi...
It is America in the great depression, and he is a child of that time, that place. He runs away from home in Paterson, New Jersey, to New York City and learns the bare bon...
The Transit of Venus is considered Shirley Hazzard's most brilliant novel. It tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to st...