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Between two books - книги, посоветованные Флоренс Уэлч
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Дина ОзероваBetween two books - книги, посоветованные Флоренс Уэлч
Самый скандальный роман Лоуренса, для которого не нашлось издателя — и автору пришлось его публиковать за собственный счет. Роман, который привел автора на скамью подсудим...
Emma Forrest’s memoir was called “a journey of healing” by Interview magazine and “a beautifully written eulogy for the doctor she credits with saving her life” by Los Ang...
One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only...
"This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, ...
It's the early 1980s, In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. Bur Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing h...
Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired...
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core...
From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in ...
A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession.
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, ...
John Wayne died more than thirty years ago, but he remains one of the five favourite movie stars of contemporary audiences. Yet, there has never been a comprehensive biogr...
From the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO's Girls comes a hilarious, wise, and fiercely candid collection of personal essays that establishes Lena Dunham as on...
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
Edward St. Aubyn
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For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose, painting an extraordinary portrait of the beleaguered...
Originally published in 1854, Walden, or Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one ...
Seamus Heaney's new collection starts "In an age of bare hands and cast iron" and ends as "The automatic lock / clunks shut" in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twent...
The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece - one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.
NIGHTWOOD, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that smal...
It's 1977. Jacob Green, a Jewish kid from suburban New Jersey, sits on the stairs during his family's housewarming party, waiting for his father, Abram--charming...
Роман, который лауреат Пулитцеровской премии Донна Тартт писала более 10 лет, — огромное эпическое полотно о силе искусства и о том, как оно — подчас совсем не так, как на...
Патти Смит - американская рок-певица и поэт, подруга и любимая модель фотографа Роберта Мэпплторпа. В своих воспоминаниях рисует точный и в то же время глубоко личный пор...
Джон Уиндем - один из крупнейших фантастов Англии. В издание включен роман-антиутопия "День триффидов" (1951), в котором показываются страшные последствия биологического э...