Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: It is 1967 and two Viennese university students decide to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. The eccentric duo, Graff and Siggy, embark on an adventure-filled motorbike tour of Austria as they prepare for 'the great zoo bust'. But their grand scheme will have both comic and gruesome consequences, as they are soon to find out.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: 'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking — it was coming from her parents' bedroom'. This is the story of Ruth Cole. It is told in three parts: on Long Island, in the summer of 1958, when she is only four; in 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career;…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 395 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 667) Аннотация: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County — to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto — pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County — to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto — pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 379 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 860) Аннотация: Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns — his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character — a «difficult» woman. By no means is she conventionally «nice», but she will never be forgotten. Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her — on Long Island, in the summer of 1958 — Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruth's life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth is…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. He is Irving's most heartbreaking hero.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 889 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 960) Аннотация: Jack Burns’ mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy’s father, William, a virtuoso organist, who has fled America to Europe. To fund her journey, she plies her trade in the seaports of the North Sea as she tracks her four-year-old son’s errant father. But Alice is a mystery, and William can’t be found. And even Jack’s memories are subject to doubt. Jack returns to the United States,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: »The Fourth Hand» asks an interesting question: «How can anyone identify a dream of the future?» The answer: «Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love». While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the reporter her husband's hand, that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is very much alive.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a perverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder, a man of rare compassion and with an addiction to ether. Dr Larch loves all his orphans, especially…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Quirky, bizarre, tragic, fiendishly funny, «The Hotel New Hampshire» is anything but a conventional family saga, though a family saga it certainly is. The Berry family are different. Love abounds — both healthy and incestuous. It is the overwhelming desire of the Berry father to run a hotel, which he does, with dubious success, in both a former girls' school in New Hampshire, and in Vienna. It is…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: 'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's intention to make St Cloud's his home.' Homer Wells' odyssey begins among the apple orchards of rural Maine. As the oldest unadopted child at St Cloud's orphanage, he strikes up a profound and unusual friendship with…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: From the author of THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, a novel about an acclaimed writer which examines three critical moments of her life. The first part deals with an incident in the Hamptons when she is a toddler, the second is concerned with a crisis in her romantic life, and the third with her adjustments to motherhood and life without her husband.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: »The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels». So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields — a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes — even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with «lunacy and sorrow»; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: »Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning — after implications.» The Washington Post The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a menage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract — and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first...
Скачать книгу (размер 3 008 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 591) Аннотация: Garp is a book that captivates all who read it. Peopled with the most extraordinary characters you will ever meet, here is a novel that will make you laugh, make you weep, and, above all, make you think.