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Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist. It continues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: 'A literary colossus, equal to any (and surpassing most) of the vaulting novels which strive for the immensity of the American mythic' Geoff Dyer, Sunday Telegraph Underworld opens famously at the Dodgers Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants. But on the other side of the planet, another highly…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A magnificent, essential work of fiction about the event that defines turn-of-the-twenty-first-century America, from the award-winning author of White Noise, Libra and Underworld. FALLING MAN begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and follows the aftermath in the intimate lives of a few individuals. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness. In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of people who have lost their memories and with them the greater…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard over a car radio. The characters go to the same schools. They eat at the same restaurants. They have sex with the same boys and girls. They buy from the same dealers. Fusing voices into an intense, impressionistic narrative that blurs genders, generations and even identities, these stories capture the lives of a group of people, connected…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: It is 1660. The King is back, memories of the Civil War still rankle. In rural Westmorland, artist Alice Ibbetson has become captivated by the rare Lady's Slipper orchid. She is determined to capture its unique beauty for posterity, even if it means stealing the flower from the land of the recently converted Quaker, Richard Wheeler. Fired by his newfound faith, the former soldier Wheeler feels…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn't been and with people he doesn't know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history, he's living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. Now it's time to move to the next stage. But the…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Twenty-five years on from «Less Than Zero», we pick up again with Clay. In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with «Less Than Zero», his «extraordinarily accomplished first novel» («New Yorker»), successfully chronicling the frightening consequences of unmitigated hedonism within the ranks of the ethically bereft youth of 80s Los Angeles. Twenty-five years later, Ellis returns…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: 'I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the start... stand back. We are on the brink. Yes. I have an idea.' When Hunter S. Thompson has an idea, you just have to listen and he shares many of his unique ideas in this collection of journalism, social commentary, short…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: 'Most smart people tend to feel queasy when the conversation turns to things like 'certain death' and 'total failure' and the idea of 'a doomed generation'. But not me. I am comfortable with these themes'. Hunter S. Thompson, celebrated author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, has been writing a weekly column for the San Francisco Examiner for the last two years. Those columns are collected here…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: One midsummer's day in Arden, the Godley family gather at their dying father's bedside, a collection of troubled individuals and fraying relationships. The gods, those mischievous spirits, look on silently; unable to resist intervening, they spy, tease and seduce their mortal playthings. Old Adam Godley's time on earth seems to be running out, and his mind runs to disquieting memories. Little…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: 'Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants' Philadelphia Inquirer Since his blazing 1972 opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail again without leaving…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: For decades, Hunter S. Thompson galvanized American journalism with his acerbic wit, radical ideas, and gonzo tactics. He continued his reign as 'the Unabomber of contemporary letters' («Time») with «Hey Rube». Fear, greed, and action abound in this hilarious, thought-provoking compilation as Thompson doles out searing indictments and uproarious rants while providing brilliant commentary on…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In the sweet shop Willy Chapman was free, absolved from all responsibility, and he ran his sweet shop like his life — quietly, steadfastly, devotedly. It was a bargain struck between Chapman and his beautiful, emotionally injured wife — a bargain based on unexpressed, inexpressible love and on a courageous acceptance of life's deprivation... threatened only by Dorry, their clever, angry,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, this novel traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: 'Perfectly controlled, superbly written. Waterland is original, compelling and narration of the highest order' Guardian In the years since its first publication, in 1983, Waterland has established itself as one of the classics of twentieth-century British literature: a visionary tale of England's Fen country; a sinuous meditation on the workings of history; and a family story startling in its…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This is Volume Three of the «Border Trilogy». In «Cities of the Plain», two men marked by the boyhood adventures of «All the Pretty Horses» and «The Crossing» now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: This is Volume Two of the «Border Trilogy». '»The Crossing», together with its predecessor «All the Pretty Horses», towers over most contemporary fiction. An American epic infused with a grand solemnity' — «Sunday Times». Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War, «The Crossing» follows the fortunes of sixteen-year-old Billy and his younger brother Boyd. Fascinated…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, «The Orchard Keeper» is an early classic from one of America's finest and most celebrated authors. It tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father. Cormac McCarthy's debut novel is a magnificent…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: By the author of the critically acclaimed «Border Trilogy», «Outer Dark» is a novel at once mythic and starkly evocative, set in an unspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son.…