Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 412) Аннотация: Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this collection offers unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson, as recorded over the decades in the pages of Playboy, the Paris Review, Esquire, in various lectures, and in television appearances, many in print for the first time. Fearless and unsparing, the interviews detail some of the most storied…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Pat Peoples has a theory that his life is actually a movie produced by God, and that his God-given mission in life is to become emotionally literate, whereupon God will ensure a happy ending — which, for Pat, means the return of his estranged wife Nikki. When Pat goes to live with his parents, however, everything seems changed.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This is Volume One of the «Border Trilogy». 'A uniquely brilliant book... told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time' — Stephen Amidon, «Sunday Times». John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Lester Ballard, a violent, solitary and introverted young backwoodsman dispossessed on his ancestral land, is released from jail and allowed to haunt the hill country of East Tennessee, preying on the population with his strange lusts.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 396 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 275) Аннотация: An academic sits alone in his college room thinking about the people he has lost. Powerful memories crowd in on him — childhood days in Paris; his exuberant, glamorous mother; his mysterious father; and the brash young American who becomes his step-father. Mingled with this emerges a tender portrait of his relationship with his actress wife. Ever After is a poignant elegy to lost faith and lost…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 260) Аннотация: Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, «Nazi Literature in the Americas» details the lives of a rich cast of characters from one of the most extraordinarily fecund imaginations in world literature. Written with acerbic wit and virtuosic flair, this encyclopaediccavlacade…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 'Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo's late novels' — Sunday Telegraph. Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, 'somewhere south of nowhere'. But his planned isolation is interrupted when he is joined by a young filmmaker intent on documenting his experience in a one-take film. The two men sit on the deck,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Prentis, senior clerk in the 'dead crimes' department of police archives, is becoming more and more confused. Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, Prentis feels increasingly unsettled as his enigmatic boss, Mr Quinn, turns his investigation towards him — and his father. Gradually Prentis suspects that his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: John Banville' s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Francis Jay, a nineties person, embarks on a quest to find one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of the modern age, the elusive Dr Bazlo Criminale. From European congress to congress, from woman to woman, from muse to muse he pursues the doctor, while the truth is slowly revealed.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 912) Аннотация: Written in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, «2666» was greeted across Europe and Latin America as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing even his previous work in imagination, beauty, and scope. At the centre of the book is the fictional city of Santa Teresa on the Mexico-US border. It is an urban sprawl that draws in lost souls like a vortex: convicts and academics, an American…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer. This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven, Susie sees her happy suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 406 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 277) Аннотация: In 1979, a secret unit was established by the US Army. Defying all known military practice — and indeed the laws of physics — they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. They were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back and fighting the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 008 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 591) Аннотация: New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their mission: to track down the poet Cesarea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonora desert — and obscurity — decades before. But the detectives are themselves hunted men, and their search for the past will end in violence, flight, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 161 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 229) Аннотация: Anne-Thé était l'épouse, celle qui connaissait son mari par cœur, ses envies, ses petites manies, et supportait ses écarts depuis des années sans se plaindre. Elle était la mère, d'Enguerrand et d'Aliénor, auxquels elle a transmis l'amour de la terre et la liberté d'esprit. Sans oublier la grand-mère, celle qui partait dans des délires…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice -- leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and traces the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? What makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? And how has Shakespeare come to be such a powerful symbol of genius? The Genius of Shakespeare is a fascinating biography of the life – and afterlife – of the greatest English poet. Jonathan Bate, one of the world’s leading Shakespearean scholars, deftly shows how the legend of…