Жалеть о бездарно потраченном времени, думаю, и бессмысленно, и бесполезно, и безнравственно, а посему, для меня куда важнее настоящее. Которое очень скоро станет прошлым. Или будущим. Как и эта...
«Как только… народ изберет меня своим лидером, я прежде всего постараюсь встретиться с президентом Соединенных Штатов Америки. В любом подходящем или неподходящем месте. – Рони, – скажу я ему (или,...
«Эпитафия часа» — это, пожалуй, не столько полемика с мистиком Гурджиевым, на которого автор ссылается, сколько попытка ответить самому себе — каким может быть твой последний час…
No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams’s first popular success and launched...
The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and...
This Monday, on April 12, the winners of the Pulitzer Prize were announced, and since then, little-known debut author Paul Harding has quickly risen to fame after his novel "Tinkers" won the Pulitzer...
Damian Barker is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern – his fortune in excess of 100...
In her thirties, Miranda Romanac has an interesting, successful life. But she is also alone and adrift—in certain essential ways lost in the middle of it. At her high school reunion she discovers a...
ANNOTATIONAn American ex-patriot in Vienna saves a woman's life only to place it in greater danger by falling in love with her.FROM THE PUBLISHERWalker Easterling is a retired actor turned successful...
Without warning, a driver waiting at traffic lights goes blind.A good samaritan takes pity on him, and drives him home to his wife. The next morning, the wife takes her husband to see an optician,...
In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope—wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy—is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages....
Это эссе о человеке, чьи романы выходят под чужими именами. Он делится своим опытом... Или - антиопытом?
Новый роман Алексея Фомина «Затон» о двух парнях и девушке, о дружбе, о любви, о верности, о предательстве. О поисках старинного клада на затопленном пароходе, о грехах отцов, за которые приходится...
A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America.It is September 1968...
If there still remains any doubt, this novel confirms Lethem's status as the poet of Brooklyn and of motherless boys. Projected through the prism of race relations, black music and pop art, Lethem's...
«… Тут жандармерия перешла в атаку на армию:
– Дорогой Иван Антонович! Время-то сейчас трудное… В Европе – смуты, волнения, – Мерзляев перешел на шепот, – кое-где баррикады. Вредные идеи – они в...
Andrew Taylor has written over 25 crime novels, and won many awards for his books. His best selling historical crime novel THE AMERICAN BOY was selected by Richard and Judy's book club. This new...
