An allegory of the struggle between good and evil, in which Eliot Nailles, a chemist, meets Paul Hammer, who is not the ordinary citizen he seems to be. "We're the Hammers," The stranger said to the priest. Nailles did not think this funny,...
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A study of the elaborate personalities that develop within prison walls, and their tenuous relation to prisoners' past lives and crimes. A convicted drug addict and murderer adapts to the gloom, fascination and eroticism of the new...
When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has become a classic. Vintage Books is proud to reintroduce this magnificent collection.
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Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses’s adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly...
Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village—and into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces...
В сборник Джона Чивера (1912–1982), выдающегося американского писателя, автора множества рассказов и нескольких романов, признанного...
Интересный рассказ о человеческих страхах, фобиях и о том, как их побороть. Ключевой персонаж и его семья довольно богаты и могут себе...
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За десять лет супружеской жизни Этель стала типичной домохозяйкой с рутинными обязанностями: стирка, приготовление еды, уборка,...