With prose that is at once sensual and spare, dreamlike and deliberate, Christine Schutt gives voice in this collection to what most keep hidden. Many of the stories take place in the home, where what is behind the thin domestic barriers of doors...
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Alice Fivey, fatherless since she was seven, is left in the care of her relatives at ten when her love-wearied mother loses custody of her and enters "the San," submitting to years of psychiatric care. She is moved from place to place, remaining...
Described by John Ashbery as “pared down but rich, dense, fevered, exactly right and even eerily beautiful,” Christine Schutt’s prose has earned her comparisons to Emily Dickinson and Eudora Welty. In her new novel, Schutt delivers a...
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In the days of the first spring flood in the Year of the Gryphon the Lords of High Hallack made their covenant with the Were Riders of the Waste. Those who came to speak with the lords wore the bodies of men but they were not of humankind. They were...
The final installment in the trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
Dinaric Alps, Bosnian region of Austrian Hungarian Empire, 1918
After four Allied soldiers stumble across a biological weapon that could bring devastation to...
Автор: Куин (Квин) Эллери
Серия: Ellery Queen Detective #10
Язык: английский
Год: 1935
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Ellery Queen is asked by a lawyer friend to help protect the interests of a pretty young heiress. They meet her, along with an unpleasant physician who is a friend of her family, as she disembarks in New York from an ocean liner arriving from...
Devlin McCory designed SeaGhost, an invincible, unstoppable, deadly seagoing stealth vessel… and then was murdered, and his designs stolen.
Seeking justice for his father’s murder, ex-Navy SEAL Kevin McCory steals the SeaGhost from the dark,...