Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.
The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high...
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From his cult classic, I Smell Esther Williams, to his wildly popular and insightful column "Wild Kingdom" appearing in Esquire magazine every month, Mark Leyner has been giving us up close and personal encounters of the most hilarious kind for...
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is a postmodernist/absurdist book composed of 17 loosely-related chapters with no general storyline. It is voiced in first-person by an anonymous narrator often using jargon, broken grammar and punctuation with a...
From the bestselling and wildly imaginative novelist Mark Leyner, a romp through the excesses and exploits of gods and mortals.
High above the bustling streets of Dubai, in the world's tallest and most luxurious skyscraper, reside the...
A community theater's production of Special Yearnings triggers a string of underground nuclear explosions from St. Louis to Worcester, Massachusetts. A man frantically swats at the blaze that his girlfriend has ignited in his trousers, while her...
«Par avion» — это роман в письмах, настоящий роман со всеми перипетиями любовного чувства — изысканная игра двух страстных людей. Встреча,...
Франсиско Умбраль (1935–2007) входит в число крупнейших современных писателей Испании. Известность пришла к нему еще во второй половине...
Книга знакомит советского читателя с творчеством одного из самых интересных и популярных писателей послевоенной Италии, лауреата...
Два случайно познакомившихся человека неожиданно узнают, что их отцы пропали без вести в составе геолого-разведывательной экспедиции...
It is the nineteenth century and the kingdom of Persia is at a turning point. When a young King, Shah Naser, takes to the throne he inherits a medieval, enchanted world. But beyond the court, the greater forces of colonisation and...