Off the coast of Maine, Ruth Thomas is born into a feud fought for generations by two groups of local lobstermen over fishing rights for the waters that lie between their respective islands. At eighteen, she has returned from boarding school –...
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Set on two fictitious islands in northern Maine during the 1970s, this first novel by the author of a sparkling story collection, Pilgrims, begins slowly but warms up with smart, sassy humor. Isolated from the mainland by 20 miles of sea, but...
Tibet is a land lost in the glare of politics and romanticism, and Ma Jian set out to discover its truths. Stick Out Your Tongue is a revelation: a startlingly vivid portrait of Tibet, both enchanting and horrifying, beautiful and violent, seductive...
Clare, stuck on the wrong side of town, is desperate to live the good life among the writers and artists of trendy Notting Hill, like her friend Sophie. So she doesn't think twice about moving into a house with a horrible history, even if some of...
Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she’s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes...
If there's an even darker side to Hollywood than the one America is familiar with, Bruce Wagner has found it. A twenty-first-century Nathanael West, he has been hailed for his powerful prose, his Swiftian satire, and the scalpel-sharp wit that has,...
Эта книга юмористических рассказов из выдуманной жизни выдуманного смешного пенсионера.
У него нет имени. И он сам себя так и называет:...
Эта книга юмористических рассказов из выдуманной жизни выдуманного смешного пенсионера.
У него нет имени. И он сам себя так и называет:...
Сталкиваясь с разными обычными и необычными ситуациями и разобравшись в них, он всегда делает один вывод: "Ну смешной же я пенсионер".
И...
Ну что со старика возьмешь?
Ведь в его возрасте уже и деменция, и неуклюжесть мысли, и полное отсутствие фантазии, и постепенно...