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The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy
Биографии и мемуары, Публицистика

The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy

Язык: английский
Год: 2015
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An important story for our era: How the American Dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted. On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding...
Cold War Command: The Dramatic Story of a Nuclear Submariner
Биографии и мемуары, Военная документалистика и аналитика

Cold War Command: The Dramatic Story of a Nuclear Submariner

Язык: английский
Год: 2014
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The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy’s submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the ‘Silent Service,’ remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to...
A Brief History of Portable Literature
Критика, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

A Brief History of Portable Literature

Язык: английский
Год: 2015
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An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short history of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of portable literature. The society is entirely imagined, but in this rollicking, intellectually playful book,...
Little Failure
Биографии и мемуары

Little Failure

Язык: английский
Год: 2014
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After three acclaimed novels—The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, and Super Sad True Love Story—Gary Shteyngart turns to memoir in a candid, witty, deeply poignant account of his life so far. Shteyngart shares his American immigrant...
Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins
Публицистика, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins

Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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Is it truth or fiction? Memoir or essay? Narrative or associative? To a writer like Michael Martone, questions like these are high praise. Martone’s studied disregard of form and his unruffled embrace of the prospect that nothing-no story, no...