The last in the Strangers and Brothers series has Sir Lewis Eliot's heart stop briefly during an operation. During recovery he passes judgement on his achievements and dreams. Concerns fall from him leaving only ironic tolerance. His son Charles...
Bohaterem opowiadania jest Polak - Skawiński, który przybywa do Aspinwall, aby tu objąć posadę latarnika. Jest zmęczony życiem, które obfitowało w przygody, niestety zwykle kończące się dla Skawińskiego katastrofą. Wziąwszy udział w...
In this, his third collection, Tracy Daugherty focuses on social and cultural forces shaping people’s intimate behavior. Set in Texas and Oklahoma, the stories and novella suggest that even politics is a kind of family squabble whose elusive...
On a night no one will ever forget, Della Black and three of her seven children are killed in a horrific fire in their trailer. As the surviving children are caught in the middle of a custody battle between their well-intentioned neighbor and their...
The restored Tuscan farmhouse is the perfect setting for a holiday. As Justine, her friends and their families gather to relax and unwind, she hopes it will be a chance to put the tragic events of the previous year behind them. But before the week...
The interlinked tales in this Late Stories detail the excursions of an aging narrator navigating the amorphous landscape of grief in a series of tender and often waggishly elliptical digressions.
Described by Jonathan Lethem as "one of the great...
Pēters Freinds
Laura un Avanterras noslēpums
Vācu rakstnieka Pētera Freinda (1952) vēstījuma par Lauru pirmā grāmata. Neticamas pāvērtības, drūmas katakombas un baigas kapenes, ļauni ienaidnieki un uzticami draugi. Laura nav...