Struggling to make a life for his young son when the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company takes a dive, Forrest Gump shares a second series of offbeat adventures that entangle him with the Coca-Cola company and Oliver...
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From the author of A Widow for One Year, A Prayer for Owen Meany and other acclaimed novels, comes a story of a father and a son – fugitives in 20th-century North America.
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern...
В сборник вошли рассказы Уильяма Сидни Портера (1862–1910), известного читателям как О’Генри.
До сих пор вызывают интерес стиль и...
Josh is a fourteen year-old boy living in a world where the global economic recession has led to money being devalued.
Three days ago, his parents went out for supplies. They left Josh and his older brother, Archie, behind.
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They and...
Mr. Sammler...
WINNER OF THE 2000 BOOKER PRIZE
Even Zenia’s name is enough to provoke the old sense of outrage, of humiliation and confused pain. The truth is that at certain times—early mornings, the middle of the night—she finds it hard to believe...
Without warning, a driver waiting at traffic lights goes blind.A good samaritan takes pity on him, and drives him home to his wife. The next morning, the wife takes her husband to see an optician, who is baffled. That afternoon, the wife goes...
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At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and...