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In the Café of Lost Youth
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In the Café of Lost Youth

Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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In the Café of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. The novel, inspired in part by the circle (depicted in...
An Ermine in Czernopol
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An Ermine in Czernopol

Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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Set just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, determined to defend the virtue of his cheating sister-in-law at any cost....
That Awful Mess on the via Merulana
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That Awful Mess on the via Merulana

Язык: английский
Год: 2007
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In a large apartment house in central Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary, in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken, and a murder, as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her...
The Snows of Yesteryear
Биографии и мемуары, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

The Snows of Yesteryear

Язык: английский
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Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine — a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population...
The Stories of J.F. Powers
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The Stories of J.F. Powers

Автор: Powers J. F.
Язык: английский
Год: 2000
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Hailed by Frank O'Connor as one of "the greatest living storytellers," J. F. Powers, who died in 1999, stands with Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver among the authors who have given the short story an unmistakably American cast....
Wheat That Springeth Green
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Wheat That Springeth Green

Автор: Powers J. F.
Язык: английский
Год: 2000
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Wheat That Springeth Green, J. F. Powers's beautifully realized final work, is a comic foray into the commercialized wilderness of modern American life. Its hero, Joe Hackett, is a high school track star who sets out to be a saint. But seminary...