Новинки Джин Ханфф Корелиц

«Задум» — захопливий психологічний трилер від американської письменниці Джин Ганфф Кореліц. У центрі сюжету колись молодий перспективний письменник Джейкоб Фінч Боннер, чия перша книжка отримала добрі відгуки. Але нині він викладає літературну творчість у третьосортному коледжі й намагається підтримати залишки самоповаги, бо давно вже не писав – і тим паче не публікував – нічого путнього. Один з його студентів, зверхній і самовпевнений Еван Паркер, оголошує, що не потребує Джейкового наставництва. Адже головне в романі – задум, а його задум просто не може не вистрілити. Джейк готовий списати ці вихваляння на типовий нарцисизм новачка-аматора, але потім йому розповідають сюжет майбутнього твору. За кілька років Джейк, уже майже забувши про це, довідується про смерть Евана Паркера. Невже Паркер так і не написав свого роману? Невже пропаде така історія? І Джейк сідає сам писати чужий твір, навіть не підозрюючи, до яких наслідків може призвести ця "крадіжка". «Задум» — книжка у книжці. Психологічно напружений трилер про історію письменника, письменство, видавництво та шахрайство. Чи кожен може стати письменником? Адже кожен митець «має унікальний голос і хоче бути почутим». У книзі читачі занурюються у таємничу історію головного героя та дізнаються про непростий, але заманливий світ письменників, які прагнуть розповісти свою історію світу, шукають натхнення, ідеї для сюжету, долають творчі та кар'єрні кризи, ризикують “запозичити” задум для написання книжки, щоб здобути омріяну популярність. «Може видатися, що «Задум» занадто суворо пройшовся по письменниках, але нехай це нікого не дивує: ми суворі самі до себе. Як по правді, важко зустріти інших митців, ще більше схильних до самобичування. Проте, в загальному підсумку, ми щасливці. По-перше, через те, що ми працюємо з мовою, а мова — захоплива річ. По-друге, ми любимо історії і граємося ними. Випрохані, позичені, перероблені, прикрашені... можливо, навіть украдені — всі вони частина великої розмови» — зазначає Джин Ганфф Кореліц, авторка книжки.

Jacob Finch Bonner a connu son heure de gloire comme romancier avant de sombrer dans l'anonymat. Il enseigne désormais l'écriture dans une université du Vermont. Un jour, un de ses étudiants, Evan, lui dévoile l'intrigue du livre qu'il ambitionne d'écrire. Une intrigue géniale. Le best-seller assuré.
Quelques années plus tard, Jacob apprend la mort d'Evan, qui n'aura pas eu le temps de concrétiser son projet. Aussi décide-t-il d'utiliser à son profit l'idée fantastique de ce dernier. Et c'est un triomphe. Mais au plus haut de sa gloire, Jacob reçoit un e-mail anonyme, terrifiant : Vous êtes un voleur.

Jacob va alors tout faire pour identifier son interlocuteur avant que quiconque apprenne ce qu'il a fait. Pour cela, il va revenir dans le Vermont, pour enquêter sur la vie et la mort d'Evan. Il ne sait pas encore à quel point le jeu va s'avérer dangereux.

The Latecomer follows the story of the wealthy, New York City-based Oppenheimer family, from the first meeting of parents Salo and Johanna, under tragic circumstances, to their triplets born during the early days of IVF. As children, the three siblings – Harrison, Lewyn, and Sally – feel no strong familial bond and cannot wait to go their separate ways, even as their father becomes more distanced and their mother more desperate. When the triplets leave for college, Johanna, faced with being truly alone, makes the decision to have a fourth child. What role will the “latecomer” play in this fractured family?

A complex novel that builds slowly and deliberately, The Latecomer touches on the topics of grief and guilt, generational trauma, privilege and race, traditions and religion, and family dynamics. It is a profound and witty family story from an accomplished author, known for the depth of her character studies, expertly woven storylines, and plot twists.

Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written—let alone published—anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot.

Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker’s first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that—a story that absolutely needs to be told.

In a few short years, all of Evan Parker’s predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says.

As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his “sure thing” of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?

Жизнь Грейс Рейнхарт Сакс вполне можно назвать идеальной: замечательный муж — известный детский врач, блестяще одаренный сын и прекрасная карьера семейного психотерапевта — карьера, венцом которой предстоит стать книге Грейс "Ты же знала". Книге, в которой она советует женщинам в общении с мужчинами больше полагаться на интуицию — безошибочную женскую интуицию, способную вычислить токсичного партнера куда быстрее разума. А потом все меняется — стремительно, страшно, необратимо. Происходит жестокое убийство. В двери уютного дома стучит полиция. И, что самое ужасное, бесследно исчезает муж Грейс. Идеальная жизнь превращается в…

Грейс Рейнхарт-Сакс производит впечатление счастливой женщины — и она действительно счастлива. Чуткий, заботливый муж, долгожданный любимый сын, успешная карьера семейного психолога — все ее радует. К тому же готовится к изданию ее книга о браке и отношениях, которая обещает стать бестселлером. Грейс убеждена, что дурные наклонности человека можно распознать при первой же встрече, и призывает женщин быть внимательными, чтобы избежать несчастливого брака. Казалось бы, Грейс — именно та женщина, которой удалось сделать правильный выбор. Но однажды на пороге ее дома появляются полицейские, и оказывается, что сама она совершенно не знала…

'You knew right at the beginning. She knew he was never going to stop looking at other women. She knew he couldn't save money. She knew he was contemptuous of her... But then she somehow let herselfun-know what she knew.'

Grace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knows everything about women, men and marriage. She is about to publish a book calledYou Should Have Known, based on her pet theory: women don't value their intuition about what men are really like, leading to serious trouble later on.

But how well does Grace know her own husband? She is about to find out, and in the place of what she thought she knew, there will be a violent death, a missing husband, and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for herself and her child.

"Admissions. Admission. Aren't there two sides to the word? And two opposing sides...It's what we let in, but it's also what we let out."
For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions officer and her dependable domestic life. Her reluctance to confront the truth is suddenly overwhelmed by the resurfacing of a life-altering decision, and Portia is faced with an extraordinary test. Just as thousands of the nation's brightest students await her decision regarding their academic admission, so too must Portia decide whether to make her own ultimate admission.
Admission is at once a fascinating look at the complex college admissions process and an emotional examination of what happens when the secrets of the past return and shake a woman's life to its core.

Passion, infidelity, social climbing, and one very special white rose weave a seductive narrative in this intelligent and tender novel.At forty-eight, Marian Kahn, a professor of history at Columbia, has reached a comfortable perch. Married, wealthy, and the famed discoverer of that eighteenth-century adventuress, Lady Charlotte Wilcox, she ought to be content. Instead, she is horrified to find herself profoundly in love with twenty-six-year-old Oliver, the son of her oldest friend. When Marian's cousin, the snobbish Barton, announces his engagement to Sophie, a graduate student in Marian's department, Marian, Oliver and Sophie find their affiars woefully entangled, and their hearts turned in unfamiliar directions. All three of them will learn that love may seldom be straightforward, but it's always a gift.

From the West Village to the Upper East Side, from the Hamptons to Millbrook, The White Rose is at once a nuanced and affectionate reimagining of Strauss' beloved opera, Der Rosenkavalier, and a mesmerizing novel of our own time and place.

Read the "rollickingly good literary thriller" and New York Times bestseller that's the inspiration for the most talked about TV series of 2020, HBO's The Undoing starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant (Vanity Fair).
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended.
Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves, Grace is also the author of a book You Should Have Known, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them. But weeks before the book is published a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only an ongoing chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.
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