Мэри Ли Сеттл0.0 In a novel that begins with accidental death and ends with deliberate murder, Mary Lee Settle tells the story of an eclectic collection of American and European expatriates who take refuge in an ancient Turkish city and, once there, wreak havoc on the Aegean paradise. At first the characters appear to have little in common, but as the novel progresses their motives and desires cross and blend in a geometry of misunderstanding.
Robert Coover4.5 A controversial best-seller in 1977, The Public Burning has since emerged as one of the most influential novels of our time. The first major work of contemporary fiction ever to use living historical figures as characters, the novel reimagines the three fateful days in 1953 that culminated with the execution of alleged atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Vice-President Richard Nixon - the voraciously ambitious bad boy of the Eisenhower regime - is the dominant narrator in an enormous cast that includes Betty Crocker, Joe McCarthy, the Marx Brothers, Walter Winchell, Uncle Sam, his adversary The Phantom, and Time magazine incarnated as the National Poet Laureate. All of these and thousands more converge in Times Square for the carnivalesque auto-da-fe at which the Rosenbergs are put to death. And not a person present escapes implication in Cold War America's ruthless "public burning."
Питер Де Фриз0.0 This is the story of man who thinks he's Groucho Marx. Delusions of grandeur? Well, not exactly. Middle-aged, middle-class, freelance writer Bob Swirling has a rather poor opinion of himself, as a matter of fact, and after a series of bruising events under progressively more deflating circumstances, he fetches up at Silver Slopes sanatarium, happily bustling about in the adopted guise of his favorite comedian, of whom he has been doing imitations for years. He just stays inside the impersonation.
How all this came about if the subject of Peter De Vries's new comedy, Madder Music. When Swirling mistakenly believes himself to be terminally ill, he calls for madder music - particularly that of a sexual nature. Unfortunately, he is trapped by the mentality of the "bohemian bourgeoisie," and discovers, along with the rest of us, that the road to "liberation" is littered with surprises...and some happy misunderstandings. Swirling copes by retreating into the identity of Groucho, on whom he can pin all the unexpected hostilities that have for so long kept the puritanically raised hero racked with guilt. Off Groucho's tart tongue can be bounced all the pent-up antagonism toward fellow men no better than might be expected. As Swirling's surrogate Groucho faces squarely up to the cockeyed world - making a merry shambles of Silver Slopes into the bargain. Even when Swirling is at last lured out of Groucho's shell back into his own, with the help of a ravishing black girl who has been one of his major complications to begin with, his troubles aren't over, and neither is the fun.
Джеймс Алан Макферсон0.0 A Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of eloquently told stories about black Americans--ministers, professors, convicts, businesswomen--all struggling to protect their individuality & integrity from the demands imposed by others.
John Sayles0.0 The setting is Boston, Fall 1969. Radical groups plot revolution, runaway kids prowl the streets, cops are at their wits end, and work is hard to get, even for hookers. Hobie McNutt, a seventeen year old runaway from West Virginia drifts into a commune of young revolutionaries. It's a warm, dry place, and the girls are very available. But Hobie becomes involved in an increasingly vicious struggle for power in the group, and in the mounting violence of their political actions. His father Hunter, who has been involved in a brave and dangerous campaign to unseat a corrupt union president in the coal miners union, leaves West Virginia to hunt for his runaway son. To make ends meet, he takes day-labor jobs in order to survive while searching for him. Living parallel lives, their destinies ultimately movingly collide in this sprawling classic of radicalism across the generations, in the vein of Pete Hamill, Jimmy Breslin, and Richard Price.
Герберт Р. Коль0.0 Winner of the National Book Award for children’s literature, The View from the Oak is a groundbreaking work of ethology—the study of the way animals perceive the environment—from two of America’s most respected educators. With this new, illustrated edition, The New Press brings back into print this classic exploration of the strange but marvelous ways in which living creatures experience space, sense time, and communicate with each other.
What do flowers in a meadow look like to a bee? How does the world appear to a snake who “sees’ by detecting minute temperature changes? What is it like to live in the water strider’s two-dimensional universe? Including hands-on games and activities, The View from the Oak helps readers enter into the fascinating, often invisible world of nature. It is a “superb book for families to share” (Winston-Salem Journal).
Howard Nemerov0.0 The former Poet Laureate of the United States, Nemerov gives us a lucid and precise twist on the commonplaces of everyday life.
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1978.
"Howard Nemerov is a witty, urbane, thoughtful poet, grounded in the classics, a master of the craft. It is refreshing to read his work. . . . "—Minneapolis Tribune
"The world causes in Nemerov a mingled revulsion and love, and a hopeless hope is the most attractive quality in his poems, which slowly turn obverse to reverse, seeing the permanence of change, the vices of virtue, the evanescence of solidities and the errors of truth."—Helen Vendler, New York Times Book Review
Уолтер Джексон Бейт0.0 W. Jackson Bate's Samuel Johnson has been hailed as a supreme example of the biographer's art and the first great modern life of Johnson. Bate's work is literary biography at its finest, delving into the character that formed Johnson's awesome intellect and fueled his prodigious output. When first published, this magisterial biography won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
