Сара Перри – лучшие книги
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Змей в Эссексе Сара Перри
ISBN: 978-5-86471-777-6 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: Фантом Пресс Язык: Русский Конец XIX века, научно-технический прогресс набирает темпы, вовсю идут дебаты по медицинским вопросам. Эмансипированная вдова Кора Сиборн после смерти мужа решает покинуть Лондон и перебраться в уютную деревушку в графстве Эссекс, где местным викарием служит Уилл Рэнсом. Уже который день деревня взволнована слухами о мифическом змее, что объявился в окрестных болотах и питается человеческой плотью. Кора, увлеченная натуралистка и энтузиастка научного знания, не верит ни в каких сказочных драконов и решает отыскать причину странных россказней. Она считает, что змей — попросту неизвестный науке вид пресмыкающегося, который нужно описать для…
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Мельмот Сара Перри
ISBN: 978-5-86471-848-3 Год издания: 2020 Издательство: Фантом Пресс Язык: Русский Хелен Франклин, неприметная англичанка, живет в Праге, зарабатывает на жизнь переводами и вот уже двадцать лет хранит какую-то страшную тайну. Ее секрету, казалось бы, суждено остаться в прошлом, но все меняется, когда через Карела, одного из ее немногочисленных друзей, в руки Хелен попадает странная исповедь. Впервые прочитав историю о Мельмот Свидетельнице — пугающей фигуре из старинных легенд, обреченной вечно скитаться по земле и наблюдать за людскими прегрешениями, — Хелен убеждена, что это просто сказка. Но Карел внезапно исчезает, а сама Хелен обнаруживает, что ее кто-то преследует, и вот тогда-то существование Мельмот начинает…
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Every Cradle Is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide Sarah Perry
ISBN: 978-0989697293 Год издания: 2014 Издательство: Nine-Banded Books Язык: Английский Millions of years ago, humans just happened. Accidents of environment and genetics contributed to the emergence of sentient beings like us. Today, however, people no longer "just happen"; they are created by the voluntary acts of other people. This book examines several questions about the ethics of human existence. Is it a good thing, for humans, that humans "happened"? Is it ethical to keep making new humans, now that reproduction is under our control? And given that a person exists (through no fault or choice of his own), is it immoral or irrational for him to refuse to live out his natural lifespan? Sarah Perry answers these…
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After Me Comes The Flood Sarah Perry
ISBN: 1846689457 Год издания: 2014 Язык: Английский One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to leave his life behind.
He shuts up the bookshop no one ever comes to and drives out of London. When his car breaks down and he becomes lost on an isolated road, he goes looking for help, and stumbles into the grounds of a grand but dilapidated house.
Its residents welcome him with open arms - but there's more to this strange community than meets the eye. They all know him by name, they've prepared a room for him, and claim to have been waiting for him all along.
As nights and days pass John finds himself drawn into a baffling menagerie. There is Hester, their matriarchal, controlling host; Alex and Claire, siblings full of child-like wonder and delusions; the mercurial Eve; Elijah - a faithless former preacher haunted by the Bible; and chain-smoking Walker, wreathed in smoke and hostility. Who are these people? And what do they intend for John?
Elegant, gently sinister and psychologically complex, this is a haunting and hypnotic debut novel by a brilliant new voice. -
After the Eclipse Сара Перри
ISBN: 9780544302655 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A fierce memoir of a mother’s murder, a daughter’s coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life.
When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal. But that brief moment of darkness ultimately foreshadowed a much larger one: two days later, Crystal was murdered in their home in rural Maine, just a few feet from Sarah’s bedroom.
The killer escaped unseen; it would take the police twelve years to find him, time in which Sarah grew into adulthood, struggling with abandonment, police interrogations, and the effort of rebuilding her life when so much had been lost. Through it all she would dream of the eventual trial, a conviction—all her questions finally answered. But after the trial, Sarah’s questions only grew. She wanted to understand her mother’s life, not just her final hours, and so she began a personal investigation, one that drew her back to Maine, taking her deep into the abiding darkness of a small American town.
Told in searing prose, After the Eclipse is a luminous memoir of uncomfortable truth and terrible beauty, an exquisite memorial for a mother stolen from her daughter, and a blazingly successful attempt to cast light on her life once more.