Лучшие книги Дэниэла Хэндлера

Жизнь - это сон. Любовь - это ад! "Под колесами любви" перемалываются сердца все новых юношей и девушек. Любовь настигает их - не как божественный свет, но как параноидальный бред, пьяная истерика, шаг в пустоту. У ЭТОЙ "суки-любви" не будет и НЕ МОЖЕТ БЫТЬ хеппи-энда. Она безжалостна и к себе, и к миру, она обрекает на боль, и кажется, легче умереть, чем продолжать жить и любить дальше. Страшно? Иногда — да. А иногда — СМЕШНО! .

Однажды Мин влюбляется в Эда, а Эд — в Мин, и обоим кажется, что это навсегда. Через несколько недель они расстаются, и вся история их отношений умещается в одной коробке: билет с первого похода в кино, коробок спичек, ярко-зеленая камера, катушка так и непроявленной пленки, сложенный из бумаги звездолет "Я не могу перестать думать о тебе"...

Собирая эту коробку, Мин рассказывает о том, какой бывает первая любовь — и почему иногда она заканчивается.

In their San Francisco high school, Flannery's group, the Basic Eight, are dismissed as a pretentious clique, but to Flan it is indispensable. From gossipy Kate, to Douglas his procurer of absinthe, he needs them all. Because school can get so stressful sometimes, you just want to kill someone.

From bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), an eagerly anticipated, gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic lives and impulses of an all-too-typical young man.

Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches in a sketchbook, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters, next to the allure of sex. Let me put it this way, he says, Draw a number line, with zero is, you never think about sex, and ten is, it's all you think about, and while you are drawing the line, I am thinking about sex. Cole fantasizes about whomever he's looking at. He consumes and shares pornography. And he sleeps with a lot of girls--girls who seem to enjoy it at the time and seem to feel bad about it afterwards. Cole is getting a reputation around school--a not quite savory one--which leaves him adrift and hanging out with his best friend. Which is when something startling begins to happen between them--another kind of adventure, unexpected and hot, that might be what he's been after all this time. And then he meets Grisaille.

A companion piece to Handler's Why We Broke Up, the bestselling Michael J. Printz Honor novel, All The Dirty Parts is an unblinking take on the varied and ribald world of teenage desire in a culture of unrelenting explicitness and shunted communication, where sex feels like love, but no one knows what love feels like. Structured in short chapters recalling Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation or Mary Robison's Why Did I Ever, the novel gives us a tender, brutal, funny, and always intoxicating portrait of an age in which the whole world is tilted through the lens of sex. "There are love stories galore," Cole tells us, "and we all know them. This isn't that. The story I'm typing is all the dirty parts."

A boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water. It is the twenty-first century and a crew of pirates is terrorizing the San Francisco Bay.

Phil is a husband, a father, a struggling radio producer, and the owner of a large condo with a view of the water. But he'd like to be a rebel and a fortune hunter.

Gwen is his daughter. She's fourteen. She's a student, a swimmer, and a best friend. But she'd like to be an adventurer and an outlaw.

Phil teams up with his young, attractive assistant. They head for the open road, attending a conference to seal a deal.

Gwen teams up with a new, fierce friend and some restless souls. They head for the open sea, stealing a boat to hunt for treasure.

We Are Pirates is a novel about our desperate searches for happiness and freedom, about our wild journeys beyond the boundaries of our ordinary lives.

Also, it's about a teenage girl who pulls together a ragtag crew to commit mayhem in the San Francisco Bay, while her hapless father tries to get her home.

Tolstoy wrote that happy families are alike and that each unhappy family is unhappy in a different way.In Watch Your Mouth, Daniel Handler takes "different" to a whole new level...
The first part of the novel is laid out as an opera, with act and scene numbers as chapter titles and each of the characters being assigned a singing voice. Joseph quickly begins to suspect that Cynthia's entire family is engaging in incestuous behaviour, and that her mother, Mimi, is building a golem in the basement. The first part of the novel ends (operatically) in death. The second part is presented somewhat more conventionally, as Joseph attempts to recover from the events of the first part; this half of the book follows the form of a 12-step program. The first section of the novel is printed in black ink, while the 12-step program is printed in dark red.