Новинки Грегори Галлоуэя

Anna--who prefers to be called Anastasia--is a slightly spooky and complicated high school girl with a penchant for riddles, Houdini tricks, and ghost stories. She spends much of her time writing obituaries for every living person in town. She is unlike anyone the narrator has ever known, and they make an unlikely, though happy, pair.Then a week before Valentine's Day, Anna disappears, leaving behind only a dress placed neatly near a hole in the frozen river, and a string of unanswered questions. Desperate to find her, or at least to comprehend what happened and why, the narrator begins to reconstruct the past five months. And soon the fragments of curious events, intimate conversations, secrets, and peculiar letters (and the anonymous messages that continue to arrive) coalesce into haunting and surprising revelations that may implicate friends, relatives, and even Anna herself.

Mr. Ed, girls with guns, an enviable pair of white cowboy boots, and alcohol all play pivotal roles in these 10 stories that depict the daily struggles of people as they try to deal with their dreams and defeats, hopes and helplessness. These stories capture the sharp pain, dark comedy, and strange ironies of their characters with precision and compassion as they try to carefully do the right thing and find that sometimes they can't even do the wrong thing well.

Gregory Galloway is the author of the Alex Award-winning novel, As Simple As Snow. His work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Pavement, and Rush Hour.

Всего лишь - парень и девчонка из маленького городка...
Всего лишь - удушливая, тяжкая атмосфера всеобщей "нормальности".
Всего лишь - жажда вырваться из трясины любой ценой.
Пусть ценой жизни - не важно, собственной или чужой.
Любовь?
Ненависть?
Союз двух волчат-одиночек?
Все это - и многое другое?
Дороги Свободы не бывают легкими, но в конце их - Свет...

Anna—who prefers to be called Anastasia—is a slightly spooky and complicated high school girl with a penchant for riddles, Houdini tricks, and ghost stories. She spends much of her time writing obituaries for every living person in town. She is unlike anyone the narrator has ever known, and they make an unlikely, though happy, pair.

Then a week before Valentine's Day, Anna disappears, leaving behind only a dress placed neatly near a hole in the frozen river, and a string of unanswered questions. Desperate to find her, or at least to comprehend what happened and why, the narrator begins to reconstruct the past five months. And soon the fragments of curious events, intimate conversations, secrets, and peculiar letters (and the anonymous messages that continue to arrive) coalesce into haunting and surprising revelations that may implicate friends, relatives, and even Anna herself.