Дженнифер Джонстон – лучшие книги
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Далеко ли до Вавилона? Старая шутка (сборник) Дженнифер Джонстон
Год издания: 1983 Издательство: Художественная литература. Москва Язык: Русский В книгу вошли два произведения современной ирландской писательницы Дженнифер Джонстон (род. в 1930 г.): «Далеко ли до Вавилона?» и «Старая шутка». Первое из них охватывает период от начала века до 1915 года. Время действия второго — лето 1920 года, момент обострения национально-освободительной борьбы ирландского народа.
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Shadows on Our Skin Jennifer Johnston
ISBN: 978-0747267911, 074726791X Год издания: 2010 Издательство: Headline Book Publishing Язык: Английский Recognised as a small masterpiece when first published in 1977, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. A poignant novel about a boy in Derry jolted into early adulthood by harsh circumstances.
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The Old Jest Jennifer Johnston
ISBN: 978-0140106985 Год издания: 1988 Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd Язык: Английский Late summer near Dublin, 1920, and up at the great house there are still cucumber sandwiches for tea. Slipping away from Aunt Mary and dotty Grandfather, 18-year-old Nancy has escaped down to the shore to dream in the beach hut - longing for her life to begin.
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The Christmas Tree Дженнифер Джонстон
ISBN: 978-0747262589 Год издания: 1981 Constance Keating has lived a life of internal exile, alienated from her family and from Ireland.
Now she has returned to her family home to die. While that painful, messy process takes place she replays, like a home movie, the fragments of her past. And, as the festooned Christmas tree awaits its day, so Constance also waits, hoping her child's father will come and that the final outcome will be on her terms. -
The Captains and the Kings Дженнифер Джонстон
ISBN: 978-0747259343 Mr Prendergast, an elderly Anglo-Irishman, is living out his last years in the decaying splendour of his family mansion. As his mind wanders through the gloom he finds it peopled with memories of his neglected wife, his pale shadow of a father, his icily glamorous mother and Alexander, the son she so jealously loved, killed in the First World War.
With only his ill-tempered alcoholic gardener left to attend to him, Mr Prendergast is content to pass his days in such ghostly company. Until young Diarmid arrives, keen-eyed and carrot-haired, to disperse the gathering darkness with curiosity, and the promise of friendship. -
The Gingerbread Woman Johnston Jennifer
ISBN: 0-7472-5933-Х Год издания: 2000 Издательство: REWIEW On a rainy afternoon on Killiney Hill a young man walking, without his overcoat, happens upon a woman gazing out over Dublin bay, standing perilously close to the edge. From their testy encounter develops a remarkable friendship which will enable each to face afresh their very different, damaged pasts, and to look, however tentatively, towards the future. -
The Railway Station Man Jennifer Johnston
ISBN: 978-0747259367 Год издания: 1998 Издательство: Headline Review Helen moved to a small ocean-side village for the isolation—to be alone with the waves, birds, and changing seasons. Newly widowed, she spends her days painting in her glass-walled studio atop a hillside on Ireland’s northwest coast. From her perch she can study the rocks and dunes of the land sloping into the sea, the fishing boats rocking in the tide, and the railway station, abandoned for forty years, now being refurbished by Roger, an Englishman and veteran of the Second World War. Her friendship with Roger develops slowly, but in tandem with her growing affection for him is an intractable suspicion over his past. As the Troubles continue to settle over Ireland, Helen experiences sparks of happiness with Roger. Meanwhile, her son Jack, a radical living in Dublin, is increasing his involvement with an impassioned group of Irish guerillas, unwittingly setting in motion a series of events that lead to a shocking conclusion for both him and his mother.