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Lilith Дж. Р. Саламанка
Год издания: 1964 Издательство: Bantam Books Lilith had created her own world of utter sensuous ecstasy. She was the most exquisitely beautiful woman Vincent had ever seen. She revealed to him intensities of rapture unimaginable. And then, when he was irretrievably trapped in her silken web, she used his desire to force him to pander to the insatiable demands hidden at the core of her being. -
The Lost Country Дж. Р. Саламанка
ISBN: B007IODGUC Год издания: 2012 Язык: Английский The "lost country" of the title is the familiar country of innocence and security known as youth--a country we have all known and which, occasionally, in a book like this one, we are able to rediscover.
The Lost Country is the story of a boy, Jim Blackstarr, who grows up on a farm in Virginia. As a child, he delights in the beauty that surrounds him: the rivers and hills and trees, the seasons of the year, all the shapes and textures and patterns of his world.
But as he grows older, he makes other discoveries. He experiences brutality, passion, fear, shame. These experiences destroy the simplicity of his early relationships; they complicate and darken his later ones. Ultimately, the drive him--as they drive all men--out of, and away from, the country of his youth.