Стюарт О’Нэн — новинки

Пожалуй, всем известно, что Стивен Кинг — мастер художественного слова, одаренный публицист и критик. Но многие ли знают, что он еще и страстный фанат бейсбольной команды "Бостон ред сокс"? Команды, чьей победы в Мировой серии 2004 года ожидали миллионы американцев. На матчах разгорались страсти пожарче футбольных. И наконец "Ред сокс" победили — впервые за 86 лет! Перед вами — уникальная летопись двух болельщиков — Стивена Кинга и его друга, знаменитого прозаика Стюарта О'Нэна, год следовавших за любимой командой и ставших свидетелями ее триумфа. Истории "с места событий"... Остроумные замечания... И серьезные комментарии!

Последние годы жизни Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда, классика американской литературы, автора "Великого Гэтсби" и "Ночь нежна", окутаны таинственностью и не особо известны публике. Однако именно тогда, переживая трагическую болезнь жены Зельды и неудачи в карьере, Фицджеральд встретил свою вторую большую любовь – голливудскую колумнистку Шейлу Грэм. Этой загадочной англичанке он посвятил свой последний и незаконченный роман "Последний магнат".

После смерти жены Дин Эверс увлекся бейсболом. И все было хорошо, пока он не начал видеть среди болельщиков на стадионе лица мертвых людей…

In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruin, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood.

Those last three years of Fitzgerald's life, often obscured by the legend of his earlier Jazz Age glamour, are the focus of Stewart O'Nan's heartfelt new novel. With flashbacks to key moments from Fitzgerald's past, the story follows him as he arrives on the MGM lot, falls in love with the brassy gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, begins work on The Last Tycoon, and tries to maintain a semblance of family life with the absent Zelda and their daughter, Scottie.

Fitzgerald's orbit of literary fame and the Golden Age of Hollywood is brought vividly to life through the novel's romantic cast of characters, from Dorothy Parker and Ernest Hemingway to Humphrey Bogart. Written with striking grace and subtlety, this wise and intimate portrait of a man trying his best to hold together a world that's flying apart, if not gone already, is an American masterpiece.

Gemeinsam machen Marion und Art Fowler eine Pauschal-Busreise zu den Niagarafällen, wohin sie dreißig Jahre zuvor auch ihre Hochzeitsreise geführt hat. In ihrem Gepäck befindet sich ihr gesamtes restliches Barvermögen, denn Art – vor seiner Entlassung Versicherungsmakler, also mathematisch begabt – glaubt zu wissen, wie man beim Roulette gewinnen kann. Sie schmuggeln das Geld nach Kanada ein, wechseln es in Jetons und beziehen in einem Casino eine teure Hochzeitssuite, die sie sich leisten, weil es ja ohnehin egal ist. Arbeitslos und verschuldet, wie sie sind, haben sie nichts mehr zu verlieren. Das Haus, in dem ihre Kinder groß geworden sind, muss verkauft werden, ihre Ehe, von Seitensprüngen untergraben, steht vor dem Aus. Also greifen sie nach dem letzten Strohhalm: tagsüber beim Sightseeing an den spektakulären Wasserfällen, vor allem aber abends, im Casino. Sie spielen am ersten Abend und am zweiten. Und setzen alles auf eine Karte. Ein heiterer, sogar tröstlicher Roman über Zuversicht, Verzeihen und letzte Chancen, der eindringlich vor Augen führt, dass Liebe – wie das Leben selbst – mitunter ein Glücksspiel ist. «Wer diesen Roman aufschlägt, dem ergeht es wie im Kino, wenn er sich zurücklehnt und die Lichter ausgehen: In leuchtenden Farben spult sich ein Film vor seinen Augen ab.» THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

Stewart O'Nan's thirteenth novel is another wildly original, bittersweet gem like his celebrated Last Night at the Lobster. Valentine's weekend, Art and Marion Fowler flee their Cleveland suburb for Niagara Falls, desperate to recoup their losses. Jobless, with their home approaching foreclosure and their marriage on the brink of collapse, Art and Marion liquidate their savings account and book a bridal suite at the Falls' ritziest casino for a second honeymoon. While they sightsee like tourists during the day, at night they risk it all at the roulette wheel to fix their finances-and save their marriage. A tender yet honest exploration of faith, forgiveness and last chances, The Odds is a reminder that love, like life, is always a gamble.

The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful, about the 2004 Red Sox championship season, takes listeners to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond.Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It’s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn’t be at the ballgame, shouldn’t be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers’s past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier….

Darkness surrounds us. We can find darkness anywhere: in a strange green stone etched with mysterious symbols; at a small town's annual picnic; in a ghostly house that is easy to enter but not so easy to leave; behind the dumpster in the alley where a harpy lives; in The Nowhere, a place where car keys, toys, people disappear to; among Polar explorers; and, most definitely, within ourselves. Darkness flies from mysterious crates; surrounds children whose nightlights have vanished; and flickers between us at the movie theater. Darkness crawls from the past and is waiting in our future; and there's always a chance that Halloween really is a door opening directly into endless shadow. Welcome to the dark. You may never want to leave. This inaugural volume of the year's best dark fantasy and horror features more than 500 pages of dark tales from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique. Chosen from a variety of sources, these stories are as eclectic and varied as the genre itself.

Returning again to the theme of working-class people and their wrenching concerns, Songs for the Missing begins with the suspenseful pace of a thriller, following an Ohio community?s efforts to locate a young woman who has gone missing. It soon deepens into an affecting portrait of a family trying desperately to hold onto itself and the memory of a daughter whose return becomes increasingly unlikely. Stark and honest, this is an intimate account of what happens behind the headlines of a very American tragedy.

Стивен Кинг - "король ужасов"?
Это известно всем.
Но многие ли знают, что Стивен Кинг - ещё и СТРАСТНЫЙ ФАНАТ бейсбольной команды "Бостон Ред Сокс"?
Победы "Ред Сокс" два года ожидали миллионы американцев...
На матчах разгорались страсти пожарче футбольных...
И наконец "Ред Сокс" ПОБЕДИЛИ!
Перед вами - уникальная летопись двух болельщиков - Стивена Книга и его друга, знаменитого прозаика Стюарта О'Нэна, год следовавших за любимой командой и ставших свидетелями её триумфа.
Анекдоты...
Байки...
Серьёзные комментарии!

Стивен Кинг - "король ужасов"?
Это известно всем.
Но многие ли знают, что Стивен Кинг - ещё и страстный фанат бейсбольной команды "Бостон Ред Сокс"?
Победы "Ред Сокс" два года ожидали миллионы американцев...
На матчах разгорались страсти пожарче футбольных...
И наконец "Ред Сокс" победили!
Перед вами - уникальная летопись двух болельщиков - Стивена Кинга и его друга, знаменитого прозаика Стюарта О'Нэна, год следовавших за любимой командой и ставших свидетелями её триумфа.
Анекдоты...
Байки...
Серьёзные комментарии!

Стивен Кинг - "король ужасов"?
Это известно всем.
Но многие ли знают, что Стивен Кинг - еще и страстный фанат бейсбольной команды "Бостон Ред Сокс"?
Победы "Ред Сокс" два года ожидали миллионы американцев...
На матчах разгорались страсти пожарче футбольных...
И наконец "Ред Сокс" победили!
Перед вами - уникальная летопись двух болельщиков - Стивена Кинга и его друга, знаменитого прозаика Стюарта О'Нэна, год следовавших за любимой командой и ставших свидетелями ее триумфа.
Анекдоты...
Байки...
Серьезные комментарии!

Early in 2004, two writers and Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, decided to chronicle the upcoming season, one of the most hotly anticipated in baseball history. They would sit together at Fenway. They would exchange emails. They would write about the games. And, as it happened, they would witness the greatest comeback ever in sports, and the first Red Sox championship in eighty-six years. What began as a Sox-filled summer like any other is now a fan's notes for the ages.

A ghost story that begins in everyday tragedy, from a distinctly American master of both forms: a "scary, sad, funny . . . mesmerizing read" (Stephen King)

At Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One escapes unharmed, another suffers severe brain damage. A year later, summoned by the memories of those closest to them, the three that died come back on a last chilling mission among the living.

A strange and unsettling ghost story, The Night Country creeps through the leaf-strewn streets and quiet cul-de-sacs of one bedroom community, reaching into the desperately connected yet isolated lives of three people changed forever by the accident: Tim, who survived yet lost everything; Brooks, the cop whose guilty secret has destroyed his life; and Kyle's mom, trying to love the new son the doctors returned to her. As the day wanes and darkness falls, one of them puts a terrible plan into effect, and they find themselves caught in a collision of need and desire, watched over by the knowing ghosts.

Macabre and moving, The Night Country elevates every small town's bad high school crash into myth, finding the deeper human truth beneath a shared and very American tragedy. As in his highly-prized Snow Angels and A Prayer for the Dying, once again Stewart O'Nan gives us an intimate look at people trying to hold on to hope, and the consequences when they fail.

A year after the death of her husband, Henry, Emily Maxwell gathers her family by Lake Chautauqua in western New York for what will be a last vacation at their summer cottage. Joining is her sister-in-law, who silently mourns the sale of the lake

Stewart O'Nan is one of the most highly acclaimed fiction writers of his generation, selected by Granta as one of the Best Young American Novelists and hailed by The New York Times as "a master." Grove Press is proud to reissue his haunting noir novel The Speed Queen. The Speed Queen is the gripping story of a twisted love triangle's drug-fueled killing spree across the desert plains, told in the voice of Oklahoma death-row inmate Marjorie Standiford, who is recounting her experiences for a best-selling horror writer researching the murders. It's a chilling, unputdownable crime novel in the tradition of James M. Cain -- a voyage into the dark soul of the American West.

Set just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying is the story of a small Wisconsin town gripped by a mysterious, deadly epidemic, and one man desperate to save it. Torn between his loyalty to his family, his faith in God, and his terror of this vicious disease, Jacob Hansen struggles to preserve his sanity amid the chaos and violence around him.