Стюарт О’Нэн – лучшие книги

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

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".

Пожилая кассирша из супермаркета посвящает всё своё свободное время поискам пропавшей девочки, пытаясь найти захоронение, о котором сказал убийца в теленовостях. Она пытается помочь безутешным родителям и как-то занять себя.

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

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.

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.

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.