Уолли Лэмб — новинки
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Она доведена до отчаяния Уолли Лэмб
ISBN: 978-0-01-903552-1 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: АСТ Язык: Русский Уолли Лэмб рассказывает историю Долорес Прайс, молодой девушки, на долю которой выпало немало жизненных трудностей. Смерть новорожденного брата, развод родителей, нервоз матери, а затем изнасилование – всё это приводит к тому, что Долорес начинает стремительно набирать вес, «заедая» свои переживания… К окончанию школы она весит уже 116 килограммов и, конечно же, страдает от одиночества и непонимания. И с получением аттестата трудности не заканчиваются: взрослая жизнь приготовила Долорес еще немало испытаний… Несмотря на то, что замкнутая и язвительная Долорес меньше всего напоминает бесстрашного Улисса, именно на него ориентируется Лэмб,…
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Она доведена до отчаяния Уолли Лэмб
ISBN: 978-5-17-100371-5 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: АСТ, Neoclassic Язык: Русский Завораживающая история женщины по имени Долорес Прайс. История пути к себе длиною в жизнь. История одиночества и поисков дружбы, любви и верности в нашем изменчивом мире. История, в которой драма соединяется с юмором, а горечь – с сарказмом. История, в которой есть место для боли и исцеления, для нежности и утраты, для отчаяния и надежды. И для борьбы за право быть собой и жить по собственным правилам…
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I'll Take You There Wally Lamb
ISBN: 9780062656292 Год издания: 2016 Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Язык: Английский In this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women, Wally Lamb—author of numerous New York Times bestselling novels including She’s Come Undone, I Know This Much is True, and We Are Water—weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it.
I’ll Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting up a film in the projectionist booth, he’s confronted by the ghost of Lois Weber, a trailblazing motion picture director from Hollywood’s silent film era. Lois invites Felix to revisit—and in some cases relive—scenes from his past as they are projected onto the cinema’s big screen.
In these magical movies, the medium of film becomes the lens for Felix to reflect on the women who profoundly impacted his life. There’s his daughter Aliza, a Gen Y writer for New York Magazine who is trying to align her post-modern feminist beliefs with her lofty career ambitions; his sister, Frances, with whom he once shared a complicated bond of kindness and cruelty; and Verna, a fiery would-be contender for the 1951 Miss Rheingold competition, a beauty contest sponsored by a Brooklyn-based beer manufacturer that became a marketing phenomenon for two decades. At first unnerved by these ethereal apparitions, Felix comes to look forward to his encounters with Lois, who is later joined by the spirits of other celluloid muses.
Against the backdrop of a kaleidoscopic convergence of politics and pop culture, family secrets, and Hollywood iconography, Felix gains an enlightened understanding of the pressures and trials of the women closest to him, and of the feminine ideals and feminist realities that all women, of every era, must face. -
We Are Water Wally Lamb
ISBN: 978-0061941023 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Harper Язык: Английский As her wedding day approaches, Annie Oh finds herself one morning staring at a bed covered in Vera Wang wedding dresses, at the mercy of hopes and fears about the momentous change on the horizon. This is not Annie's first walk down the aisle. She has just emerged from a twenty-seven year marriage to Orion Oh, which produced three children, twins Andrew and Ariane and daughter Marisa. Annie has been trying to reach her ex-husband, as she wants to make sure that he is all right. Orion, a psychologist with a crippling need to help others, keeps assuring everyone that he is fine. But how can he be? Annie, a self-taught artist, is about to marry…
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She's Come Undone Уолли Лэмб
ISBN: 1442342536, 9781442342538 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Simon Schuster Audio Язык: Английский In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.
Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies.
When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under. -
The Hour I First Believed Уолли Лэмб
ISBN: 9780007313761 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский Caelum Quirkes a middle-aged schoolteacher. Students at Columbine High School generally respect him and turn to his wife Maureen, the school nurse, when in trouble. When he has to return to his home town for the funeral of his beloved aunt, Maureen promises to join him the next day – but she goes to work that morning, and that’s when the shootings happen. She hides in a cupboard, unable to see what’s happening, but listening to the students being taunted, then killed. Life can never be the same. But what can it be? In the face of Maureen’s trauma, Caelum searches for meaning, delving into his own family history and discovering that nothing was as he’s always been told. As the couple inch towards recovery and suffer setbacks, the stories of Caelum’s redoubtable ancestors illuminate how he came to be the man he is, and how he and Maureen might live in the future with freedom and dignity. With no easy answers, Caelum gradually comes to an understanding of who he really is and what he can believe in. -
I Know This Much is True Уолли Лэмб
ISBN: 9780006513230 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский Dominick Birdsey’s whole existence is coloured by the knowledge that his twin brother can never be fully responsible for his frightening behaviour, while he himself has beaten the biochemical odds to remain sane. But at what cost?
This powerful, heartwrenching drama draws on the deepest human emotions: the need to know oneself, responsibility to family, the influence of hidden history. The result is a highly acclaimed novel of survival, written with great sensitivity. -
I Know This Much is True Уолли Лэмб
ISBN: 0060752289, 9780060752286 Год издания: 2004 Издательство: HarperAudio Язык: Английский At 40, Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear: by the schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and polish ex-Navy man and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid, self-conscious woman.
Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the boys are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities. But Dominick's talent for survival his escape from Ray's wrath and the genetic fate that is Thomas will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives.
Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying story brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, of our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, and our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary audio experience that will leave no listener untouched. -
I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb
ISBN: 0060391626, 9780060391621 Год издания: 1998 Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, Regan Books Язык: Английский For most of his life Dominick Birdsey has been living in the shadow of his schizophrenic identical twin, Thomas, but when Thomas commits a violent act that affects both their lives, Dominick decides to leave his home and search for his true identity.
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She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
ISBN: 0671021001, 9780671021009 Год издания: 1998 Издательство: Pocket Язык: Английский In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance…