Иэн Макьюэн3.6 У детского писателя Стивена Льюиса прямо из супермаркета неожиданно и необъяснимо исчезает трехлетняя дочь. Это событие переворачивает всю жизнь Стивена, наглядно демонстрирует ему, что дочь была единственным смыслом его жизни. Личная драма Стивена разворачивается на фоне непрекращающегося течения времени, затеявшего странную борьбу с главным героем. Лишь постепенно Стивен понимает, что не человек владеет своим временем, а время властвует над людьми - время зачатия и время рождения, время роста и время возмужания, словом - время как загадочная, неперсонифицированная и всемогущая сила, которую невозможно провести, но которую можно попытаться преодолеть, лишь преодолев себя.
Фрэнсис Уиндхэм0.0 An eccentric woman in her 30s strikes a friendship with an adolescent boy in a small southern English town at the outbreak of World War II. The young man, who serves as the narrator, leaves to attend Oxford, while Kay, the woman, takes up with an American soldier. The patterns of life of the town and of the two friends are destroyed forever by the war, and Francis Wyndham's prose gives us a window into this time, and its demise. The novel is short and simple, yet filled with first-rate writing. The book won England's Whitbread prize in 1987
Джеральдин Маккорин0.0 Gabriel has no idea what the future will hold when he runs away from his apprenticeship with the bad-tempered stonemason. But God Himself, in the shape of playmaster Garvey, has plans for him. He wants Gabriel for his angel...
But will Gabriel's new life with the travelling players be any more secure? In a world of illusion, people are not always what they seem. Least of all Gabriel.
BLGeraldine McCaughrean is considered an exceptional writer of our time. She has won the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Whitbread Award (twice) and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award.
Seamus Heaney5.0 Poems exploring the theme of loss are joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an allegorical vein which will both surprise and delight the many admirers of his previous work.
Christopher Nolan0.0 A remarkable work by several measures, Under the Eye of the Clock is the autobiography--told slyly through a third person alter-ego--of Christopher Nolan, struck at birth with brain damage and left paralyzed, spastic and mute. His first book, Dam-Burst of Dreams, written when he was a teen, was a collection of poems that exploded with linguistic virtuosity, earning him comparisons to Joyce and Yeats. Nolan, whose disability requires that someone cup his chin while he pushes a head-mounted pointer at the keyboard, tells here of battles in an un-handicapped world, the heroic efforts of his family and the sights of Ireland that surround him. The book won England's Whitbread prize.
