Кормак Маккарти4.2 Кормак Маккарти — современный американский классик главного калибра, лауреат Макартуровской стипендии «За гениальность», мастер сложных переживаний и нестандартного синтаксиса, хорошо известный нашему читателю романами «Старикам тут не место» (фильм братьев Коэн по этой книге получил четыре «Оскара»), «Дорога» (получил Пулицеровскую премию и также был экранизирован) и «Кровавый меридиан» («своего рода смесь Дантова „Ада“, „Илиады“ и „Моби Дика“», по выражению букеровского лауреата Джона Бэнвилла). Роман «Кони, кони...» (перенесенный на экран Билли Бобом Торнтоном, главные роли исполнили Мэтт Дэймон и Пенелопа Крус) — это первая часть «Пограничной трилогии», в которую также входят романы «За чертой» и «Содом и Гоморра»; это великолепное сочетание вестерна, героической саги и мелодрамы. Юные герои романа однажды садятся на коней и, переправившись через реку, отделяющую Техас от Мексики, попадают в мифологическое пространство... Что движет ими? Попытка подростков стать настоящими мужчинами, американская страсть к перемене мест или поиски святого Грааля?
Роберт Стоун3.0 Разочарованному в жизни Оуэну Брауну, бывшему солдату, а ныне торговому агенту, представляется случай кардинально изменить жизнь. Он соглашается принять участие в кругосветной одиночной гонке на яхте. Вначале полный энтузиазма, он вскоре понимает, что совершил ошибку.
Joyce Carol Oates3.0 Flattered by the attentions of a senator she meets at a Fourth of July beach party on Grayling Island, Kelly Kelleher accepts a ride from him, taking a first step toward her final confrontation with death.
Richard Price0.0 Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" (USA Today)
At once an intense mystery and a revealing study of two men, a veteran homicide detective and an innercity crack dealer, on opposite sides of an endless war. Clockers is "powerful . . . harrowing . . . remarkable" (The New York Times Book Review).
Рандалл Кенан0.0 Set in North Carolina, these are stories about blacks and whites, young and old, rural and sophisticated, the real and fantastical. Named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, nominated for the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award, and given the Lambda Award.
Норман Маклин0.0 On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, The Smoke Jumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned from a "blowup" -- an explosive, 2,000-degree firestorm 300 feet deep and 200 feet tall -- a deadly explosion of flame and wind rarely encountered and little understood at the time. Only seconds ahead of the approaching firestorm, the foreman, R. Wagner Dodge, throws himself into the ashes of an "escape fire " - and survives as most of his confused men run, their last moments obscured by smoke. The parents of the dead cry murder, charging that the foreman's fire killed their boys. Exactly what happened in Mann Gulch that day has been obscured by years of grief and controversy. Now a master storyteller finally gives the Mann Gulch fire its due as tragedy.
Дональд Р. Кац0.0 Home Fires is the powerful saga of the Gordon family-real people, names unchanged. Spanning nearly five decades, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, their story has the scope, depth, wealth of incident, and emotional intensity of a great novel, and an abundance of humor, scandal, warmth, and trauma. A masterful chronicle of the turbulent postwar era, illuminating the interplay between private life and profound cultural changes.
Donald Katz begins his account in 1945, when Sam Gordon comes home from the war to his young wife, and two-year-old daughter, eager to move his family into the growing middle class. After a few years in the Bronx, Sam and Eve move to a new Long Island subdivision and have two more children. As the '50s yield to the '60s, the younger Gordons fly out into the culture like shrapnel from an artillery shell, each tracing a unique trajectory.
Katz tells the Gordons' story-the unraveling of Sam's and Eve's American dream, to the slow, hopeful reknitting of the family-marshaling a vivid cast of supporting characters. Deftly juxtaposing day-to-day family life with landmark public events, Katz creates a rich and revealing portrait of the second half of 20th century America.
Нэнси Шепер-Хьюз0.0 When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing – and controversial – is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live.
Edward O. Wilson5.0 In this book a master scientist tells the story of how life on earth evolved. Edward O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse and why that diversity is threatened today as never before. A great spasm of extinction — the disappearance of whole species — is occurring now, caused this time entirely by humans. Unlike the deterioration of the physical environment, which can be halted, the loss of biodiversity is a far more complex problem — and it is irreversible. Defining a new environmental ethic, Wilson explains why we must rescue whole ecosystems, not only individual species. He calls for an end to conservation versus development arguments, and he outlines the massive shift in priorities needed to address this challenge. No writer, no scientist, is more qualified than Edward O. Wilson to describe, as he does here, the grandeur of evolution and what is at stake. "Engaging and nontechnical prose. . . . Prodigious erudition. . . . Original and fascinating insights." — John Terborgh, New York Review of Books, front page review "Eloquent. . . . A profound and enduring contribution." — Alan Burdick, Audubon.
Майкл Ко4.3 Надписи на языке майя были открыты еще несколько сотен лет назад, но прочитать их удалось совсем недавно. И если бы не исследовательский талант нескольких ученых, среди которых и наш соотечественник Юрий Кнорозов, — язык майя, вероятно, оставался бы загадкой и по сей день. Историю этой удивительной расшифровки рассказывает археолог-майянист Майкл Ко, профессор Гарвардского университета. Ко лично знал Кнорозова и многое сделал для популяризации его работ еще во времена "железного занавеса". Его книга рассказывает о прорывах и трудностях, сопровождавших одно из величайших интеллектуальных достижений XX века.
