Энни Пру3.7 В 1944 году Лоял Блад тайно хоронит тело случайно убитой им подруги на каменистом склоне холма в Вермонте и пускается в бега...
Вся его дальнейшая жизнь — бессмысленные и бесцельные скитания по американскому Западу длиной в сорок лет, случайные заработки, панический страх полюбить, остепениться…
Единственный контакт с семьей и прошлым — открытки без обратного адреса. Лоял шлет их снова и снова, даже не зная, насколько все изменилось на его родине и есть ли еще, кому читать эти открытки...
Robert Olen Butler0.0 Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's most important living writers, in a new edition of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain that includes two subsequently published stories -- "Salem" and "Missing" -- that brilliantly complete the collection's narrative journey, returning to the jungles of Vietnam
Francisco Goldman0.0 "TheLong Night of White Chickens" is a novel truely born of two worlds: it is the story of Roger Graetz, raised in a Boston suburb by an aristocrat Guatemalan mother, and his relationship with Flor de Mayo, the beautiful young Guatemalan orphan sent by his grandmother to live with his family as a maid. When, years later in the 1980s, Flor is murdered in Guatemala while running an orphanage, Roger returns to uncover the truth of her death. There he is reunited with Luis Moya, a childhood friend, and together they venture on a quest and chronicle of Flow's whole life story that will prove to have unexpected, and unforgettable, repercussioins.
Морин Ховард0.0 Howard gives readers her masterwork--a gorgeous, three-ring circus of a novel, enchanting, bawdy, profound. A society tramp kills a soldier toward the end of World War II, and Billy Bray, a swaggering county detective in Bridgeport, Connecticut, investigates. The echoes of the case will reverberate down the decades and into the lives of Bray's Irish-Catholic family. 15 line drawings.
Sylvia Watanabe0.0 By an 0. Henry Award-winning young writer, these interrelated stories paint a moving, many-faceted portrait of a Hawaiian village, where ancient traditions and modern values meet in a magical mix of the marvelous and the real.
