Люблю американскую литературу — 152 книги — стр. 2

Today is a specidal day for Sal because she gets to go to Buck's Harbour with her dad. But when she wakes up to brush her teeth with her baby sister, she discovers something shocking.... Her tooth is loose!

And that's just the start of a huge day!

Today is a specidal day for Sal because she gets to go to Buck's Harbour with her dad. But when she wakes up to brush her teeth with her baby sister, she discovers something…

Впервые на русском! Второй сборник не опубликованных ранее произведений великого американского писателя!
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд, возвестивший миру о начале нового века — «века джаза», стоит особняком в современной американской классике. Хемингуэй писал о нем: «Его талант был таким естественным, как узор из пыльцы на крыльях бабочки». Его романы «Великий Гэтсби» и «Ночь нежна» повлияли на формирование новой мировой литературной традиции XX столетия. Однако Фицджеральд также известен как автор блестящих рассказов, из которых на русский язык переводилась лишь небольшая часть. Предлагаемая вашему вниманию книга — уже вторая из нескольких запланированных к изданию, после «Новых мелодий печальных оркестров», — призвана исправить это досадное упущение. Итак, впервые на русском — пятнадцать то смешных, то грустных, но неизменно блестящих историй от признанного мастера тонкого психологизма. И что немаловажно — снова в блестящих переводах.

Впервые на русском! Второй сборник не опубликованных ранее произведений великого американского писателя!
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд, возвестивший миру о начале нового века — «века…

In Myla Goldberg's outstanding first novel, a family is shaken apart by a small but unexpected shift in the prospects of one of its members. When 9-year-old Eliza Naumann, an otherwise indifferent student, takes first prize in her school spelling bee, it is as if rays of light have begun to emanate from her head. Teachers regard her with a new fondness; the studious girls begin to save a place for her at lunch. Even Eliza can sense herself changing. She had "often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see."

In Myla Goldberg's outstanding first novel, a family is shaken apart by a small but unexpected shift in the prospects of one of its members. When 9-year-old Eliza Naumann, an…

Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination, but an answer.

In heaven, five people explain your life to you. Some you knew, others may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"

Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic…

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale.
What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?

"Life After Life" follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take…

Созданный современной американской писательницей и поэтессой Кэтрин Мадженди неповторимый, волшебный мир расположен в глухих уголках восточных штатов, наполнен дыханием гор и леса и населен образами детства и тенями ушедших, которые то и дело вмешиваются в ход повествования. ...Вирджиния Кейт возвращается в родные места, чтобы похоронить мать и распорядиться наследством, — а на самом деле ей предстоит правильно распорядиться собственными счастливыми и горькими воспоминаниями, осмыслить судьбу трех поколений женщин ее семьи, понять и простить.

Созданный современной американской писательницей и поэтессой Кэтрин Мадженди неповторимый, волшебный мир расположен в глухих уголках восточных штатов, наполнен дыханием гор и леса…

Познакомьтесь с Эйлин Тумулти. Она родилась в бедном районе Нью-Йорка, в панельном доме, где отчаяние сменяется бурным весельем в зависимости от количества принятого. С самого детства она мечтала жить где-нибудь в другом месте, например, в уютном Бронксвилле… Так родилась Американская мечта.
Эйлин работает медсестрой, но, как в детстве, хочет от жизни большего. Она надеется, что ее муж, талантливый молодой ученый, поможет ей осуществить ее мечту. Но Эд Лири не рвется вверх по служебной лестнице, не хочет рисковать с покупкой нового дома, не спешит делать карьеру. И постепенно Эйлин понимает, что его нерешительность имеет не только психологические корни, что все гораздо серьезнее…

Познакомьтесь с Эйлин Тумулти. Она родилась в бедном районе Нью-Йорка, в панельном доме, где отчаяние сменяется бурным весельем в зависимости от количества принятого. С самого…

Поэт и прозаик Джон Уильямс (1922–1994), лауреат Национальной книжной премии США, выпустил всего четыре романа, и один из них — знаменитый “Стоунер”, книга с необычной и счастливой судьбой. Впервые увидев свет пятьдесят лет назад, она неожиданно обрела вторую жизнь в XXI веке. Переиздание вызвало в Америке колоссальный резонанс. Знаменитая на весь мир Анна Гавальда взялась за французский перевод, и “Стоунер” с надписью на обложке “Прочла, полюбила и перевела Анна Гавальда” покорил Францию. Вскоре последовали переводы на другие языки, и к автору пришла посмертная слава. Крестьянский парень Уильям Стоунер неожиданно для себя увлекся текстами Шекспира. Отказавшись возвращаться после колледжа на родительскую ферму, он остается в университете продолжать учебу, а затем и преподавать. Все его решения, поступки, отношения с семьей, с любимой женщиной, и, в конечном счете, всю его судьбу определяет страстная любовь к литературе. Отсюда и удивительное на первый взгляд признание Анны Гавальды: “Стоунер — это я”.

Поэт и прозаик Джон Уильямс (1922–1994), лауреат Национальной книжной премии США, выпустил всего четыре романа, и один из них — знаменитый “Стоунер”, книга с необычной и…

История четырнадцатилетней Лили Оуэнс, потерявшей в детстве мать, - это история об утратах и обретениях, о любви, вере и прощении, история о людях, которым открылся истинный смысл концепций "выбора того, что важно".

История четырнадцатилетней Лили Оуэнс, потерявшей в детстве мать, - это история об утратах и обретениях, о любви, вере и прощении, история о людях, которым открылся истинный смысл…

What if the place you called 'home' happened to be a funeral home? Kate Mayfield explores what it meant to be the daughter of a small-town undertaker in this fascinating memoir evocative of Six Feet Under and The Help, with a hint of Mary Roach's Stiff.

What if the place you called 'home' happened to be a funeral home? Kate Mayfield explores what it meant to be the daughter of a small-town undertaker in this fascinating memoir…

"She writes with a beautiful clarity, an elemental humanity and a marvellous, limpid, funny apprehension of what goes on" - Sunday Telegraph.
These are dazzling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munro's stories surprise and delight, turning lives into art, expanding our world and shedding light on the strange workings of the human heart.

"She writes with a beautiful clarity, an elemental humanity and a marvellous, limpid, funny apprehension of what goes on" - Sunday Telegraph.
These are dazzling, provocative…

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive’s own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse.

As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life–sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty. Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition - its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires.

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of…

Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whirlwind tour of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of an English girl determined to learn about her family and its secrets.

Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whirlwind tour of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of an English girl…

It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg, Maine. No one in town will let him forget that he's a minister's son, even if he doesn't act like one. But then he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a smart and sassy girl from a poor nearby island community founded by former slaves. Despite his father's-and the town's-disapproval of their friendship, Turner spends time with Lizzie, and it opens up a whole new world to him, filled with the mystery and wonder of Maine's rocky coast. The two soon discover that the town elders, along with Turner's father, want to force the people to leave Lizzie's island so that Phippsburg can start a lucrative tourist trade there. Turner gets caught up in a spiral of disasters that alter his life-but also lead him to new levels of acceptance and maturity. This sensitively written historical novel, based on the true story of a community's destruction, highlights a unique friendship during a time of change. Author's note.

It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg, Maine. No one in town will let him forget that he's a minister's son, even if he doesn't act like one.…

When Henry Smith's older brother goes into a coma after being hit by a Cambodian boy's pickup truck, the entire Smith family is engulfed in the tragedy. It takes a mountain, which Henry vows to climb, to open the eyes of this long-established Yankee family to their own prejudices and to an awareness that they can never insulate themselves against trouble.

When Henry Smith's older brother goes into a coma after being hit by a Cambodian boy's pickup truck, the entire Smith family is engulfed in the tragedy. It takes a…

“The Dump” is what Doug Swieteck calls his new home in upstate New York. He lands there in the summer of 1968, when the Apollo space missions are under way, Joe Pepitone is slugging for the New York Yankees, and the Vietnam War is raging. At home he lives with a father who has lost his way and a brother accused of robbery. And Doug’s oldest brother is returning from Vietnam. Who knows what wounds his missions have given him?

But Doug has his own mission, too, and it begins when he first sees the plates of John James Audubon’s Birds of America at the local library. His mission will lead him to Lil Spicer, who shows him how to drink a really cold Coke, to Mrs. Windermere, who drags him to a theater opening, and to the customers of his Saturday grocery deliveries, who together will open a world as strange to him as the lunar landscape.

Swieteck, who first appeared in Gary D. Schmidt’s Newbery Honor book The Wednesday Wars, will discover the transforming power of art over disaster in a story about creativity and loss, love and recovery, and survival.

“The Dump” is what Doug Swieteck calls his new home in upstate New York. He lands there in the summer of 1968, when the Apollo space missions are under way, Joe Pepitone is…

In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy’s mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967–68 school year in Long Island, New York.

Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High, who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, while the rest of the class has religious instruction. Mrs. Baker doesn’t like Holling—he’s sure of it. Why else would she make him read the plays of William Shakespeare outside class? But everyone has bigger things to worry about, like Vietnam. His father wants Holling and his sister to be on their best behavior: the success of his business depends on it. But how can Holling stay out of trouble when he has so much to contend with? A bully demanding cream puffs; angry rats; and a baseball hero signing autographs the very same night Holling has to appear in a play in yellow tights! As fate sneaks up on him again and again, Holling finds Motivation—the Big M—in the most unexpected places and musters up the courage to embrace his destiny, in spite of himself.

In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy’s mishaps…

Introducing a fresh, exciting new voice, an inspiring debut about a Chinese immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.
When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.
Through Kimberly's story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic American immigrant novel - a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.

Introducing a fresh, exciting new voice, an inspiring debut about a Chinese immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.
When Kimberly Chang and her…

On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her fifteen years. This girl is hungry for stardom and Cora for something she doesn't yet know. Cora will be many things in her lifetime - an orphan, a mother, a wife, a mistress - but in New York she is a chaperone and her life is about to change.

On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she…

Впервые издаваемые в одном сборнике произведения с детективным сюжетом известного американского писателя и философа Айн Рэнд. Книга "Ночью 16 января" включает три произведения: "Ночью 16 января", "Идеал", "Подумай дважды". Объединяет их одно - яркость и необычность.
Драматургия Айн Рэнд - явление незаурядное. Для нее свойственны интерес к современным проблемам, быстро развивающееся действие и совершенно неожиданные повороты. Критики неоднократно отмечали, что Айн Рэнд дает возможность зрителю угадывать ход событий, но каждый раз, угадав, человек понимает, что ошибся. В ее произведениях тесно слиты мысль и действие. Это не шаблонные детективы. Философские идеи персонажей служат для них настоящей мотивацией и побуждают к действиям, которые в свою очередь конкретизируют смысл. Драматургия Айн Рэнд, несомненно, обретет своего читателя и зрителя в России.

Впервые издаваемые в одном сборнике произведения с детективным сюжетом известного американского писателя и философа Айн Рэнд. Книга "Ночью 16 января" включает три произведения:…