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James Frey

    12. september 1969

    James Frey je americký autor známy svojimi surovými a často kontroverznými rozprávaniami. Jeho diela sa ponárajú do hlbín ľudskej skúsenosti a skúmajú témy závislosti, zotavenia a hľadania identity. Freyho štýl je priamočiary a nekompromisný, čo čitateľom poskytuje intenzívne a pohlcujúce čítanie, ktoré je často provokatívne a vždy zapamätateľné. Skúma temnejšie stránky života s jedinečnou naliehavosťou, ktorá rezonuje s jeho čitateľmi.

    James Frey
    Student's Guides
    Gloryland
    Poslední vůle Bena Ziona Avrohoma
    Katerina
    A Million Little Pieces
    My Friend Leonard
    • My Friend Leonard

      • 384 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania
      3,9(43126)Ohodnotiť

      Written in the style of "A Million Little Pieces", this book is an insight into a friendship built in the underworld in the most unlikely of circumstances.

      My Friend Leonard
    • Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. It is also the introduction of a bold and talented literary voice. Before considering reading this book, please see the BookBrowse note on the book jacket/review page.BookBrowse Note: January 9th 2006: An article in the Smoking Gun claimed that James Frey (author of A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard) fabricated key parts of his books. They cited police records, court documents and interviews with law enforcement agents which belie a number of Frey's claims regarding criminal charges against him, jail terms and his fugitive status.In an interview with the Smoking Gun, Frey admitted that he had 'embellished central details' in A Million Little Pieces and backtracked on claims he made in the book.January 26th 2006. Frey's publisher stated that while it initially stood by him, after further questioning of the author, the house has "sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished." It will be adding a a publisher's note and author's note to all future editions of A Million Little Pieces.

      A Million Little Pieces
    • Katerina

      • 320 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania
      3,6(2049)Ohodnotiť

      A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and heartbreak, regret and pain, the melancholy of age. Katerina, the explosive new novel by America's most controversial writer, is a sweeping love story alternating between 1992 Paris and Los Angeles in 2017. At its centre are a young writer and a young model on the verge of fame, both reckless, impulsive, addicted and deeply in love. Twenty-five years later, the writer is rich, famous, and numb, and he wants to drive his car into a tree, when he receives an anonymous message that draws him back to the life, and possibly the love, he abandoned years prior. Written in the same percussive, propulsive, dazzling, breathtaking style as A Million Little Pieces, Katerina echoes and complements that most controversial of memoirs, and plays with the same issues of fiction and reality that created, nearly destroyed, and then recreated James Frey in the global imagination.

      Katerina
    • Poslední vůle Bena Ziona Avrohoma

      • 234 stránok
      • 9 hodin čítania
      2,5(10)Ohodnotiť

      Dva tisíce let jsme čekali, až Mesiáš přijde mezi nás. A on prý žije. Přebývá v New Yorku. Spí s muži i ženami, přivádí do jiného stavu dívky, léčí nemocné a umírajícím pomáhá odejít z tohoto světa. Říká se, že kašle na vládu a opovrhuje posvátnem. Co byste udělali, kdybyste jej potkali a on vám změnil život? Uvěřili byste v něj? Začali byste ho brát vážně? Opravdu? Jedno je jisté: tento román Jamese Freye vás asi vyvede z míry, možná vás změní, ale určitě budete fascinováni silou a hloubkou citů i revolučními až bezbožnými postoji.

      Poslední vůle Bena Ziona Avrohoma
    • Gloryland

      • 288 stránok
      • 11 hodin čítania
      4,3(52)Ohodnotiť

      "Born on Emancipation Day, 1863, to a sharecropping family of African and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy never lived as a slave, but his self-image as a free person is at war with his surroundings: Spartanburg, South Carolina, in the Reconstructed South. Exiled for his own survival as a teenager, Elijah walks west to the Nebraska plains and, like other rootless young African-American men of that era, joins up with the U.S. Cavalry" -- back cover

      Gloryland
    • A concise introduction to Fourier transforms, this updated edition includes new and interesting material, such as convolution with a sinusoid, coherence, the Michelson stellar interferometer and the van Cittert-Zernike theorem, Babinet's principle and dipole arrays. It is invaluable to students of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, and computer science.

      Student's Guides
    • The Indian Rebellion, 1857-1859

      • 224 stránok
      • 8 hodin čítania

      "Frey's concise and readable history of the Indian Rebellion is an excellent introduction to one of the most important wars of the nineteenth century. The rebellion lasted more than a year and pitted broad sections of north Indian society against the British East India Company. British victory consolidated colonial rule that would only be dislodged by twentieth-century nationalist movements. Frey provides a crystal-clear account of the causes, principal events, and consequences of the rebellion. Equally importantly, he deftly discusses why the rebellion remains controversial. Well-chosen documents add texture to the analysis. This is the best short history of the rebellion in print." --Ian Barrow, Middlebury College

      The Indian Rebellion, 1857-1859
    • Contains the first two volumes of the author's ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. This collection includes such tales as Count Magnus; Number 13; Casting the Runes; Curse of the Demon; and Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad.

      Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories
    • Antiquarian Paxton travels to a small town on the coast of Norfolk and learns of a legend concerning three crowns buried on the coast thousands of years ago to protect the land against marauding Vikings. Paxton tries to find the remaining crown, unaware of the supernatural presence that protects it.

      The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories
    • Before they were players ... before the calling ... they trained to be selected as the one to save their ancient bloodline-- and win Endgame. In this collection of Training Diaries novellas, follow Marcus, Chiyoko, Sarah, Alice, Aisling, Baitsakhan, Jago, An, Shari, Kala, Maccabee, and Hilal through sacrifices and betrayals, broken hearts and broken bones, as they shed their normal lives and transform into the Players they were meant to be

      Endgame - Complete Training Diaries