My Baby Blue Jays
- 30 stránok
- 2 hodiny čítania
Author John Berendt chronicles the lives of baby blue jays after he notices a nest outside his office window and follows their lives from eggs to hatchlings to full grown birds.
John Berendt Poradie kníh (chronologicky)
5. december 1939
John Berendt je oslavovaný pre svoje pohlcujúce rozprávanie, ktoré vtiahne čitateľov do živo stvárnených prostredí so zmyslom pre neobvyklé a zaujímavé. Jeho dielo majstrovsky spája faktické pozorovania s novelistickým citom, skúmajúc skryté životy a excentricity, ktoré ležia pod povrchom každodenných miest. Berendt tvorí pútavé a podnetné príbehy, ktoré vyzývajú čitateľov objavovať mimoriadne v obyčajnom. Jeho osobitý štýl premieňa všednosť na čarovnú a zvláštnosť na hlboko ľudskú.
City of Falling Angels
- 384 stránok
- 14 hodin čítania
A mystery, a comedy, and a riveting human drama rolled into one, from the bestselling author of MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL
Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a 'walking streak of sex'. These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed - and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired - in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is as bracing and intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.