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From their childhood, Jack Rathbone has enjoyed the adoration of his sister Gin. When both attend art school in London, it is a painful wrench for Gin to watch Jack fall under the spell of Vera Savage, an older, flamboyant artist. Jack and Vera run off to New York within weeks and, from a bruised and bereft distance, sister Gin follows the couple's progress to Port Mungo, a river town in the swamps of the Gulf of Honduras. There, Jack devotes himself to his art, while Vera succumbs to infidelity and a chronic restlessness, which even the birth of two daughters cannot subdue. In his spellbinding narrative, Patrick McGrath tracks these individuals across decades and continents- the latter-day Gaugin figure Jack, his buccaneering mate Vera and their two girls, Peg and Anna, cast adrift in their parents' chaos -as observed by Gin, their far from detached chronicler.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE.Opening on the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, on the remote north-west coast of England, The Electric Michelangelo is a novel of love, loss and the art of tattooing.In the uniquely sensuous and lyrical prose that has already become her trademark, Sarah Hall's remarkable new novel tells the story of Cy Parks, from his childhood years spent in a seaside guest house for consumptives with his mother, Reeda, to his apprenticeship as a tattoo-artist with Eliot Riley - a scraper with a reputation as a Bolshevik and a drinker to boot.His skills acquired and a thirst for experience burning within him, Cy departs for America and the riotous world of the Coney Island boardwalk, where he sets up his own business as 'The Electric Michelangelo'. In this carnival environment of roller-coasters and freak-shows, while the crest of the Edwardian amusement industry wave is breaking, Cy becomes enamoured with Grace, a mysterious East European immigrant and circus performer who commissions him to cover her body entirely with tattooed eyes.Hugely atmospheric, exotic, and familiar, The Electric Michelangelo is a love story and an exquisitely rendered portrait of seaside resorts on opposite sides of the Atlantic by one of the most uniquely talented novelists of her generation.World rights for The Electric Michelangelo are controlled by Faber. Rights for France and The Netherlands have been sold.

Ľudia sú odjakživa mýtotvorcami. Takto začína Karen Armstrong stručnú, ale pôsobivú rozpravu o mýte, o jeho povahe, o jeho vzniku a dôvodoch, prečo ho dosiaľ zúfalo potrebujeme. Sprevádza nás od paleolitu a loveckých mýtov až do obdobia Veľkej západnej transformácie posledných 500 rokov, keď veda diskreditovala mýty. Dejiny mýtu sú dejinami ľudstva, predstavujú naše príbehy a predstavy, náš záujem a pokusy o pochopenie sveta, spájajú nás s našimi predkami a ostatnými ľuďmi. Karen Armstrong uvádza významnú edíciu svetových mýtov od autorov z celého sveta a jej príznačne hlboká, zasvätená kniha je skvelým, provokujúcim úvodom do mytológie v najširšom zmysle slova – vysvetľujeme nám, prečo ohrozíme sami seba, ak nebudeme brať mýty na ľahkú váhu.

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