Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New England, The Wapshot Chronicle is a stirring family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James
Pursuing a murderer who has escaped into Indian Territory, U.S. Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn teams up with a bounty-hunting Texas Ranger and Mattie Ross, a cantankerous young lady who is bent on revenge.
A suicide note
Porn freak and jetsetter, John Self, is the shameless heir to a fast-food culture where money beats out an invitation to futile self-gratification. Out in New York, mingling with the mighty, Self is embroiled in the corruption, the brutality and the obscenity of the money conspiracy.
Na vyprahnutú zem sa zniesla ďalšia vrstva prachu a popola. Kýpte stromov sa striedajú s ruinami civilizácie. Mŕtvi nemo svedčia o bolesti a bezmocnosti, poslední živí sa nezastavia pred ničím, ani pred kanibalizmom. Sivé nebo so sivým slnkom čoraz častejšie prekrýva čierny studený dážď. Jediná možnosť uniknúť smrti je cesta – na juh. Desivá realita postapokalyptického románu Cormaca McCarthyho o putovaní otca a syna krajinou spustošenou kataklizmou. McCarthy s majstrovskou jednoduchosťou predstavuje svet, v ktorom prestali platiť hodnoty civilizácie a cenu má len to, čo pomôže prežiť ďalší deň. Uprostred nepriateľskej krajiny sa rozvíja nádherný ľudský cit, krehké, a pritom pevné puto medzi otcom a synom. Románový príbeh o láske, obetavosti a nádeji, ktorý stvorili nemilosrdne drsné podmienky, získal roku 2007 Pulitzerovou cenu.
New York Times Notable Book of the Year P ublishers Weekly Best Book of 1997 With an Introduction by Robert Giroux, The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud is "an essential American book," Richard Stern declared in the Chicago Tribune when the collection was published in hardcover. His praise was echoed by other reviewers and by readers, who embraced the book as they might a displaced person in one of Malamud's stories, now returned to us, complete and fulfilled and recognized at last. The volume gathers together fifty-five stories, from "Armistice" (1940) to "Alma Redeemed" (1984), and including the immortal stories from The Magic Barrel and the vivid depictions of the unforgettable Fidelman. It is a varied and generous collection of great examples of the modern short story, which Malamud perfected, and an ideal introduction to the work of this great American writer.
Jezus Christus vertelt zijn eigen verhaal en komt daarin naar voren als een man van vlees en bloed, met angsten en onzekerheden.
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.
In "Ontbijt bij Tiffany" worden de wederwaardigheden van Holly Golightly in een corrupte wereld op ironische wijze verhaald. Ze bewijst ondanks haar deprimerende ervaringen in New York steeds zichzelf trouw te blijven. Ze wil graag rijk zijn om bij Tifffany te kunnen gaan ontbijten, maar ze zou voor geen geld iets van haar eerlijkheid willen opofferen. Audrey Hepburn heeft in de verfilming van dit boek het meisje onvergetelijk gemaakt. Naast deze korte roman zijn in het boek nog drie staaltjes van Capote's vertelkunst opgenomen.
A magnet to the poets, philosophers, teachers, troubadours and misfits who people the town of Port of Spain, Miguel Street is a place where tales of glory and debauchery vie with declarations of love and anger, where neighbourhood dramas are scrutinized and wisdom doled out to one and all.
In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, including Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy, and covers his increasingly unhappy marriage to Nancy Nicholson. Goodbye to All That, with its vivid, harrowing descriptions of the Western Front, is a classic war document, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written.
Hlavným hrdinom románu je Bob Sloucum, priemerne úspešný úradník obchodnej firmy, ktorý si kladie otázku, čo sa stalo s jeho rodinou, s manželkou, s jeho snami a túžbami. Narušené medziľudské vzťahy, tápanie v začarovanom kruhu ambícií, morálnych kompromisov a spoločenských tlakov ho núti mysliet na pôvod a príčinu strácajúcich sa ideálov. Bezvýchodiskovosť situácie pri hľadaní zmyslu života je pre Boba Slocuma pri ironickom, typicky hellerovskom humore tragédiou bytia.
