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Robert James Waller

    1. august 1939 – 10. marec 2017

    Robert James Waller bol americký autor najlepšie známy pre The Bridges of Madison County. Bol tiež profesorom, fotografom a hudobníkom.

    Robert James Waller
    A Troubled Sleep
    Border Music
    High plains tango
    Pomalý valčík
    Madisonské mosty
    Tisíc poľných ciest
    • Tisíc poľných ciest

      • 208 stránok
      • 8 hodin čítania
      4,1(495)Ohodnotiť

      Pokračovanie kultového románu a filmu Madisonské mosty!Po desiatich rokoch od prvého vydania románu Madisonské mosty Robert James Waller prišiel s dojímavým zakončením príbehu lásky potulného fotografa a manželky farmára z Iowy. Robert Kincaid spomína na svoj osamelý život, ktorý strávil väčšinou na cestách, a na svoju nezabudnuteľnú lásku Francescu Johnsonovú. Hľadá niečo nedefinovateľné, čo by dalo zmysel zvyšku jeho života, a tak sa opäť vydáva na cestu objavovania a nečakaných prekvapení. V starom nákladnom aute sa spolu so psom vyberie naprieč Amerikou k Rosemanovmu mostu v Iowe, na miesto svojej veľkej lásky. Francesca Johnsonová vedie po smrti manžela osamelý život. Často sa vracia k Rosemanovmu mostu a premýšľa o nevšedných dňoch s Robertom Kincaidom pred mnohými rokmi. S úctou k spomienke na zvláštneho tuláka, ktorý zmenil jej svet, prisahá, že ho bude hľadať. Podarí sa im po mnohých rokoch stretnúť alebo má pre nich život prichystané iné nečakané prekvapenia?

      Tisíc poľných ciest
    • Robert Kincaid, bohem nadaný fotograf, naturelem trochu bohém a "potulný kovboj", konečně ve svých dvaapadesáti letech potká životní lásku. Jako řízením osudu zastaví jednoho dne u osamělého domku Francesky Johnsonové, ženy místního farmáře a vzorné matky, která je právě doma sama, protože manžel a děti na týden odcestovali. Oba jako blesk z čistého nebe zasáhne neodolatelné kouzlo vzájemné přitažlivosti a poklidný, stereotypní Francesčin život je nečekaně vyveden ze zaběhnutých kolejí. Prožijí spolu několik neopakovatelných dní fyzického i duševního souznění, nakonec ale stejně přijde okamžik rozloučení...

      Madisonské mosty
    • Pomalý valčík

      • 176 stránok
      • 7 hodin čítania
      3,1(367)Ohodnotiť

      Milostný príbeh univerzitného profesora, ktorý pátra po minulosti svojej novej životnej lásky. Pátranie ho zo súčasnej Ameriky zavedie až do exotickej Indie.

      Pomalý valčík
    • A young drifter with a passion for solitude and carpentry, Carlisle McMillan purchases some land near Wolf Butte, South Dakota, a region considered sacred by the Sioux, and sets out to build a life for himself among the locals

      High plains tango
    • Most people don't run out the back door of a place called the Rainbow Bar in Dillon, Minnesota, with someone they don't even know, get in a pickup truck, drive all day, and end up without any clothes on in a motel room. But that's what Texas Jack Carmine did with Linda Lobo. It was the kind of thing Jack was famous for doing. The people who knew Texas Jack Carmine - such as songwriter Bobby McGregor and Jack's uncle Vaughn Rhomer back in Iowa - called him God's only freeborn soul, rider of the summer roads, traveler of the far places. Where he was headed with dark-haired, long-legged Linda was not just back to his one-horse Texas ranch. It was somewhere he had never been: face to face with his own heart and the wild, strange things that live there. Border Music is the story of Jack and Linda, of long, hot days on a high desert ranch, nights wild with loving beneath West Texas skies, and times when their relationship tears them both apart. It's about Vietnam and the Midwest, and Vaughn Rhomer, an old man who,tries in his own fumbling way to be free. It's about men and women who work hard and care intensely, about romance and the passion that you only find once...and you never stop wanting to find again.

      Border Music
    • Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, comparative research, and over 110 hours of face-to-face interviews with a diverse range of political, academic, civil society, and community actors across Northern Ireland, Waller revisits one of the world's most deeply divided societies to analyze Northern Ireland's current vulnerabilities, and points of resilience, as an allegedly "post-conflict" society

      A Troubled Sleep
    • On assignment shooting the covered bridges in Iowa, photographer Robert Kincaid falls in love with the Iowa house wife, Francesca Johnson, during four days of love, magic, and beauty. This is the story of Robert Kincaid, a wandering magazine photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, an farm wife born in Italy waiting for fulfillment of a girlhood dream. It shows readers what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again. When Robert Kincaid drives through the heat and dust of an Iowa summer and turns into Francesca Johnson's farm lane looking for directions, the world-class photographer and the Iowa farm wife are joined in an experience of uncommon truth and stunning beauty that will haunt them forever. Their encounter, fraught with dangers, survives only in their psyches. Both know that what could have been, should have been, could not be. Yet, hearts persist, tickling both characters' minds. Both remember a few stolen moments when two souls sang in perfect harmony, but through circumstance must not sing again. The romantic classic of the 1990's.

      Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend. The Bridges of Madison County
    • Becoming Evil

      • 384 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania
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      Uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. This book offers a comprehensive psychological view of how anyone can potentially participate in heinous crimes against humanity.

      Becoming Evil
    • From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays--all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expect from the author of The Bridges of Madison County--a celebration of life and loss, of what things still can be.

      Old Songs in a New Café
    • The Long Night of Winchell Dear

      • 160 stránok
      • 6 hodin čítania
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      Set against the backdrop of a high desert night, an old-time gambler awaits an ominous fate in his remote ranch house. Winchell Dear, reflecting on his past with Lucinda Miller, prepares for an uncertain confrontation, armed and restless. The atmosphere is thick with tension as he listens to the sounds of the night, while outside, the unpredictable Luther stalks through the landscape. Themes of chance, memory, and impending danger intertwine in this evocative tale of solitude and anticipation.

      The Long Night of Winchell Dear