Книга приглашает вас стать участником веселой компании, которая отправляется в путешествие. Персонажи время от времени меняются, места тоже. Окунитесь в мир, где люди играют с судьбой и где судьба порой бывает весьма снисходительной. Позитивный настрой, жизнелюбие, умение смеяться над собой помогает героям находить смешное в самых нелепых и малоприятных ситуациях. ...
When an art scene takes root in a pop-up colony called Freedom Springs, micro-visionary Ben Wilfork promotes the giant, autobiographical 600 square foot canvases of former chess prodigy and high end dominatrix Rhonda Barrett using his Hidden Wheel as a bridge to the future before pre-Datastrophe history completes itself. It's a book about the scams of the modern age–artistic self-promotion, corporate infiltration of hipsterdom–and it's ...
The Writers Afterlife is the story of Tom Chillo, a 44-year-old writer on the verge of fame, who suddenly dies of a stroke and finds himself transported to a place where all writers are sent after they die. After mingling with “The Eternals” — including Shakespeare, Wilde, Keats, and Tolstoy — he discovers that his true peers in this new world are all haunted by the same regret: they never achieved the fame t ...
"The Polish postwar firebrand Andrzej Bursa acquired a reputation as a quick-burning, existentially tormented rebel. . . . Yet Bursa's dark humor and deadpan satire . . . keep utter bleakness at bay."—The Independent "A revolution against the banality of everyday life."—Gazeta Krakowska A young university student named Jurek, with no particular ambitions or talents, is adrift. After his doting aunt asks him to ...
“Hang on to your hats, it’s a joy”, Jane Gardam, author of Old Filth Playful, intelligent fiction from acclaimed novelist to icon Woolf: “Wickedly smart, funny and fearless, plus that rarest of all things, genuinely surprising” Patrick Ness<br> A welcome treat for Virginia Woolf fans and for new readers: engaging, fun and easy to read, set in New York, London and Istanbul. Praise for Maggie Gee<br> ‘A wise and beautiful b ...
New short fiction from an exceptional stylist, full of witty and heart-breaking moments and fun to read throughout. By the author of the award-winner Hemingway on a Bike. ...
“A remarkable and very moving feat of storytelling.” —Andrew Holgate China is the center of the world, and the center of China is Beijing, and at the center of Beijing is a billionaire financier named Qin. At the opening of this novel-in-stories, billionaire Qin is lying in state at his funeral, victim of a sudden and premature death. Moving back and forth in time, we meet a wide range of Chinese, all linked to Qin by a degree or two of separat ...
Я – актриса из Техаса, карьера которой трещит по швам. Он – молодой голливудский актер, самовлюбленный сердцеед и заноза в моей заднице. И у нас случился роман… по контракту.
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Как избавиться от болезненной влюбленности в собственного ученика? А если уже допущена… небольшая неловкость? А если ученик наотрез отказывается вести себя как ученик? Да, не повезло Елене Александровне, что в пединститутах к таким вывертам судьбы не готовят. ...
