Shepard disgorges ideas like a drunk or a junkie, streams of images described in visceral prose that essentially numb you to their force. An anaesthetic effect is present in stories like "Life of Buddha" (1988), in which a heroin addict provokes the transmutation of a male transsexual into a perfect woman. Shepard's characters crave freedom and transformation; the narratives over-reach and become baroque in their pursuit of it, and so lose some of their power. They express the central paradox of Shepard's work: his acceptance and celebration of claustrophobia and the "feeling of stricture" (as in "Griaule"), and his desperate raging against it.

"I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear." Beleaguered reporter Carl Streator is stuck writing about SIDS and grieving for his dead wife and child; he copes by building perfect model homes and smashing them with a bare foot. But things only get worse: Carl accidentally memorizes an ancient African "culling song" that kills anyone he focuses on while mentally reciting it, until killing "gets to be a bad habit." His only friend, Nash, a creepy necrophiliac coroner, amuses himself with Carl's victims. Salvation of a sort comes in the form of Helen Hoover Boyle, a witch making a tidy living as a real estate broker selling-and quickly reselling-haunted houses. She, too, knows the culling song and finances her diamond addiction by freelancing as a telepathic assassin. Carl and Helen hit the road with Helen's Wiccan assistant, Mona, and her blackmailing boyfriend, Oyster, on a search-and-destroy mission for all outstanding copies of the culling song, as well as an all-powerful master tome of spells, a grimoire. Hilarious satire, both supernatural and scatological, ensues, the subtext of which seems to be Palahniuk's conviction that information has become a weapon ("Imagine a plague you catch through your ears"), and the bizarre love affair between Helen and Carl offers the lone linear thread in a field of narrative flak bursts. But the chief significance of this novel is Palahniuk's decision to commit himself to a genre, and this horror tale of both magic and mundane modernity plants him firmly in a category where previously he existed as a genre of one.

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Что делать, если ты застала любимого мужчину в бане с проститутками? Пригласить в тот же номер мальчика по вызову. И посмотреть, как изменятся ваши отношения… Недавняя выпускница журфака Лиза Чайкина попала именно в такую ситуацию. Но не успела она вернуть свою первую школьную любовь, как в ее жизнь ворвался главный редактор популярной газеты. Стать очередной игрушкой опытного ловеласа или воспользоваться им? Соблазн велик, риск — тоже. И если любовь — игра, то все ли способы хороши, чтобы победить?

Here is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with everthing going for them: three healthy children, a nice home, a steady income. They have every reason to be happy, but for some reason they are not. Like so many young men of the day, Tom finds himself caught up in the corporate rat race — what he encounters there propels him on a voyage of self-discovery that will turn his world inside out. At once a searing indictment of coporate culture, a story of a young man confronting his past and future with honesty, and a testament to the enduring power of family, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a deeply rewarding novel about the importance of taking responsibility for one's own life.

Four university friends, obsessed with a fantasy, role-playing game delve into the darkest parts of their minds and carry the game one terrible step too far.

Персонажей романа «Memento mori» известной английской писательницы Мюриэл Спарк преследуют по телефону – неизвестный голос повторяет одну и ту же фразу: «Помните, что вас ждет смерть». Полиция бессильна...

Продолжение истории о неудачнике Гарри Сильвере, начатой в романе «Man and Boy, или Мужчина и мальчик» — книге, которая стала международным бестселлером и завоевала звание Книги года в Великобритании.Вторая женитьба Гарри не только не снимает проблем, в которых он увяз, как в трясине, но ежедневно создает новые. Здесь и обоюдная ревность, и вынужденный уход со службы, и отчуждение повзрослевших детей, особенно сына Пэта, похоже повторяющего судьбу своего неудачливого родителя. И если бы не спасительное вмешательство старого Кена Гримвуда, бывшего солдата-спецназовца из Королевской морской пехоты, жизнь невезучего Гарри Сильвера окончательно превратилась бы в ад.

Secondo voi "kibbutz" è un’espressione usata dalle contadine di Alberobello quando sentono bussare alla porta del trullo? "Venerea" si dice di donna bellissima e diafana? "Prostata" di persona sdraiata a terra, a faccia in giù, in atto di adorazione? "Kandinsky" è un dolce nazionale ungherese? E, passando al latino, Memento mori significa "il mio mento sembra quello di un negro"? Brevi manu "tenere le mani all’ altezza delle ascelle"? Deus ex machina "perdio, che macchina!"?Allora avete bisogno di questo Prontuario comico della lingua italiana, un saggio tanto divertente quanto impietoso, scritto da una delle più grandi voci umoristiche della nostra storia. Villaggio ci fa ridere e riflettere sull’ italiano scritto e quello parlato, la neolingua degli SMS e dei computer, i congiuntivi degli accademici e il linguaggio degli intellettuali di sinistra.Così l’ inventore di Fantozzi torna a fustigare, esaltare, fotografare l’ italiano medio. Inteso, stavolta, come lingua.In sovraccoperta:Paolo Villaggio ha scritto oltre trenta libri, gli ultimi dei quali sono Storia della libertà di pensiero (Feltrinelli, 2008), Sione di donne straordinarie (Mondadori, 2009) e Crociera lo cost (Mondadori, 2010). Ha vinto il Premio Città di Vigevano e due volte il Premio Flaiano.

She Sought Revenge But Discovered Desire.On a quest to avenge her sister's death, Eleanor Watkins never expected to fall for the man following her through pleasure gardens and into ballrooms. But soon nothing can keep her from the arms of the sinfully attractive scoundrel, not even the dangerous secrets she keeps. Strong, compassionate, and utterly irresistible, James is all she desires. But can she trust him enough to let herself succumb to all the pleasures that midnight allows?James Swindler has worked hard to atone for his unsavory past. He is now as at home in London's glittering salons as he is in the roughest streets. But when the inspector is tasked with keeping watch on a mysterious lady suspected of nefarious deeds, he is determined to use his skills at seduction to lure Eleanor into revealing her plans. Instead, he is the one seduced, turning away from everything he holds dear in order to protect her – no matter the cost to his heart.

Mightier than the Sword opens with an IRA bomb exploding during the MV Buckingham's maiden voyage across the Atlantic — but how many passengers lose their lives?When Harry Clifton visits his publisher in New York, he learns that he has been elected as the new president of English PEN, and immediately launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who's imprisoned in Siberia. Babakov's crime? Writing a book called Uncle Joe, a devastating insight into what it was like to work for Stalin. So determined is Harry to see Babakov released and the book published, that he puts his own life in danger.His wife Emma, chairman of Barrington Shipping, is facing the repercussions of the IRA attack on the Buckingham. Some board members feel she should resign, and Lady Virginia Fenwick will stop at nothing to cause Emma's downfall.Sir Giles Barrington is now a minister of the Crown, and looks set for even higher office, until an official trip to Berlin does not end as a diplomatic success. Once again, Giles's political career is thrown off balance by none other than his old adversary, Major Alex Fisher, who once again stands against him at the election. But who wins this time?In London, Harry and Emma's son, Sebastian, is quickly making a name for himself at Farthing's Bank in London, and has proposed to the beautiful young American, Samantha. But the despicable Adrian Sloane, a man interested only in his own advancement and the ruin of Sebastian, will stop at nothing to remove his rival.Jeffrey Archer's compelling Clifton Chronicles continue in this, his most accomplished novel to date. With all the trademark twists and turns that have made him one of the world's most popular authors, the spellbinding story of the Clifton and the Barrington families continues.

A beautiful and poignant story of one family during the most violent and turbulent years of world history, Miss Burma is a powerful novel of love and war, colonialism and ethnicity, and the ties of blood.Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese Occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country’s history. After the war, the British authorities make a deal with the Burman nationalists, led by Aung San, whose party gains control of the country. When Aung San is assassinated, his successor ignores the pleas for self-government of the Karen people and other ethnic groups, and in doing so sets off what will become the longest-running civil war in recorded history. Benny and Khin’s eldest child, Louisa, has a danger-filled, tempestuous childhood and reaches prominence as Burma’s first beauty queen, soon before the country falls to dictatorship. As Louisa navigates her new-found fame, she is forced to reckon with her family’s past, the West’s ongoing covert dealings in her country, and her own loyalty to the cause of the Karen people.Based on the story of the author’s mother and grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be, and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom.

George Hare (of Hare, Briggs, Burton, and Kurtnitz) met Carey Arundel for the first time at the annual Critics' Dinner at Verino's. She was to receive a plaque for the best actress performance of the year, Greg Wilson was to get the actor's, and Paul Saffron the director's. These dinners were rather stuffy affairs, but the awards were worth getting; this year Morning Journey was the picture that had swept the board, all the winners having scored in it. George had seen the picture and thought it good, if a trifle tricky. He was far more concerned with his luck in being next to Carey at the dinner, for his own well-concealed importance in the movie world did not always receive such rewards. George had an eye for beauty which, combined with a somewhat cynical nose for fame, made him take special notice of her. Of course he had seen her on the stage as well as on the screen, but he thought she looked best of all in real life-which meant, even more remarkably, that she looked really alive at a party such as this, not merely brought to life by ambition or liquor.

’You come from a long line of mistakes,’ Guy Caulder tells his daughter Alice. ’My mother married the wrong man. Her mother did the same.’ At the end of a love affair, Alice journeys to Normandy to meet Guy’s mother, the grandmother she has never known. She tells her that there was one true love story in the family. In the summer of 1942, Kitty is an ATS driver stationed in Sussex. She meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer with Combined Ops. She falls instantly in love with Ed, who falls in love with her. So does Larry. Mountbatten mounts a raid on the beaches at Dieppe. One of the worst disasters of the war, it sealed the fates of both Larry and Ed, and its repercussions will echo through the generations to come.

Nerimo dienos yra grožinės literatūros šedevras ir, pasak Daily Telegraph, „geriausias kada nors parašytas romanas apie amerikietiškos svajonės mirtį.“

Eiprilė ir Frenkas Vyleriai – jauna, iš pažiūros klestinti pora su dviem vaikais, gyvenanti prestižiniame Konektikuto priemiestyje. Tačiau savimi pasitikinčių sėkmės kūdikių kaukės slepia nusivylimą, abu nesugeba jausti pasitenkinimo santykiais ir karjeromis. Frenkas įklimpęs gerai apmokamame, bet nuobodžiame tarnautojo darbe, Eiprilė – namų šeimininkė, gedinti nepavykusios aktorės karjeros. Nusprendę išsiskirti iš vidutinybių, kurios tariamai juos supa, pora nutaria persikraustyti į Prancūziją, kur neabejotinai galės išreikšti savo meniškas sielas, nevaržomi juos supančios vartotojiškos visumenės reikalavimų… Tačiau kai santuoka virsta nesibaigiančiu priekabių, pavydo ir kaltinimų ratu, kelionei ir svajonėms apie saviraišką iškyla pavojus.

Pagal Richardo Yateso bestselerį „Nerimo dienos“ 1961 metais režisierius  Sam Mendes pastatė filmą "Revolutionary Road" su Leonardo DiCaprio ir Kate Winslet.

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