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11. Enderby Outside Читать →

Автор: Book 2 of the Enderby Quartet

12. Enderby's Dark Lady Читать →

Автор: “A brilliant and breathless performance…vintage Burgess… The whole performance stuns.” – The Boston Globe “Readers will howl with laughter – a wickedly amusing book.” – The Atlantic Monthly “Resurrected by popular request… Enderby the poet stalks about in this…

13. The Clockwork Testament (Or: Enderby 's End) Читать →

Автор: Book 3 of the Enderby Quartet

14. Uncle Petros and Goldbach Читать →

Автор: Amazon.co.uk Review “Every family has its black sheep-in ours it was Uncle Petros”: the narrator of Apostles Doxiadis's novel Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture is the mystified nephew of the family's black sheep, unable to understand the reasons for his uncle's fall from grace. A kindly, gentle…

15. The God of Small Things Читать →

Автор: This highly stylized novel tells the story of one very fractured family from the southernmost tip of India. Here is an unhappy family unhappy in its own way, and through flashbacks and flashforwards The God of Small Things unfolds the secrets of these characters" unhappiness. First-time novelist Arundhati Roy twists and reshapes language to create…

16. The Poisonwood Bible Читать →

Автор: Amazon.com Review Oprah Book ClubВ® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or…

17. The Famished Road Читать →

Автор: The Man Booker Prize Winner—1991 Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize, this phantasmagorical novel is set in the ghetto of an African city during British colonial rule, and follows…

18. Голодная дорога Читать →

Автор: Роман-лауреат Букеровской премии 1991 года. «Вначале была река. Потом река стала дорогой и пошла в мир. Но поскольку когда-то она была рекой, то никогда больше она не смогла насытиться.…

19. The Natural Читать →

Автор: “The Natural,” Bernard Malamud’s first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would say still the best—novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different material—the story of a superbly gifted “natural” at play in the fields of the old…

20. American Psycho Читать →

Автор: In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in…

21. The Chosen Читать →

Автор: With dramatic force, with a simplicity that seizes the heart, The Chosen illumines-for us, for now-the eternal, powerful bonds of love and pain that join father and son, and the ways in which these bonds are, and must be, broken if the boy is to become a man. …

22. Ham On Rye Читать →

Автор: “In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los…

23. The Captain Is Out to Lunch Читать →

Автор: “I am not in a contest. I never wanted fame or money. I wanted to get the word down the way I wanted it, that's all. And I had to get the words down or be overcome by something worse than death.” So writes the late Charles Bukowski in his entry for 6/23/92 (12:34 AM).…

24. Boomsday Читать →

Автор: From The Washington Post Reviewed by Judy Budnitz Does government-sanctioned suicide offer the same potential for satire as, say, the consumption of children? Possibly. One need only look to Kurt Vonnegut's story “Welcome to the Monkey House,” with its…

25. Wet Work Читать →

Автор: Thanks to Hollywood and writers like Christopher Buckley, America has given the world a brand-new literary form: the revenge comedy. In the movies, maverick cops roam the world, taking names, kicking butts, and making wisecracks. For all the gore, pictures like Die Hard are essentially Road Runner cartoons with superior special effects. Audiences do more…

26. Diary Читать →

Автор: Diary “CAN YOU FEEL THIS?” Diary takes the form of a “coma diary” kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her…

27. Fight Club Читать →

Автор: Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the…

28. Fugatives & Refugees Читать →

Автор: Fugitives & Refugees A WALK IN PORTLAND, OREGON Chuck Palahniuk Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material to: …

29. Invisible Monsters Читать →

Автор: For Geoff, who said, “This is how to steal drugs.” And Ina, who said, “This is lip liner.” And Janet, who said, “This is silk georgette.” And my editor, Patricia, who kept saying, “This is not good, enough.”

30. Snuff Читать →

Автор: One dude stood all afternoon at the buffet wearing just his boxers, licking the orange dust off barbecued potato chips. Next to him, a dude was scooping into the onion dip and licking the dip off the chip. The same soggy chip, scoop after scoop. Dudes have a million ways of peeing on what they…