Книги в жанре «Современная проза» (4503 книги)

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21. Survivor Читать →

Автор: Tender Branson – last surviving member of the so-called “Creedish Death Cult” – is dictating his incredible life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the plane, which will shortly reach terminal velocity and crash into the vast…

22. The Ghost Who Came to Say He Was Sorry Читать →

Автор: Scanned from The Week, Dec 6, 2002 Originally published in The London Independent © 2002 When novelist Chuck Palahniuk invited friends to a haunted-house party, he was more prepared to snicker than hide behind the sofa. But his murdered father had other ideas. A friend of mine lives in a “haunted” house. It's a nice,…

23. All The Pretty Horses Читать →

Автор: In All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy begins his Border Trilogy with a coming of age tale that is a departure from the bizarre richness and mysterious violence of his early novels, yet in many ways preserves the mystery and the richness in a more understated form. Like Blood Meridian, this novel follows a young…

24. No Country For Old Men Читать →

Автор: Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy's first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy. Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin,…

25. The Road Читать →

Автор: A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray.…

26. Prep Читать →

Автор: Curtis Sittenfeld's poignant and occassionally angst-ridden debut novel Prep is the story of Lee Fiora, a South Bend, Indiana, teenager who wins a scholarship to the prestigious Ault school, an East Coast institution where “money was everywhere on campus, but it was usually invisible.” As we follow Lee through boarding school, we witness firsthand the…

27. The Piano Tuner Читать →

Автор: In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair. The piano belongs to an army surgeon-major whose unorthodox peacemaking methods—poetry, medicine,…

28. You Shall Know Our Velocity Читать →

Автор: “Headlong, heartsick and footsore…Frisbee sentences that sail, spin, hover, circle and come back to the reader like gifts of gravity and grace…Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere.” – The New York Times Book Review …

29. What You Do Not Know You Want Читать →

Автор: MY THREE A.M. NIGHTMARE DISPERSED like a disappointed audience as I tried to find the Coke machine. A woman passed, in her fifties maybe, cuddling, saying, “All I want out of life is a good night's sleep.” Too woozy to reply, I just smiled back. The second person I met at that sweltering hour was…

30. Fourth Angry Mouse Читать →

Автор: Jeremy Jax wanted to be funny, like his grandfather. Jeremy’s grandfather was Robby Jax, the famous comedian. In his seventies-which also happened to be the 1970s-Robby Jax was still performing at Cherrywood’s Lounge, on 42nd Street, and Jeremy attended the shows with his parents. Jeremy was ten, and when he sat on the couches in…

31. Vernon God Little Читать →

Автор: The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each…

32. Confessions Of A Falling Woman And Other Stories Читать →

Автор: A surprised Southern matriarch is confronted by her family at an intervention… A life-altering break-in triggers insomniac introspection in a desperate actor… Streetwise New York City neighbors let down their guard for a naГЇve puppeteer and must suffer the consequences… In this stunning collection of short stories…

33. The Madonnas Of Leningrad Читать →

Автор: This is a brilliant and moving debut novel about one woman’s struggle to preserve an artistic heritage from the horrors and destruction of World War II. In this extraordinary first novel by Debra Dean, the siege of Leningrad by German troops in World War Two is echoed by the destructive siege against the mind and…

34. Когда сидишь за рулем, нельзя закрывать глаза Читать →

Автор: Киносценарий…

35. The Thirteenth Tale Читать →

Автор: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield is a rich story about secrets, ghosts, winter, books and family. The Thirteenth Tale is a book lover's book, with much of the action taking place in libraries and book stores, and the line between fact and fiction constantly blurred. It is hard to believe this is Setterfield's debut…

36. Americana Читать →

Автор: A young television executive takes to the road in the 1960s with a movie camera to capture his own past in a “cinema verite” documentary. Within this framework, he delivers his observations on the influence of film, modern corporate life, young marriage, New York City and hipness.

37. Cosmopolis Читать →

Автор: From Publishers Weekly DeLillo skates through a day in the life of a brilliant and precocious New Economy billionaire in this monotone 13th novel, a study in big money and affectlessness. As one character remarks, 28-year-old Eric Packer “wants to be one civilization ahead of this one.”…

38. End Zone Читать →

Автор: Amazon.com Review Don DeLillo's second novel, a sort of Dr. Strangelove meets North Dallas Forty, solidified his place in the American literary landscape in the early 1970s. The story of an angst-ridden, war-obsessed running back for Logos College in West Texas, End Zone is a heady and…

39. Falling Man Читать →

Автор: Amazon.com Review The defining moment of turn-of-the-21st-century America is perfectly portrayed in National Book Award winner Don DeLillo's Falling Man. The book takes its title from the electrifying photograph of the man who jumped or fell from the North Tower on 9/11. It also refers to a…

40. Great Jones Street Читать →

Автор: The narrator of this novel is Bucky Wunderlick, a Dylan-Jagger amalgam who finds he's gone as far as he knows how. Mid tour he leaves his rock band and holes up in a dingy East Village apartment, in Great Jones Street. The plot revolves around his retreat and a drug designed to silence dissidents.