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61. Семейная жизнь весом в 158 фунтов Читать →

Автор: Действие романа разворачивается в университетской среде одного из восточных штатов. Автор переплетает судьбы двух супружеских пар самым причудливым образом, вскрывая на глазах читателей слой за слоем самые глубинные и темные тайники человеческой личности. Пытаясь вернуть остроту своим эротическим ощущениям, герои идут на смелый эксперимент. Но человеческие отношения не поддаются планированию как простая игра.

62. A Separate Peace Читать →

Автор: Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, “A Separate Peace” is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the…

63. Cannery Row Читать →

Автор: This novel takes place in the eponymous Cannery Row, a place made up of ’junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses’. Although there is a narrative trajectory — the desire of Mack and the other boys living at the Palace Flophouse…

64. Of Mice and Men Читать →

Автор: A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up…

65. Rabbit At Rest Читать →

Автор: Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom is back in this final installment of Updike's four-decade chronicle. Now 55 and semi-retired, Harry spends half the year in Florida with wife Janice while Nelson, their son, runs the family business. Yet Harry's “golden years” are far from happy: he has ballooned to 230 pounds and suffers from angina. Janice is…

66. Rabbit Is Rich Читать →

Автор: Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has come to enjoy prosperity as the Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors. The rest of the world may be falling to pieces, but Harrry's doing all right. That is, until his…

67. Rabbit Redux Читать →

Автор: The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, sexy story. Harry Angstrom – known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters – finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he…

68. Terrorist Читать →

Автор: Terrorist by John Updike is a timely piece of contemporary literature that is well-written and dense with observation and description. Updike takes readers into the mind of a terrorist and helps us understand the possible motivation and mindset of those involved in terrorism. Terrorist is an important piece of social literature, but it is not…

69. A Child across the Sky Читать →

Автор: Publishers Weekly: Just as the the word “weird"" has many implications and shades of meaning, so too does the latest–weird–work by this gifted and perplexing writer. As Carroll ( Bones of the Moon ; Sleeping in Flame ) himself says, “Life has a habit of turning dark…

70. After Silence Читать →

Автор: ANNOTATION Cult favorite Jonathan Carroll has surpassed himself with his first mainstreamnovel. After Silence is an electrifying, unforgettable novel that unfolds with the logic of a Greek tragedy. Carroll writes with uncompromising honesty about how secrets gnaw and kill when truth is just as devastating. …

71. Bones of The Moon Читать →

Автор: FROM THE PUBLISHER: “Cullen James is a young woman whose life dictates her dreams – and whose dreams control her life.” In her first dream, she found the perfect man – and the same thing promptly happened in life. Now, though, she has begun to dream dreams…

72. Fish in a Barrel Читать →

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73. From the Teeth of Angels Читать →

Автор: ANNOTATION Ian meets Death in a dream. He is promised the answer to any question. Failure to understand the answer will cost him his life. Unhappy Arlen gives up everything and moves halfway around the world and discovers the man she's been waiting for always. Terminally ill…

74. Kissing the Beehive Читать →

Автор: FROM THE PUBLISHER Bestselling author Sam Bayer is stuck. Burned out from his third divorce, bored with the formulaic rut his writing has fallen into, and unable to deliver the manuscript for which he has been paid a stratospheric advance, he is desperate for inspiration. But a…

75. Oh-Oh City Читать →

Автор: First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1992. For the personal use of those who have purchased the ESF 1993 Award anthology only.

76. Sleeping in Flame Читать →

Автор: ANNOTATION An American ex-patriot in Vienna saves a woman's life only to place it in greater danger by falling in love with her. FROM THE PUBLISHER Walker Easterling is a retired…

77. The Land Of Laughs Читать →

Автор: FROM THE PUBLISHER Have you ever loved a magical book above all others? Have you ever wished the magic were real? Welcome to The Land of Laughs. A novel about how terrifying that would be. Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, unsure…

78. The Marriage of Sticks Читать →

Автор: In her thirties, Miranda Romanac has an interesting, successful life. But she is also alone and adrift—in certain essential ways lost in the middle of it. At her high school reunion she discovers a shattering fact that further undermines her already shaky sense of who she is and where she is going. Then miraculously she…

79. The Wooden Sea Читать →

Автор: For connoisseurs of the strange and fantastic, a new book by Jonathan Carroll is something to be both anticipated and savored. Ever since the publication of his celebrated first novel, The Land of Laughs, he has been delighting readers with his uniquely quirky characters and overflowing imagination. Authors such as Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Ruth…

80. Voice of our Shadow Читать →

Автор: “Voice of Our Shadow is the most frightening novel I've read since Bram Stoker's Dracula. I thought it was a love story, and it was. Then I thought it was a ghost story, and it was, sort of. Then I thought it was a story of madness, and it might be, maybe. It is a…