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Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

Скачать книгу (размер 1 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 340) Аннотация: «This is Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since «The Line of Beauty», winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will…

DeLillo Don: Cosmopolis

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. He lives in Manhattan. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful day in his life. When he woke up, he didn't know what he wanted. Then he knew. He wanted to get a haircut. As his stretch limousine moves across town, his world begins to fall apart. But more worrying than the loss of his fortune is the realization…

Fielding Helen: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (на английском языке)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The Wilderness Years are over. But not for long. At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now, in The Edge of Reason, she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat and he hasn't done the washing-up, not just the whole of this week, but ever. Lurching through a morass of self-help-book…

Fielding Helen: Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination (на английском языке)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: From the white heat of Miami to the implants of LA, the glittering waters of the Caribbean to the deserts of Arabia, Olivia Joules pits herself against the forces of terror armed only with a hatpin, razor sharp wits and a very special underwired bra. How could a girl not be drawn to the alluring, powerful Pierre Ferramo, with his hooded eyes, impeccable taste, unimaginable wealth, exotic homes…

Tim Winton: In the Winter Dark

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jaccob sees a moving shadow. Acorss the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the Stubbses' house, a small dog is torn screaming from its leash by something unseen. Nothing will ever be the same again. Winton…

Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy: One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. For Arthur, who has just had his house demolished, this is too much. Sadly, the weekends just begun.The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: When all issues of space, time, matter and the nature of being are resolved, only one question remains: Where shall we have dinner?…

Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Patrick Bateman is Harvard-educated and intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. His nights he spends in ways we cannot begin to fathom — doing impermissible things to women. He is living his own American Dream.

Allen Woody: The Complete Prose

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Although Woody Allen is best known for his cult movies, he is also a writer of outstanding wit and skill. Dip into this collection of fifty-two pieces for hilarity, deadpan weirdness, and some extremely outlandish ideas. Do you want to hear about the time Hitler went for a haircut? Or why Woody reveres Socrates? Have you ever wondered what would have happened if the Impressionists had actually…

McCarthy Cormac: No Country for Old Men

Скачать книгу (размер 1 636 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 322) Аннотация: Llewlyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice – leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined…