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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.” From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill” and “The Swimmer,” these are tales that have helped define the form. Featuring a preface by the Pulizter Prize-winning author, The Stories of John Cheever brings together some of the finest short stories ever written. "Cheever’s crowning achievement is the ability to be simultaneously generous and cynical, to see that the absurd and the profound can reside in the same moment, and to acknowledge both at the detriment of neither." —The Guardian

A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as "modern fiction". He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him' Zadie Smith The mysterious disappearance of her great- grandmother and twenty-five other elderly inmates from a Shaker Heights nursing home has left Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman emotionally stranded on the edge of the Great Ohio Desert. But that is simply one problem of many for the hapless switchboard operator, seriously compounded by her ongoing affair with boss Rick Vigorous; the TV stardom of her talking cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler; and other minor catastrophes that threaten to elevate Lenore's search for love and self-detemination to new heights of spasmodic weirdness.

Niebezpieczna w sposób, w jaki literatura ma być niebezpieczna – budzi uśpioną wrażliwość. „The New York Observer” Michel Renault pracuje w ministerstwie kultury. Wiedzie monotonne życie, a jego zainteresowania nie wykraczają poza seks i telewizję. Odziedziczony po ojcu spadek przeznacza na podróż do Tajlandii – raju seksturystów. Tam poznaje młodą, piękną Valerie, pracującą w biurze podróży. Po powrocie do Francji zostają kochankami i wspólnie wprowadzają w życie pomysł Michela – zorganizowaną seksturystykę do krajów Trzeciego Świata. Tylko tak bowiem, twierdzi bohater, Zachód i Wschód mogą pomóc sobie nawzajem. Houellebecq rozwija przenikliwą diagnozę zdegenerowanego Zachodu – zdominowanego przez wszechobecne współzawodnictwo i plagę przemocy – oraz zaślepionego przez materializm Wschodu.

This delightful allegory by self-made millionaire Mark Fisher imparts the principles of wealth as Fisher learned them. A dissatisfied young man meets an old millionaire who reveals to him the secrets of acquiring not just material abundance, but also true wealth.

A storm is brewing over Heap House. The Iremongers are growing restless and the whispers are getting louder. When Clod meets Lucy Pennant, a girl newly arrived from the city, everything changes. The secrets that bind Heap House together begin to unravel to reveal a dark truth that threatens to destory Clod's world.

En boheme-beværtning i det ellers så regelrette Zürich danner rammen om en cocktail af erotiske forviklinger og pardannelser

For the many readers who love The Fault in Our Stars, this is the story of a girl who is determined to live, love, and to write her own ending before her time is finally up. Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, and drugs with excruciating side effects, Tessa compiles a list. It’s her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints of “normal” life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa’s feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, are all painfully crystallized in the precious weeks before Tessa’s time runs out. A Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of the Year A Booklist Editors’ Choice A Book Sense Children’s Pick A Kirkus Reviews Editors’ Choice A Publishers Weekly Flying Start Author An ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults The newly released feature film Now Is Good, starring Dakota Fanning, is based on Jenny Downham's intensely moving novel.

Es 1797 y Venecia está ocupada por tropas napoleónicas. Johannes Karelsky, un prodigio del violín cuyo talento ha causado admiración desde la infancia, se enrola en las filas francesas para posteriormente ser herido en combate. Halla albergue en casa de un enigmático y anciano luthier llamado Erasmus, creador del mítico Violín negro . Erasmus no permite a Johannes que toque el instrumento, aunque no es por falta de confianza entre ambos si no porque afirma que todo aquel que entre en contacto con el violín, jamás volverá a ser el mismo. Tocar tan magnífica pieza se convierte entonces en la principal obsesión de Johannes, seguida muy de cerca por la idea de hallar a la mujer que le asistió y rescató en el campo de batalla.

Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy. With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded netherworld where"every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, or pimp." From the scandal sheets of the 1950s to this morning's police blotter, Ellroy reopens true crimes and restores human dimensions to their victims. Sublimely, he resurrects the rag Hush-Hush magazine. And in a baroquely plotted novella of slaughter and corruption he enlists the forgotten luminaries of a lost Hollywood. Shocking, mesmerizing, and written in prose as wounding as an ice pick, Crime Wave is Ellroy at his best.

In una notte d’inverno del 1809 un uomo ferito nell’animo e nel corpo torna a casa sua, nel Somerset. È il capitano John Lacroix, sopravvissuto alla disastrosa campagna britannica contro le forze di Napoleone in Spagna. Accudito dalla governante Nell, Lacroix recupera la salute ma non la pace: un ricordo lo tormenta, troppo duro da affrontare. Quando arriva l’ordine di tornare al reggimento, John decide di fuggire verso le isole Ebridi con un bagaglio essenziale e il suo violino: spera che il viaggio verso un desiderato nulla riesca a tacitare i suoi sensi di colpa per quanto è successo durante la ritirata in un villaggio spagnolo. Approdato in una comunità di liberi pensatori, si innamora di Emily, afflitta da una malattia agli occhi: e per lei è pronto a mettere a repentaglio la propria vita. Intanto il tenente Medina e il caporale Calley, incaricati di far sommaria giustizia e chiudere i conti di guerra, sono sulle sue tracce. Una prosa luminosa e potente, tra romanzo storico e thriller, per la storia travagliata di un uomo in cerca di redenzione. “Trascinante.” Financial Times “Questa è finzione – narrazione – al suo meglio.” The Spectator “Eccellente. Un romanzo di atmosfere mutevoli: una commedia pastorale, un’appassionata storia romantica, un thriller nero e minaccioso.” The Observer

C'est une route aux mille parfums, aux mille périls aussi : celle qui, partant de Londres pour atteindre les Indes, se perd irrémédiablement dans l'Empire de la Chine. Un périple que l'on nomme la route du thé. Pour la première fois, en 1838, un homme va s'y aventurer, décidé à percer le secret des thés verts, bleus et blancs, inconnus en Angleterre. Au fil de son voyage, il va rencontrer Pearle, un riche négociant irlandais, Wang, le gardien de la vallée sacrée, Lu Chen, l'invisible empereur du thé, et Loan, une Chinoise aux yeux verts qui porte, tatouée sur son épaule, une fleur de pavot. Au terme de sa quête, l'opium. Un amour que l'on ne choisit pas.

Najnowsza, bardzo dobrze przyjęta przez krytykę, powieść wybitnej amerykańskiej pisarki, arcydzieło jej na wpół "gotyckiego" stylu prozy, jakiemu ostatnio hołduje. Osią fabularną przejmującej historii związku Katyi Spivak - pochodzącej z nizin społecznych 16-letniej dziewczyny dorabiającej sobie podczas letnich wakacji opieką nad dziećmi nowobogackiej rodziny Engelhardtów - z arystokratycznym i zamożnym artystą, 68-letnim Marcusem Cullenem Kidderem jest prastara anglosaska lub celtycka pieśń ludowa "The Ballad of Barbara Allen". Rzecz dzieje się w Bayhead Harbor, ekskluzywnej miejscowości wypoczynkowej nad Atlantykiem; początkowo zaskoczona i zdziwiona dziewczyna, skłonna przypisać zainteresowanie swoją osobą przez M. Kiddera wyłącznie względom erotycznym, zostaje stopniowo wciągana w tryby prowadzonej przezeń osobliwej i ekscentrycznej gry, z nieoczekiwanym i niesamowitym finałem.