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Rok 1980, granica Stanów Zjednoczonych i Meksyku. Llewelyn Moss poluje na antylopy w okolicach Rio Grande. Niespodziewanie dokonuje makabrycznego odkrycia: ciała zamordowanych mężczyzn, obok paczka heroiny i walizka z dwoma milionami dolarów. Moss zabiera gotówkę, choć doskonale wie, że w ten sposób zmienia swoje życie na zawsze – i z myśliwego staje się zwierzyną… Doskonały thriller, niezapomniana podróż przez amerykańską „ziemię jałową”, czarny humor i mistrzowski język – piękny, a jednocześnie precyzyjny. Cormac McCarthy w najwyższej formie.

Ask any literary critic -- and most discerning readers -- to name the greatest living American novelist, and Cormac McCarthy is sure to surface as a major contender. Best known for his powerful regional fiction (Sutree, the Border Trilogy, Blood Meridian, et al), this dazzling prose stylist crafts tragic, unforgettable stories suffused with violence, alienation, and an undeniably apocalyptic vision. Now, in what we consider McCarthy's best novel to date, the apocalypse itself becomes a set piece. Unfolding in a terrifying future where Armageddon has been waged and lost, The Road traces the odyssey of a father and his young son through a desolate landscape of devastation and danger. Powerful, moving, and extraordinary by any standard, this is McCarthy at his greatest and gravest.

This collection could possibly represent the first flowering of post-postmoderism: visions of the world that re-imagine reality as more realistic than we can imagine. A compelling presence of a holograph and the up-to-the-second feeling of the most advanced art.

«Il luogo sottile», secondo la mitologia celtica, è quello in cui si fa più cedevole la membrana fra il mondo fisico e quello spirituale; in questo romanzo originalissimo e affabulatorio, il luogo sottile è Varennes, piccolo centro attorno a un lago del New England dove si intrecciano le vite e le voci di un coro di personaggi: la giovane Mees, che scopre all’improvviso di avere il potere di restituire la vita a ciò che è morto, le sue amiche sul limitare dell’adolescenza, le anziane (ma tutt’altro che spente) signore della casa di riposo, un impenitente dongiovanni di mezza età, due minacciosi sconosciuti che turbano la quiete della cittadina (e saranno protagonisti di un drammatico finale) – ma anche i cani e i gatti degli abitanti, i castori che popolano il lago, perfino i licheni e i fiori che ne ricoprono le sponde. Un microcosmo brulicante di vita – misteriosa, paradossale, a volte violenta – che Kathryn Davis sa ritrarre con la maestria di una scrittrice già «classica».

Five thousand years on - and the Minotaur, or M as he is known to his colleagues, is working as a line chef at Grub's Rib in Carolina, keeping to himself, keeping his horns down, trying in vain to put his past behind him.

An Invisible Sign of my Own is the story of Mona, a young woman obsessed with numbers, whose life is becoming overrun by bizarre compulsions. She lands a job as a primary school maths teacher, and creates a 'beautiful museum of numbers' where anything - a child, a brooch, a jelly, an amputated arm - has deeper meanings. Then she meets the science teacher, who has burns on his fingers and a strange talent for teaching his pupils the symptoms of scurvy, and love, and sanity, begin to enter her world.

Historia inspirowana życiem Charlesa Mansona, charyzmatycznego przywódcy sekty. To dla niego urzeczone rzekomą wolnością i swobodą dziewczyny były gotowe zrobić wszystko. Ich kruchość, ekstatyczne przywiązanie i pragnienie przynależności – to istota tej powieści dla czytelników Przekleństw niewinności Jeffreya Eugenidesa. Północna Kalifornia, burzliwy koniec lat 60. XX wieku. Na początku lata samotna i delikatna nastolatka Evie Boyd widzi w parku grupę dziewcząt i od pierwszego spojrzenia uwodzi ją ich wolność, niedbały ubiór, niebezpieczna aura nieskrępowania. Wkrótce Evie ulega całkowicie wpływowi Suzanne, hipnotyzującej starszej dziewczyny, i jak magnes przyciąga ją sekta, która wkrótce zyska złą sławę, oraz jej charyzmatyczny lider. Ukryte wśród wzgórz rozległe ranczo jest upiorne i zrujnowane, Evie jednak odbiera je jako egzotyczne, ekscytujące i energetyczne miejsce, w którym rozpaczliwie pragnie zostać zaakceptowana. Spędza coraz więcej czasu z dala od matki i rytmu codziennego życia, jej obsesja na punkcie Suzanne przybiera na sile. Evie nie uświadamia sobie, że krok po kroku zbliża się do niewiarygodnej przemocy.

Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she doesn't expect is: - How much time she will spend thinking about language and its limitations; - An opinionated cosmopolitan Serb named Svetlana, who will become her confidante; - A mathematician from Hungary called Ivan, whom she will obsess over when she is supposed to be studying; - Feeling dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. But most of all, Selin does not expect to embark on a study of precisely how baffling love can be when you are trying to forge a self...

A connection of loosely connected autobiographical stories describing the traumatic relationship of a teenager with his mother and their life on the road.