Maribel de Juan Guyatt Książki

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story. "Remarkable.... A revelation of the human heart." —The Washington Post Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody's Fool, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous. Nobody’s Fool was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith. Look for Everybody’s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.

John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. This book deals with his life and work.

Najbardziej tajemnicze dzieło Paula Austera. Nowy Jork - mroczne i tajemnicze miasto, którego ulicami przemykają postaci uwikłane w ciąg nierzeczywistych zdarzeń i przedziwne śledztwa. Zagadkowe piękne kobiety i mężczyźni, którzy nie potrafią ich kochać. Pisarz Quinn, którego życie całkowicie odmienia odebrany przypadkiem telefon. Detektyw Blue, który nawet nie wie, że sam jest nieustannie śledzony. Oraz bezimienny biograf, który niepostrzeżenie wciela się w rolę swego zaginionego przyjaciela. Trzy historie, w których prawdziwą zagadką jest tożsamość bohaterów, trudna do uchwycenia w labiryncie przenikającej się fikcji i rzeczywistości. Auster, tworząc pozory kryminalnej intrygi, nieustannie zwodzi czytelnika, bawi się konwencją i do ostatniego słowa nie przestaje zaskakiwać.

The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life -- and to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening -- a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed. "From the Paperback edition.