saunders g tenth of december
Saunders G. Tenth of December
George Saunderss most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of DarkenfloxxTM in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.
1343 Руб.
Saunders G. Tenth of December
George Saunderss most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of DarkenfloxxTM in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.
1343 Руб.
Saunders George Tenth of December
George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of DarkenfloxxTM in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.
2125 Руб.
Saunders George Liberation Day
The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of December The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose - wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned - Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality. 'Love Letter' is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the not-too-distant future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and each other. 'Ghoul' is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado, and follows the exploits of a lonely, morally complex character named Brian, who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his 'reality.' In 'Mother's Day', two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. And in 'Elliott Spencer', our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds himself brainwashed - his memory 'scraped' - a victim of a scheme in which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters. Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention as Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances.
4445 Руб.
Saunders George A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
From the New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We're going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn't fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art-namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.
3758 Руб.
Джинсы miracle of denim Hose Marcel, цвет Tenth Black
Бренд: miracle of denimЦвет: Tenth Black
10036 Руб.
Donaldson Julia Tabby McTat
A fabulous foiled edition celebrating the tenth anniversary of the publication of TABBY MCTAT by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. 10th Anniversary Edition.
1186 Руб.
Hargreaves Adam Doctor Who. Dr. Tenth
An all-new Doctor Who adventure featuring the Tenth Doctor reimagined in the style of Roger Hargreaves.
748 Руб.
Saunders G. The Brain-Dead Megaphone
In this, his first collection of essays, Saunders trains his eye on the real world rather than the fictional and reveals it to be brimming with wonderful, marvellous strangeness. As he faces a political and cultural reality saturated with lazy media, false promises and political doublespeak, Saunders invokes the wisdom of American literary heroes Twain, Vonnegut and Barthelme and inspires us to re-examine our assumptions about the world we live in, as we struggle to discover what is really there.
679 Руб.
Saunders G. The Brain-Dead Megaphone
In this, his first collection of essays, Saunders trains his eye on the real world rather than the fictional and reveals it to be brimming with wonderful, marvellous strangeness. As he faces a political and cultural reality saturated with lazy media, false promises and political doublespeak, Saunders invokes the wisdom of American literary heroes Twain, Vonnegut and Barthelme and inspires us to re-examine our assumptions about the world we live in, as we struggle to discover what is really there.
679 Руб.
Blaze (2) Виниловая пластинка Blaze (2) Tenth Dimension
Состояние носителя: S. Состояние конверта: S. Tenth Dimension. Виниловая пластинка . 2 lp A1 Forgotten Future 1:02 A2 Kill And Destroy 4:26 A3 End Dream 5:14 A4 The Tenth Dimension 6:18 B1 Nothing Will Stop Me 4:21 B2 Leap Of Faith 3:38 B3 The Truth Revealed 1:44 B4 Meant To Be 6:26 C1 Land Of The Blind 3:56 C2 Stealing Time 4:37 D1 Speed Of Light 4:43 D2 Stranger To The Light 6:33 Тип носителя: Виниловая пластинка
5850 Руб.
Stonor Saunders Frances The Suitcase. Six Attempts to Cross a Border
If you open that suitcase you'll never close it again. Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old suitcase filled with her father's papers. Her father's life had been a study in borders - exiled from Romania during the war, to Turkey then Egypt and eventually Britain, and ultimately to the borderless territory of Alzheimer's. The unopened suitcase seems to represent everything that had made her father unknowable to her in life. So begins a captivating exploration of history, memory and geography, as Frances Stoner Saunders decides to unpick her family's past.
2421 Руб.
The Saga of the People of Laxardal and Bolli Bollason's Tale
The action of the saga takes place at the end of the tenth century, at about the time Scandinavia was converting from worship of Norse gods to Christianity. A masterpiece of medieval literature, the story focuses on two families — that of Hoskuld, a prominent farmer with several sons, and that of Gudrun, the most beautiful woman ever born in Iceland.
2419 Руб.
AUDIO CD Nik Kershaw: Riddle (2 CD)
Nik Kershaw: Riddle. 2 CD. The Album, 1-1 Don Quixote - 4:55, 1-2 Know How - 4:52, 1-3 You Might - 3:16, 1-4 Wild Horses - 3:58, 1-5 Easy - 4:12, 1-6 The Riddle - 3:54, 1-7 City Of Angels - 3:55, 1-8 Roses - 3:58, 1-9 Wide Boy - 3:28, 1-10 Save The Whale - 6:04, The B-Sides, 12' Mixes And Live, 2-1 Roses (Live At Hammersmith Odeon December 1984) - 4:43, 2-2 The Riddle (Extended 12' Remix) - 5:09, 2-3 Know How (Live At Hammersmith Odeon December 1984) - 4:53, 2-4 Don Quixote (Extended 12' Remix) - 8:42, 2-5 City Of Angels (Live At Hammersmith Odeon December 1984) - 3:57, 2-6 So Quiet (B-Side) - 3:11, 2-7 Wild Horses (Live At Hammersmith Odeon December 1984) - 3:57, 2-8 Wide Boy (Extended 12' Remix) - 5:08, 2-9 You Might (Live At Hammersmith Odeon December 1984) - 3:28, 2-10 Don't Lie (B-Side) - 3:52, 2-11 Save The Whale (Live At Hammersmith Odeon December 1984) - 6:04
5299 Руб.
Saunders George In Persuasion Nation
A breathtaking collection of strange, surreal, and utterly human short stories from the celebrated master of the form. Talking candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs, interned teenagers, and moral fables – all in this hilarious and heartbreaking collection by George Saunders, this generation's literary voice of wisdom and humour, for a time when we need it most.
2519 Руб.
Saunders G. Lincoln in the Bardo
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017.The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War.The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body.From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of realism, entering a thrilling, supernatural domain both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself trapped in a transitional realm - called, in Tibetan tradition, the bardo - and as ghosts mingle, squabble, gripe and commiserate, and stony tendrils creep towards the boy, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.Unfolding over a single night, Lincoln in the Bardo is written with George Saunders' inimitable humour, pathos and grace. Here he invents an exhilarating new form, and is confirmed as one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Deploying a theatrical, kaleidoscopic panoply of voices - living and dead, historical and fictional - Lincoln in the Bardo poses a timeless question: how do we live and love when we know that everything we hold dear must end? .
646 Руб.