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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 George Lincoln in the Bardo
A story of love after death `A masterpiece' Zadie Smith `Extraordinary' Daily Mail `Breathtaking' Observer `A tour de force' The Sunday Times 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?
1648 Руб.
Saunders George Civilwarland In Bad Decline
In his first collection, George Saunders' vision of our near future is as black and funny as you can get. He takes us on a trip to the shopping malls and theme parks and enviromental hazards that lie just around the chronological corner, introducing us to a gang of misfits and losers struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. Bizarre but familiar, fierce but always humane, these are stunningly original stories by a master of the form. 'Saunders is a morally passionate, serious writer, who perfectly expresses the madness of the times we live in. He will be read long after these times have passed' Zadie Smith 'He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless. We're lucky to have him' Jonathan Franzen 'There is no-one better, no-one more essential' Dave Eggers
2179 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.
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.
Saunders George Pastoralia
In Pastoralia elements of contemporary life are twisted, merged and amplified into a slightly skewed version of modern America. A couple live and work in a caveman theme-park, where speaking is an instantly punishable offence. A born loser attends a self-help seminar where he is encouraged to rid himself of all the people who are 'crapping in your oatmeal'. And a male exotic dancer and his family are terrorised by their decomposing aunt who visits them with a solemn message from beyond the grave. With an uncanny combination of deadpan naturalism and uproarious humour, George Saunders creates a world that is both indelibly original and yet hauntingly familiar ...
2510 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.
Gatti Tom Long Players. Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them
In Long Players, fifty of our finest authors write about the albums that changed their lives, from Deborah Levy on Bowie to Daisy Johnson on Lizzo, Ben Okri on Miles Davis to David Mitchell on Joni Mitchell, Sarah Perry on Rachmaninov to Bernardine Evaristo on Sweet Honey in the Rock. Part meditation on the album form and part candid self-portrait, each of these miniature essays reveals music's power to transport the listener to a particular time and place. REM's Automatic for the People sends Olivia Laing back to first love and heartbreak, Bjork's Post resolves a crisis of faith and sexuality for a young Marlon James, while Fragile by Yes instils in George Saunders the confidence to take his own creative path. This collection is an intoxicating mix of memoir and music writing, spanning the golden age of vinyl and the streaming era, and showing how a single LP can shape a writer's mind. Featuring writing from Ali Smith, Marlon James, Deborah Levy, George Saunders, Bernardine Evaristo, Ian Rankin, Tracey Thorn, Ben Okri, Sarah Perry, Neil Tennant, Rachel Kushner, Clive James, Eimear McBride, Neil Gaiman, Daisy Johnson, David Mitchell, Esi Edugyan, Patricia Lockwood, among many others.
2260 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 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.
Компакт-диски, Island Records Group, FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE - Ceremonials (CD)
1Only If For A NightArranged By [Strings] – Sally HerbertBacking Vocals – Christopher Lloyd Hayden, Jack Penate*, Jesse Ware*, Lisa Moorish, Mark Saunders, Sian Alice*Cello – Ian BurdgeDouble Bass – Lucy ShawDrum Programming, Sounds [Additional Esoteric Sonics] – BullionKeyboards – Rusty BradshawMixed By – Tom ElmhirstMixed By [Assistant] – Ben BaptiePercussion – Mark SaundersViola – Max BaillieViolin – Gillon Cameron, Oli Langford*, Richard George, Rick Koster, Sally Herbert, Warren Zielinski4:592Shake It OutBacking Vocals – Christopher Lloyd Hayden, Jack Penate*, Jesse Ware*, Lisa Moorish, Mark Saunders, Sian Alice*Drum Programming, Sounds [Additional Esoteric Sonics] – BullionKeyboards – Rusty BradshawMixed By – Mark "Spike" Stent*Mixed By [Assistant] – Matty Green (2)Organ [Pump] – Paul EpworthPercussion – Christopher Lloyd Hayden, Mark Saunders4:383What The Water Gave MeBacking Vocals – Christopher Lloyd Hayden, Jack Penate*, Jesse Ware*, Lisa Moorish, Mark Saunders, Sian Alice*Bass – Mark SaundersKeyboards – Rusty BradshawMixed By – Craig SilveyMixed By [Assistant] – Bryan Wilson (2)5:334Never Let Me GoBacking Vocals – Christopher Lloyd Hayden, Jack Penate*, Jesse Ware*, Lisa Moorish, Mark Saunders, Sian Alice*Bass – Mark SaundersDrum Programming, Sounds [Additional Esoteric Sonics] – BullionKeyboards – Rusty BradshawMixed By – Tom ElmhirstMixed By [Assistant] – Ben Baptie4:315Breaking DownArranged By [Strings] – Sally HerbertCello – Ian BurdgeDrum Programming, Sounds [Additional Esoteric Sonics] – BullionKeyboards – Rusty BradshawMixed By – Tom ElmhirstMixed By [Assistant] – Ben BaptieViola – Max BaillieViolin – Gillon Cameron, Oli Langford*, Richard George, Rick Koster, Sally Herbert, Warren Zielinski3:496Lover To LoverMixed By – Tom ElmhirstMixed By [Assistant] – Ben BaptieOrgan [Hammond] – Rusty BradshawPiano – Isabella Summers, Nikolaj Torp Larsen*4:037No Light, No LightArranged By [Strings] – Sally HerbertBacking Vocals – Christopher Lloyd Hayden, Jack Penate*, Jesse Ware*, Lisa Moorish, Mark Saunders, Sian Alice*Bass, Percussion – Mark SaundersCello – Ian BurdgeChoir, Drum Programming, Piano, Strings – Isabella SummersKeyboards – Rusty BradshawMixed By – Mark "Spike" Stent*Mixed By [Assistant] – Matty Green (2)Recorded By [Additional Backing Vocals] – Ben Roulston, Isabella SummersViola – Max BaillieViolin – Gillon Cameron, Oli Langford*, Richard George, Rick Koster, Sally Herbert, Warren Zielinski4:358Seven DevilsArranged By [Strings] – Sally HerbertBacking Vocals – Christopher Lloyd Hayden, Jack Penate*, Jesse Ware*, Lisa Moorish, Mark Saunders, Sian Alice*Bass Guitar – Tom MongerCello – Ian BurdgeKeyboards – Rusty BradshawMixed By – Craig SilveyMixed By [Assistant] – Bryan Wilson (2)Synth – Isabella SummersViola – Max BaillieViolin – Gillon Cameron, Oli Langford*, Richard George, Rick Koster, Sally Herbert, Warren Zielinski5:039HeartlinesBacking Vocals – Christopher Lloyd Hayden, Jack Penate*, Jesse Ware*, Lisa Moorish, Mark Saunders, Sian Alice*Bass, Percussion – Mark SaundersDrum Programming, Sounds [Additional Esoteric Sonics] – BullionKeyboards – Rusty BradshawMixed By – Tom ElmhirstMixed By [Assistant] – Ben Baptie5:0210SpectrumArranged By [Strings] – Sally HerbertBacking Vocals – Christopher Lloyd HaydenCello – Ian BurdgeKeyboards – Rusty BradshawMixed By – Tom ElmhirstMixed By [Assistant] – Ben BaptiePiano – Nikolaj Torp Larsen*Viola – Max BaillieViolin – Gillon Cameron, Oli Langford*, Richard George, Rick Koster, Sally Herbert, Warren Zielinski5:1211All This And Heaven TooArranged By [Strings] – Sally HerbertBass, Guitar [Additional] – Mark SaundersCelesta, Drum Programming, Piano, Programmed By – Isabella SummersCello – Ian BurdgeMixed By – Mark RankinRecorded By [Additional Backing Vocals] – Ben Roulston, Isabella SummersViola – Max BaillieViolin – Gillon Cameron, Oli Langford*, Richard George, Rick Koster, Sally Herbert, Warren Zielinski4:0612Leave My BodyBass – Mark SaundersKeyboards – Rusty BradshawMixed By – Craig SilveyMixed By [Assistant] – Bryan Wilson (2)4:35
2199 Руб.
Blackalicious - The Craft
Пятый студийный альбом от одной из наиболее непривычных, андеграундных и революционных среди известных хип-хоп групп - дуэта Blackalicious! Их самая мощная и самая тру-скульная работа. Среди гостей на альбоме присутствуют Carl Young - басист проекта Spearhead, легендарные Larry Saunders и George Clinton, перкуссионист Beastie Boys Alfredo Ortiz, Floetry. Альбом включает ударный хит-сингл Rhythm Sticks.
500 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.
Adjei-Brenyah Nana Kwame Friday Black
Racism, but "managed" through virtual reality Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng Happiness, but pharmacological Love, despite everything Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explores the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. In the first, unforgettable story of this collection, The Finkelstein Five, Adjei-Brenyah gives us an unstinting reckoning of the brutal prejudice of the US justice system. In Zimmer LAND we see a far-too-easy-to-believe imagining of racism as sport. And Friday Black and How to Sell a Jacket As Told By Ice King show the horrors of consumerism and the toll it takes on us all. Fresh, exciting, vital and contemporary, Friday Black will appeal to people who love Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad, the TV show Black Mirror, the work of Kurt Vonnegut and George Saunders, and anyone looking for stories that speak to the world we live in now.
2052 Руб.
Ackroyd P. The History of England. Volume IV. Revolution
In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was - again - at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.Late Stuart and Georgian England marked the creation of the great pillars of the English state. The Bank of England was founded, as was the stock exchange, the Church of England was fully established as the guardian of the spiritual life of the nation and parliament became the sovereign body of the nation with responsibilities and duties far beyond those of the monarch. It was a revolutionary era in English letters, too, a time in which newspapers first flourished and the English novel was born. It was an era in which coffee houses and playhouses boomed, gin flowed freely and in which shops, as we know them today, began to proliferate in our towns and villages. But it was also a time of extraordinary and unprecedented technological innovation, which saw England utterly and irrevocably transformed from a country of blue skies and farmland to one of soot and steel and coal.
1712 Руб.