Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: 'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974'. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 610 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 513) Аннотация: The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot — authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes. Leonard…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 610 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 513) Аннотация: A brilliant, funny, and heartbreaking novel about the glories and vicissitudes of young love. His many awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Whiting Writers' Award, and the Harold D. Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Author of Middlesex (bestselling winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, with more than 3 million…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: 'There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel'. Anthony Trollope It's the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 196 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 628) Аннотация: Lefty and Desdemona must flee the Turks who are invading their crumbling city in the Ottoman Empire, and decide to head for America. What this unusual brother and sister do not realise is that a rare genetic mutation is following them. It secretly travels with them first to Detroit, and then to suburbia, through prohibition and the race riots of 1967. And in the spring of 1974, their…