irving john the cider house rules
Irving John The Cider House Rules
'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's intention to make St Cloud's his home.' Homer Wells' odyssey begins among the apple orchards of rural Maine. As the oldest unadopted child at St Cloud's orphanage, he strikes up a profound and unusual friendship with Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder - a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether. What he learns from Wilbur takes him from his early apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to an adult life running a cider-making factory and a strange relationship with the wife of his closest friend...
2590 Руб.
Irving John The Cider House Rules
Действие романа Джона Ирвинга, современного классика американской литературы, начинается в Новой Англии в 1920-е годы. В сиротском приюте, который возглавляет доктор Ларч, действует негласный моральный кодекс - правила любви и сострадания. Здесь воспитывается и учится всем премудростям медицины сирота Гомер Уэллс. Однако наступает момент, когда юноша покидает приют, познаёт любовь и знакомится с другими правилами. Перед ним встаёт вопрос: По каким правилам следует жить в этом мире? Для широкого круга изучающих английский язык. Текст сокращён и адаптирован. Уровень Intermediate.
192 Руб.
Irving J. The Cider House Rules
Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesnt know which way the Gulf Stream runs. But hes just found a way to make a fortune out of the Florida Everglades, and hes damned if anyones going to stop him. So when he suspects that his wife, Joey, is going to get in his way, he takes her on an expensive anniversary cruise and pushes her overboard into the night-dark Atlantic. Unfortunately for Chaz, Joey survives the fall. Clinging to a bale of Jamaican pot, she manages to stay alive, and is plucked from the ocean by former cop, current loner, Mick Stranahan. But instead of rushing to the police and reporting her husbands crime, Joey decides to stay dead and (with Micks help) screw with Chas until he screws himself. As Joey haunts and taunts her homicidal husband; as Chazs cold blooded cohorts in crime grow uneasy with his increasingly erratic behaviour; as Mick Stranahan discovers that six failed marriages have not killed his ability to fall in love all over again, Carl Hiaasen takes us on a hilarious, romantic, page-turning journey through the warped politics of southern Florida, and through the madness and mayhem created by the human heart.
1159 Руб.
Irving J. The Cider House Rules
Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesnt know which way the Gulf Stream runs. But hes just found a way to make a fortune out of the Florida Everglades, and hes damned if anyones going to stop him. So when he suspects that his wife, Joey, is going to get in his way, he takes her on an expensive anniversary cruise and pushes her overboard into the night-dark Atlantic. Unfortunately for Chaz, Joey survives the fall. Clinging to a bale of Jamaican pot, she manages to stay alive, and is plucked from the ocean by former cop, current loner, Mick Stranahan. But instead of rushing to the police and reporting her husbands crime, Joey decides to stay dead and (with Micks help) screw with Chas until he screws himself. As Joey haunts and taunts her homicidal husband; as Chazs cold blooded cohorts in crime grow uneasy with his increasingly erratic behaviour; as Mick Stranahan discovers that six failed marriages have not killed his ability to fall in love all over again, Carl Hiaasen takes us on a hilarious, romantic, page-turning journey through the warped politics of southern Florida, and through the madness and mayhem created by the human heart.
1159 Руб.
Irving John The Last Chairlift
John Irving, one of the world’s greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years — a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren’t the first or the last ghosts he sees. John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time — among them, The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. In The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.
4799 Руб.
Irving J. The Cider House Rules. Правила виноделов
Действие романа Джона Ирвинга, современного классика американской литературы, начинается в Новой Англии в 1920-е годы. В сиротском приюте, который возглавляет доктор Ларч, действует негласный моральный кодекс — правила любви и сострадания. Здесь воспитывается и учится всем премудростям медицины сирота Гомер Уэллс. Однако наступает момент, когда юноша покидает приют, познает любовь и знакомится с другими правилами. Перед ним встает вопрос: «По каким правилам следует жить в этом мире?» Для широкого круга изучающих английский язык. Текст сокращен и адаптирован. Уровень Intermediate. . .
349 Руб.
Irving J. The Cider House Rules. Правила виноделов
Действие романа Джона Ирвинга, современного классика американской литературы, начинается в Новой Англии в 1920-е годы. В сиротском приюте, который возглавляет доктор Ларч, действует негласный моральный кодекс — правила любви и сострадания. Здесь воспитывается и учится всем премудростям медицины сирота Гомер Уэллс. Однако наступает момент, когда юноша покидает приют, познает любовь и знакомится с другими правилами. Перед ним встает вопрос: «По каким правилам следует жить в этом мире?» Для широкого круга изучающих английский язык. Текст сокращен и адаптирован. Уровень Intermediate. . .
349 Руб.
Irving John In One Person
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love — tormented, funny, and affecting — and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a ‘sexual suspect’, a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 — in his landmark novel of ‘terminal cases’, The World According to Garp. His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving’s In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy’s friends and lovers — a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself ‘worthwhile’.
2393 Руб.
Irving John Last Night in Twisted River
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River-John Irving's twelfth novel-depicts the recent half-century in the United States as "a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course." From the novel's taut opening sentence-"The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long"-to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving's breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp. What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice-the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: "We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly-as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth-the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives."
1355 Руб.
Jebb Katerina Christian Dior. Designer of Dreams
Published on the occasion of the retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, this new title chronicles the history of the House of Dior from 1947, when Christian Dior heralded the birth of a new era of elegance with his revolutionary New Look, to the present day, with a special focus on the House s legacy in America. Featuring a sophisticated Swiss binding, this book presents the exhibition s highlights with creations by Christian Dior and the artistic directors who succeeded him: Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferre, John Galliano, Raf Simons, and Maria Grazia Chiuri. Captured by artist Katerina Jebb, some of the House s most legendary designs are displayed in highly unique images. A portfolio of iconic photographs by American masters including Richard Avedon, Cass Bird, Henry Clarke, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Zoe Ghertner, Ethan James Green, Tyler Mitchell, Irving Penn, and many more underscores Dior s undeniable cultural influence.
7634 Руб.
Joyce R. Perfect
A spellbinding novel that will resonate with readers of Mark Haddon, Louise Erdrich, and John Irving, Perfect tells the story of a young boy who is thrown into the murky, difficult realities of the adult world with far-reaching consequences. .
672 Руб.
Joyce R. Perfect
A spellbinding novel that will resonate with readers of Mark Haddon, Louise Erdrich, and John Irving, Perfect tells the story of a young boy who is thrown into the murky, difficult realities of the adult world with far-reaching consequences. .
672 Руб.
Irving John Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, inlcuding The Pension Grillparzer, previously only to be found inside The World According to Garp, and now given its first independent airing.
2608 Руб.
Irving W. Astoria =Астория
Washington Irving (1783—1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "Astoria" is a history book which was commissioned by John Jacob Astor as an official history of his company's expedition to Oregon in 1810—1812. Although Washington Irving never traveled to Oregon Country, he wrote one of the most widely read and influential narratives of the region. This book introduced more readers to the Pacific Northwest than any single book up to that time.
941 Руб.
Irving Washington Astoria
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "Astoria" is a history book which was commissioned by John Jacob Astor as an official history of his company's expedition to Oregon in 1810-1812. Although Washington Irving never traveled to Oregon Country, he wrote one of the most widely read and influential narratives of the region. This book introduced more readers to the Pacific Northwest than any single book up to that time.
1364 Руб.
Ирвинг Вашингтон, Irving Washington Astoria
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "Astoria" is a history book which was commissioned by John Jacob Astor as an official history of his company's expedition to Oregon in 1810-1812. Although Washington Irving never traveled to Oregon Country, he wrote one of the most widely read and influential narratives of the region. This book introduced more readers to the Pacific Northwest than any single book up to that time....
941 Руб.