russo richard empire falls
Russo Richard Empire Falls
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is a huge-hearted and wonderful novel by a master storyteller. Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the empire of the wealthy Whiting family. Now the last Mrs Whiting presides like a black widow spider over its declining fortunes. She harbours a grudge against her employee Miles Groby, who runs the Whiting-owned Empire Grill, but hopes one day to own it himself. Miles, gentle and hopeless, has other problems: his wife has run off with his worst customer, he frets about his adored teenage daughter, and his drunken father sponges off everyone. As the novel builds to a shocking climax, Russo constantly surprises with characters who will disarm you, a plot with as many twists and falls as the Knox River itself, and an ending that will make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.
2863 Руб.
Russo Richard Straight Man
'Funny and tender' Daily Telegraph Author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Empire Falls. At age fifty, Professor William Henry Devereaux, Jr, has more than a mid-life crisis to deal with. As a child, his parents found him merely exasperating. As an adult, and interim chair of the English Department, he is careening out of control. Half in love with three women, unable to understand his daughter or come to terms with his father, Hank has a dangerous philosophy that life, even an academic life, could be simpler, and that endless discussions and negotiation might profitably be replaced by provocation or simple extortion. He is a man in thrall to the perversity principle. Packed with memorable characters and scenes of pure genius, STRAIGHT MAN is exhilarating, hilariousand deeply moving-an unforgettable portrait of a middle aged man caught somewhere between cause and effect.
2566 Руб.
Russo Richard Chances Are
One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the 1960s. They couldn’t have been more different then, or even today – Lincoln’s a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher and Mickey an ageing musician. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since 1971: the disappearance of their friend Jacy. Now, decades later, the distant past interrupts the present as the truth about what happened to Jacy finally emerges, forcing the men to reconsider everything they thought they knew about each other. Shot through with Russo’s trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are also introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the reader’s heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga of how friendship’s bonds are every bit as constricting and rewarding as those of family. For both longtime fans and lucky newcomers, Chances Are is a stunning demonstration of a highly-acclaimed author deepening and expanding his remarkable body of work.
1483 Руб.
Russo Richard Nobody's Fool
Richard Russo’s slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected workings of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York – and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years. 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 sly and uproarious humour and a heart that embraces humanity’s follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody’s Fool is storytelling at its most generous.
1645 Руб.
Russo Richard Everybody's Fool
Richard Russo’s new novel takes place in the decaying American town of North Bath over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after the events of Nobody’s Fool. Donald ‘Sully’ Sullivan is trying to ignore his cardiologist’s estimate that he has only a year or two left. Ruth, his long-time lover, is increasingly distracted by her former son-in-law, fresh out of prison and intent on making trouble. Police chief Doug Raymer is tormented by the improbable death of his wife, while local wiseguy Carl Roebuck might finally be running out of luck. Filled with humour, heart and hard-luck characters you can’t help but love, Everybody’s Fool is a crowning achievement from one of the great storytellers of our time.
1772 Руб.
Russo Richard Bridge of Sighs
Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York. One of them gets away to Italy, where he becomes a painter. The other stays to marry Sarah, also an artist; to run a small empire of convenience stores; and to tell their story. He's a good man, but Louis Charles Lynch, known as Lucy, isn't always as reliable as he seems, and even he secretly longs for what he can't have. Now, at sixty years old, he and Sarah are about to travel to Venice, where Lucy's oldest friend and rival has traded life and family for a life far removed from Thomaston. The truth about why he left, and aboutthe ties that bind these three friends, is complex, heartbreaking and utterly compelling.
2660 Руб.
ESTEL PROFESSIONAL Набор ALPHA RUSSO шампунь+гель+дезодорант 3 шт
Шампунь ALPHA RUSSO для ухода за волосами ESTEL PROFESSIONAL 250 мл; Гель ALPHA RUSSO для душа ESTEL PROFESSIONAL 200 мл; Дезодорант антиперспирант ALPHA RUSSO для тела ESTEL PROFESSIONAL 75 мл. AR/N Набор ALPHA RUSSO (шампунь 250, гель д/д 200, дезодорант-антиперсп 75)
1645 Руб.
Wills Crofts Freeman Fear Comes to Chalfont
A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television. Julia Elton, mistress of Chalfont, is the dutiful wife of a man she does not love. Frank Cox is the man she falls in love with. Julia’s husband, Richard, suspects her of an affair and has also dismissed an employee for theft. When a murderer strikes at Richard Elton, it starts a chain of events which affects the lives of many. And one of these is Inspector French.
1981 Руб.
ESTEL Мужской набор ALPHA RUSSO (шампунь 250 мл , гель д/душа 200 мл, дезодорант 75 мл)
Линия жизни набора ALPHA RUSSO от Estel продолжается в парфюмерных компаньонах. Ухаживающие компаньоны продлевают удовольствие от аромата, раскрывают его новые оттенки и дарят бережную заботу о волосах и коже.Сила и лёгкость, надёжность и свобода, верность и воля. Пульсирующий, энергичный и необузданный, аромат RUSSO звучит разогретым на солнце деревом, густыми смолами и свежей геранью, постепенно растворяясь в амбре.В наборе:Шампунь для волос ALPHA RUSSO, 250 млГель для душа ALPHA RUSSO, 200 млДезодорант-антиперспирант для тела ALPHA RUSSO 75 мл
2045 Руб.
Виниловые пластинки, Discipline Global Mobile, THE GRID & ROBERT FRIPP - Leviathan (2LP)
Каталожный номер DGMLPX102, DGMLPX102, Формат 2LP, Лейбл Discipline Global MobileA1 Empire A2 Milkwood A3 Pulse Detected B1 Loom B2 Leviathan C1 After The Rain C2 Fire Tower D1 Zhora D2 SympaticoGuitar, Guitar - Robert FrippKeyboards, Drum Machine - Richard NorrisProducer - The GridSynthesizer - Dave Ball
6400 Руб.
Russo manuale di conversazione e dizionario
Издание на итальянском языке. Questo manuale di conversazione e destinata sia a coloro che non conoscono il russo sia a coloro che sanno leggere e scrivere in russo, ma non riescono a parlare. Questo manuale di conversazione puo essere utile anche per imparare il russo.
339 Руб.
Ferguson Niall Colossus. The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
A prescient and provocative history of America's role on the world stage Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, expanding westwards throughout the nineteenth century and rising to global dominance in the twentieth. But is today's American colossus really equipped to play Atlas, bearing the weight of the world on its shoulders? The United States, Ferguson reveals, is an empire running on empty, weakened by chronic defecits of money, manpower and political will. When the New Rome falls, he warns, its collapse may come from within.
4036 Руб.
Iggulden C. The Falcon of Sparta
The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India.As many as fifty million people are his subjects.His rule is absolute.But the sons of Sparta are eager to play the game of thrones . . . Battles can be won - or lost - with a single blow.Princes fall. And when the dust of civil war settles, the Spartans are left stranded in the heart of an enemy's empire, without support, without food and without water.Far from home, surrounded by foes, it falls to the young soldier Xenophon to lead the survivors against Artaxerxes' legendary Persian warriors. .
654 Руб.
Iggulden C. The Falcon of Sparta
The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India.As many as fifty million people are his subjects.His rule is absolute.But the sons of Sparta are eager to play the game of thrones . . . Battles can be won - or lost - with a single blow.Princes fall. And when the dust of civil war settles, the Spartans are left stranded in the heart of an enemy's empire, without support, without food and without water.Far from home, surrounded by foes, it falls to the young soldier Xenophon to lead the survivors against Artaxerxes' legendary Persian warriors. .
654 Руб.
Fabbri Robert Vespasian II. Rome's Executioner
Thracia, AD30: Even after four years of military service at the edge of the Roman world, Vespasian can't escape the tumultuous politics of an Empire on the brink of disintegration. His patrons in Rome have charged him with the clandestine extraction of an old enemy from a fortress on the banks of the Danube before it falls to the Roman legion besieging it. Vespasian's mission is the key move in a deadly struggle for the right to rule the Roman Empire. The man he has been ordered to seize could be the witness that will destroy Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian Guard, and ruler of the Empire in all but name. Before he completes his mission, Vespasian will face ambush in snowbound mountains, pirates on the high seas, and Sejanus's spies all around him. But by far the greatest danger lies at the rotten heart of the Empire, at the nightmarish court of Tiberius, Emperor of Rome and debauched, paranoid madman.
1481 Руб.
Russo manuale di conversazione e dizionario (мягк) Русский разговорник и словарь для говорящих по-итальянски (мягк). (Berlitz)
Questo manuale di conversazione e destinata sia a coloro che non conoscono il russo sia a coloro che sanno leggere e scrivere in russo, ma non riescono a parlare. Questo manuale di conversazione puo essere utile anche per imparare il russo. Формат: 10 см x 14,5 см. Издание на итальянском языке. 0
519 Руб.