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Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
Кърт Вонегът
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| For this unusual collection, Kurt Vonnegut has selected 24 of his favourite stories never published before in book form. Included are Any Reasonable Offer , The Powder Blue Dragon , Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp and Lovers Anonymous. ... [ още ] |
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Celestial Navigation
Ан Тейлър
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| Jeremy Pauling is a thirty-eight-year-old bachelor who has never left home. He has a passion for making sculptures out of odds and ends and he has a terror of beautiful women. The death of his mother leaves Jeremy in sole charge of her ramshackle ... [ още ] |
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Ecstasy
Ървин Уелш
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| "Urgent, violent, bleakly funny prose",
Nick Hornby
Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful husband. But will Freddy Royle, ... [ още ] |
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Porno
Ървин Уелш
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| Ten years on from Trainspotting, Simon 'Sick Boy' Williamson is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity, which to him ... [ още ] |
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The Acid House
Ървин Уелш
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| The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects ... [ още ] |
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Glue
Ървин Уелш
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| Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences - and the secrets - that hold them together into their thirties. Four boys becoming men: Juice Terry, the work-shy fanny-merchant, with ... [ още ] |
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Bluebeard's Egg
Маргарет Атууд
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| "A novelist and poet of great gifts"
Guardian
A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming pale, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; a melancholy ... [ още ] |
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The Castle
Франц Кафка (Franz Kafka)
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| The story of K and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K's Isolation and perplexity, his begging for the ... [ още ] |
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A Moveable Feast
Ърнест Хемингуей
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| Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. He recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation. ... [ още ] |
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Харуки Мураками
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| A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as his ... [ още ] |
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