The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Greer Andrew Sean

Автор: Greer, Andrew Sean
Название: Story of a marriage
ISBN: 0571241018 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571241019
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: It is 1953, and America is still haunted by the war. Pearlie and Holland live quietly with their son in San Francisco, with a barkless dog in a vine-covered house. Apart from Holland`s elderly aunts, the family have no regular visitors. That is until one day, a neat and elegantly dressed gentleman named Buzz appears at their door.

Автор: Greer Andrew Sean
Название: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
ISBN: 0062213792 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062213792
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 1177 р.
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author Andrew Sean Greer comes The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, a rapturously romantic story of a woman who finds herself transported to the "other lives" she might have lived.

After the death of her beloved twin brother and the abandonment of her long-time lover, Greta Wells undergoes electroshock therapy. Over the course of the treatment, Greta finds herself repeatedly sent to 1918, 1941, and back to the present. Whisked from the gas-lit streets and horse-drawn carriages of the West Village to a martini-fueled lunch at the Oak Room, in these other worlds, Greta finds her brother alive and well--though fearfully masking his true personality. And her former lover is now her devoted husband...but will he be unfaithful to her in this life as well? Greta Wells is fascinated by her alter egos: in 1941, she is a devoted mother; in 1918, she is a bohemian adulteress.

In this spellbinding novel by Andrew Sean Greer, each reality has its own losses, its own rewards; each extracts a different price. Which life will she choose as she wrestles with the unpredictability of love and the consequences of even her most carefully considered choices?

Автор: Sean Greer Andrew
Название: Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
ISBN: 0571295398 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571295395
Издательство: Faber
Цена: 1253 р.
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Автор: Greer, Andrew Sean
Название: Story of a Marriage, The
ISBN: 0571241204 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571241200
Издательство: Faber
Цена: 919 р.
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Автор: Greer, Andrew Sean
Название: Story of a marriage
ISBN: 0571245676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571245673
Издательство: Faber
Цена: 1086 р.
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Автор: Greer Andrew Sean
Название: The Story of a Marriage
ISBN: 0374108668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374108663
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 1525 р.
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Описание: From the bestselling author of "The Confessions of Max Tivoli," a love story full of secrets and astonishments set in 1950s San Francisco “We think we know the ones we love.” So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship, how we can ever truly know another person.

It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset district of San Francisco, caring not only for her husband’s fragile health but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep and everything changes. All the certainties by which Pearlie has lived are thrown into doubt. Does she know her husband at all? And what does the stranger want in return for his offer of $100,000? For six months in 1953, young Pearlie Cook struggles to understand the world around her, most especially her husband, Holland.  Pearlie’s story is a meditation not only on love but also on the effects of war—with one war just over and another one in Korea coming to a close. Set in a climate of fear and repression—political, sexual, and racial—"The Story of a Marriage "portrays three people trapped by the confines of their era, and the desperate measures they are prepared to take to escape it. Lyrical and surprising, "The Story of a Marriage "looks back at a period that we tend to misremember as one of innocence and simplicity.  Like Ford Madox Ford’s "The Good Soldier," Andrew Sean Greer’s novel is a narrative tour de force that confirms him as “one of the most talented writers around” (Michael Chabon).

Автор: Greer, Andrew Sean
Название: Story of a marriage
ISBN: 0571240984 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571240982
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 1086 р.
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Описание: It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset district of San Francisco, caring not only for her husband`s fragile health but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep and everything changes.

Автор: Greer Andrew Sean
Название: The Confessions of Max Tivoli
ISBN: 0571220215 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571220212
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Цена: 919 р.
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Описание: So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. At his birth, Max`s father declares him a `Nisse`, a creature of Danish myth: for the baby boy has the external physical appearance of an old, dying creature. Yet, as Max ages, his body will grow younger...

Автор: Greer Andrew Sean
Название: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
ISBN: 0062213784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062213785
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 1870 р.
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Автор: Greer Andrew
Название: Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
ISBN: 0571295436 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571295432
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Описание: It is 1985, and Greta Wells wishes she lived in any time but this one: she has lost her brother to AIDS, her lover Nathan to another woman, and can not seem to go on alone. To ease her sadness, her doctor suggest an unusual procedure, one that opens doors of insight into the relationships in her life, and her conflicting affections.

Автор: Greer Andrew
Название: Path of Minor Planets
ISBN: 057127286X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571272860
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Описание: It`s 1965, on a small island in the South Pacific, a group of astronomers gather to witness the passing of a comet, but when a young boy dies during a meteor shower, the lives of the scientists and their loved ones change in subtle yet profound ways.

Автор: Greer Andrew Sean
Название: The Confessions of Max Tivoli
ISBN: 0571226450 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571226450
Издательство: Faber
Цена: 501 р.
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Описание: So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. At his birth, Max has the external physical appearance of an old, dying creature. Max grows older like any child, but his physical age appears to go backwards - on the outside a very old man, but inside still a fearful child.

When Max is seventeen, he falls in love with a neighbour girl, Alice, who ages normally. Max, of course, does not; as a young man, he has an older man's body. But his curse is also his blessing: as he gets older, his body grows younger, so each successive time he finds his Alice, she does not recognize him, she takes him for a stranger, and Max is given another chance at love.

Set against the backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century, Max's confessions are written in a prose that is beautifully modulated; its tale of love lost then found achieves an emotional resonance that is unforgettable.