Автор: Cheever, John Название: Collected stories ISBN: 0099748304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099748304 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1688 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A collection by Pulitzer prize-winning novelist John Cheever that shows the power and range of one of the finest short story writers. It includes masterpieces such as "The Swimmer" and "Goodbye, My Brother" and date from the time of his honourable discharge from the Army at the end of the Second World War.
Автор: Cheever Название: Stories of john cheever. the ISBN: 0375724427 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375724428 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1751 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: This collection of Cheever's short fiction features The Swier, The Enormous Radio, The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and fifty-eight other stories written and published over the past three decades.
Автор: Cheever, John Название: Journals ISBN: 009952953X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099529538 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1688 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presents John Cheever`s journals that reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him.
Автор: Cheever, John Название: Wapshot scandal ISBN: 0099540592 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099540595 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1428 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Once upon a time the Wapshots of St Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village - and into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion.
Описание: Between 1840 and 1868, Concord, Massachusetts, was home to such writers as Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. In this fascinating history, noted author Cheever explores how Concord developed into the first American community devoted to idealism. of photos.
Автор: Cheever Название: As Good As I Could Be ISBN: 0671034987 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780671034986 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 1452 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Having children transforms us -- through the amazing power of our love for them and theirs for us, through the anger they can provoke, and because being good parents means we must accept that we are no longer children. In "As Good as I Could Be, " bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles with passion and courage her own imperfect transformation, offering inspiration for other parents doing the best they can.
By relating the trials and triumphs of raising a daughter and a son Cheever illuminates some basic truths learned along the way: a family should not be a democracy; teaching your children to celebrate their mistakes helps them forgive yours; and a damaged childhood is not a guarantor of bad parenting. With unflinching honesty, Cheever tackles tantrums, divorce, eating disorders, and alcoholism, celebrating how she and her kids have weathered all this -- and more -- with love and respect intact.
Автор: Cheever, John Название: Falconer ISBN: 0679737863 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679737865 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1478 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him back into childhood. Only John Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.
Автор: Cheever, J Название: Falconer ISBN: 0141187859 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141187853 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 923 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A story of human redemption, Falconer explores an ex-professor`s experiences as an inmate in Falconer Prison. Ezekiel Farragut, convicted of killing his brother, has been imprisoned in the state prison where he is visited by his wife Marcia, with whom he has a love-hate relationship.
Автор: Cheever Название: My Name Is Bill ISBN: 0743405919 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780743405911 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 2057 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The definitive biography of Bill Wilson, the man who established Alcoholics Anonymous, and the first to be written with access to documents in that organization's archives, by a noted author who is herself a recovering alcoholic. In this definitive and groundbreaking biography, acclaimed author Susan Cheever offers a remarkably human portrait of a man whose life and work both influenced and saved the lives of millions of people. Drawing from personal letters, diaries, AA archives, interviews and Cheever's own experiences with alcoholism" My Name Is Bill" is the first fully documented, deeply felt account of Bill Wilson and Alcoholics Anonymous."
Автор: Cheever, John Название: Oh What a Paradise It Seems ISBN: 0679737855 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679737858 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1201 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: John Cheever's last novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man, Lemuel Sears, who still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is threatened; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters. In Cheever's accomplished hands the battle between an elderly romantic and the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilization becomes something ribald, poignant, and ineffably joyful.
Автор: Cheever, John Название: Bullet Park ISBN: 0679737871 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679737872 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1478 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Welcome to Bullet Park, a township in which even the most buttoned-down gentry sometimes manage to terrify themselves simply by looking in the mirror.
In these exemplary environs John Cheever traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and Paul Hammer, a bastard named after a common household tool, who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park with one objective--to murder Nailles's son. Here is the lyrical and mordantly funny hymn to the American suburb--and to all the dubious normalcy it represents--delivered with unparalleled artistry and assurance.
Автор: Quinn, Julia Название: Secret diaries of miss miranda cheever ISBN: 0749938323 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780749938321 Издательство: Little, Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 1264 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Only, in 1811, the nineteen-year-old Viscount Turner - eldest brother of Miranda`s closest friend - had kissed the hand of an awkward ten-year-old girl and promised her that one day she`d be as beautiful as she was smart. Now, eight years later, Miranda is a woman grown, and Turner an embittered widower. But she has never stopped loving Turner.
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