Silent History, Horowitz Eli

Автор: Horowitz Eli
Название: The Pickle Index
ISBN: 0374535817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374535810
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 1379.00 р.
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"The Pickle Index" is full of life and everything else it s rowdy and sweaty and heartbreaking, and by heartbreaking I mean funny, and by funny I mean laugh-until-you re-exhausted-and-leaking-and-hungry.
Miranda July

Zloty Kornblatt is the hapless ringmaster of an even more hapless circus troupe. But one fateful night, Zloty makes a mistake: he accidentally makes his audience laugh. Here on the outskirts of Burford where both the cuisine and the economy, such as they are, are highly dependent on pickled vegetables laughter is a rare occasion. It draws the immediate attention of the local bureaucracy, and by morning Zloty has been branded an instigator, conspirator, and fomentor sentenced to death or worse.
His only hope lies with his dysfunctional troupe a morose contortionist, a strongman who d rather be miming, a lion tamer paired with an elderly dog a ragged band of misfits and failures who must somehow spring Zloty from his cell at the top of the Confinement Needle. Their arcane skills become strangely useful, and unlikely success follows unlikely success. Until, suddenly, the successes end leaving only Flora Bialy, Zloty s understudy and our shy narrator, to save the day.

Punctuated with evocative woodcuts by Ian Huebert, Eli Horowitz's "The Pickle Index" is a fast-moving fable, full of deadpan humor and absurd twists and an innovative, exhilarating storytelling experience."

Автор: Horowitz Eli, Derby Matthew, Moffett Kevin
Название: The Silent History
ISBN: 0374534470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374534479
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 1839.00 р.
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A generation of children forced to live without words.

It begins as a statistical oddity: a spike in children born with acute speech delays. Physically normal in every way, these children never speak and do not respond to speech; they don't learn to read, don't learn to write. As the number of cases grows to an epidemic level, theories spread. Maybe it's related to a popular antidepressant; maybe it's environmental. Or maybe these children have special skills all their own.

The Silent History unfolds in a series of brief testimonials from parents, teachers, friends, doctors, cult leaders, profiteers, and impostors (everyone except, of course, the children themselves), documenting the growth of the so-called silent community into an elusive, enigmatic force in itself--alluring to some, threatening to others. Both a bold storytelling experiment and a propulsive reading experience, Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, and Kevin Moffett's The Silent History is at once thrilling, timely, and timeless.