In the Shadow of Dante: A Contemporary Love Story, Seven Centuries Old, Komisar Jerome

Автор: Komisar Jerome
Название: Church of the Hungry: An Alaskan Romance
ISBN: 0985858419 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780985858414
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 2586.00 р.
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Описание: It is 1937. Winter is taking hold and the long arctic night is beginning. A single engine plane crashes in the Alaska wilderness. Its three passengers survive--the plane's pilot, C. "Killer" Armstrong Wingate; Nuna Cunningham, seventeen-years-old, pregnant, and already a widow; and Rolland "Rembrandt" Martin, an ambitious artist from Manhattan.
Rolland is the only one hurt. When he awakes, he is on a bearskin rug, wolf furs covering his body, and Nuna, granddaughter of a Yup'ik shaman, is chanting unfamiliar hymns into his ear. An ivory amulet rests on his chest.
Sixty years later, the Phillips Museum is preparing a retrospective exhibit to celebrate Rolland Martin's art. He hires Connie Johnson, a young single mother, to ghostwrite an autobiographical sketch for the museum's catalog.
Nuna is central to Rolland's story. Her mystical beliefs and shamanistic skills lead him into worlds he did not know existed. And only after he belatedly infuses his art with her universe does he achieve eminence.

Автор: Komisar Jerome B.
Название: The Last Believer
ISBN: 0985858400 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780985858407
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 2233.00 р.
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Описание: Beguiled by an old man's stories of his shtetl, Benjamin Palmer, a failed financier, travels to Ukraine in the irrational hope that the old world will launch him on a path to a new life. But quickly he is kidnapped on the streets of Kyiv and held for ransom in an unnamed hamlet close to the Carpathian Mountains. His cell is a rustic cabin that he shares with Marya Ivanova, an attractive young psychologist. His imprisoner is an unrepentant Bolshevik, Ilya Petrov, the son of Soviet heroes, who doesn't permit his lawlessness to diminish his utopian ideals. Palmer's estranged wife, Caitlin McCoy, a fiercely ambitious television celebrity, is informed of his kidnapping by the State Department. Maddened by stalled negotiations for his release, intrigued by the opportunity to make a documentary about her husband's disappearance and her search for him, she elicits the help of a former mentor, and heads to Ukraine.Caitlin's search and Ilya's scheme ultimately clash in a whirlwind plot filled with memorable characters, utopian idealism, and political intrigue.