Автор: Boyle, T.C. Название: Wild Child ISBN: 0143119001 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143119005 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 735.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Boyle Crompton Laurie Название: Adrenaline Crush ISBN: 125007360X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250073600 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Цена: 1562.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Seventeen-year-old Dyna comes from a long line of risk-takers and is an avid thrill-seeker in her own right, until she takes a terrible fall and shatters her leg. Her life used to be about bike racing and rock climbing; now it's about staying home, except for attending physical and group therapy sessions at the bizarre alternative healing center her mom has chosen. Dyna's boyfriend saw her accident and supports her newfound desire for safety, but a young Iraq war veteran she meets at rehab challenges her to think about what she's really avoiding in her old life and to take chances again even with her heart."
Автор: Boyle T. Coraghessan Название: The Harder They Come LP ISBN: 0062370391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062370396 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 2925.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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A NEWSWEEK BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR
A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2015 (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)
Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people an aging Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son s paranoid, much older lover as they careen toward an explosive confrontation.
On a cruise to Central America, seventy-year-old Sten Stensen kills an armed robber menacing a busload of tourists. The reluctant hero is relieved to return home to Fort Bragg, California only to find that his delusional son, Adam, has spiraled out of control. Adam has become involved with Sara, a hardened member of a right-wing anarchist group. As his mental state fractures, he becomes increasingly delusional until a schizophrenic breakdown leads him to shoot two people, spurring the biggest manhunt in California history.
As T.C. Boyle explores a father s legacy of violence and his powerlessness in relating to his equally violent son, he offers unparalleled insights into the American psyche. Inspired by a true story, The Harder They Come is a devastating and indelible novel from a modern master."
Автор: Boyle T C Название: San Miguel ISBN: 1408831376 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408831373 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 1335.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The schooner from Santa Barbara arrives at the tiny, desolate island on New Year's Day, 1888. As the trunks are unloaded onto the wet sand, thirty-eight-year-old Marantha Waters looks at the cliffs falling away into the churning sea. This is the first day of her new life on San Miguel.
Joined by her husband, a fiercely possessive Civil War veteran who will take over the operation of the sheep ranch on the island, Marantha strives to persevere in the face of brutal isolation. But the constant wind and sheep-ravaged wasteland shatter her illusions; her husband promised paradise. As he obsessively resolves to stay - and becomes increasingly distant from her and their adopted daughter Edith - Marantha's blighted lungs grow weaker in the dampness.
Two years later, Edith, now a spirited teenager and an aspiring actress, will exploit every opportunity to escape the captivity her father has imposed on her. March, 1930. Another family - and another bride - arrives on San Miguel.
Elise Lester, a librarian from New York City, and her husband Herbie, a World War I veteran full of manic energy, achieve a celebrity of sorts as the news cameras take an interest in these wayward people living in the wild. But the unyielding island is haunted by its history. Will the family be able to cling together as the war threatens to pull everything apart?San Miguel is a vivid and gripping story of hard lives pitched against the elements, the desires of stubborn men and the unbearable burden of love, from master American storyteller T.
C. Boyle.
Автор: Boyle Charles Название: Another Hamlet: The Mystery of Leslie Howard ISBN: 0983502730 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780983502739 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2821.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Leslie Howard may be today the least known of the best known actors / movie stars of his day (1930s-1940s). Part of that lost legacy may be because he died relatively young, but part of it may also involve his life outside of Broadway and Hollywood. Before the war Howard starred in such films as The Petrified Forest and Gone with the Wind), and on stage (Hamlet). Upon his return to England he shifted his attention to the war effort, making films that celebrated the English spirit and attacked the Nazis. In one instance he introduced the Oxfordian theory about the Shakespeare authorship question into several scenes in his popular Pimpernel Smith (the Oxfordian theory of the Shakespeare authorship is that the true author was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford).
Meanwhile, Howard was also serving as a spy for his government, a spy who wound up dying a very public and yet "mysterious" death in 1943 in the only instance of a Nazi shoot-down of a civilian airliner in the whole war. His life today remains shrouded in mystery, since some records of the shoot-down remain classified until 2025, and ---even more astonishingly--- records in Howard's personal estate will remain classified until 2056, following their reclassification in 1980 (See the Defense Media website for some background and details: defensemedianetwork.com).
In this revised, second edition of Another Hamlet Charles Boyle explores this story of Leslie Howard's interest in the Earl of Oxford as Shakespeare, and how that may have played into both his role as an artist and propagandist in World War II, and, finally perhaps, as a factor in his fate at the hands of German fighter pilots in 1943. Since Goebbels had openly condemned Howard, why was he flying commercial when other prominent British celebrities flew protected on military transports? Why didn't Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden afford him more protection?
In this current year (2017), with recent and older history of Britain seemingly everywhere (Dunkirk, The Darkest Hour, the Netflix series The Crown, plus PBS's Elizabeth's Secret Agents), Boyle's Another Hamlet is the perfect tale to bring these two ends of that history (16th and 20th century) together.
In both Another Hamlet and a companion book on Shakespeare/Oxford's unveiling of Elizabethan "realpolitik," A Poet's Rage (which includes several other essays by Boyle, also available on amazon.com), the Oxfordian theory of the Shakespeare authorship makes clear how the politics of 400 years ago shaped both Shakespeare himself and Elizabethan England, and continues to matter centuries later.
"In Another Hamlet Charles Boyle has produced a riveting political thriller that explores the life and tragic death of actor and film-maker, Leslie Howard, a British patriot drawn into a deadly propaganda duel with the Germans. Deftly interweaving the behind-the-scenes politics of World War II with the decadent showbiz world of the 1930s-1940s, Boyle makes the tantalizing suggestion that it was Howard's growing conviction that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare which sealed his doom. From Leslie Howard himself to Humphrey Bogart, Merle Oberon, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and Joseph Goebbels, Boyle brings to life a fascinating and often chilling cast of characters to tell the story of a maverick artist's losing battle with the power-brokers of his age." -- Charles Beauclerk, author of Nell Gwynn and Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom.
"Charles Boyle has opened a window on an amazing true story with immediate implications for our own time. His narrative essay on Leslie Howard and 'Shakespeare' is impossible to put down and I have no doubt that his screenplay, which follows, will become a stunning and important movie. I can't wait " -- Hank Whittemore, author of CNN: the Inside Story and Your Future Self.
Автор: Boyle John S. Название: Rent to Own Your First Home: An American Dream Story ISBN: 0983396647 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780983396642 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1552.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Boyle T. C. Название: The Harder They Come ISBN: 0062349384 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062349385 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1671.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle makes his Ecco debut with a powerful, gripping novel that explores the roots of violence and anti-authoritarianism inherent in the American character.
Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people--an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son's paranoid, much older lover--as they careen towards an explosive confrontation.
On a vacation cruise to Central America with his wife, seventy-year-old Sten Stensen unflinchingly kills a gun-wielding robber menacing a busload of senior tourists. The reluctant hero is relieved to return home to Fort Bragg, California, after the ordeal--only to find that his delusional son, Adam, has spiraled out of control.
Adam has become involved with Sara Hovarty Jennings, a hardened member of the Sovereign Citizens' Movement, right-wing anarchists who refuse to acknowledge the laws and regulations of the state, considering them to be false and non-applicable. Adam's senior by some fifteen years, Sara becomes his protector and inamorata. As Adam's mental state fractures, he becomes increasingly schizophrenic--a breakdown that leads him to shoot two people in separate instances. On the run, he takes to the woods, spurring the biggest manhunt in California history.
As he explores a father's legacy of violence and his powerlessness in relating to his equally violent son, T. C. Boyle offers unparalleled psychological insights into the American psyche. Inspired by a true story, The Harder They Come is a devastating and indelible novel from a modern master.
--Newsday
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