When the Music Stopped, Matthews Beryl

Автор: Markham Beryl
Название: West with the Night
ISBN: 0865477639 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780865477636
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time

Beryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and Isak Dinesen.
If the first responsibility of a memoirist is to lead a life worth writing about, Markham succeeded beyond all measure. Born Beryl Clutterbuck in the middle of England, she and her father moved to Kenya when she was a girl, and she grew up with a zebra for a pet; horses for friends; baboons, lions, and gazelles for neighbors. She made money by scouting elephants from a tiny plane. And she would spend most of the rest of her life in East Africa as an adventurer, a racehorse trainer, and an aviatrix--she became the first person to fly nonstop from Europe to America, the first woman to fly solo east to west across the Atlantic. Hers was indisputably a life full of adventure and beauty.
And then there is the writing. When Hemingway read Markham's book, he wrote to his editor, Maxwell Perkins: "She has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer . . . She] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers . . . It is really a bloody wonderful book."
With a new introduction by Sara Wheeler--one of Markham's few legitimate literary heirs--West with the Night should once again take its place as one of the world's great adventure stories.

Автор: Beryl Bainbridge
Название: Sweet William
ISBN: 1844088626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844088621
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Beryl Bainbridge`s classic early novel weaves a dark, clever tale of a young woman in thrall to a golden stranger in 1960s London.

Автор: Beryl Bainbridge
Название: A Quiet Life
ISBN: 1844088634 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844088638
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Beryl Bainbridge`s classic early novel of English domestic life after the War, A Quiet Life is laced with irony and wicked black humour, and was praised by Hilary Mantel as `one of the funniest books I have ever read`.

Автор: Beryl Bainbridge
Название: A Weekend With Claude
ISBN: 1844088545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844088546
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: The first novel that acclaimed author Beryl Bainbridge ever published, A Weekend with Claude is a wickedly funny portrait of frustrated middle-class lives.