No Dumbing Down: A No-Nonsense Guide for Ceos on Organization Growth, Walker Karen

Автор: Thompson Walker, Karen
Название: The dreamers
ISBN: 1471173577 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471173578
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Описание: From the acclaimed author of The Age of Miracles comes an ambitious novel of family, secrets and sleep

Автор: Karen Thompson Walker
Название: The Age of Miracles: A Novel
ISBN: 0812982940 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812982947
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1563.00 р.
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Описание:

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
People O: The Oprah Magazine Financial Times Kansas City Star BookPage Kirkus Reviews Publishers Weekly Booklist

With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles is a luminous and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

';Maybe everything that happened to me and to my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It's possible, I guess. But I doubt it.

I doubt it very much.'

Spellbinding, haunting, The Age of Miracles is a beautiful novel of catastrophe and survival, growth and change, the story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in an extraordinary time. On an ordinary Saturday, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer, gravity is affected, the birds, the tides, human behavior and cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray.

In a world of danger and loss, Julia faces surprising developments in herself, and her personal worlddivisions widening between her parents, strange behavior by Hannah and other friends, the vulnerability of first love, a sense of isolation, and a rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker gives us a breathtaking story of people finding ways to go on, in an ever-evolving world.

Praise for The Age of Miracles

';A stunner.'Justin Cronin

';A genuinely moving tale that mixes the real and surreal, the ordinary and the extraordinary, with impressive fluency and flair.'Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

';Gripping drama . .

. flawlessly written; it could be the most assured debut by an American writer since Jennifer Egan's Emerald City.'The Denver Post

';If you begin this book, you'll be loath to set it down until you've reached its end.'San Francisco Chronicle

';Provides solace with its wisdom, compassion, and elegance.'Curtis Sittenfeld

Don't miss the exclusive conversation between Karen Thompson Walker and Karen Russell at the back of the book.

Автор: Thompson Walker Karen
Название: Age of Miracles
ISBN: 1471177998 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471177996
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Описание: What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours until day becomes night and night becomes day?

Автор: Walker, Karen Thompson
Название: Dreamers, The (Mr-Exp)
ISBN: 1984801481 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781984801487
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE *; An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author ofThe Age of Miracles.

';Stunning.'Emily St. John Mandel, author ofStation Eleven*; ';A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril.'Entertainment Weekly

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Glamour *; Real Simple *; Good Housekeeping

One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleepand doesn't wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening.

Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town.

A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster.

Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. They are dreaming heightened dreamsbut of what?

Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human lifeif only we are awakened to them.

Praise for The Dreamers

';Walker's roving fictive eye by turns probes characters' innermost feelings and zooms out to coolly parse topics like reality versus delusion.

. . .

[It has] the perfect ambiguous frame for a tense and layered plot.'O: The Oprah Magazine

';[Walker's] gripping, provocative novel should come with a warning: may cause insomnia.'People(Book of the Week)

';Powerful and moving . . .

written with symphonic sweep.'The New York Times Book Review

';2019's first must-read novel . . .

Alternately terrifying and moving . . .The Dreamersis overflowing with humanity.'Jezebel

';This is an exquisite work of intimacy.

Walker's sentences are smooth, emotionally arrestingof a true, ethereal beauty. . .

. This book achieves [a] dazzling, aching humanity.'Entertainment Weekly