Автор: Phillips, Caryl Название: The right set ISBN: 0375706461 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375706462 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1559.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: From stately lawns and gentlemen players to Andre Agassi and Venus Williams: 65 great writings on tennis that chronicle the transformation of the sport. Since its inception, tennis has embraced traditions more patrician than plebeian. But times--and tennis--have changed. The game once reserved for royalty has moved from estate lawns to the concrete courts of the city. Old guard amateurs have given way to prodigies plastered with corporate logos. And while barriers of gender, race, and class have been shattered, the modern plagues of self-promotion, the paparazzi, and challengers of ever-escalating talent loom large. In The Right Set, award-winning novelist and editor Caryl Phillips presents a collection of writings on the remarkable evolution of a gentleman's pastime into a sport of jet-set players of athletic and psychological genius. Here are the stories of champions, from the Renshaw twins to "ghetto Cinderella" Venus Williams. Here, too, are volleys between tradition and innovation--debates on everything from etiquette and earnings to Andr Agassi's rejection of the customary tennis whites. Insightful, informative, wonderfully entertaining, The Right Set is as colorful and surprising as the game itself. John McPhee on Ashe vs. Graebner David Higdon on Venus Williams James Thurber on Helen Wills Martina Navratilova on Bad Losers Martin Amis on Smashing the Rackets and more
Автор: Phillips Caryl Название: The Lost Child ISBN: 1250094658 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250094650 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Цена: 2023.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
A gripping and inventive reimagining of Wuthering Heights, by award-winning author Caryl Phillips
In the tradition of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and J. M. Coetzee's Foe, Caryl Phillips revisits Emily Bront 's masterpiece Wuthering Heights as a lyrical tale of orphans and outcasts, absence and hope. A sweeping novel spanning generations, The Lost Child tells the story of young Heathcliff's life before Mr. Earnshaw brought him home to his family; the Bront sisters and their wayward brother, Branwell; Monica, whose father forces her to choose between her family and the foreigner she loves; and a boy's disappearance into the wildness of the moors and the brother he leaves behind.
Phillips deftly spins these disparate lives--bound by the past and struggling to liberate themselves from it--into a stunning literary work. Phillips has been called "in a league with Toni Morrison and V. S. Naipaul" (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and his work is charged with the complexities of migration, alienation, and displacement. Haunting and heartbreaking, The Lost Child transforms a classic into a profound story that is singularly its own.
Автор: Phillips, Caryl Название: A View of the Empire at Sunset ISBN: 1784709018 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784709013 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the heart of London`s Bloomsbury, Gwendolen - not yet truly famous as the writer `Jean Rhys` - is presented with the opportunity she has been waiting for. But this visit home compels her to reflect on the events of her past, and on what they may mean for her future.
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