Автор: Theroux, Paul Название: Mosquito coast ISBN: 1405876646 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405876643 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1273.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (5 шт.) Описание: Advanced Expert thoroughly prepares your adult and young adult students for the CAE while developing their language awareness and communicative skills. Advanced Expert CAE corresponds to level C1 of the Common European Framework. Contemporary / American English (Available April 2008) Allie Fox hates the United States and he hates the twentieth century. He takes his wife and children to the jungle in Honduras to find a new, simpler way of living. But things go wrong, and their lives become much worse and more frightening than anything back home.
Автор: Theroux, Paul Название: On the Plain of Snakes ISBN: 0241977525 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241977521 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TRAVEL WRITING 2020 The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern MexicoNogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers and the deportees who have been caught and brought back.
And it is here that Paul Theroux will begin his journey into the culturally rich but troubled heart of modern Mexico. Moving through the deserts just south of the Arizona border, Theroux finds a place brimming with charm, yet visibly marked by both the US border patrol looming to the north and mounting discord from within. Attending local language and culinary schools, driving through the country and meeting its people, Paul Theroux gets under the skin of Mexico.
From the writer praised for his 'curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms' (New York Times Book Review), On The Plain of Snakes is an urgent and mesmerising exploration of a region in conflict. Praise for Paul Theroux:'As cool as Maugham... as observant, intuitive, wry, inventive and eloquent as Graham Greene' Sunday Times'Theroux's work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged' Observer'The world's most perceptive travel writer' Daily Mail'One of the most accomplished and worldly-wise writers of his generation' The Times
Автор: Paul Theroux Название: The Happy Isles of Oceania ISBN: 0140159762 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140159769 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 2507.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Invites readers to join the author on one of his most exotic and tantalizing adventures exploring the coasts and blue lagoons of the Pacific Islands, and taking up residence to discover the secrets of these isles.
Автор: Theroux, Paul Название: The Mosquito Coast ISBN: 0140060898 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140060898 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.
Автор: Theroux Paul Название: Under the Wave at Waimea ISBN: 0358697387 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780358697381 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 2344.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"Theroux's work is like no one else's." -Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review
From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember. Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey has passed his prime and is losing his "stoke." The younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still idolize the Shark, but his sponsors are looking elsewhere. One night, while driving home from a bar after one too many, Joe accidentally kills a stranger near Waimea, a tragedy that sends his life out of control. As the repercussions of the accident spiral ever wider, Joe's devoted girlfriend Olive throws herself into uncovering the dead man's identity and helping Joe find vitality and refuge in the waves again. Set in the lush, gritty underside of an island paradise readers rarely see, Under the Wave at Waimea offers a dramatic, affecting commentary on privilege, mortality, and the lives we choose to remember. It is a masterstroke by one of the greatest writers of our time.
Автор: Theroux, Paul Название: Bad angel brothers ISBN: 0241567742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241567746 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presented with charming Jemima Puddle Duck illustrations, this Peter Rabbit photo album is perfect for keeping all your favourite photos in one place. Portrait photo album in a box with 100 6x4 acetate pockets. Store your memories in this concise, easy to store album. Create a bank of memories that will protect and preserve your photographs. A great addition to any baby or family memory box.
Автор: Theroux, Paul Название: Under the Wave at Waimea ISBN: 0241504457 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241504451 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "Today I am 22 years of age. I used to be a person who was working in the complex streets of Geylang and the black market. I was a gangster in three different criminal organizations. Robbery, assault, peddling drugs, extortion...At the end of everything I have done in the underworld, I have never brought goodness to anyone around me. People who know me and those who don`t, I have never given them something pleasant to smile about." As a child, Joshua Foo seemed to have a particular affinity for trouble. Despite his best intentions, his actions and decisions always seemed to land him on the wrong side of the law. Without the support of a loving family, Joshua was drifting and furthermore, angry-and he didn`t know why. With his father in jail and his mother working tirelessly to provide for her only child, Joshua was left to his own to make sense of his world and fend for himself. The death of his beloved grandmother and constant teasing by peers over the absence of his father drove him to fill the void in his world with friends who gave him the support he never had, the security he never knew and worth he never felt. But this came with a price, and with eyes wide open, Joshua fell headlong into a secret, illegal world, where bravery and loyalty were valued above all. But eventually Joshua had to come face to face with the reality of his world and into confrontation with all that he had been running from. With piercing honesty and brazen boldness of youth, Joshua recounts his experiences of being in a gang, his brushes with law and examines the events that brought him there. What made him who he is today? Was it his own choices, or the choices of others? And does he have the agency to decide what he will become? More than just a shocking story of a boy losing his way, The Right Mistakes is about a boy trying to make sense of his life and change it for the better.
Автор: Theroux, Paul Название: Ghost train to the eastern star ISBN: 1407428861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781407428864 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5663.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the Eurostar in London, this title takes us on a journey to the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, India and Asia.
Автор: Theroux Paul Название: Under the Wave at Waimea ISBN: 0358446287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780358446286 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 4805.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "Theroux's work is like no one else's." -Francine Prose, New York Times Book ReviewFrom legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember. Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey has passed his prime and is losing his "stoke." The younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still idolize the Shark, but his sponsors are looking elsewhere. One night, while driving home from a bar after one too many, Joe accidentally kills a stranger near Waimea, a tragedy that sends his life out of control. As the repercussions of the accident spiral ever wider, Joe's devoted girlfriend, Olive, throws herself into uncovering the dead man's identity and helping Joe find vitality and refuge in the waves again. Set in the lush, gritty underside of an island paradise readers rarely see, UNDER THE WAVE AT WAIMEA offers a dramatic, affecting commentary on privilege, mortality, and the lives we choose to remember. It is a masterstroke b y one of the greatest writers of our time.
Автор: Paul Theroux Название: The Kingdom by the Sea ISBN: 0140071814 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140071818 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: After eleven years living as an American in London, the author set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War, the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves.
Автор: Paul Theroux Название: The Pillars of Hercules ISBN: 0140245332 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140245332 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to the other taking the long way round. He travels by a dilapidated taxi, smoke-filled bus, bicycle and even a cruise-liner. This eventful tour aims to evoke the essence of Mediterranean life.
Автор: Theroux, Paul Название: Mother Land ISBN: 0141048786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141048789 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 'Downright hilarious... Like watching a slow-motion car crash. Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humour' Stephen KingA riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America's most acclaimed writersEveryone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal.
Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring even as they try to escape into adulthood. Welcome to Mother Land: a suffocating kingdom of parental narcissism.
This is an engrossing, hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of a modern family -- the bickering, the conspiracies, and the drive to overcome the painful ties that bind. 'Brilliantly depicts characters in pinpoint prickly prose' Guardian'Funny and wonderfully mean spirited' Saturday Review'The family dynamic has been rendered exceptionally well' Herald
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