Reality, and other stories, Lanchester, John

Автор: Lanchester John
Название: The Wall
ISBN: 0571298737 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571298730
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: If he`s lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere near it. Along with the rest of his squad, he will endure cold and fear day after day, night after night.

Автор: Lanchester John
Название: Capital
ISBN: 0571234623 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571234622
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive anonymous postcards with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Who is behind it? What do they want?

Автор: Lanchester John
Название: Mr Phillips
ISBN: 0571201717 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571201716
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: Mr Phillips is an accountant who lies in bed with his wife and dreams of other women. When he loses his job and tells no one, his first day out of work takes in a false journey to the office, a stroll with a pornographer in Battersea Park, a blue film, and a bank robbery in Knightsbridge.

Автор: Lanchester, John
Название: The District Line
ISBN: 1846145295 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846145292
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Автор: Lanchester John
Название: Capital
ISBN: 0571234607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571234608
Издательство: Faber
Цена: 2226 р.
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Описание: The internationally celebrated author of The Debt to Pleasure""returns with this major, breakout novel -- scathing and subversive, sharply witty and brilliantly observed as it follows the lives and fortunes of a group of people in London that becomes connected in unforeseen ways.
Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the capital. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with an expensively groomed wife, two small sons and a powerful job in the city. Freddy Kano, teenage football sensation, has left a two-room shack in Senegal to follow his dream. Traffic warden Quentina has exchanged the violence of the police in Zimbabwe for the violence of the enraged middle classes. Elsewhere in the Capital, Zbigniew has come from Warsaw to indulge the super-rich in their interior decoration whims. These are just some of the unforgettable characters in Lanchester's unputdownable masterpiece novel of contemporary urban life.

Автор: Lanchester John
Название: Debt To Pleasure
ISBN: 1447275381 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447275381
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996.

Автор: Lanchester John
Название: How to Speak Money
ISBN: 057130981X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571309818
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 2226 р.
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Описание: sets out to decode the world of finance for all of us, explaining everything from high-frequency trading and the World Bank to the difference between bullshit and nonsense.As funny as it is devastating, How To Speak Money is a primer and a polemic.

Автор: Lanchester John
Название: Fragrant Harbour
ISBN: 0571294855 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571294855
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Описание: Matthew Ho is a young Chinese entrepreneur whose life has been shaped by painful choices made long before his birth.The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the post-war boom and the handover of the city to the Chinese - all these are present in Fragrant Harbour, an epic novel of one of the world`s great cities.

Автор: Lanchester John
Название: Mr Phillips
ISBN: 0571294863 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571294862
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is no ordinary Wednesday. It is a day on which Mr Phillips will chat with a pornographer, stalk a tv mini-celebrity, have lunch with an aspiring record mogul, and get caught up in a bank robbery.

Автор: Lanchester John
Название: Fragrant Harbour
ISBN: 057121469X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571214693
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: This is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span 70 years in Asia. The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the horrors of the Japanese occupation during World War II; and the post-war boom and transformation of Hong Kong all surface in this epic novel.

Автор: Lanchester John
Название: Family Romance
ISBN: 0571234402 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571234400
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: A memoir in which John Lanchester joins the dots of his parents` history, their extraordinary secrets and the shape of their shared life. From his grandparents` beginnings in rural Ireland and colonial Rhodesia, Lanchester navigates through his parents lives. He illuminates their characters and Julia`s motives.

Автор: Lanchester J
Название: Mr Phillips
ISBN: 0571204945 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571204946
Издательство: Faber
Цена: 741 р.
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Описание: One Wednesday morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed and prepares for his commute into the city. But it will be no ordinary day for the cautious middle-aged accountant; it will be, he later realises, the first day of the rest of his life - whether he likes it or not. From the author of THE DEBT TO PLEASURE.