Now You Know (Valancourt 20th Century Classics), Frayn Michael

Автор: Frayn Michael
Название: Skios
ISBN: 0571281451 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571281459
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: And as the time draws ever nearer for one or other Dr Wilfred - or possibly both - to give the eagerly awaited lecture, so Skios - Greece - Europe - career off their appointed track.

Автор: M. Frayn
Название: Headlong
ISBN: 0571283489 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571283484
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Описание: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece.

Автор: Frayn, Michael
Название: Landing on the sun
ISBN: 0571315909 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571315901
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: For fifteen years, ever since the taciturn civil servant Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a window, there have been rumours.

Автор: Frayn Michael
Название: Spies
ISBN: 0571268854 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571268856
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Описание: In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite.

Автор: Frayn, Michael
Название: Now you know
ISBN: 0571315860 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571315864
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: Bit of a wide boy, Terry. Only one person finds it easy to resist his charm and counter his arguments and that`s Hilary - one of the serious and dedicated young Civil Servants working in the Home Office in Westminster, who just happens to know the truth about the case in which Terry is currently interested.

Автор: Frayn Michael
Название: Skios
ISBN: 1250032148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250032140
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year

On the private Greek island of Skios, the high-paying guests of a world-renowned foundation prepare for the annual keynote address, to be given this year by Dr. Norman Wilfred, an aging and ponderous authority on the scientific organization of science. He turns out to be surprisingly youthful and charming, and everyone is soon eating out of his hand.

Meanwhile, in a remote villa at the other end of the island, the ravishing Georgie has agreed to spend a furtive horizontal weekend with a notorious schemer, who has characteristically failed to turn up. Trapped there with her instead is a pompous, balding individual called Dr. Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, and his temper--indeed, everything he possesses other than the text of a lecture on the scientific organization of science.

In a spiraling farce about upright academics, ambitious climbers, and dotty philanthropists, Michael Frayn, the god of farce (Entertainment Weekly), tells a story of personal and professional disintegration, probing his eternal theme of how we know what we know even as he delivers us to the outer limits of hilarity.

Автор: Michael Frayn
Название: Headlong
ISBN: 0312267460 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312267469
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master.

Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art-historian wife are asked to assess three dusty paintings blocking the draught from the chimney. But hiding beneath the soot is nothing less-Martin believes-than a lost work by Bruegel. So begins a hilarious trail of lies and concealments, desperate schemes and soaring hopes as Martin, betting all that he owns and much that he doesn't, embarks on a quest to prove his hunch, win his wife over, and separate the painting from its owner.

In Headlong, Michael Frayn, "the master of what is seriously funny" (Anthony Burgess), offers a procession of superbly realized characters, from the country squire gone to seed to his giddy, oversexed young wife. All are burdened by human muddle and human cravings; all are searching for a moral compass as they grapple with greed, folly, and desire. And at the heart of the clamor is Breugel's vision, its dark tones warning of the real risks of temptation and obsession.

With this new novel, Michael Frayn has given us entertainment of the highest order. Supremely wise and wickedly funny, Headlong elevates Frayn into the front rank of contemporary novelists.