Серия &quot;Canons&quot;

To the River

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To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape – and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love. Along the way, Laing explores the roles rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature and mythology alike. To the River excavates...

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There Are Little Kingdoms

Кевин Барри

There Are Little Kingdoms

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This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small town. Lonesome hillwalkers take to the high reaches in pursuit of a saving embrace. A bewildered man steps off a country bus in search of his identity – and a stiff drink. These stories, filled with a grand sense of life's absurdity, form a remarkably surefooted collection that reads like a...

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Кевин Барри

The Weatherhouse

The Weatherhouse

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The True Adventures of the Rolling...

Stanley Booth

The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

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Stanley Booth

The Trip to Echo Spring

The Trip to Echo Spring

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Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award. Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. Beautiful, captivating and original, The Trip to Echo Spring strips away the myth of...

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The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

The Tartar Steppe

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Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, he finds the castle manned by veteran soldiers who have grown old without seeing a trace of the enemy. As his length of service stretches from months into years, he continues to wait patiently for the enemy to advance across the desert, for one great and glorious battle . . . ...

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Dino Buzzati

The Spare Room

Helen Garner

The Spare Room

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When Helen offers her spare room to her old friend Nicola, she has little idea of what lies ahead. Nicola has cancer and, sceptical of the medical establishment, is in the city for a course of alternative treatment. She is determined to deal with her illness in her own way, regardless of the advice that Helen can offer. In the weeks that follow, Nicola’s fight against cancer will turn not only her own life upside down but the lives of everyone around her. Told with humour and honesty, this...

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Helen Garner

The Quarry Wood

The Quarry Wood

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The Private Memoirs and Confessions...

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

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The Private Memoirs and Confessions...

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

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The People's Act Of Love

James Meek

The People's Act Of Love

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James Meek

The People Of The Sea

David Thomson

The People Of The Sea

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David Thomson

The Penelopiad

The Penelopiad

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The Penelopiad

The Penelopiad

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Margaret Atwood returns with a shrewd, funny, and insightful retelling of the myth of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope. Describing her own remarkable vision, the author writes in the foreword, I’ve chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids. The maids form a chanting and singing Chorus, which focuses on two questions that must pose themselves after any close reading of the Odyssey: What led to the hanging of the maids, and...

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