Скачать книгу (размер 633Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: The cult hit The Interrogative Mood — a Best Book of the Year selection by Amazon.com, GQ, The Believer, Time Out New York, and elsewhere — reminded readers that Padgett Powell is one of the enduring stars of American …
Скачать книгу (размер 551Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Twenty-three surreal fictions-stories, character assassinations, and mini-travelogues-from one of the most heralded writers of the American South There are many things that repulse «Dr. Ordinary.» «Kansas» is notable for its distinct lack of farmland. «Wayne s Fate» is most …
Скачать книгу (размер 395Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Are you happy? Do we need galoshes? Are bluebirds perfect? Do you know the distinctions, empirical or theoretical, between moss and lichen? Is it clear to you why I am asking you all these questions? Should I go away? …
Скачать книгу (размер 202Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: At her kitchen table somewhere in the South, Padgett Powell s narrator embarks on a spirited and often hilarious imagining of certain historical figures and current national preoccupations. Ostensibly writing her grocery list, Mrs. Hollingsworth most happily loses her …
Скачать книгу (размер 288Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Finalist for the National Book Award: Through the eyes of a precocious twelve-year-old in a seaside South Carolina town, the world of love, sex, friendship, and betrayal blossoms. Simons Everson Manigault is not a typical twelve-year-old boy in tiny …
Скачать книгу (размер 247Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Hailed by Time as an «extravagantly comic» novel, A Woman Named Drown is a wild and strange journey through America s South that follows a young PhD dropout who falls in with an amateur actress-cum-pool shark On the brink …