Билл Брайсон отказывается от путешествий по автострадам и проселочным дорогам Средней Америки ради быстрой, волнующей поездки по маршруту американского языка и популярной культуры • В книге "Сделано в Америке. Неофициальная история американского английского" Брайсон рассказывает историю о том, как американский возник из английского языка, и попутно демифологизирует свою родную землю - объясняет, как пыльная деревушка в пустыне, где нет ни лесов, ни остролиста, стала Голливудом, как Дикий Запад не был завоеван, о том, как они ели нездоровую пищу задолго до того, как появилось само слово, а также раскрывает истинное происхождение слов "стринги", "блокбастер", "покер" и "неразбериха" • Книга на английском языке • Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture
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You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall • If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don’t even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career • A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich Ackerman gives Maurice an opportunity. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell; whether or not he should is another matter • Once Maurice has made his name, he finds himself in need of a fresh idea. He doesn’t care where he finds it, as long as it helps him rise to the top. Stories will make him famous, but they will also make him beg, borrow and steal. They may even make him do worse • This is a novel about ambition
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This story begins with a letter • From a housewife • to the gentle curator • Of an extraordinary museum • Where lies peacefully • An ancient exhibit • That holds the key • To Everything • We are • Meet Me at the Museum tells of a connection made across oceans and against all the odds. Through intimate stories of joy, despair, and discovery, two people are drawn inexorably towards the other, until a shattering revelation pushes their friendship to the very edge • This deeply affecting debut novel by seventy-three year-old Anne Youngson won the Paul Torday Memorial Prize and was dramatized on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour
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