Bloomsbury Women with Men Форд Ричард

Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived – seemingly but not utterly – amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which left countless lives unmoored, are the perfect backdrop for Ford – and Bascombe. With a flawless comedic sensibility and unblinking intelligence, these stories range over the full complement of universal subjects: ageing, race, loss, faith, marriage, the real estate debacle – the tumult of the world we live in

In these ten stories, Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West - and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. A refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter; an unhappy girlfriend and a stolen Mercedes; a boy watching his family dissolve in a night of tragicomic violence; two men and a woman swapping hard-luck stories in a frontier bar as they try to sweeten their luck. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiselled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace

Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and especially of his recent losses - his preferred career has ended, his wife has divorced him, and a tragic accident took his elder son. In the course of this Easter weekend, Frank will lose all the remnants of his familiar life, though he will emerge heroic with spirits soaring. This is a magnificent novel that propelled Richard Ford into the first rank of American writers

A woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in New Orleans as the St Patrick's Day parade goes by. A group of friends, all once promising, reunite for dinner when one of their number loses her husband, but the gathering splinters when bitter revelations about their shared past emerge. Two teenage boys sit in a drive-in, the air thick with the scent of gin and popcorn and longing • A visionary collection of luminous stories, imprinting landscape, and great moments in small lives – and of the people we carry with us long after they are gone – Sorry For Your Trouble reconfirms Richard Ford as the master of contemporary American fiction

Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an 'Existence Period' - selling real estate in New Jersey and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But over one Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life. Independence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of extraordinary empathy and perception

Фрэнка Баскомба все устраивает, он живет, избегая жизни, ведет заурядное, почти невидимое существование в приглушенном пейзаже заросшего зеленью пригорода Нью-Джерси. Фрэнк Баскомб — примерный семьянин и образцовый гражданин, но на самом деле он беглец. Он убегает всю жизнь — от Нью-Йорка, от писательства, от обязательств, от чувств, от горя, от радости. Его подстегивает непонятный, экзистенциальный страх перед жизнью. Милый городок, утонувший в густой листве старых деревьев; приятная и уважаемая работа спортивного журналиста; перезвон церковных колоколов; умная и понимающая жена — и все это невыразимо гнетет Фрэнка. Под гладью идиллии подергивается, наливаясь неизбежностью, грядущий взрыв. Состоится ли он или напряжение растворится, умиротворенное окружающим покоем зеленых лужаек?Первый роман трилогии Ричарда Форда о Фрэнке Баскомбе (второй "День независимости" получил разом и Пулитцеровскую премию и премию Фолкнера) — это экзистенциальная медитация, печальная и нежная, позволяющая в конечном счете увидеть самую суть жизни

"Канада" – роман больших идей, завораживающе прекрасных описаний, поразительных мыслей, ироничных диалогов и тонких душевных перестроений. Ричард Форд – единственный писатель, получивший за книгу Independence Day две главные американские литературные премии – Пулитцеровскую и премию Фолкнера. Когда родители пятнадцатилетних Дела и Бернер, добропорядочные и скромные люди, решают внезапно ограбить банк, жизнь подростков полностью переворачивается. Отныне не только все пойдет у них иначе, они сами станут иными. Дел, прирожденный наблюдатель, разглядывает происходящее с ним и вокруг него с интересом ученого, пытаясь осмыслить суть и течение жизни, но ее водовороты увлекают его, затягивают, швыряют в полный хаос из событий и не-событий. Ограбление банка, три убийства, одинокая жизнь в прериях, встреча со странными и опасными людьми, словно явившимися прямиком из романов Достоевского – вовсе не этого ждал пятнадцатилетний мальчишка накануне обычного школьного года

It's time for bed, Ted! But Ted is busy. He's brush, brush brushing his teeth with a crocodile! And splish splosh splashing with penguins in the bath. And jump, jump, jumping out his fidgets with a kangaroo • Join in the fun as Ted is too busy for bedtime – lift the flaps to find out what he is doing next! But all the craziness leads to a quiet and soothing ending, making this the ideal fun bedtime read for toddlers • Perfect for fans of Chris Haughton and Rob Biddulph, this sturdy board book will have pre-schoolers chortling with laughter!

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Princess Celie and her companions have made it safely home from the Glorious Arkower, and now that the Eye of the Castle is where it belongs, everything is back to normal. With more magical griffins to care for, Celie, Lilah and Rolf have their hands full. But when the ancient and dangerous wizard Arkwright escapes the dungeon and goes missing within the Castle, no one can rest until he is found. Only Celie knows where he is most likely to be hiding ... With danger lurking behind every tapestry and under every trapdoor, Celie must find the wizard and save her family • Readers will be swept away by another charming magical adventure featuring Princess Celie and her very special castle

First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that lead to Dell Parsons' parents robbing a bank. They weren't reckless people, but in an instant, their actions alter fifteen-year-old Dell's sense of normal life forever. In the days that follow, he is saved before the authorities think to arrive. Driving across Montana, his life hurtles towards the unknown; a hotel in a deserted town, the violent and enigmatic Arthur Remlinger, and towards Canada itself. But, as Dell discovers, in this new world of secrets and upheaval, he is not the only one whose past lies on the other side of the border

Этот роман, получивший Пулитцеровскую премию и Премию Фолкнера, один из самых важных в современной американской и мировой литературе. Экзистенциальная хроника, почти поминутная, о нескольких днях из жизни обычного человека, на долю которого выпали и обыкновенное счастье, и обыкновенное горе и который пытается разобраться в себе, в устройстве своего существования, постигнуть смысл собственного бытия и бытия страны. Здесь циничная ирония идет рука об руку с трепетной и почти наивной надеждой. Фрэнк Баскомб ступает по жизни, будто она — натянутый канат, а он — неумелый канатоходец. Он отправляется в нескончаемую и одновременно стремительную одиссею, смешную и горькую, чтобы очистить свое сознание от наслоений пустого, добраться до самой сердцевины самого себя