Jones T An American Marriage

"Брак по-американски" - роман Тайари Джонс об искренней любви и разрушившей ее несправедливости • Молодожены Селестия и Рой - настоящее воплощение американской мечты. Он - молодой управленец на пороге блестящей карьеры, она - подающая надежды талантливая художница. Но не успев испытать всех маленьких радостей и горестей совместной жизни, молодая пара сталкивается с испытаниями, предугадать которые было невозможно. Рой арестован и приговорен к двенадцати годам за преступление, которого он не совершал. Селестия, несмотря на свой сильный и независимый характер, опустошена. Она вступает в отношения с Андре, ее другом детства и шафером на ее свадьбе. Она требует от мужа развод, понимая, что не сможет любить его как раньше. Внезапно через пять лет приговор Роя отменяют, и он возвращается в Атланту, готовый возобновить отношения с женой

Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit of America’s riverbank towns • On his forty-third birthday, Dick Conant, a golden boy who never quite grew up as those around him expected, stepped into a homemade boat to embark on a journey despite a gathering snowstorm. Among his possessions was a Gideon Bible and biographies of Einstein and Bismark. It was the beginning of an all-consuming odyssey by an unconventional man into the watery arteries of America, a journey to the unreported margins of society. He was to spend the next twenty years canoeing thousands of miles of rivers and their innumerable smaller tributaries, from one end of the country to the other

A classic story of trying circumstances and enduring hope, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an eloquentaccount of the young man's life under slavery and his eventual escape. Written as an attempt to enhance his abolitionist credentials, it became the best-selling fugitive slave narrative of the era. This autobiography is a powerful reminder of the brutality of slavery and the terrors African-Americans were forced to endure

As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream grabs the reader by the throat and refuses to let go

Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape — монография американского живописца Эдварда Хоппера, охватывающая годы, проведённые им в окрестностях Глостера, штат Массачусетс. Начиная с 1923 года Хоппер проводит здесь лето, посещает полуос

It's between the wars, and Christine - Christie, to her friends - is tired of London, her job in a travel agency, her friends, and the young men she's being set up with • So when, by chance, she meets the older Ned Skelton, who seems sophisticated and experienced, she quickly becomes besotted. Before Christie knows it, they are engaged • But will marriage to a man she doesn't know well truly offer this young woman an escape? Or is she walking into another prison of her own making? • A classic coming-of-age story set in the 1930s, by one of Britain's best-loved and almost-forgotten novelists

In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued—through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raul Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country’s future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington—Barack Obama’s opening to the island, Donald Trump’s reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden—have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an “important” (The Guardian) and moving chronicle that demands a new reckoning with both the island’s past and its relationship with the United States

A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now with with the inclusion of Douglass's other works • The pre-eminent American slave narrative published in 1845, the Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838: how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die • Also included in this edition are Douglass's famous oration The Meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro and his only known work of fiction, the novella The Heroic Slave • Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818 in Tuckahoe, Maryland

A powerful meditation on loss and memory seen through the prism of 9/11, by one of our greatest authors • Ben Matson lost someone he loved in the 9/11 attacks. Or thinks he did - no body has been recovered, and she shouldn't have been on that particular plane at that time. But he knows she was • The world has moved on from that terrible day. Nearly 20 years later, it has faded into a dull memory for most people. But a chance encounter rekindles Ben's interest in the event, and the inconsistencies that always bothered him • Then the announcement of the recovery of an unidentified plane crash sets off a chain of events that will lead Ben to question everything he thought he knew • Thoughtful, impeccably researched and dazzling in its writing, this is Ben's story, the story of what happened to his fiance, and the story of all that happened on 9/11

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