Vintage books Love Картер Анджела

"Я начала писать короткие пьесы, когда жила в комнате, слишком маленькой для написания романа". Так говорит Анджела Картер об этом сборнике, написанном во время проживания в Тойко. Эти экзотические, чувственные истории представляют собой первое крупное достижение Картера в форме короткого рассказа. Пышные воображаемые леса, смертоносное кукольное представление и экспрессионистское видение Японии: каждое из них мгновенно создает атмосферу, мрачную и светлую по очереди, созданную узнаваемо смелым воображением одного из великих стилистов двадцатого века • Книга на английском языке • 'I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.' So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes the highly entertaining sequel to Talking it Over • In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away. In Love, etc Julian Barnes revisits the three of them, using the same intimate technique of allowing the characters to speak directly to the reader, to whisper their secrets, to argue for their version of the truth. Darker and deeper than its predecessor, Love, etc is a compelling exploration of contemporary love and its betrayals

'As a novel it stands very high, but it is in its qualities as a "social document" that its great value lies' Times Literary Supplement • In Hanky Park, near Salford, Harry and Sally Hardcastle grow up in a society preoccupied with grinding poverty, exploited by bookies and pawnbrokers, bullied by petty officials and living in constant fear of the dole queue and the Means Test. His love affair with a local girl ends in a shotgun marriage, and, disowned by his family, Harry is tempted by crime. Sally, meanwhile, falls in love with Larry Meath, a self-educated Marxist. But Larry is a sick man and there are other more powerful rivals for her affection

'A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight' Sunday Telegraph • Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair with a silver-tongued self-confessed libertine. Her husband, a dull, hard-working lecturer, suspecting everyone but the right man, sends himself half mad with jealousy. The shocking, unforeseen consequences of their affair shatter Emmy's most cherished delusions about friendship, romance, and the ties that bind

One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be • As two pints turns to three, then five, Davy and Joe set out to revisit the haunts of their youth. With the ghosts of Dublin entwining around them - the pubs, the parties, the broken hearts and bungled affairs - the men find themselves face-to-face with the realities of friendship

Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone • A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret. Told with Doyle's signature warmth, wit and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness and the shifting of history underneath our feet

Откройте для себя классический феминистский пересказ любимых сказок Анджелы Картер, переплетенный мастером соблазнительного, яркого повествования • Из знакомых сказок и легенд - "Красная шапочка", "Синяя Борода", "Кот в сапогах", "Красавица и чудовище", "Вампиры и оборотни" - Анджела Картер создала захватывающую коллекцию мрачных, чувственных, фантастических историй • Книга на английском языке • Discover Angela Carter’s classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling • From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories

'Raunchy, raucous...a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety' The Times • Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake? • Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London, St Petersburg and Siberia • **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

Две семьи. Семь дней. Один дом • Анджела и ее брат Ричард провели двадцать лет, избегая друг друга. Теперь, после смерти их матери, они собирают свои семьи вместе на каникулы в арендованном доме на границе с Уэльсом. Четверо взрослых и четверо детей. Семь дней совместных трапез, разведения костров, карточных игр и прогулок по мокрому снегу • Но в тишине и неподвижности долины начинают появляться призраки. Родители, которые, как думал Ричард, были у него. Родители, которые, как думала Анджела, были у нее. Прошлые и настоящие любовники. Друзья, враги, жертвы, спасители • Марк Хэддон, автор книг "Любопытный случай с собакой в ночное время" и "Место беспокойства", написал роман "Красный дом", который является забавным, пронзительным и глубоко проницательным о человеческих жизнях

Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations between WW1 and present day • 1910. Amiens, Northern France. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in the French city to stay with the Azaire family. He falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle and the two enter a tempestuous love affair. But, with the world on the brink of war, the relationship falters. With his love for Isabelle forever engraved on his heart, Stephen volunteers to fight on the Western Front and enters the unimaginable dark world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land. From award-winning writer Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong is an exceptionally moving and unforgettable portrait of the ruthlessness of war and the indestructability of love

'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies • Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs, falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall. In this extraordinary novel Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it

The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the subject of love in all of history. His advice is enduringly useful and entertaining. Between these covers you'll find all you need to know about where to meet a new beau, how to handle illicit affairs and how to maintain your allure • This edition also contains the companion volume The Cure for Love - just in case things don't work out