Vintage books Nemesis Рот Филип

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction • Everyman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism • The novel takes its title from a classic of early English drama, whose theme is the summoning of the living to death • The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age when he is stalked with physical woes • The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all

He is a middle-aged American writer called Philip; she is an articulate, well-educated Englishwoman trapped in a loveless and humiliating marriage. In Philip's London studio, this play of voices - sharp, tender and inquiring - reveals both their past lives with startling clarity. Deception is fiendishly clever, as it dances with the conventions of the novel, and redefines the boundaries between fiction and reality

Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives • Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As the devastating disease begins to ravage Bucky’s playground, Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: fear, panic, anger, bewilderment, suffering, and pain. Moving between the streets of Newark and a pristine summer camp high in the Poconos, Nemesis tenderly and startlingly depicts Cantor’s passage into personal disaster, the condition of childhood, and the painful effect that the wartime polio epidemic has on a closely-knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children

Что, если незнакомец, похожий на вас, украл ваше имя, подделал вашу биографию и отправился по миру, выдавая себя за вас? • Поразительно, но Филип Рот встречает в Иерусалиме человека по имени Филип Рот, который путешествует по Израилю, проповедуя странный обратный исход евреев, призывая их вернуться в дома своих предков в Европе. Рот решает остановить его, даже если для этого придется выдать себя за самозванца • Операция "Шейлок" Филипа Рота - это одновременно шпионская история, политический триллер, размышление об идентичности и непостижимое путешествие по нестабильному, пугающему Ближнему Востоку • Книга на английском языке • Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016 • 'Subtle, funny and furious' Observer • What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, hijacked your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? • Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has been touring Israel - riding high on the author's reputation - preaching a bizarre reverse-exodus of the Jews, encouraging them to return to their ancestral homes in Europe

Роман Филипа Рота "Американская пастораль" - роман прощания с обещаниями двадцатого века - процветанием, общественным порядком и семейным благополучием. Главный герой романа Швед Лейвоу, в школьные годы замечательный спортсмен, рос в период послевоенного благополучия, женился на бывшей "Мисс Нью-Джерси", унаследовал отцовскую фабрику и сделался владельцем особняка в идиллической деревушке. Но в 1968 году его прекрасная американская удача неожиданно изменяет ему • "Американская пастораль" - роман горечи, гнева и глубокого сострадания - читается взахлеб. Это подлинный шедевр • Книга на английском языке • Philip Roth's masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America • 'Swede' Levov is living the American dream

Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016 • As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself as 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes' - an identity that will cling to him for a lifetime. As Philip Roth follows Kapesh from the domesticity of childhood out into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a menage a trois in London to the depths of loneliness in New York, Kapesh confronts the central dilemma of pleasure: how to make a truce between dignity and desire; and how to survive the ordeal of an unhallowed existence

Когда Люси Нельсон была еще ребенком, ее безответственный отец-алкоголик попал в тюрьму. С тех пор Люси превратилась в разъяренного подростка, выступающего против жизни среднего класса и провинциального американского благочестия, намеревающегося изменить окружающих ее мужчин: особенно своего некомпетентного маменькиного сынка-мужа Роя. Время идет, Люси изо всех сил пытается освободиться от ужасного разочарования, вызванного ее отцом, и вечно тоскует по мужчине, которым он никогда не смог бы стать • В романе "Когда она была хорошей" с точностью, подобной скальпелю, Рот изображает ярость, ненависть и неистовство чувств, которые вскоре овладевают жизнью Люси • Книга на английском языке • When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail

'The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book - lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions' John Updike • With his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his most successful novel, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction – pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, finds himself physically unable to write a line • He treks from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Could it be, he wonders to himself, that the cause of the pain is nothing less than the books he has written? • As he grapples with this possibility, he tries an onslaught of painkillers, then vodka, and finally marijuana

Gabe Wallach, freshly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, and thus freed from old attachments, is hungrily seeking new ones. He's drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate in literature, and to Libby - Paul's moody, Catholic-turned-Jewish wife. Gabe wonders: how to reconcile the ordered 'world of feeling' found in books with the anarchy of life, responsible adulthood, and his own love affairs? When Gabe meets Martha Reganhart, a spirited, outspoken, divorced mother of two, she poses the greatest challenge that he, and his moral enthusiasm, will face

Почему все человеческие культуры - сегодня и на протяжении всей истории - создавали музыку? Почему музыка вызывает такие сильные эмоции? Как мы воспринимаем музыкальный звук? • Это вопросы, которые до недавнего времени оставались загадочными. Теперь "Музыкальный инстинкт" исследует, как последние исследования в области музыкальной психологии и науки о мозге складывают воедино головоломку о том, как наш разум понимает музыку и реагирует на нее. Начиная от фуг Баха и заканчивая детскими стишками и тяжелым роком, Филип Болл переплетает философию, математику, историю и неврологию, чтобы показать, почему музыка так сильно волнует нас • Не требуя каких-либо специальных знаний, музыкальный инстинкт одновременно углубит ваше понимание музыки, которую вы любите, и откроет двери для музыки, которая когда-то казалась чуждой, скучной или пугающей, предлагая страстный призыв к важности музыки в образовании и в повседневной жизни

The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are still some posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin' that the city really lives • For years, Bohane has been in the cool grip of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But there's trouble in the air. But now they say his old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious; and there's trouble in the air

Hilarious, shocking and hugely entertaining, Reheated Cabbage has all the classic Irvine Welsh ingredients • In Reheated Cabbage you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie and discover how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance. You will meet a husband who values a televised Hibs v Hearts game more than his wife's life and see two guys fighting over a beautiful girl agree - after a few pills and pints of lager - that their friendship is actually more important. And you will be delighted to welcome back 'Juice' Terry Lawson, and to watch what happens when he meets his old nemesis under the strobe-lights of a Miami Beach nightclub