Virago The Glass Cell Хайсмит Патриция

"Эта сладкая болезнь" - психологический триллер Патрисии Хайсмит о мужчине, одержимом отвергнущей его женщиной, мучительный роман о навязчивой, воображаемой любви • Дэвид Келси непоколебимо убежден, что жизнь сложится именно так, как он планирует, - если он только сможет исправить ситуацию. Его единственная настоящая любовь, блестящая, красивая Аннабель, вышла замуж за другого мужчину. Но это не значит, что они не могут по-прежнему оставаться друзьями. И хотя она беременна ребенком от своего мужа Джеральда, это, конечно, не значит, что однажды она не сойдется с Дэвидом. Она все еще любит его, в этом он уверен. Дэвид уверен, что она примет его обратно, и под вымышленным именем строит для них двоих чудесный дом в соседнем городке. И все идет по плану, пока события не принимают ужасающий оборот

Изящная золотистая баночка крема для век The Saem Cell Renew Bio Eye Cream – это не просто продукт для ухода за кожей, а миниатюрная выставка достижений современной науки • Судите сами: вместо привычной очищенной воды в состав средства входит вода, обогащённая по технологии Biomimetic. В воду добавляют протеины, аминокислоты, минералы, фосфолипиды, пептиды – и она становится похожей на жидкость, содержащуюся в организме, и воспринимается кожей как родственная субстанция. «Природным вдохновителем» крема стал приморский синеголовник, собранный во французской Бретани • Растение способно выживать в суровом ветреном климате – а благодаря системе экстракции Cell Bio Encapsulation все содержащиеся в нём полезные вещества без потерь переносятся в клетки эпидермиса и стимулируют их активность

The honeymoon is over; the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his father-in-law, Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. Ray survives and follows Coleman to Venice, where the two fall into an eerie game of cat-and-mouse - Coleman obsessed with vengeance and Ray determined to save his reputation, and himself. Each is at once the hunter and the hunted in a tense duel that, as each manages to walk away, draws them nearer to death

The psychologists would call it folie a deux • 'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?''' • From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities

The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place • Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama waits her there • She has an introduction to a Neapolitan woman, and one day she idly follows it up. This is her leap through the looking glass

The Daylight and the Dust is the most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, taken from the four different collections released during her lifetime and featuring many of her best stories. Written over four decades, they come from her classic prize-winning collection The Lagoon and Other Stories, first published in 1952, right up to the volume You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, published in the 1980s. This new selection also includes five works that have not been collected before • Janet Frame's versatility dazzles. Her themes range from childhood to old age to death and beyond. Within the pages of one book the reader is transported from small town New Zealand to inner-city London, and from realism to fantasy • This volume offers the most comprehensive collection of Janet Frame's unique and powerful writing

The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone. But the soldier is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. The women have a choice - to leave him where he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him. It is Margaret who reveals a love so great that she can make the final sacrifice

The mesmerising new thriller, set in the hothouse world of a ballet school, from the bestselling and award-winning writer Megan Abbott • Dara and Marie were trained as ballet dancers by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents died in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters took over running the school together with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student. But when a suspicious accident occurs, just at the onset of the school's annual performance of The Nutcracker - a season of competition, anxiety, and exhilaration - an interloper arrives and threatens their delicate balance

The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It is, as the Guardian observes, 'one of the best novels about growing up fast'. Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It's the 1950s, she's young, and she's in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational programme that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realises he's single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted "citizens of the world"; an entanglement with a charming psychopath; and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador

The people of Mount Salus, Mississippi always felt good about Judge McKelva. He was a quiet, solid reassuring figure, just as a judge should be. Then, ten years after his first wife's death, he marries the frivolous young Wanda Fay. No-one can understand his action, not least his beloved daughter, Laurel, who finds it hard to accept the new bride. It is only some years later, when circumstance brings her back to her childhood home, that Laurel stirs old memories and comes to understand the peculiarities of her upbringing, and the true relationship between her parents and herself • The Optimist's Daughter is a reflective, poignant novel of independence and love, for which Eudora Welty, one of America's gretest contemporary Southern writers, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize

The stories contained here are as American as jazz, and as wise and multifaceted as their writer. Dorothy West's metier is the unique crucible in which America places its black middle class, but her themes are universal: the daily misunderstandings between young and old, men and women, rich and poor that can lead to tragedy; and the ways in which bonds of family and community can bring us together, and tear us asunder • Dorothy West's autobiographical essays explore the poles of her remarkable life - from growing up black and middle-class in Boston to her near-mythic trip to Moscow in 1933 with Langston Hughes and other Harlem Renaissance writers to life on her beloved Martha's Vineyard. They cohere into a beautiful and poignant memoir of a singular American life, a memoir that communicates with her short stories in a host of fertile ways

В этой до безжалостности честной истории о царящем в американских пригородах ханжестве Патриция Хайсмит знакомит нас с семейством Олдерманов, переживающим моральный кризис • Когда Ричард Олдерман, страховщик из маленького городка, становится фанатично верующим христианином, его, казалось бы, дружная семья начинает трещать по швам. Он сам и его младший сын Робби находят себя в новообретённой вере, а вот Артур, его старший сын, отвергает её • Из разногласий и противоречий рождается паутина лжи, в которую угодила Лоис, жена Ричарда. Она пытается сохранить семью, но когда церковь начинает вмешиваться в любовную жизнь Артура, угроза насилия становится всё реальнее • Хайсмит мастерски поднимает проблему слепой веры и странных представлений о справедливости, которые нередко разделяют респектабельные, на первый взгляд, люди