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The Lemon Table The Lemon Table
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 2014
   Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband as a substitute for sex, to the woman 'incarcerated' in an old people's home beginning a correspondence with an author that enriches both their lives — all Barnes' characters, in their different ways, square up to death and rage against the dying light.
 
The Sense of an Ending The Sense of an Ending
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 2017
   This title is winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. «The Sense of an Ending» is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity and insight, it is the work of one of the world's most distinguished writers.
 
Through the Window Through the Window
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 2015
   In these 17 essays (plus a short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross — currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling's view of France to the French view of Kipling, from the many translations of Madame Bovary to the fabulations of Ford Madox Ford, from the National Treasure Status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq, Julian Barnes considers what fiction is, and what it can do. As he writes in his preface, 'Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it'. When his Letters from London came out in 1995, the Financial Times called him 'our best essayist'. This wise and deft collection confirms that judgment.
 
The Porcupine The Porcupine
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 2012
   Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary, the prosecutor general, stands for the new government's ideals and liberal certainties, and is attempting to ensare Petkanov with the dictator's own totalitarian laws. But Petkanov is not beaten yet. He has been given his chance to fight back and he takes it with a vengeance, to the increasing discomfort and surprise of those around him.
 
Levels of Life Levels of Life
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 2014
   You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed... Julian Barnes' new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as an unparalleled magus of the heart. This book confirms that opinion.
 
Levels of Life Levels of Life
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2014 Страниц: 117 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 2015
   You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed... Julian Barnes' new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as an unparalleled magus of the heart.
 
The Sense of an Ending The Sense of an Ending
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 2014
   Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity and insight, it is the work of one of the world's most distinguished writers.
 
Love, etc: Love, etc:
Автор: Жанр: Picador Издательство: Picador Год: 2001 Страниц: 250 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 2009
   Presents an exploration of contemporary love and its betrayals.
 

 

 

 

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