cheever john oh what a paradise it seems
Cheever John Oh What A Paradise It Seems
'A delight to read' Evening Standard In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters involved in organised crime. Can Sears thwart the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilisation and save his beloved village? Cheever's wry fable of modern American is interlaced with musings on everything from the etiquette of supermarket queues to the evolution of the ice-skate.
2344 Руб.
Bawden Nina The Peppermint Pig
'D'ya want a peppermint pig, Mrs Greengrass?' Poll looked at the milkman, thinking of sweets, but there was a real pig poking its snout out of the milkman's coat pocket. It was the tiniest pig she had ever seen. 'What's a peppermint pig?' 'Runt of the litter. Too small for the sow to raise. He'd only get trampled in in the rush.' Mother took the pig from him and held it firmly while it kicked and squealed. 'Well, he seems strong enough. And even runts grow.' 'Oh,' Poll said. 'Oh, Mother.' She stroked the small, wriggling body. 'Theo,' she shouted, 'Look what we've got!' It is a difficult year for the Greengrasses. Poll's father has lost his job and gone overseas, the family are living off the charity of two aunts, and Poll and her brother Theo just can't seem to keep out of trouble. It takes a tiny, mischievous pig to bring laughter back into their lives.
2664 Руб.
Cheever John A Vision of the World. Stories
John Cheever - the 'Chekhov of the suburbs' - forever altered the landscape of contemporary literature. In a career that spanned nearly fifty years, his short stories, often published in the New Yorker, gave voice to the repressed desires and smouldering disappointments of 1950s America as it teetered on the edge of spiritual awakening and sexual liberation in the ensuing decades. Selected for the first time, these satirical, fantastical, sad and transcendent stories show Cheever in all his brilliance and continue to speak directly to the heart of human experience.
2568 Руб.
James Peter Dead If You Don't
In his deadliest case yet, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace faces a complex kidnapping in Dead If You Don't, by award winning crime writer Peter James. Now a major ITV series, Grace, starring John Simm. Kipp Brown, successful businessman and compulsive gambler, is on his worst run of luck yet. Taking his teenage son, Mungo, to a football match should have given him a welcome respite – if only for a few hours. But it’s at the stadium where his nightmare begins. Within minutes of arriving at the game, Mungo suddenly disappears and Kipp receives a terrifying message: someone has his child. And, to get him back alive, Kipp will have to pay. Roy Grace is brought in to investigate what seems to be a straightforward case of kidnapping. But, very soon, Grace finds himself entering a dark, criminal underbelly of the city, where the rules are different and nothing is what it seems . . .
2270 Руб.
Cheever John Drinking
What’s the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents’ liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, these are stories suffused with beauty, sadness, and the gathering storm of a bender well-done. Seen through the gin-lacquered looking glass of Cheever’s writing, your next drink may have you reaching for a lime and soda instead.
599 Руб.
Cheever J. Drinking
What's the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, these are stories suffused with beauty, sadness, and the gathering storm of a bender well-done. Seen through the gin-lacquered looking glass of Cheever's writing, your next drink may have you reaching for a lime and soda instead.
259 Руб.
Cheever J. Drinking
What's the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, these are stories suffused with beauty, sadness, and the gathering storm of a bender well-done. Seen through the gin-lacquered looking glass of Cheever's writing, your next drink may have you reaching for a lime and soda instead.
259 Руб.
AUDIO CD Madonna - Music. 1 CD
Треклист: 1. Music 2. Impressive Instant 3. Runaway Lover 4. I Deserve It 5. Amazing 6. Nobody's Perfect 7. Don't Tell Me 8. What It Feels Like For A Girl 9. Paradise (Not For Me) 10. Gone 11. American Pie
2199 Руб.
HOLLY, BUDDY Greatest Hits, LP (Remastered)
A1 That'll Be The Day (The Crickets)A2 Peggy SueA3 Oh, Boy! (The Crickets)A4 Maybe Baby (The Crickets)A5 Listen To MeA6 Rave OnA7 Think It Over (The Crickets)A8 Fool's Paradise (The Crickets)A9 Early In The MorningA10 HeartbeatB1 It Doesn't Matter AnymoreB2 Raining In My HeartB3 Midnight ShiftB4 Peggy Sue Got MarriedB5 True Love WaysB6 Learning The GameB7 What To DoB8 (You're So Square) Baby I Don't CareB9 Valley Of Tears
2700 Руб.
Hammett Dashiell The Maltese Falcon Book. Level 4 (+Multi-ROM)
Everybody, it seems, is looking for the stutue of a bird, and some of them are dying. Who has the bird? Who knows where it is? Who is telling the truth? Who knows what the truth is? Sam Spade - one of the great private detectives of American fiction - has a new client, and it is his job to find out.
2749 Руб.
Tolstoy Leo The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
Laying humanity bare, these two devastating stories ask: is it possible to have a good death? And what does it mean to truly live? 'It is only a bruise' A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident... One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
366 Руб.
Jansson Tove Moominpappa at Sea
Moominpappa is feeling at a loss. He has no idea what to do with himself - it seems everything has already been done! So he takes his family off to start a new life in a lighthouse on a tiny, rocky island far out to sea. It's rather lonely at first, but it isn't long before the Moomins discover some funny and surprising new things about themselves.
1981 Руб.
Ryan Chris Shadow Kill
Strikeback hero John Porter is sent on a mission with Regimental scallywag John Bald. Where Porter plays it by the book, Bald will always want to break the rules. They are sent to Sierra Leone to extract Ronald Soames, a former CO of the Regiment and now right-hand man to the President. But when Porter and Bald arrive the Englishman has disappeared, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. Rebels are threatening to take over the country and its diamond mines - and to massacre all foreigners. Porter and Bald find themselves fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Regiment psychopath who is already embedded in the country. But it soon becomes clear that the Firm has lied to them about the true nature of the mission. What seems at first to be a battle to control Sierra Leone's diamond mines will turn out to about a much greater evil - and with a trail that leads back to both Westminster and the Kremlin.
2670 Руб.
Christie Agatha The Hollow
'Oh, well, everyone has to die sometime. I never worry over people dying...' When socialite Lucy Angkatell organises a weekend's entertainment at her English country house, The Hollow, it seems she has thought of everything: the capable butler, the requisite number of kitchen maids - in fact, the only thing she seems to have overlooked is the fact that most of her guests hate each other. A far-from-warm welcome greets Hercule Poirot as he arrives for lunch. Instead, a man lies dying by the swimming pool, as a gun sinks slowly to the bottom...
1147 Руб.
Виниловая пластинка Various Artists - Christmas N1 Hits - The Ultimate Collection LP
Трек-лист: Side A: 1. Bianca Ryan – Why Couldn't It Be Christmas Everyday 2. Mariah Carey – Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town 3. Dana – It's Gonna Be A Cold Cold Christmas 4. Backstreet Boys – Christmas Time 5. Fifth Harmony – All I Want For Christmas Is You 6. Boney M. – Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord 7. Christina Aguilera – The Christmas Song Side B: 8. Natasha Bedingfield – Shake Up Christmas (2011) 9. John Legend – What A Wonderful World 10. Whitney Houston – Do You Hear What I Hear? 11. Leona Lewis – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 12. Gavin DeGraw – Silver Bells 13. Kelly Clarkson – Underneath The Tree 14. Britney Spears – My Only Wish (This Year) 15. Human Nature – Last Christmas (Acapella) Описание: Виниловая пластинка Various Artists - Christmas #1 Hits. The Ultimate Collection - сборник лучших рождественских хитов в исполнении известных мировых исполнителей.
3320 Руб.
McCall Smith Alexander The Forever Girl
Clover has loved James for as long as she can remember, since before she knew what what love was. But fate seems determined to keep them apart. As children, Clover and James played beside a turquoise sea under cloudless skies, their Caribbean island home a place of pleasure and privilege, of lush lawns and tennis parties. In such a paradise nothing should obstruct the kind of happiness Clover dreams of, except that, as she discovers, true love is often harder than paradise allows for. And when Clover's mother falls out of love with her husband, a web of complications is woven that may take Clover a lifetime to unravel. If she ever can… Tender and true, The Forever Girl traces love's unpredictable path to maturity with style, wit and feeling.
1969 Руб.