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Moore Lorrie Birds of America
A startlingly perceptive series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America, from the supremely talented Lorrie Moore. Lorrie Moore's dazzling collection of stories is remarkable for its range, emotional force and dark humour, and for the sheer beauty and power of its language. It unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America. In what may be her most stunning book yet, Lorrie Moore explores the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane with all of the wit, brio and verve that have made her one of the best storytellers of our time.
2593 Руб.
Moore Lorrie Self-Help
Self-Help forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence which is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. These stories are modern America at its most real, with characters sharing thoughts and experiences they could have borrowed from our own lives. This is how to deal with divorce, adultery, cancer, how to talk to your mother or become a writer, the Lorrie Moore way. Experience the wonder of the written word from some of the greatest writers of the modern age, with Faber Modern Classics.
2603 Руб.
Stories of Motherhood
Stories of Motherhood gathers together more than a century of short fiction from a wide variety of authors in a literary celebration of the most elemental of human relationships. Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sherwood Anderson, Elizabeth Bowen, Anita Desai, Colm Toibin, Lorrie Moore and many others write memorably about mothers – having, leaving, loving and losing them – in stories lyrical and satirical, realistic and fantastic, hilarious and heartbreaking.
3856 Руб.
Moore Lorrie Terrific Mother
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: ‘You’d make a terrific mother’. That’s when she goes to her friends’ Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby. The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs. What follows is Adrienne’s retreat from life and her attempt to return to it. Her sharp scepticism about the people around her is achingly funny. Yet beyond derision there is forgiveness and something along the lines of love. Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.
909 Руб.
Moore Lorrie Self-Help
This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marked Lorrie Moore’s talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are presented as a highly idiosyncratic guide to female existence: ‘How to be an Other Woman’, ‘How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)’, ‘How to Become a Writer’, ‘The Kid’s Guide to Divorce’.
2004 Руб.
Brittelle, William: Spiritual America. 1 CD
Brittelle, William: Spiritual America. 1 CD. 1. Abattoir - , 2. True Hunger - , 3. Strange Asylum - , 4. Topaz Were the Waves - , 5. Forbidden Colors - , 6. Birds of Paradise - , 7. Spiritual America - , 8. I Know the Law -
1804 Руб.
Taylor Barbara The Bird Atlas. A Pictorial Guide to the World's Birdlife
Take a peek inside the beautiful and absorbing world of birds with this lavishly illustrated children's bird atlas. From the Amazon Rainforest to the Arctic, this fully-fledged bird guide will take you on a guided tour, continent by continent, to meet some of the most spectacular birds in the world! Inside the pages of this children's atlas, you'll discover: - A visual guide to the birds around the world, their habitats, geography, and climate with exquisite, hand-drawn illustrations and maps from Richard Orr. - The different countries and continents of the world and the birds that live there - Why some species are endangered and what can be done to protect them. - Fascinating facts about birds including: why flamingos are pink, which bird can sprint faster than a horse, and how the booby got its name. Get ready to journey through different biomes, like rivers and desserts, to discover fun facts about birds that will fascinate and inspire every budding ornithologist. Packed with hundreds of life-like illustrations, this educational book is a pictorial guide to the birds of the world. It showcases birds from every continent as you've never seen before with detailed maps pinpointing where different species of birds can be found. See magnificent snowy owls in the Arctic, tiny three-wattled bellbirds in the Caribbean, and towering ostriches in Africa. A Truly Breathtaking Celebration of Birdlife The Bird Atlas is arranged in order of continent - Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia, North America, South America, and Antarctica. Every continent is introduced with an overview of the ecology, climate, and landscape, and the typical and incredible birds that live there. This children's bird book is the perfect introduction to our feathered friends and makes a great gift for the new generation of birdwatchers. More from DK Books: Don't miss out on more fascinating atlases! After exploring the world of birds in The Bird Atlas, your child can move on to The Body Atlas to discover the inner workings of the human body. Next up is The Animal Atlas that takes children on a tour to meet the animals of the world.
3016 Руб.
Audubon John James The Audubon Reader
John James Audubon (1785-1851) was for half a century America's dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, is still a standard work, and the name Audubon remains synonymous with birds and bird conservation the world over. Born in Haiti, the illegitimate son of a French sea-captain, he was raised in France and sailed to America at the age of 18 where he went into business and began his study of birds. In 1819 he was briefly jailed for bankruptcy; with no other prospects, he set off on his epic quest to depict America's avifauna, with nothing but his gun, artist's materials, and a young assistant. Floating down the Mississippi, he lived a rugged hand-to-mouth existence while his devoted wife, Lucy, earned money as a tutor to wealthy plantation families. In 1826 he sailed with his partly finished collection to England. Lionized as the 'American woodsman', he hit just the right Romantic note for the era, and was an overnight success, finding printers for his book first in Edinburgh, then London. It was a classic American tale of triumph over adversity. Here are vivid 'bird biographies', his correspondence with Lucy, journal accounts of his dramatic river journeys and hunting trips with the Osage Indians, and a generous sampling of brief stories that have long been out of print, 'The Burning of the Forests' and 'Kentucky Barbecue on the Fourth of July' among them. The Audubon Reader is an unforgettable encounter with early America: with its wildlife and birds, with its people and its primordial wilderness.
3910 Руб.
Sewell Matt Atlas of Amazing Birds
Matt Sewell, creator of Our Garden Birds, presents his personal selection of the most amazing birds from around the world. With witty descriptions and dazzling illustrations of every bird, this book is a super-colourful, song-filled, strange and stunning celebration of bird life. Did you know that the bald eagle holds the record for the world's biggest nest – weighing more than two tons? When the elf owl gets into trouble, it plays dead rather than fighting? The Adelie penguin can hold its breath for six minutes and leap up to three metres out of the water? Discover these and many more fascinating facts in this fabulous and beautiful book. Every bird chosen to appear in this book is amazing in its own individual way – birds that migrate thousands of miles, have strange and showy mating rituals, survive in extreme environments, are brilliant builders, are super-fast, super-brave or super-big! Sections on each continent – Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia, North America, South America and Antarctica – include maps to pore over. Travel the world to see magnificent eagles, resilient penguins, tiny hummingbirds, towering ostriches, stunning peacocks and many more.
3429 Руб.
Moore Lorrie Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
A brilliantly funny and sharply observant novel from one of the most acclaimed American writers of her generation. This novel follows the lives of two 11-year-olds intent on escaping childhood. As the strength of their friendship is tested repeatedly, they begin to take their first, exhilarating steps towards adulthood.
1880 Руб.
Maupassant Guy de, Calvino Italo, Bowen Elizabeth Love Stories
Love Stories brings together a captivating assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first love, infatuation, obsession, unrequited love, marriage, adultery, jealousy, and the complicated bonds of those who have spent their lives together. A tremendous array of writers evoke a variety of moods, from the raw, erotic passion of D. H. Lawrence and Colette to the wickedly cynical comedy of Dorothy Parker and Roald Dahl; from the agonizing madness of jealousy in Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘That in Aleppo Once . . .’ to the yearning romantic illusions in Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘Winter Dreams’. Objects of passion include a glamorous silent-movie starlet in Elizabeth Bowen’s haunting ‘Dead Mabelle’, a faithful ghost in Yasunari Kawabata’s ‘Immortality’, and in Margaret Atwood’s ‘Bluebeard’s Egg’ a heart surgeon who spends his days penetrating the mysteries of the human heart but who seems oddly emotionally opaque himself. Jhumpa Lahiri plumbs the depths of a couple sundered by tragedy while Lorrie Moore movingly portrays a husband and wife brought together by it.
2879 Руб.
Munro Alice, Mantel Hilary, Kavan Anna The Story. Loss. Great Short Stories for Women by Women
'I think few of the stories in Loss will leave readers cold...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are prizewinners, famous wits, well-known feminists, national treasures and rising stars. All the stories in this volume are about loss: lost lives, lost loves, lost innocence, even a lost leopard. The many ways in which loss touches our lives are shown in these varied stories. Contributors: Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy Parker, Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, Elizabeth Taylor, Jean Rhys, Anna Kavan, Muriel Spark, Ellen Gilchrist, Penelope Fitzgerald, Lorrie Moore, Hilary Mantel, Susan Hill, Colette Paul, Yiyun Li, Helen Simpson, Edna O'Brien, Edith Pearlman, Emma Donoghue, Carrie Tiffany and Lucy Wood.
2268 Руб.
Волосы - мюзикл - Hair - The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (The Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Ограниченный тираж, на цветном виниле.Ограниченный тираж, на цветном виниле.Треклист: A1 –Ronald Dyson And Company Aquarius A2 –Gerome Ragni And Company Donna A3 –Company Hashish A4 –Steve Curry And Company Sodom A5 –Lamont Washington Anf Company Colored Spade A6 –James Rado And Company Manchester England A7 –Lamont Washington, Steve Curry, Gerome Ragni, James Rado I'm Black A8 –Steve Curry, Lamont Washington, Melba Moore And Company Ain't Got No A9 –Melba Moore And Company i Believe In Love A10 –Company Ain't Got No (Reprise) A11 –Sally Eaton, Shelley Plimpton, Melba Moore And Company Air A12 –Company Initials B1 –James Rado And Company I Got Life B2 –Gerome Ragni And Company Going Down B3 –James Rado, Gerome Ragni And Company Hair B4 –Jonathan Kramer My Conviction B5 –Lynn Kellogg Easy To Be Hard B6 –Gerome Ragni And Steve Curry Don't Put It Down B7 –Shelley Plimpton Frank Mills B8 –Companу Be-In C1 –James Rado And Company Where Do I Go? C2 –Paul Jabara And Company Electric Blues C3 –James Rado And Company Manchester England (Reprise)* C4 –Diane Keaton, Suzannah Norstrand And Natalie Mosco Black Boys C5 –Melba Moore, Lorrie Davis And Emmaretta Marks White Boys C6 –Company Walking In Space D1 –Lorrie Davis, Lamont Washington, Ronald Dyson And Donnie Burks Abie Baby D2 –Company Three-Five-Zero-Zero D3 –Ronald Dyson And Walter Harris What A Piece Of Work Is Man D4 –Lynn Kellogg, Melba Moore, James Rado And Gerome Ragni Good Morning Starshine D5 –Company The Bed D6 –James Rado, Lynn Kellogg, Melba Moore And Company The Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In)
5130 Руб.
Heiny Katherine Standard Deviation
A divinely funny novel about the challenges of a good marriage, the delight and heartache of raising children, and the irresistible temptation to wonder about the path not taken. This sensational debut will appeal to fans of David Nicholls, Nick Hornby, Nora Ephron and Lorrie Moore. Graham Cavanaugh's second wife, Audra, is everything his first wife was not. She considers herself privileged to live in the age of the hair towel, talks non-stop through her epidural, labour and delivery, invites the doorman to move in and the eccentric members of their son's Origami Club to Thanksgiving. She is charming and spontaneous and fun but life with her can be exhausting. In the midst of the day-to-day difficulties and delights of marriage and raising a child with Asperger's, his first wife, Elspeth, reenters Graham's life. Former spouses are hard to categorize - are they friends, enemies, old flames, or just people who know you really, really well? Graham starts to wonder: How can anyone love two such different women? Did he make the right choice? Is there a right choice?
967 Руб.
Настольная игра Birds Of A Feather – Western North America
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6055 Руб.
Фигурка Banpresto Birds Of Prey Q Posket Black Canary (ver.B) BP16313P
Фигурка Birds of Prey - Q posket - Black Canary (ver. B) (14 см) Характеристики BIRDS OF PREY Q posket BLACK CANARY (ver. B) BP16313P Производитель: Banpresto Тип: фигурка Медиафраншиза: Birds of Prey Серия: Q posket Особенности: ver. B Материал: PVC and ABS Размер: 14 см
1999 Руб.