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Автор: Lipsky David Название: Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace ISBN: 030759243X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307592439 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 11640.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace's Infinite Jest tour In David Lipsky's view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America. Wallace's pieces for Harper's magazine in the '90s were, according to Lipsky, "like hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: Here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like smelling the damp in the air, seeing the first flash from a storm a mile away. You knew something gigantic was coming." Then Rolling Stone sent Lipsky to join Wallace on the last leg of his book tour for Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport. They dash to Chicago to catch a make-up flight. They endure a terrible reader's escort in Minneapolis. Wallace does a reading, a signing, an NPR appearance. Wallace gives in and imbibes titanic amounts of hotel television (what he calls an "orgy of spectation"). They fly back to Illinois, drive home, walk Wallace's dogs. Amid these everyday events, Wallace tells Lipsky remarkable things--everything he can about his life, how he feels, what he thinks, what terrifies and fascinates and confounds him--in the writing voice Lipsky had come to love. Lipsky took notes, stopped envying him, and came to feel about him--that grateful, awake feeling--the same way he felt about Infinite Jest. Then Lipsky heads to the airport, and Wallace goes to a dance at a Baptist church. A biography in five days, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself is David Foster Wallace as few experienced this great American writer. Told in his own words, here is Wallace's own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writer--of being young generally--trying to knit together your ideas of who you should be and who other people expect you to be, and of being young in March of 1996. And of what it was like to be with and--as he tells it--what it was like to become David Foster Wallace. "If you can think of times in your life that you've treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it's probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we're here for is to learn how to do it. I know that sounds a little pious." --David Foster Wallace
Автор: Wallace, D. F. Название: The Pale King . - : Penguin Books Ltd, 2012 ISBN: 0141046732 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141046730 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 11430.00 T Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление. Описание: The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the workers fight a never-ending war against the urgency of their own boredom. Here then, squeezed between the trivial and the quotidian, lies all human life.
Автор: Kinzer Stephen Название: The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War ISBN: 1250053129 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250053121 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 12870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the US into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. In this book, the story of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles is the story of America. It illuminates and helps explain the modern history of the US and the world.
Автор: David Foster Wallace Название: Both Flesh And Not ISBN: 0141046759 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141046754 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Combines the author`s essays with work published in the UK. This title collects fifteen essays.
Автор: Wallace, David Foster Название: This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life ISBN: 0316068225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316068222 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 16180.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.
Автор: Wallace David Foster Название: Infinite Jest: A Novel -- 20th Anniversary Edition (Special edition) ISBN: 0316306053 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316306058 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Цена: 16010.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This deluxe paperback edition--featuring flaps, new cover art, and a new foreword by Tom Bissell--celebrates the 20th anniversary of the original publication of Infinite Jest.
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
Автор: Walter Foster Creative Team Название: Mastering Oil Painting: Learn Simple Techniques and Practical Applications for Mastering the Art of Oil Painting ISBN: 1600583369 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781600583360 Издательство: Rockport/Rotovision Рейтинг: Цена: 9910.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Mastering Oil Painting is the perfect resource for beginning and intermediate artists to build proficiency and expertise in the art of oil painting. With its slow drying time, oil paint allows artists to layer and blend deep, rich colors that retain their vibrancy when fully dried. Mastering Oil Painting will demonstrate how to work with this classic medium that has been a favorite of professional artists for hundreds of years. This book opens by covering the basic tools and materials for getting started in oil painting, including brushes, mediums, supports, palette knives, and palettes. On the pages that follow, artists will discover valuable information for understanding basic color theory, color mixing, and working with oil mediums, as well as how to master a range of techniques, including blending, stippling, scumbling, drybrushing, sponging, painting thickly and thinly, and others. With the information offered by an accomplished, professional painter, aspiring artists will also learn how to select subject matter, set up a balanced composition, create textures, and use reference photos, all while learning how to paint a range of subjects, such as a landscape, a still life, and a floral arrangement--step by step! With easy-to-follow instruction and breathtakingly realistic artwork to inspire, the combination of tips, techniques, and engaging oil painting lessons in Mastering Oil Painting offers a comprehensive resource for artists of all skill levels desiring to put their newfound painting knowledge to practical use by painting realistic, detailed works of art in oil, from start to finish.
Автор: Foster Patrick Название: Studebaker: The Complete History ISBN: 0785832610 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780785832614 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 16550.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
The Studebaker history is a short one, and a sad one at that, but inside Studebaker, you'll find a meticulously crafted history of the early automobile. Studebaker began business as a builder of covered wagons. By 1921 they were the number four automaker in the nation. By 1932 they were bankrupt. And for Studebaker, one of the most remarkable stories in American automotive history, that was only the beginning. Studebaker: America's Most Successful Independent Automaker tells the full and fabulously colorful history of this icon of the American automotive scene. Rife with triumph and tragedy, brilliant moves and boneheaded decisions, Studebaker's decades of building cars makes for a tempestuous saga featuring some of the more interesting characters in the twentieth-century business world.
Above all, the story features cars that, for countless Americans, truly defined driving: not just the Champion, which rocketed the company back to the top in 1939, or the 1950s Raymond Loewy-designed Starliner, deemed a "work of art" by the Museum of Modern Art, but also the Hawks and Larks that so many drivers loved. As the book traces Studebaker's fortunes from success to crisis to merger and back, it also dwells with loving photographic attention on the vehicles, from the first electric car to the last Avanti.
Автор: Foster Tim Название: Cambridge English Empower Elementary Teacher`s Book ISBN: 110746644X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107466449 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 5200.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The Elementary Teacher`s Book offers detailed teaching notes for every lesson of the Student`s Book. It also includes extra photocopiable activities, keys to exercises and extra teaching notes.
Автор: Foster Patrick R. Название: Willys: The Complete Illustrated History 1903-1963 ISBN: 158388341X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781583883419 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 33980.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Nicholas Martin Название: Florence Foster Jenkins ISBN: 1509824685 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509824687 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 13080.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The remarkable story of America`s best-known - and least-talented - soprano, Florence Foster Jenkins, tieing-in with the major feature film starring Meryl Streep
Beneath the water the body sank rapidly. Above her on dry land, the nightmare was just beginning.
When Detective Erika Foster receives a tip-off that key evidence for a major narcotics case was stashed in a disused quarry on the outskirts of London, she orders for it to be searched. From the thick sludge the drugs are recovered, but so is the skeleton of a young child.
The remains are quickly identified as seven-year-old Jessica Collins. The missing girl who made headline news twenty-six years ago.
As Erika tries to piece together new evidence with the old, she must dig deeper and find out more about the fractured Collins family and the original detective, Amanda Baker. A woman plagued by her failure to find Jessica. Erika soon realises this is going to be one of the most complex and demanding cases she has ever taken on.
Is the suspect someone close to home? Someone is keeping secrets. Someone who doesn't want this case solved. And they'll do anything to stop Erika from finding the truth.
From the million-copy bestselling author of The Girl in the Ice and The Night Stalker, comes the third heart-stopping book in the Detective Erika Foster series.
Watch out for more from DCI Erika Foster.
She's fearless. Respected. Unstoppable. Detective Erika Foster will catch a killer, whatever it takes.
1. THE GIRL IN THE ICE 2. THE NIGHT STALKER 3. DARK WATER
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