Автор: Nunn Kem Название: Chance ISBN: 0743289293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780743289290 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 12260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Kem Nunn and principal heir to the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West (The Washington Post)an intense psychological suspense novel about a San Francisco neuropsychiatrist who becomes sexually involved with a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder, whose pathological ex-husband is an Oakland homicide detective.
A dark tale involving psychiatric mystery, sexual obsession, fractured identities, and terrifyingly realistic violenceChance is set amid the back streets of Californias Bay Area, far from the cleansing breezes of the ocean. Dr. Eldon Chance, a neuropsychiatrist, is a man primed for spectacular ruin.
Into Dr. Chances blighted life walks Jaclyn Blackstone, the abused, attractive wife of an Oakland homicide detective, a violent and jealous man. Jaclyn appears to be suffering from a dissociative identity disorder.
In time, Chance will fall into bed with heror is it with her alter ego, the voracious and volatile Jackie Black? The not-so-good doctor, despite his professional training, isnt quite sureand thereby hangs his fascination with her. Meanwhile, Chance also meets a young man named D, a self-styled, streetwise philosopher skilled in the art of the blade. It is around this trio of unique and dangerous individuals that long guarded secrets begin to unravel, obsessions grow, and the doctors carefully arranged life comes to the brink of implosion.
Amid San Franciscos fluid, ever-shifting fog, in the cool, gray city of love, Dr.
Chance will at last be forced to live up to his name. Chance is a twisted, harrowing, and impossible-to-put-down head trip through the fun house of fate, mesmerizing until the very last page.
Автор: William Kemp Edmund Goldsmid Название: Kempes Nine Daies Wonder, Performed in a Journey from London to Norwich: Wherein Every Days Journey Is Pleasantly Set Down (1884) ISBN: 1166560759 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781166560751 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 23230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
