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Автор: Gaddis, William
Название: Recognitions, The
ISBN: 1681374668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681374666
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most venerated novelists of the last century.

The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade, moving from New England to New York to Madrid, from the art world to the underworld, but it centers on the story of Wyatt Gwyon, son of a New England pastor, who forsakes religion to devote himself to painting, only to despair of his inspiration. In expiation, he will paint nothing but flawless copies of his revered old masters--copies, however, that find their way into the hands of a sinister financial wizard by the name of Recktall Brown, who of course sells them as the real thing. Gwyon's story is only one of many that fill the pages of a novel that is as monstrously populated as paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. Throughout, Gaddis's characters preen and scheme and party and toil, pursuing salvation through the debasement of desire.

Dismissed uncomprehendingly by the critics on publication in 1955 and ignored by the literary world for decades after, The Recognitions has gone on to establish itself as one of the great American novels, immensely ambitious and entirely unique, a book of freakish strangeness and outrageous comedy that is also profoundly serious and sad.

Автор: Gaddis, William
Название: J R
ISBN: 1681374684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681374680
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Описание: A National Book Award-winning satire about the unchecked power of American capitalism, written more than three decades before the 2008 financial crisis.

At the center of J R is J R Vansant, a very average sixth grader from Long Island with torn sneakers, a runny nose, and a juvenile fascination with junk mail get-rich-quick offers. Responding to one, he sees a small return; soon, he is a running a massive Ponzi scheme out a phone booth in the school hallway. Everyone from the school staff to the municipal government to the squabbling heirs of a player piano company to the titans of Wall Street and the politicians in Washington will be caught up in the J R Company, an endlessly ballooning bubble that encompasses shaky mineral claims and gas leases, defense contracts, a string of nursing homes cum funeral parlors, matchbooks, marijuana, prostheses, publishing, and even a formula for frozen music.

First published in 1975, J R is an appallingly funny and all-too-prophetic depiction of America's romance with finance and its disastrous consequences. It is also a book about suburban development and urban decay, divorce proceedings and disputed wills, the crumbling facade of Western civilization and the impossible demands of love and art, with characters ranging from the earnest young composer Edward Bast, who inadvertently finds himself the public face of the J R company, to the berserk publicist Davidoff, whose unceasing output of hype and spin and buzz make him one of the great grotesques of modern fiction. Told almost entirely through dialogue, Gaddis's novel is a story of compounding misunderstandings, at once absurd and desperate. It is both a literary tour-de-force and an unsurpassed reckoning with the way we live now.

Автор: Gaddis W
Название: Carpenter`s Gothic
ISBN: 0141182229 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141182223
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Gaddis, William
Название: Agape Agape
ISBN: 0142437638 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780142437636
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Описание: William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told by way of a social history of the player piano in America.

In the years before his death in 1998, he distilled the whole mass into a fiction, a dramatic monologue by an elderly man with a terminal illness. Continuing Gaddis's career-long reflection on those aspects of corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts, Agape Agape is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.

Автор: John Lewis Gaddis
Название: The Cold War
ISBN: 0141025328 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141025322
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning... In this book, the truth behind every spy thriller you`ve read: why America and the Soviet Union became locked in a deadly stalemate. It tells the story of crisis talks and subterfuge, tyrants and power struggles - and of ordinary people changing the course of history.

Автор: Gaddis, William
Название: Rush for Second Place, The
ISBN: 0142002380 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780142002384
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those works he earned himself a reputation as one of America's greatest novelists. Less well known is Gaddis's body of excellent critical writings. Here is a wide range of his original essays, some published for the first time. From "'Stop Player. Joke No. 4, '" Gaddis's first national publication and the basis for his projected history of the player piano, to the title essay about missed opportunities in America during the past fifty years, to "Old Foes with New Faces," an examination of the relationship between the writer and the problem of religion-this diverse collection displays the power of an autonomous literary intelligence in an age increasingly dominated by political and religious conservatism

Автор: Gaddis John Lewis
Название: The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
ISBN: 0195171578 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195171570
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book.

Автор: Irish Lora S.
Название: Relief Carving Wood Spirits, Revised Edition
ISBN: 1565238028 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781565238022
Издательство: TBS/GBS
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Описание: Helps a carver learn how to create an expressive wood spirit. This book clearly explains the relief carving process from start to finish: every cut, every tool change, and every depth check. It covers the entire craft from preparing the wood to roughing out and detailing the wood spirit to applying a long-lasting finish.

Автор: Gaddis, John Lewis
Название: On Grand Strategy
ISBN: 0143132512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143132516
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary Yale course co-taught by the author for decades

For almost two decades, Yale students have competed for admission each year to the "Studies in Grand Strategy" seminar taught by John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy, and Charles Hill. Its purpose has been to prepare future leaders for responsibilities they will face, through lessons drawn from history and the classics. Now, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Gaddis has distilled that teaching into a succinct, sharp, and transformational book, surveying statecraft from Xerxes of Persia to Franklin D. Roosevelt and beyond. On Grand Strategy is an unforgettable expert guide to the art of leadership.

Автор: Irish, Lora S.
Название: Classic Carving Patterns
ISBN: 1561583189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781561583188
Издательство: GMC
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Описание: Intended to show what to carve, rather than how to carve, this selection of classic designs and pattern ideas, orientated towards more traditional styles of woodworking, can be used for wood carving, wood burning or wood painting.

Автор: Gaddis Maxwell Pierson
Название: Brief Recollections of the Late REV. George W. Walker.
ISBN: 1275862373 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781275862371
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 36720.00 T
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Автор: Gaddis
Название: Cold War
ISBN: 0143038273 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143038276
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 11030.00 T
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Описание: The dean of Cold War historians ("The New York Times") now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but "why" from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went from alliance to antagonism to the barely averted holocaust of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the maneuvers of Nixon and Mao, Reagan and Gorbachev. Brilliant, accessible, almost Shakespearean in its drama, "The Cold War" stands as a triumphant summation of the era that, more than any other, shaped our own.