Bullyville, Prose, Francine

Автор: Toon, Francine
Название: Pine
ISBN: 1784164828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784164829
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: WINNER of the McIlvanney Prize 2020Shortlisted for Bloody Scotland's Scottish Crime Debut of the Year 2020Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020'Hugely atmospheric, exquisitely written and utterly gripping' LUCY FOLEY, author of The Hunting Party'It's both eerie and thrilling at once, and had me under its spell until the end' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, author of Blue Ticket and The Water Cure______________They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light, standing like men. Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest.

When a woman stumbles out onto the road one Halloween night, Niall drives her back to their house in his pickup. In the morning, she's gone. In a community where daughters rebel, men quietly rage, and drinking is a means of forgetting, mysteries like these are not out of the ordinary.

The trapper found hanging with the dead animals for two weeks. Locked doors and stone circles. The disappearance of Lauren's mother a decade ago.

Lauren looks for answers in her tarot cards, hoping she might one day be able to read her father's turbulent mind. Neighbours know more than they let on, but when local teenager Ann-Marie goes missing it's no longer clear who she can trust. In the shadow of the Highland forest, Francine Toon captures the wildness of rural childhood and the intensity of small-town claustrophobia.

In a place that can feel like the edge of the word, she unites the chill of the modern gothic with the pulse of a thriller. It is the perfect novel for our haunted times. ______________READERS LOVE PINE .

. . 'Stunning ...

I was completely spellbound' *****'Mesmerising and addictive' *****'I raced through this one, absolutely adored it!' *****'Can't recommend it enough' *****'I could not pull myself away from the pages' *****

Автор: DiCamillo Kate
Название: Francine Poulet Meets the Ghost Raccoon: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume Two
ISBN: 0763690880 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780763690885
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Deckawoo Drive's intrepid animal control officer meets her match--or does she? A funny, heartfelt, and fast-paced romp from Kate DiCamillo.

Francine Poulet is the greatest animal control officer in Gizzford County. She hails from a long line of animal control officers. She's battled snakes, outwitted squirrels, and stared down a bear. "The genuine article," Francine's dad always called her. She is never scared -- until, that is, she's faced with a screaming raccoon that may or may not be a ghost. Maybe Francine isn't cut out to be an animal control officer after all But the raccoon is still on the loose, and the folks on Deckawoo Drive need Francine back. Can she face her fears, round up the raccoon, and return to the ranks of animal control? Join a cast of familiar characters - Frank, Stella, Mrs. Watson, and Mercy the porcine wonder -- for some riotous raccoon wrangling on Deckawoo Drive.

Автор: Prose Francine
Название: The Vixen
ISBN: 0063012146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780063012141
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Цена: 24640.00 T
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"No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose . . . The gift of her work to a reader is to create for us what she creates for her protagonist: the subtle unfolding, the moment-by-moment process of discovery as we read and change, from not knowing and even not wanting to know or care, to seeing what we had not seen and finding our way to the light of the ending."--Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review

Depending on the light, it's either a very funny serious story or a very serious funny story. But no matter how you turn it, The Vixen offers an illuminating reflection on the slippery nature of truth in America, then and now.--Washington Post

Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose returns with a dazzling new novel set in the glamorous world of 1950s New York publishing, the story of a young man tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg--an assignment that will reveal the true cost of entering that seductive, dangerous new world.

It's 1953, and Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, has entered a glittering world of three-martini lunches, exclusive literary parties, and old-money aristocrats in exquisitely tailored suits, a far cry from his loving, middle-class Jewish family in Coney Island.

But Simon's first assignment--editing The Vixen, the Patriot and the Fanatic, a lurid bodice-ripper improbably based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, a potboiler intended to shore up the firm's failing finances--makes him question the cost of admission. Because Simon has a secret that, at the height of the Red Scare and the McCarthy hearings, he cannot reveal: his beloved mother was a childhood friend of Ethel Rosenberg's. His parents mourn Ethel's death.

Simon's dilemma grows thornier when he meets The Vixen's author, the startlingly beautiful, reckless, seductive Anya Partridge, ensconced in her opium-scented boudoir in a luxury Hudson River mental asylum. As mysteries deepen, as the confluence of sex, money, politics and power spirals out of Simon's control, he must face what he's lost by exchanging the loving safety of his middle-class Jewish parents' Coney Island apartment for the witty, whiskey-soaked orbit of his charismatic boss, the legendary Warren Landry. Gradually Simon realizes that the people around him are not what they seem, that everyone is keeping secrets, that ordinary events may conceal a diabolical plot--and that these crises may steer him toward a brighter future.

At once domestic and political, contemporary and historic, funny and heartbreaking, enlivened by surprising plot turns and passages from Anya's hilariously bad novel, The Vixen illuminates a period of history with eerily striking similarities to the current moment. Meanwhile it asks timeless questions: How do we balance ambition and conscience? What do social mobility and cultural assimilation require us to sacrifice? How do we develop an authentic self, discover a vocation, and learn to live with the mysteries of love, family, art, life and loss?

Автор: Prose, Francine
Название: Vixen
ISBN: 0063012154 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780063012158
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: Unaddressed it can lead to hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, overeating, and alcohol and drug abuse, and other chronic health issues.Dr. Burnett-Zeigler explains that the strong Black woman image does not take into account the urgency of Black women`s needs, which must be identified in order to lead abundant lives.

Автор: Spalding Gray; Introduction by Francine Prose and
Название: Life Interrupted UAB CD
ISBN: 1593977921 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781593977924
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Автор: Gallant, Mavis ; Prose, Francine
Название: The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant: Introduction by Francine Prose
ISBN: 1101907630 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781101907634
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Prose, Francine
Название: After
ISBN: 0060080833 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060080839
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Автор: Prose, Francine
Название: Guided Tours of Hell
ISBN: 006008085X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060080853
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: Writing with the elegance and humor that have brought her work international acclaim, National Book Award Finalist Francine Prose has created an exhilaratingly transgressive fiction that examines the difficulty of feeling the “appropriate emotions” about the greatest historical tragedy or the smallest personal sorrow.

Автор: Prose, Francine
Название: Touch
ISBN: 0061375187 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061375187
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: SOMETHING happened in the last row of fourteen-year-old Maisie Willard’s school bus, something involving her and her three friends, all boys. But everyone has a different version of what exactly occurred. Who is telling the truth?

Автор: Prose Francine
Название: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
ISBN: 0061713805 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061713804
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself. Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom.

Автор: Prose Francine
Название: The Glorious Ones
ISBN: 1480445428 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781480445420
Издательство: Неизвестно
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The story of a troupe of actors in seventeenth-century Italy, from "one of a handful of truly indispensable American writers" (Gary Shteyngart).

The Glorious Ones are an unlikely troupe of actors, traveling up and down the seventeenth-century Italian countryside performing commedia dell'arte for kings, for peasants, for anyone with coin. There is Armanda, the cheerful dwarf and ex-nun; chattering Columbina; Pantalone the miser; and the wicked Brighella--all led by Flaminio Scala, the self-proclaimed most courageous man in Christendom.

But for all their wild differences, not one of them is prepared for the arrival of Isabella, their mysterious new director, who is about to turn their whole world upside down.

Dramatic and imaginative, this tale of adventure, love, and theater is a historical romp from the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of novels, including Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932, and Household Saints, as well as the literary guide book Reading Like a Writer.

Автор: Prose Francine
Название: Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas
ISBN: 1480445487 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781480445482
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: An "irresistibly readable" pair of novellas skewering Americans abroad--by the New York Times-bestselling author and National Book Award finalist(The New York Times Book Review).

"In a style that is bold, witty, richly detailed, and suffused with a wry subtlety," Francine Prose offers penetrating portraits of Americans in Europe who have brought all their baggage--ego, ambition, sexual desire--with them (Elle).

Guided Tours of Hell
When the insecure (and rightfully so) playwright Landau travels from New York to Prague to read at the first annual Kafka conference, he's certain this is his chance to prove himself--and his work. But he quickly finds himself upstaged by Jiri Krakauer, a charismatic Holocaust survivor whose claim to fame is a long-ago death-camp love affair with Kafka's sister. On a group tour to the camp-turned-tourist-attraction, Landau sets out to prove that Krakauer is lying--with unexpected results.

Three Pigs in Five Days
Ambitious young journalist Nina has been stranded in Paris by her editor and sometimes boyfriend, Leo. When he finally shows up, playfully suggesting a romantic tour of the catacombs, prisons, and shadows of the City of Light, the bloom begins to come off the rose for the infatuated Nina--who must ask herself how much of herself she is willing to sacrifice for love.