The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant: Introduction by Francine Prose, Gallant, Mavis ; Prose, Francine

Автор: Prose Francine
Название: Judah the Pious
ISBN: 1480445495 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781480445499
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Описание: Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: A novel of a Polish king and a rebellious rabbi, "full of sudden delights and mocking humor" (The New York Times).
The Polish monarch has outlawed a portion of the Jewish funeral rite, and none of the community's lawyers, judges, or scholars will come forward to defend the custom before the crown. Only one man dares challenge the sovereign: the spindly old Rabbi Eliezer of Rimanov, whose eccentric habits conceal the mind of a dreamer and the curiosity of a child.
The rabbi is reduced to laughter at the sight of the king, for the country's ruler is but a boy--and Rabbi Eliezer knows how to speak to youngsters. They make a bet: If the rabbi can convince him that there is more to the universe than meets the eye, the funeral rite will be restored. To make his case, Eliezer launches into the story of Judah ben Simon, a tale of such majesty and wonder that it promises to make a dreamer out of all who hear it, changing them forevermore.

Judah the Pious is a lively, early novel set in seventeenth-century Poland by one of today's most accomplished writers, a National Book Award finalist and the New York Times-bestselling author of Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man; and Reading Like a Writer.

Автор: Prose Francine
Название: Bigfoot Dreams
ISBN: 1480445177 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781480445178
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Описание: From the "wonderfully quirky imagination" of the New York Times-bestselling author: A tabloid reporter is surprised to find magic in a mundane world (The New York Times).

Vera Pearl is a staff writer for This Week, a supermarket tabloid which trades in the bizarre and the absurd--though rarely, if ever, the true. No one is better than Vera at imagining these weird, wild stories, because more than anything, she wants them to be real.

During one particularly slow week, Vera takes a photograph snapped by a colleague showing two children selling lemonade outside their Brooklyn home and drafts up a scoop to fit the snap, the story of two enterprising children who have discovered--and are profiting off of--the literal Fountain of Youth. By astonishing coincidence--or perhaps by magic--the details she concocts about the children (except for the properties of the tap water) turn out to be true, and hundreds of miracle-seekers descend upon this modern Lourdes-in-Flatbush.

The resulting lawsuit sends this master of hoaxes into a very real tailspin: she is fired, her estranged husband flies in from Los Angeles to whisk away their precocious young daughter, and Vera takes off for Arizona to attend a meeting of the Cryptobiological Society, hoping for evidence of their furry quarry, Bigfoot. Just one glance, and Vera's longing to finally transcend the quotidian may come true . . .

Автор: Dvorak, Marta
Название: Mavis gallant
ISBN: 1487505302 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781487505301
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Endowed with a confidant`s insights, Marta Dvorak sets up a trailblazing connection between Mavis Gallant`s dazzling writing and the whole spectrum of the arts.

Автор: Mavis Gallant
Название: The Cost of Living
ISBN: 1408808498 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408808498
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: `In this collection, we witness the miracle of a great writer`s birth and brisk maturation, a blossoming incapable of withering, and that remains masterful and truthful today` Jhumpa Lahiri

Автор: Gallant, Mavis
Название: The Journals Of Mavis Gallant
ISBN: 0385349564 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385349567
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Gallant, Mavis
Название: The Journals Of Mavis Gallant
ISBN: 0345804813 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345804815
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Mavis Gallant
Название: The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant
ISBN: 0747568065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747568063
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: A collection of fifty-two short stories, written between 1953 and 1995, by Mavis Gallant.

Автор: Prose, Francine
Название: The Turning
ISBN: 0061999660 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061999666
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Автор: Prose Francine
Название: The Peaceable Kingdom: Stories
ISBN: 1480445460 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781480445468
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Описание: Eleven "impeccably crafted, painfully hilarious" tales of innocence lost and families in search of connection from the New York Times-bestselling author (San Francisco Chronicle).

A reluctant trophy wife on her Italian honeymoon; a young woman in love with her sister's dead boyfriend; a lonely puppeteer flirting with the hostess of a children's party; a teenage girl traveling to Paris with her father and, unexpectedly, his young girlfriend. Francine Prose's characters inhabit a world of rich emotion and startling clarity, searching for connection in a world full of surprise and humor; they travel, love, break up, and start again. Even their animal companions--a gecko rescued from a wild party, a dog who bites a bride, a hamster who dies unexpectedly and sends a family on a journey to give it a proper funeral--shine with the emotional complexity and sly satire that make Prose's work such a joy to experience.

In this collection, the New York Times-bestselling author and National Book Award finalist demonstrates the craft, humor, and piercing human insight that make her, in the words of Gary Shteyngart "one of a handful of truly indispensable American writers."

Автор: Prose Francine
Название: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
ISBN: 0061713805 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061713804
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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 Vixen
ISBN: 0063090600 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780063090606
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 24630.00 T
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Описание:

"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: After
ISBN: 0060080833 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060080839
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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