Několik hodin před vlastní popravou diktuje Marjorie Standifordová své paměti. Loupila a vraždila spolu se svým manželem Lamontem a milenkou Natalií po celém Jihozápadě, přesto tvrdí, že ona sama nikoho nezabila. Aby zajistila svému synovi budoucnost, dala si vyplatit od známého spisovatele honorář za to, že mu přenechá svůj příběh…
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic. One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay's cramped New York bedroom, his nerve-racking escape from Prague finally achieved. Little does he realise that this is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship and even more fruitful business partnership. Together, they create a comic strip called 'The Escapist', its superhero a Nazi-busting saviour who liberates the oppressed around the world. 'The Escapist' makes their fortune, but Joe can think of only one thing: how can he effect a real-life escape and free his family from the tyranny of Hitler? Michael Chabon's exceptional novel is a thrilling tightrope walk between high comedy and bitter tragedy. In Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay he has created two unforgettable characters bound together by love, family and cartoons.
Na obálce chybně jméno autora John Edwards, správným autorem je Edward Douglas.
After the death of her mother, author and journalist Helen Epstein set out to uncover her mother's past and to learn more about her grandmother and great- grandmother, victims of the Holocaust. The result is this compelling biography, both a chronicle of three generations of women and a social history of Czechoslovakia's Jews.
By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative novel about what it really takes to become a doctor. “The raunchy, troubling, and hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon. Singularly compelling…brutally honest.”—The New York Times Struggling with grueling hours and sudden life-and-death responsibilities, Basch and his colleagues, under the leadership of their rule-breaking senior resident known only as the Fat Man, must learn not only how to be fine doctors but, eventually, good human beings. A phenomenon ever since it was published, The House of God was the first unvarnished, unglorified, and uncensored portrait of what training to become a doctor is truly like, in all its terror, exhaustion and black comedy. With more than two million copies sold worldwide, it has been hailed as one of the most important medical novels ever written. With an introduction by John Updike
Bij zijn geboorte heeft Max het uiterlijk van een oud, stervend schepsel. Hij groeit op als andere kinderen, maar te oordelen naar zijn fysieke verschijning lijkt zijn leeftijd achterwaarts te gaan. Tegen de historische achtergrond van San Francisco aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw, volgen uit Max' leven en zijn bekentenissen vragen over het karakter van de tijd, over schijn en werkelijkheid en over de liefde.
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