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The White Album
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The White Album

Язык: английский
Год: 1990
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First published in 1979, "The White Album "is a journalistic mosaic" "of American life in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, reportage on the dark journeys and impulses of the...
Blue Nights
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Blue Nights

Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan...
Salvador
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Salvador

Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror — its mechanisms, rationales, and...
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other
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The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other

Автор: Percy Walker
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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Profound and passionate essays from one of America’s greatest literary voices. Before winning the National Book Award for fiction in 1962, Walker Percy was an established scholar of science, philosophy, and language. Presented here are his...
Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self
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Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self

Язык: английский
Год: 2010
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In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought — science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her...