The Common Reader
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
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Nakladatelství Odeon v spolupráci s nakladatelstvím Argo. Vydání první.
Can you resist the depths of the human heart? It is 1958 and seventeen-year-old Landon is revelling in his youth: dating girls and even claiming to have been in love. He is a world apart from shy, reclusive Jamie Sullivan, a Baptist's daughter who carries a bible with her school books, cares for her widowed father and volunteers at the orphanage. But fate will intervene. Forced to partner up at the school dance, Landon and Jamie embark on a journey of earth-shattering love and agonising loss far beyond their years. In the months that follow, Landon discovers the true depths of the human heart, and takes a decision that is so stunning it will lead him irrevocably down the road to manhood . . .
A young boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, wanders alone from one village to another in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
Ironický román z židovského prostředí Ameriky 70. let. Po letech milostných úspěchů jeho sebevědomí stále častěji narušují dívky s opačnou představou o svém životním údělu. Hrdina, jehož životní školou je časopis Playboy, se tak dostává do neskutečných situací a trapných dobrodružství, až se konečně zbaví svých šovinistických představ.
Jeremy Dyson's collection of twelve tall tales are linked by the writer's surreal slant on everyday occurrences, sensibilites and desires.Set throughout the world, from Leeds to Eastern Europe and the Orient, we meet a flatmate who is born to save all mankind, and an 18th century automaton so beautiful men have killed in order to possess her. We are taken for a ride on London Underground's lost line which has a dark secret all of its own, and to a seemingly harmless auction of electrical goods with a devastating, hidden cost.The metaphysical meets the mundane in a Cornish resort where the tide goes out never to return, revealing something truly extraordinary on the seabed, and in an art class where an unpromising student produces an astonishing painting, which years later proves to have a dreadful significance for his bullying teacher.
Poslední část volné trilogie o životě současného českého šlechtice vypovídá o jeho duševní a mystické obrodě.