«У кого деньги, те не становятся жертвами. Деньги приносят свободу быть самим собой».Чувак, имя которого я так и не запомнил, работает в дешевом мотеле. У него что-то там с сетчаткой, поэтому ему пришлось оставить работу пилота и опуститься практически на самое дно. Тараканы, наркоманы, проститут...
Если провести аналогию между писателями и стрелками, то Ирвина Шоу несомненно можно назвать снайпером-чемпионом. В первый раз я прочитала этот роман когда мне было совсем не много лет. И на тот момент я конечно же не могла всецело обьять весь тот пульсирующий поток времени и меняющиеся вместе с н...
Ако приемем, че първата книга "Богат, беден" е върхът на айсберга, то тогава продължението й е разкритият, цялостен образ на чудовището, което се крие под повърхността. Обясненията за всичките ни въпроси от първата книга, се намират тук.В историята за двете момчета, продълженията на рода Джордах,...
”This time it is not a simple, understandable war, within the same culture. This time it is an assault of the animal world upon the house of the human being. I don’t know what you saw in Africa and Italy, but I know what I saw in Russia and Poland. We made a cemetery a thousand miles long and a t...
Honest men and thieves, pimps, panderers and men of virtue: they were all gamblers in a game with no rules, placing their bets debonairly, or in the sweat of fear. The place is Cannes, the setting, a film festival, and the hero is Jesse Craig, whose survival is at stake.
This book is an ambitious attempt to chronicle the social entropy that can pull even loving people away from each other. The story follows Allen Strand, a New York City public high school history teacher, as he tries to negotiate the formidable challenges that circumstance visits on him. At the o...
My agent and I were discussing short fiction and he mentioned that he felt Irwin Shaw was one of the very best writers. On the strength of this I hunted through the various collections of Shaw's writings and discovered this volume on the internet. It was something like $10. maybe a little more. T...
Първите 30 страници започнаха много необещаващо за мен и прибързано реших, че книгата няма да ми хареса. Каква беше изненадата ми като затворих последната страница и трябваше да призная 2 неща:- Господин Ъруин знае да пише.и - Никога не трябва да съдя за една книга преди да съм прочела поне полов...
I've begun to realize that Shaw's later novels lack the details and quality of his earlier ones. The Top of The Hill just seems all around lazy. Nothing profound ever occurs. Shaw provides his readers with a simple story with a few key characters whose bourgeois lives are interrupted. All the cha...
A beautiful Italian girl, a one-time movie idol turned NATO diplomat, a violent, talented young American writer, a once-famous movie director, all come together in Rome in an attempt to salvage a movie and escape the demands of lives they are afraid to face.
A 65-year Roger Damon receives an anonymous call at night. The unknown caller is threatening him insisting on a meeting. Roger ignores the meeting, though his life is changed forever: he gets back to his memories, recalls his losses and victories, friends he once had, women he once loved, stupid ...
She wore her thick, rough hair cut short, almost like a boy’s; her body was lithe, with a hint of later fullness. Her legs were rounded, but athletically firm, and Benjamin, who had been spoiled a little by the ease with which he had drifted into one affair after another with some of the pretties...