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Library of America volume 349
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As the spirit of experimentation swirled around him in the 1960s and '70s, John Williams, working in relative obscurity as an English professor, wrote finely crafted novels distinguished by precise form, powerful but restrained prose, and close attention to physical detail and its symbolic import. His three major works Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and the National Book Award-winning Augustus (1972) have come to be recognized as masterpieces...
242) Ocalić Grace
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"Grace and Ted Chapman. Literary power couple. Ted is considered "the thinking man's John Grisham" and Grace, his wife of twenty years is beautiful, stylish, carefree. All of this is on the surface. Beneath, what no one sees, is Ted's rages. His mood swings. And the precarious house of cards that their lifestyle is built upon. When Ted's longtime assistant and mainstay leaves, the house of cards begins to crumble and Grace, with dark secrets in her...
243) Coming clean
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"Eleven years ago, Sophie and Greg couldn't get enough of each other. A pair of full-time jobs and two kids later, they're in therapy asking themselves where all the sexy times went. Sophie thinks she knows: They're buried under Greg's mess. And even though her slob of a husband tries to make up for his shortcomings by cooking the occasional meal, Sophie is left to clean umpteen dirty dishes. The last straw is when Greg uses some inheritance money...
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"Ever since seventeen-year-old Ann Bennett was diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition two years ago, her family has been pulling apart. Ann and her two younger siblings fight constantly, as do their parents. When the doctors announce that Ann's only hope of survival is a heart transplant by the end of the summer, the Bennetts decide to wait for news of a donor at a family vacation home on the Oregon coast, near Haystack Rock. But rather...
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"I felt torn between two worlds. Each with its own mystery. One more captivating than the other, but the other more real and breathing." It took Lauren and her husband ten years to achieve their dream--reaching primitive tribes in remote regions of Nepal. But while Sam treks into the Himalayas for weeks at a time, finding passion and purpose in his work among the needy, Lauren and Ryan stay behind, their daily reality more taxing than inspiring. For...
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"Clara and Henrik are married and living in a beautiful inherited villa in Oslo. She is a single-mindedly ambitious child-rights activist at the Ministry of Justice. Having grown up in rural Western Norway, she is also an Oslo outsider. Henrik is a doctor from a well-to-do Oslo family. Though their marriage is under serious strain, they share a devotion to their twin sons and their work. Outwardly, they're a successful couple both dedicated to saving...
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"Magda nareszcie prowadzi ustabilizowane życie w Warszawie, syn Michaś dorasta, życie rodzinne toczy się własnym rytmem, a odnowiony dom na Majorce jest spełnieniem jej marzeń. Jednak po pięciu latach małżeństwo z Markiem utknęło w martwym punkcie - zdominowane przez rozpieszczoną córeczkę i nadwyrężone obecnością seksownej opiekunki, Oksany. Na domiar złego w matce Magdy, emerytowanej doktor weterynarii Krystynie Dziubak-Kalińskiej,...
248) A better man
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"Every couple has a wish list. Maya wants Nick to come home earlier To engage with their children To engage with her Nick wants. A divorce Having decided that their marriage is over, Nick is determined to leave quickly and with dignity. But when he looks into the financial realities of splitting up, he realizes that more of his hard-earned income than he can handle will go to Maya. Then a mutual friend proposes that Nick improve the marriage in order...
249) Przed końcem zimy
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Gerry i Stella, starsze malzenstwo z Glasgow, przybywa do Amsterdamu na kilkudniowe wczasy. Atmosfera jest jednak daleka od sielskiej: trwa zima, znad Morza Pólnocnego wieje lodowaty wicher i w zyciu bohaterów temperatura równiez ciazy ku zeru. Gerry znieczula nude swojej emerytury alkoholem, a Stella przestaje widziec sens w podtrzymywaniu pozorów milosci. Czy wedrujac nad malowniczymi kanalami i przesiadujac w amsterdamskich pubach tych dwoje...
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Lucas Pereyra, un escritor recién entrado en la cuarentena, viaja de Buenos Aires a Montevideo para recoger un dinero que le han mandado desde el extranjero y que no puede recibir en su país debido a las restricciones cambiarias. Casado y con un hijo, no atraviesa su mejor momento, pero la perspectiva de pasar un día en otro país en compañía de una joven amiga es suficiente para animarle un poco. Una vez en Uruguay, las cosas no salen tal como...