Family Portraits: Character Studies in 1 and 2 Samuel, McCracken Randy
Автор: Mccracken, Elizabeth Название: Bowlaway ISBN: 0224087118 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780224087117 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 2243.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the beginning of the twentieth century - nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin and fifteen pounds of gold on her person - Bertha Truitt is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts.
Автор: McCracken Elizabeth Название: Here`s Your Hat What`s Your Hurry: Stories ISBN: 0062873725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062873729 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 2411.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: McCracken Elizabeth Название: Bowlaway ISBN: 0062888277 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062888273 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 3144.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley
From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the turn of the twentieth century--nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin, and fifteen pounds of gold on her person--Bertha Truitt is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts. She has no past to speak of, or at least none she is willing to reveal, and her mysterious origin scandalizes and intrigues the townspeople, as does her choice to marry and start a family with Leviticus Sprague, the doctor who revived her. But Bertha is plucky, tenacious, and entrepreneurial, and the bowling alley she opens quickly becomes Salford's most defining landmark--with Bertha its most notable resident.
When Bertha dies in a freak accident, her past resurfaces in the form of a heretofore-unheard-of son, who arrives in Salford claiming he is heir apparent to Truitt Alleys. Soon it becomes clear that, even in her death, Bertha's defining spirit and the implications of her obfuscations live on, infecting and affecting future generations through inheritance battles, murky paternities, and hidden wills.
In a voice laced with insight and her signature sharp humor, Elizabeth McCracken has written an epic family saga set against the backdrop of twentieth-century America. Bowlaway is both a stunning feat of language and a brilliant unraveling of a family's myths and secrets, its passions and betrayals, and the ties that bind and the rifts that divide.
--Newsday
Автор: Kinoshita, Sharon Mccracken, Peggy Название: Marie de france: a critical companion ISBN: 1843843730 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843843733 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 3958.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This new companion to the works of Marie de France offers fresh insights into the standard critical debates.
Автор: Mccracken, John Название: History of malawi ISBN: 1847010644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847010643 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 6810.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A distinguished scholar`s magnum opus and the first full account of Malawi`s colonial history.
Автор: McCracken Grant David Название: Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture ISBN: 0253219574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253219572 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 3259.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Self reinvention has become a preoccupation of contemporary culture. In the last decade, Hollywood made a 500-million-dollar bet on this idea with movies such as Multiplicity, Fight Club, eXistenZ, and Catch Me If You Can. Self reinvention marks the careers of Madonna, Ani DiFranco, Martha Stewart, and Robin Williams. The Nike ads of LeBron James, the experiments of New Age spirituality, the mores of contemporary teen culture, and the obsession with "extreme makeovers" are all examples of our culture's fixation with change. In a time marked by plenitude, transformation is one of the few things these parties have in common. Although transformation is widely acknowledged as a defining characteristic of our culture, we have almost no studies on what it is or how it works. Transformations offers the first comprehensive and systematic view. It is an ethnography of the contemporary world.
