Эдмунд Уайт

In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair. Austin Smith is pushing fifty, loveless and drifting, until one day he meets Julien, a much younger, married Frenchman. In the beginning, the lovers' only impediments are the comic clashes of culture, age, and temperament. Before long, however, the past begins...

Париж - город, по которому можно гулять бесконечно. Париж - город, в котором царит вечная весна независимо от времени года. Париж - город, прогулка по которому никогда не наскучит. Эдмунд Уайт, биограф Марселя Пруста и Жана Жене, приглашает на прогулку по Парижу, на прогулку, маршрут которой не вполне совпадает с привычными туристическими тропами. Париж Уайта - не город-музей, где история застыл...

When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--...

When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--...

An instant classic upon its original publication, A Boy's Own Story is the first of Edmund White's highly acclaimed trilogy of autobiographical novels that brilliantly evoke a young man's coming of age and document American gay life through the last forty years. The nameless narrator in this deeply affecting work reminisces about growing up in the 1950s with emotionally aloof, d...

Третья книга серии \"Возникновение человека\" рассказывает о первых истинных людях. Авторы подробно рассматривают археологические находки, а также различные косвенные свидетельства, позволяющие судить о том, что происходило на Земле свыше полумиллиона лет назад. Особый интерес представляют страницы, посвященные раскопкам стоянок первобытных людей на территории современных Франции и Испании. Как и...

A middle aged American works out in a Paris gym - an ordinary day, except that he catches the eye of a stranger, Julien, a young French architect with a gleam in his eye. To Austin's amused astonishment, life takes on the colour of romance. As they dash between Bohemian suppers and glittering salons, all they have to deal with are comic clashes of cultures, of ages, of temperaments. But the...

In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair. Austin Smith is pushing fifty, loveless and drifting, until one day he meets Julien, a much younger, married Frenchman. In the beginning, the lovers' only impediments are the comic clashes of culture, age, and temperament. Before long, however, the past begins...

Париж - город, по которому можно гулять бесконечно. Париж - город, в котором царит вечная весна независимо от времени года. Париж - город, прогулка по которому никогда не наскучит. Эдмунд Уайт, биограф Марселя Пруста и Жана Жене, приглашает на прогулку по Парижу, на прогулку, маршрут которой не вполне совпадает с привычными туристическими тропами. Париж Уайта - не город-музей, где история застыл...

When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--...

When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--...