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Уильям Бойд - автор 19 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Нутро любого человека. Дневники Логана Маунтстюарта, Неугомонная, Броненосец. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
Уильям Бойд (р. 1952) - один из виднейших английских писателей. Его роман "Нутро любого человека" (Any Human Heart), в 2002 году номинированный на премию Букера, построен в форме личного дневника писателя Логана Маунтстюарта (фигура вымышленная). События длинной (1906-1991) жизни героя вплетаются в ткань истории: в романе фигурируют Вирджиния Вулф, Ивлин Во, Пикассо, Хемингуэй. Герой шапочно знако...
Руфь Гилмартин, молоденькая аспирантка Оксфордского университета, внезапно узнает, что ее мать, которую окружающие считают благообразной безобидной старушкой, совсем не та, за кого себя выдает… Один из лучших романов Уильяма Бойда, живого классика английской литературы.
Уильям Бойд — один из наиболее популярных и обласканных критикой современных британских авторов. Премии Уитбреда и Риса, номинация на «Букер», высшая премия «Лос-Анджелес таймс» в области литературы — таков неполный перечень заслуг этого самобытного автора. Роман «Броненосец» причислен критиками к бриллиантам английской словесности, а сам Бойд назван живым классиком современной литературы.
«Браззавиль-Бич» — роман-притча, который только стилизуется под реальность. Сложные и оказывающиеся условными декорации, равно как и авантюрный сюжет, помогают раскрыть удивительно достоверные характеры героев.
An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?' 'I think it would hurt a great deal.' Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it...
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically Englis...
When William Boyd published his biography of New York modern artist Nat Tate, a huge reception of critics and artists arrived for the launch party, hosted by David Bowie, to toast the late artist's life. Little did they know that the painter Nat Tate, a depressive genius who burned almost all his output before his suicide, never existed. The book was a hoax, and the art world had fallen for i...
Lorimer Black goes to keep a business appointment and finds a hanged man. This is just the start of what turns out to be a horrendous period for Lorimer as he realizes that he's being set up at work and cast adrift outside the office.
Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be. One year later, home in Lo...
The New Confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. 'An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction ...John James Todd's reminiscences carry us through the ups and downs of a long and lively ca...
"Love is Blind" is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in his life. In Par...
Amory's first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives her a camera and some rudimentary lessons in photography, unleashes a passion that will ir...
One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, a young climatologist called Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, mobile phone - never to get them back. Adam has no choice. The police and a ruthless hit man are after him. So he goes underground, joining the ranks of the disappeared that throng London's lowes...
esearcher Hope Clearwater made a shocking discovery about apes and man . . . Young, alone, and far from her family in Britain, Hope Clearwater contemplates the extraordinary events that left her washed up like driftwood on Brazzaville Beach. It is here, on the distant, lonely outskirts of Africa, where she must come to terms with the perplexing and troubling circumstances of her recent past. Fo...
Book DescriptionA new collection of stories by the internationally acclaimed author of Any Human Heart (?the finest storyteller of his generation? - Chicago Tribune ). In ?Notebook No. 9,? a film
Уильям Бойд (р. 1952) - один из виднейших английских писателей. Его роман "Нутро любого человека" (Any Human Heart), в 2002 году номинированный на премию Букера, построен в форме личного дневника писателя Логана Маунтстюарта (фигура вымышленная). События длинной (1906-1991) жизни героя вплетаются в ткань истории: в романе фигурируют Вирджиния Вулф, Ивлин Во, Пикассо, Хемингуэй. Герой шапочно знако...
