Джойс Мэйнард

The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and The Good Daughters returns with a warm and haunting novel of sisterhood, adolescence, sacrifice, and suspense "Maynard illuminates the human experience."-People magazine It's the summer of 1979, and a dry, hot, northern California school vacation stretches ahead for Rachel and her younger sister Patty-the daughters of a larger-than-...

When it was first published in 1998, At Home in the World set off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard's memoir broke a silence concerning her relationship--at age eighteen--with the famously reclusive author J.D. Salinger, then age fifty-three, who had read a story she wrote for The New York Times in her freshman year of college and sent her a letter that changed her life...

So where are we now? Generalizing is dangerous. Call us the apathetic generation and we will become that. Say times are changing, nobody cares about prom queens and getting into the college of his choice any more—say that (because it sounds good, it indicates a trend, gives a symmetry to history) and you make a movement and a unit out of a generation unified only in its common fragmentation. If th...

Ее жизнь, полная упоительной любви и страстных танцев, казалась волшебной сказкой. Тем страшнее для нее настоящее, в котором не осталось ничего, кроме горя, тоски и безысходности. Но однажды появился мужчина — и в глухом мраке отчаяния зажегся маячок надежды. У этого человека тоже исковеркана судьба: он мало того что осужден за убийство, но еще и совершил дерзкий побег из тюрьмы, захватив при этом...