Энни Пру

E. Annie Proulx focuses on a Newfoundland fishing town in a tale about a third-rate newspaperman and the women in his life-- his elderly aunt and two young daughters-- who decide to resettle in their ancestral seaside home. The transformation each of the character undergoes following move is profound. A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, "The...

После гибели жены журналист Куойл решает бросить Нью-Йорк и вместе с дочерьми и теткой Агнис отправляется на землю своих предков — отдаленный уголок острова Ньюфаундленд. Здесь он погружается в мир суровой природы, полную опасностей и трудностей жизнь местных рыбаков, жизнь, совсем не похожую на ту, что была у него в Нью-Йорке. И если поначалу Куойл ощущает себя лишь наблюдателем происходящих соб...

At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new l...

Роман Э. Энни Пру «Грехи аккордеона» – волшебная сага, охватывающая всю историю минувшего столетия и целого континента, бесспорный шедевр мистического реализма, подлинная энциклопедия культурных влияний множества этносов, из которых сложилась американская нация. Широкая панорама действующих лиц и сокровищница историй, рассказанных автором, поставили книгу в ряд выдающихся достижений мировой эпичес...

When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts his private demons -- and the unpredictable forces of nature and society -- he begins to see the p...

Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless journalist living and working in New York. While weathering the storm that is his marriage of one-way love for no-good wife Petal, disaster strikes, and Petal is killed in a spectacular road accident. Set adrift on an aimless quest, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers - to the remote corners of far-flung Newfoundland. With his delinquent daughters, Bunny and...

E. Annie Proulx focuses on a Newfoundland fishing town in a tale about a third-rate newspaperman and the women in his life-- his elderly aunt and two young daughters-- who decide to resettle in their ancestral seaside home. The transformation each of the character undergoes following move is profound. A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, "The...

После гибели жены журналист Куойл решает бросить Нью-Йорк и вместе с дочерьми и теткой Агнис отправляется на землю своих предков — отдаленный уголок острова Ньюфаундленд. Здесь он погружается в мир суровой природы, полную опасностей и трудностей жизнь местных рыбаков, жизнь, совсем не похожую на ту, что была у него в Нью-Йорке. И если поначалу Куойл ощущает себя лишь наблюдателем происходящих соб...

At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new l...