В книге содержится краткий обзор национальных идей, которые были в ходу в России в разное время, и выводы, почему они не прижились. А также предлагаются идеи, которые приведут страну к процветанию, и пути к их осуществлению.
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There is an inexplicable gravity in a small town. It can be read and enjoyed like a favorite book for most of its inhabitants. Comforting are its streets and institutions, its wedding and obituary announcements. Banjo Grease is about life and death in a mill town where at each epiphany and rite of passage, the narrator yields a ration of innocence. Characters portray class as a marker as strong as race and gender, and distrust that they will e ...
Sex in Taipei City is not what one expects: it is repressed, traded for cash, vengeful, sometimes awkward and almost always secretive. A young Taiwanese man goes on his first real date with a British man he meets online, a uniformed schoolgirl sells her body for cash in an odd form of revenge, a grandfather becomes obsessed with Japanese porn, and a pregnant mistress offers her lover's wife five million NT in exchange for her to divo ...
Red Hen's promotional efforts for this title will include: <p>• Packaged ARC mailing 4-6 months pre pub date to a core list of 30+ reviewers, booksellers, media contacts, professors, and librarians (package includes 2-7 other titles from the C list in the same season that fit together in some way), with a focus on Alaskan, indigenous, and Pacific Northwest publications. <p>• Individualized ARC and/or finished cop ...
Beauty and terror collide in Doug Lawson’s <b><i>Bigfoots in Paradise</b></i>, a wild new collection of stories set largely in and around Santa Cruz, California and the surrounding mountains. It’s a land tucked between Silicon Valley and the Pacific Ocean, one that’s populated by aging hippies and venture capitalist sharks, pot farmers and surfers, child prodigies and roaming herds of wild boar. Earthquakes rumble, meth l ...
• First edition won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, but the press shut down the season the book was first released, killing any chance of substantial sales • Endorsements from famous short story writers T.C. Boyle, Aimee Bender, and Alissa Nutting • Literary and unique writing style incorporated with humor and irony, a little dark at times • Writing comparable to that of George Saunders • Excerpts have been published in several ...
Этот сборник – результат 15-летнего диалога писателя Алексея Иванова со своими читателями. Вначале это была переписка в вопросах и ответах, затем она переросла сетевой формат и превратилась в многосторонний анализ нашей жизни и процессов, происходящих в политике, экономике, публицистике, культуре и писательском ремесле. Один из самых известных и ярких прозаиков нашего времени, выпустивший в 2010 году на Первом канале совместно с Леонидом Парфено ...
