Книги на английски – художествена литература → Обява 40775855

1. Cut - Cathy Glass

· Страници - 310

· Състояние - много добро, има само на места подчертавано с
молив

· Цена: 10 лв

Million-copy bestselling author Cathy
Glass tells the story of Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose
outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the
very people who should have cared for her.

Dawn was the first girl Cathy Glass ever
fostered. Sweet and seemingly well balanced girl, Dawn’s outward appearance
masked a traumatic childhood so awful, that even she could not remember it.

During the first night, Cathy awoke to
see Dawn looming above Cathy’s baby’s cot, her eyes staring and blank. She
sleepwalks – which Cathy learns is often a manifestation in disturbed children.
It becomes a regular and frightening occurrence, and Cathy is horrified to find
Dawn lighting a match whilst mumbling it’s not my fault in her sleep one night.

Cathy discovers Dawn is playing truant
from school and struggling to make friends. More worryingly she finds her room
empty one night, and her pillow covered in blood. Dawn has been self-harming in
order to release the pain of her past.

When Dawn attempts suicide, Cathy
realises that she needs more help than she can give. Dawn’s mother eventually
confides in her that Dawn was sent away to live with relatives in Ireland between
the ages of 5 and 9, and Cathy soon realises that the horrors Dawn was exposed
to during this time have left her a very disturbed little girl.ю

2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis
Carroll

· Издател: Vintage

· Брой страници: 336

· Година на издаване: 2016

· Корици: меки

· Език: английски

· Тегло: 183 грама

· Размери: 11x18

· Състояние: нова

· Цена: 12 лв

On a boring summer afternoon, the bright
and inquisitive Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole. At the bottom,
she finds herself immersed in a bizarre world full of strange creatures and
bizarre goings-on. She tries pills and potions, and attends a very strange tea
party and croquet match. An immensely witty mix of satire, puzzles, and drama,
this is one of literature’s most astute depictions of the experience of
childhood.

Reviews:

"A book of wonder and nonsense
laced with lethal wit." —Guardian

"A marvellous confidence in the
primacy of the imagination." —Will Self,
author, The Book of Dave

"Precise, dream-like,
subversive." —Independent on Sunday

3. Kidnapped (Penguin Summer Classics) -
Robert Louis Stevenson

· В отлично състояние като нова

· Издателство - Penguin Books Ltd

· Меки корици

· Публикувана 2002 г.

· Страници - 224

· Мястно на публикуване - London, United
Kingdom

· Цена: 14 лв

David Balfour sets off into the world to
find his last remaining relative, Ebenezer, with no idea of the hazards and
intrigues to follow. Tricked into boarding a ship, he finds himself bound for
slavery in Carolina but overcomes the shipwreck and the accusation of murder to
emerge the triumphant hero and claim his rightful heritage. A thrilling and
fast-paced adventure story.

4. Life Drawing - Robin Black

· отлично запазена като нова

· цена: 10 лв

· език: английски

· 227 стр.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
BY NPR

“Taut, elegant . . . Black is a writer
of great wisdom.”—Claire Messud, The Guardian (UK)

Augusta Edelman—Gus to her friends—is a
painter, a wife, and not always the best judge of her own choices—one of them
bad enough that she and her husband, Owen, have fled their longtime city home
and its reminders of troubling events. Now, three years into their secluded
country life, Gus works daily on the marriage she nearly lost, discovers new
inspiration for her art, and contemplates the mysteries of a childhood tragedy.
But this quiet, healing rhythm is forever shattered one hot July day when a
stranger moves into the abandoned house next door and crosses more boundaries
than just those between their lands. A fierce, honest, and moving portrait of a
woman grappling with her fate, Life Drawing is a debut novel as beautiful and
unsparing as the human heart.

Praise for Life Drawing:

“The page-turning suspense of Robin
Black’s novel comes from her beautiful, honest portrait of a marriage, of a
life. . . . A novel of consequence, and a stunning one.”—San Francisco
Chronicle

“Gripping . . . the power of this story
is how it illuminates, in utterly compelling detail, the complex give-and-take
of a couple trying to save their marriage.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

“Truly brilliant . . . [Black] is that
rare writer whose gift for prose is matched by her mastery of the other
elements that make a great novel. . . . [Her] psychological prowess and
incisive observations lend an edge even to seemingly straightforward
scenes.”—Chicago Tribune

“Races to its resolution . . . Black’s
writing is clear and direct [with] observations about the way people relate
that resonate well after the book is closed.”—The New York Times Book Review