Kate Atkinson
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Human croquet
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Transworld Publishers
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Автор: Kate Atkinson
Издательство: Transworld Publishers, 1998
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DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ
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Once it had been the great forest of Lythe — a vast and impenetrable thicket of green with a mystery in the very heart of the trees. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor. Now the Fairfaxes have dwindled and are hardly any family at all.
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 vtormai
12 сентября 2009
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One Good Turn
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Transworld Publishers
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Автор: Kate Atkinson
Издательство: Transworld Publishers, 2006
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DjVu, 544 страницы, 21.76 МБ
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«It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident — an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander — until he becomes a suspect. With «Case Histories», Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In «One Good Turn», she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self. Unputdownable and triumphant, «One Good Turn» is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.»
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garun-al-rashid
22 мая 2009
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Started Early Took My Dog
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Transworld Publishers
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Автор: Kate Atkinson
Издательство: Transworld Publishers, 2011
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PDF, 493 страницы, 14.79 МБ
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A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn't bargained for. One moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn. Witnesses to Tracy's Faustian exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Tilly, an elderly actress teetering on the brink of her own disaster, and Jackson Brodie who has returned to his home county in search of someone else's roots. All three characters learn that the past is never history and that no good deed goes unpunished. Kate Atkinson dovetails and counterpoints her plots with Dickensian brilliance in a tale peopled with unlikely heroes and villains. Started Early, Took My Dog is freighted with wit, wisdom and a fierce moral intelligence. It confirms Kate Atkinson's position as one of the great writers of our time.
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boatexperts
28 мая 2014
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