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Жалость Тони Моррисон
ISBN: 978-5-271-24661-6 Год издания: 2010 Издательство: Астрель, Corpus Язык: Русский РазвернутьЛауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе Тони Моррисон - автор девяти романов, самый знаменитый из которых - "Возлюбленная". В 1988 году он принес своей создательнице Пулитцеровскую премию, а экранизация книги с телеведущей Опрой Уинфри в главной роли номинировалась на "Оскар" и была названа "одним из лучших фильмов десятилетия". По мнению критиков, Моррисон "не только создала романы поразительной силы, но и перекроила американскую литературную историю двадцатого века". Действие книги "Жалость" происходит в Америке XVII века. Хозяин фермы, затерянной в американской глубинке, заработав на торговле ромом, строит огромный дом, призванный…
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Citizen: An American Lyric Клаудия Рэнкин
ISBN: 978-1555976903 Год издания: 2014 Издательство: Graywolf Press РазвернутьA provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine’s long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine’s bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV—everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person’s ability to speak, perform, and…
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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
ISBN: 978-0375701894 Год издания: 1998 Издательство: Vintage Язык: Английский РазвернутьAt the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. And everywhere there is the anguish of being black in a society that at…
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The Resurrectionist: A Novel Matthew Guinn
ISBN: 978-0393348811 Год издания: 2014 Издательство: W. W. Norton & Company -
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
ISBN: 0812993543, 978081299354 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Spiegel & Grau Язык: Английский Развернуть“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.” In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion.…
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Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel I Р. Х. Син
ISBN: 9781449488062 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: Andrews McMeel Publishing РазвернутьCompletely revised and expanded brand-new edition of Volume I, the first book in the Whiskey poetry trilogy! Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel, Vol. 1, is about reclaiming your power on the path to a healthy relationship. It is a testament to choosing to love yourself, even if it means heartbreak. Originally released in 2015, this re-rerelease packs the same punch as the first version, but makes an even greater connection with the soul of the reader. Each piece has been re-seen and revamped to reflect the author’s continuing journey with his partner, Samantha King, without whom this book would not exist. Samantha is the muse, the “she”…
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She Felt Like Feeling Nothing Р. Х. Син
ISBN: 978-1449494254 Год издания: 2018 Издательство: Andrews McMeel Publishing New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author of the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series comes this poetic reminder of women's strength. There are moments when the heart no longer wishes to feel because everything it's felt up until then has brought it nothing but anguish. In She Felt Like Feeling Nothing, r.h. Sin pursues themes of self-discovery and retrospection. With this book, the poet intends to create a safe space where women can rest their weary hearts and focus on themselves.
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Wade in the Water Трейси К. Смит
ISBN: 1555978134 Год издания: 2018 Издательство: Graywolf Press The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States
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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone Джеймс Болдуин
ISBN: 9780241342039 Год издания: 2018 Издательство: Penguin Развернуть'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the world of the theatre lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. And everywhere there is the anguish of being black in a society that seems poised on the brink of racial war. In this tender, angry 1968 novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking…
