Little, Brown and Company, 2012. — 274 p. — ISBN: 0316206296 (ISBN13: 9780316206297) The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity....
Little, Brown and Company, 2014. — 416 p. — ISBN: 031632468X (ISBN13: 9780316324687) Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days,...
HarperCollins, 2011. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0062117106 (ISBN13: 9780062117106) A tale of grief and lust, frustration and hilarity, death and family. Penelope O’Grady and Cara Wall are risking disaster when, like teenagers in any intolerant time and place—here, a Dublin convent school in the late 1970s—they fall in love. Yet Cara, the free spirit, and Pen, the stoic, craft a bond so...
Picador, 2013. — 228 p. — ISBN: 9781447248149 Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances - sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth,...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0151012970 (ISBN13: 9780151012978) A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships--the kind millions of us now maintain mostly by plane, phone, and Internet. Síle is a stylish citizen of the new...
Virago Press (UK), 2004. — 613 p. — ISBN: 1860499805 (ISBN13: 9781860499807) It is the true story of three famous Londoners - an artist, an actress and an aristocrat - at the end of the eighteenth century. This is their love story, their gamble, their battle. Let the games begin. Everybody wears a mask. Hadn't you noticed? We put them on for one very good reason: we dislike our...
Little, Brown and Company, 2010. — 321 p. To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world... Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience—and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his...
Когда девушку крадут и держат, прямо скажем, в сексуальном рабстве где-нибудь в подвале - это ужасно. Что они чувствуют? Как принимают жизнь? Об этом можно почитать в их мемуарах. А эта книга не о горе, хотя она именно о такой вот несчастной семье - маме, 5-летнем Джеке, рожденном от насильника, и, собственно, насильнике. Эта книга о радости. О радости познания мира. О том, как...
Mariner Books, 2002. — 410 p. — ISBN: 0156007479 (ISBN13: 9780156007474) Mary Saunders, a lower-class London schoolgirl, was born into rough cloth but hungered for lace and the trappings of a higher station than her family would ever know. In 18th-century England, Mary's shrewd instincts will get her only so far, and she despairs of the plans made for her to carve out a trade...
Harper Perennial, 2013. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1443422606 (ISBN13: 9781443422604) Seventeen and sure of nothing, Maria has left her parents' small-town grocery for university life in Dublin. An ad in the Student Union - "2 ♀ seek flatmate. No bigots." - leads Maria to a home with warm Ruth and wickedly funny Jael, students who are older and more fascinating than she'd expected. A...
Arthur A. Levine Books, 2017. — 303 p. — ISBN: 0545925819 (ISBN13: 9780545925815) Sumac Lottery is nine years old and the self-proclaimed "good girl" of her large, unruly family. And what a family the Lotterys are: four parents, children both adopted and biological, and a menagerie of pets, all living and learning together in a sprawling house called Camelottery. Then one day,...
HarperCollins, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN: 1443445622 (ISBN13: 9781443445627) Sumac Lottery is the keeper of her family's traditions -- from Pow Wow to Holi, Carnival to Hogmanay, Sumac's on guard to make sure that no Lottery celebration gets forgotten. But this winter all Sumac's seasonal plans go awry when a Brazilian visitor overstays his welcome. A terrible ice storm grounds all...
Mariner Books, 2009. — 416 p. — ASIN B002SRL36I Miss Emily "Fido" Faithfull is a "woman of business" and a spinster pioneer in the British women’s movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of a once-dear friend, the unhappily wed Helen Codrington, Fido is swept up in the intimate details of Helen’s failing...
Mariner Books, 2003. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0156027399 (ISBN13: 9780156027397) Emma Donoghue, celebrated author of Slammerskin, vividly animates hidden scraps of the past in this remarkable collection. An engraving of a woman giving birth to rabbits, a plague ballad, theological pamphlets, and an articulated skeleton are ingeniously fleshed out into rollicking tales. Whether she's...
Little, Brown and Company, 2016. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 0316393878; ISBN13: 978-0316393874. In Emma Donoghue's latest masterpiece, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life. Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna...
Little, Brown and Company, 2016. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 0316393878; ISBN13: 978-0316393874. In Emma Donoghue's latest masterpiece, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life. Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna...
Picador, 2011. — 39 p. — ASIN B006GXEHQI An accident, a suicide, an act of criminal negligence and a near-death experience. Published by Picador as a 'Short Reads' ebook in December 2011, bringing together four fact-inspired stories from France, the USA and Canada. What the Driver Saw is inspired by a freak accident on Nice’s Promenade des Anglais, the 1920s equivalent of...
Virago Press (UK), 2011. — 288 p. — ISBN: 1844087395 (ISBN13: 9781844087396) In this sparkling collection of nineteen stories, the bestselling author of Slammerkin returns to contemporary affairs, exposing the private dilemmas that result from some of our most public controversies. A man finds God and finally wants to father a child-only his wife is now forty-two years old. A...
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