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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky which was first published on February 1, 1999 by Pocket Books. Its narrator is an introverted teenager known as Charlie, who describes his experiences in a series of letters to an anonymous stranger. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie through his freshman year of high school in a Pittsburgh suburb. Intelligent beyond his years, he is an unconventional thinker; as the story begins, the reader learns that Charlie is also shy and unpopular. Chbosky took five years to develop and publish The Perks of Being a Wallflower, creating the characters and other aspects of the story from his own memories. Plot[edit] The story begins with a quiet, sensitive, 15-year-old boy named Charlie writing letters about his life to an unknown recipient. His English teacher Bill notices Charlie's passion for reading and writing, and assigns him extracurricular books and reports. See also[edit]

Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation (9780814741832): Karla Jay Коу, Джонатан Джонатан Коу (англ. Jonathan Coe) — британский писатель, получивший широкую известность благодаря роману «Какое надувательство!» (1994). Биография[править | править исходный текст] Коу учился в бирмингемской школе Короля Эдварда (англ. В июле 2006 года прочитал почётную лекцию в Университете Бирмингема. Коу разделяет атеистические убеждения[1]. Творчество[править | править исходный текст] В произведениях Джонатана Коу прослеживается политическая сатира в отношении происходивших в Великобритании второй половины XX века событий. Библиография[править | править исходный текст] Художественные произведения[править | править исходный текст] The Accidental Woman. — Duckworth, 1987. русск.пер.: Случайная женщина / пер. с англ. A Touch of Love. — Duckworth, 1989. русск.пер.: Прикосновение к любви / пер. с англ. The Dwarves of Death. — Fourth Estate, 1990.What a Carve Up!. русск.пер.: Какое надувательство! The House of Sleep. — Viking, 1997. The Rotters' Club. — Viking, 2001.

Стихи и бызлы - Помощь зала Спасибо. Я прочла, и мне категорически не понравилось. В Пратчета Вы, коллега, не верите, потому что читаете его по-русски. Я точно так же в Вудхауза не верил всё детство. Из авторов беллетристики меня в последнее время очень радовали Jasper Fforde и Thomas Bernhard. Из т.н. фантастики Greg Egan. Не снобируйте, коллега, Вудхауз мне и в переводе нравится (а в сериале – и того пуще), т. ч. сомневаюсь, что поверю в мир Пратчетта на каком угодно языке. Беркович порадовал чрезвычайно. Угу. Вернон Салливан он же Борис Виан "Уничтожить всех уродов"Рома Тирн "Москит" - добротненько краем о гражданской войне на Шри-Ланке, романтических соплей на страницу текста в среднем не очень много.еще "Дневники Энди Уорхола" за десятилетие с 60 по 70. Я вот из последнего впечатлилась хоптоновской "Дуэлью", из непреходящего - сборники "Память", за 50 рублей в славном городе Питере два тома, про Блокаду. Сейчас вот поняла, что ничего из худлита или как это правильно называется не читала уже лет так несколько.

China Miéville China Tom Miéville (/ˈtʃaɪnə miˈeɪvəl/; born 6 September 1972) is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer and academic. He is fond of describing his fiction as "weird fiction" (after early 20th-century pulp and horror writers such as H. P. Lovecraft), and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird. Early life[edit] Born in Norwich, Miéville was brought up in Willesden, northwest London, and has lived in the city since early childhood. Education[edit] Miéville attended Oakham School, a co-educational independent school in Oakham, Rutland, for two years. Miéville studied for a BA degree in social anthropology at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating in 1994, and gained both a Masters' degree and PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics in 2001. Literary influences[edit] In 2010, Miéville made his first foray into writing for RPGs with a contribution to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game supplement Guide to the River Kingdoms.[5] Honours[edit]

Raymond Carver Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. Carver was a major writer of the late 20th century and a major force in the revitalization of the American short story in literature in the 1980s.[citation needed] Early life[edit] Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mill town on the Columbia River, and grew up in Yakima, Washington.[1] His father, a skilled sawmill worker from Arkansas, was a fisherman and a heavy drinker. Writing career[edit] Carver continued his studies first at Chico State University and then at Humboldt State College in Arcata, California, where he studied with Richard Cortez Day and received his B.A. in 1963. In the mid-1960s Carver and his family lived in Sacramento, California, where he briefly worked at a bookstore before taking a position as a night custodian at Mercy Hospital. His first short story collection, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Personal life and death[edit] Decline of first marriage[edit]

Letter to a Child Never Born Letter to a Child Never Born (Italian: Lettera a un bambino mai nato, 1975) is a novel by Italian author and journalist Oriana Fallaci. It is written as a letter by young professional woman (presumably Fallaci herself) to the fetus she carries in utero; it details the woman's struggle to choose between a career she loves and an unexpected pregnancy, explaining the how life works with examples of her childhood, and warning him/her about the unfairness of the world. The English translation was first published in 1976. At the end of the English version, the woman has a miscarriage. The book sold four million copies worldwide.

Буджолд, Лоис Макмастер Лоис Макма́стер Бу́джолд (англ. Lois McMaster Bujold) — американская писательница-фантаст. Широкую известность приобрела благодаря циклу фантастических произведений о Майлзе Форкосигане, сыне высокопоставленного аристократа с милитаризированной планеты Барраяр (Сага о Форкосиганах). В последние годы также активно развивает фэнтезийный цикл о королевстве Шалион. Награждена литературными премиями «Небьюла» трижды (за произведения «В свободном падении», «Горы скорби», «Паладин душ») и «Хьюго» пять раз (за «Горы скорби», «Игра форов», «Барраяр», «Танец отражений», «Паладин душ»). Окончила Upper Arlington High School в 1967 и училась в Университете Штата Огайо в 1968—1972 годах. Мать двоих детей: Анны, родившейся в 1979 году, и Пола, родившегося в 1981 году. Библиография[править | править исходный текст] Романы[править | править исходный текст] Повести[править | править исходный текст] Рассказы[править | править исходный текст] Нефантастические книги и статьи[править | править исходный текст]

Book Marks: Annabel and The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse Annabel, by Kathleen Winter. Black Cat/Grove Atlantic, 472 pages, $19.95 paper. A baby is born in 1968, in far-from-everywhere northern Labrador, Canada. The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, by Lonely Christopher. Odd academic book title. It’s All Relative: Two Families, Three Dogs, 34 Holidays, and 50 Boxes of Wine (A Memoir), by Wade Rouse. With his fourth memoir, Rouse is venturing into the my-ha-ha-life territory trod for many years by queer predecessors David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs (from both of whom he sought pre-publication blurbs, to no avail). Binding the God: Ursine Essays from the Mountain South, by Jeff Mann. Mann, a prolific writer, is a complex fellow with many audiences. Featured Excerpt I woke with a start last New Year’s Eve after my head had fallen into the giant red enamelware popcorn bowl I was holding in my lap. – from It’s All Relative, by Wade Rouse Footnotes

T. Coraghessan Boyle He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.[1] Life[edit] Boyle grew up in Peekskill, New York,[4] received a B.A. in English and History from the State University of New York at Potsdam in 1968, an M.F.A. (1974) from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a Ph.D. (1977) from the University of Iowa.[1][2] Many of Boyle's novels and short stories explore the baby boom generation, its appetites, joys, and addictions. His themes, such as the often-misguided efforts of the male hero and the slick appeal of the anti-hero, appear alongside brutal satire, humor, and magical realism. His fiction also explores the ruthlessness and the unpredictability of nature and the toll human society unwittingly takes on the environment.[5] His novels include World's End (1987, winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction); The Road to Wellville (1993);[6] and The Tortilla Curtain (1995, winner of France's Prix Médicis étranger).[7][citation needed] T.C.

Dan Rhodes Dan Rhodes (born 1972) is an English writer, possibly best known for the novel Timoleon Vieta Come Home (2003), a subversion of the popular Lassie Come Home movie. He is also the author of Anthropology (2000), a collection of 101 stories, each consisting of 101 carefully chosen words. In 2010 he was awarded the E. M. Forster Award[2] Following the publication of his second book, Rhodes's frustration with the publishing industry led him to announce his retirement from writing, though he later said, "I haven't really given up. Rhodes was included on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list in 2003, to his own bemusement and frustration, partly because of Granta's selection methods ("It's one thing to judge a writer by stuff they've written, but to judge them on stuff they're going to write is lunacy") but also because some of the others on the list failed to respond to his request to sign a joint statement protesting against the Iraq war.[1][3] Rhodes is married with one child.[1]

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