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Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of th…

Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement-and a great gift for its publisher.When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity.Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome-but that will define his life forever.In rich and resplendent prose, Yanagihara has fashioned a tragic and transcendent hymn to brotherly love, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance. Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Brožovaná, Počet stran: 832, Nakladatelství: Random House Publishing, Autor: Hanya Yanagihara, ISBN-13: 9780804172707, Datum vydání: 2016

Michael Jackson’s former bodyguards discuss the superstar’s life in seclusion, financial crises, and the lead up to his shocking death.A compellingly candid memoir that details Jackson's life in se…

Michael Jackson’s former bodyguards discuss the superstar’s life in seclusion, financial crises, and the lead up to his shocking death.A compellingly candid memoir that details Jackson's life in seclusion, by the bodyguards who were with him in his final days - with a new introduction to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Michael Jackson's death .Hounded by the tabloid media, driven from his self-made sanctuary, Neverland, Michael Jackson spent his final years moving from city to city, living with his three children in virtual seclusion -- a futile attempt to escape a world that wouldn't leave him alone. During that time, two men served as the singer's personal security team: Bill Whitfield, a former cop and veteran of the security profession, and Javon Beard, a brash, untested rookie, both single fathers themselves.Stationed at his side nearly 24/7, their job was to see and hear everything that transpired, and to keep everyone else out, making them the only two men who know what 60 million fans around the world still want to know: What really happened to the King of Pop?Driven by a desire to show the world who Michael Jackson truly was, Whitfield and Beard have produced the only definitive, first-person account of Michael Jackson's last years: the extreme measures necessary to protect Jackson and his family, the financial struggles that led their pay to be suspended for weeks at a time, the simple moments of happiness they managed to share in a time of great stress, the special relationship Jackson shared with his fans, and the tragic events that culminated in the singer's ill-fated comeback, This Is It. The truth is far more captivating than anything you've yet heard.An indispensable piece of pop-culture history, Remember the Time is the story of a man struggling to live a normal life under extraordinary circumstances, of a father fighting to protect and provide for his children. Remember the Time is the book that dismantles the tabloid myths once and for all to give Michael Jackson back his humanity. Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Pevná, Počet stran: 336, Nakladatelství: Weinstein Books, Autor: Bill Whitfield,Javon Beard,Tanner Colby, ISBN-13: 9781602862500, Datum vydání: 2014

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the…

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri   farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls   in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from   the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters   a succession of disappointments: marriage into a "proper” family estranges him from   his parents his career is stymied his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him   a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper   within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts   an essential solitude. John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a   work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal   American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting   by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world. Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Brožovaná, Počet stran: 288, Nakladatelství: Random House Publishing, Autor: John Williams, ISBN-13: 9781590171998, Datum vydání: 2006