When literary reprobate Foster James wakes up in a strange country house, he assumes he's been consigned to rehab (yet again) by his dwindling band of friends and growing collection of ex-wives. But he soon realises there's something a bit different about this place after he gets punched in the face by Ernest Hemingway. Is Foster dead? Has his less-than-saintly existence finally caught up with him? After an acrimonious group therapy session with Hunter S Thompson, Colette, William...
Даты рождения стихотворений, составивших эту книгу, ясно свидетельствуют: раздумья о детстве и отрочестве, стремление воскресить свою «начальную пору» и открыть в ней общий для всех духовный смысл никогда не оставляли Давида Самойлова (1920–1990). Один из самых больших русских поэтов XX столетия всю жизнь сохранял верность этой теме – разом счастливой и трагической, занимавшей совершенно особое место в его мире. Понимание этого позволило сделать то, что было лишь тайно намечено самим поэтом, –...
In this, the second book in the Little Girl Lost Trilogy, Sally Whitmore continues her process of becoming a more self-confident, self-accepting, self-actualized woman by orchestrating a six-week pole-dancing class. Week by week, she grows and evolves, as do her five misfit female students who have come to the class hoping to undo the effects of less-than-desirable lives. As a result, Sally becomes receptive to progressing beyond the losses that plagued her own life like a Greek tragedy. Driven...
You’re starting a new job the next day, and your best friend talks you into spending your last day of freedom at the nude beach. What’s the worst that can happen? Well, you could meet your new boss there. That’s what happens to Kate Winslow in Working Romance. Kate and Bob Simmons, her new boss, are instantly attracted to each other. They work well together even as they fall in love. There are some complications, of course: her three small children, her two dogs and a litter of puppies, an...
In this, the first book in the Little Girl Lost Trilogy, the reader is taken into the psyche of Sally McFee, whose world is populated by pimps, prostitutes, strippers, a Mafioso and a cold-blooded killer. Sally struggles to balance the indelible imprints of these realities while becoming a passionate wife and a fiercely devoted mother. Like a Phoenix, she faces one merciless reality after another in an attempt to progress beyond her past into a more self-confident, self-accepting,...
Undaunted by hardship, a determined widow, Uridiya, arranges a wife of her choice for her western- educated only son. Little does she know that her son, Jamike, had fallen in love and married a foreigner against her wishes and the expectations of his village. In a show of love, loyalty and commitment he rejects the arranged wife to the disappointment of his mother and the community. Can his defiance succeed against all odds? Set in an Igbo village in Eastern Nigeria from the late 1950?s to early...
