Книгата е част от поредицата "Съвременна ирландска литература". ... Запознайте се с Матю, Рез, Кокър и Киърни. Матурите току-що са свършили, а момчетата се озовават пред бездната на живота след училище. Първото лято от дълго очакваната им свобода преминава в безпаметно вилнеене и брутално трупане на опит из улиците на Дъблин. Докато се шляят без цел и посока из града, захранвани от дрога, алкохол и мрачни фантазии, тийнейджърите се опитват да избягат от реалността, която презират. Но всъщност попадат в спиралата на самоунищожението. Взривяващ, шокиращ с разюздаността си, черен до комичност роман, "Ето ги ... |
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Ever since she was a child, every aspect of Julia Haart's life - what she wore, what she ate, what she thought - was controlled by the orders of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. At nineteen, after a lifetime spent caring for her seven younger siblings, she was married off to a man she barely knew. For the next twenty-three years, he would rule her life. Eventually, when her youngest daughter, Miriam, started to question why she wasn't allowed to sing, run or ride a bike, Julia reached breaking point. She knew that if she didn't find a way to leave, her daughters would be forced into the same unending servitude. So ... |
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Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline. Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine and mescaline - and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs, while consuming (or in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human ... |