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A brilliantly inventive comic love-story, set in and around New York at the beginning of the 21st century.Maynard is a defeated musician, a reformed misanthrope who makes a hobby of surreptitiously filming the fashion faux pas of New York City subway commuters. On an uptown Number Six Train, in the summer of 2000, he meets Jennica, a nostalgic Californian and Princeton graduate who calculates that she's been lonesome 68.53% of her adult life. It is hardly love at first sight. But when they meet again at Maynard's film screening, their romance does indeed blossom. And as with most things in life, everyone has an opinion.In the case of Maynard and Jennica, everyone includes: many living and some dead relatives, a blond-bombshell Russian-Israeli scam artist, a hip-hop impresario, a shabby lawyer, a long-lost friend and a writer for The New Yorker. Exuberantly illuminating much that is true and often horrifying about our times, page-turning and wryly funny, Maynard and Jennica remains at heart a love story. Delson has given us a pair of lovers who are human, flawed, complex, at once eccentric and deeply familiar – and in whose story we continue to feel invested long after we've turned the last page. Получить ссылку |
Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes
Автор: Richard Davenport-Hines
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From the bestselling and award-winning author of ‘An English Affair’, a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century.John Maynard Keynes saved Britain from financial crisis twice over the course of two World Wars, and instructed Western industrialised states on how to protect themselves from revolutionary unrest, economic instability, high unemployment and social dissolution. In the wake of the recent global financial crisis, economists worldwide have once again turned to his ideas to confront their problems.In this entertaining and edifying new biography, Richard Davenport-Hines introduces the man behind the economics; a connoisseur, intellectual, economist, administrator and statesman who was equally at ease socialising with the Bloomsbury Group as he was when influencing the policies of Presidents.By exploring the desires and experiences that made Keynes think as he did, or compelled him to innovate, Davenport-Hines reveals the aesthetic basis of Keynesian economics, and explores why this Great Briton’s ideas continue to instruct and encourage us seventy years after his death.
"John Maynard" und andere Balladen - Hordiamanten (Ungekurzte Lesung)
Автор: Теодор Фонтане
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Wer ist John Maynard? Wenn Sie mehr erfahren wollen, horen Sie Theodor Fontanes Ballade um den mutigen Steuermann John Maynard, gelesen von Christian Rode (die Aufnahme ist ursprunglich erschienen im «Hausschatz deutscher Balladen»). Zusatzlich finden Sie auf diesem Horbuch eine kleine Auswahl bekannter Gedichte und Balladen aus der Feder von des gro?en Realisten, unter anderem auch «Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland» gelesen von Eva Mattes oder «Die zwei Raben» gelesen von Eva Mattes. Inhalt: 1. John Maynard (gelesen von Christian Rode), 2. Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland (gelesen von Eva Mattes), 3. Die Bruck' am Tay (gelesen von Doris Wolters), 4. Der blinde Konig (gelesen von Andreas Frohlich),5. Die zwei Raben (gelesen von Eva Mattes)
The Life & Adventures of Marjorie Maynard – 5 Children's Books in One Volume