Найти книгу: "Clown Girl"

Clown Girl lives in Baloneytown, a seedy neighborhood where drugs, balloon animals, and even rubber chickens contribute to the local currency. Against a backdrop of petty crime, she struggles to live her dreams, calling on cultural masters Charlie Chaplin, Kafka, and da Vinci for inspiration. In an effort to support herself and her layabout performance-artist boyfriend, Clown Girl finds herself unwittingly transformed into a «corporate clown,» trapping herself in a cycle of meaningless, high-paid gigs that veer dangerously close to prostitution. Monica Drake has created a novel that riffs on the high comedy of early film stars — most notably Chaplin and W. C. Fields — to raise questions of class, gender, economics, and prejudice. Resisting easy classification, this debut novel blends the bizarre, the humorous, and the gritty with stunning skill.

The books by Elena Fedorova always represent an easy, confidential conversation about life, love, and friendship – about everything which is on everyone’s mind, which is close and clear to every person. All works of the author are created in an integrated manner. Elena persistently follows the path of her search, her success. Simply try not to skim the novel but to think about every word, every phrase. Perhaps, you will find there something new and unknown.

Предлагаем вниманию читателей один из самых известных романов знаменитого немецкого писателя, лауреата Нобелевской премии Генриха Белля (1917 –1985). B книге приводится полный неадаптированный текст романа, снабженный комментариями, словарем и заданиями. Для студентов языков вузов и всех любителей современной немецкой литературы.