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In this lively anthology of 21 stories and one classic poem about football, fathers and sons tackle their issues, coaches and quarterbacks collide, and ordinary heroes emerge from the blitz.

Dva bratři spolu se svou půvabnou sestrou postupně opuštějí domov a každý po svém se snaží postavit na vlastní nohy. Nejstarší bratr, pýcha rodičů, se uplatnil jako podnikatel a myslí jen na svou kariéru, druhý nejprve zápasí jako boxer a později se všelijak protlouká na hranici zákona a jejich sestra se po trpké zkušenosti pohybuje v luxusním polosvětě. Závěrem románu dochází ke konfrontaci osudů všech sourozenců a tragická a zbytečná smrt dává rozhřešení jednomu z nich.

Průřezem z celoživotní tvorby se po dvaceti letech opět setkáváme s povídkami Irwina Shawa. Třetinu výboru osmnácti próz oblíbeného autora znají naši čtenáři z knih: Sázka na mrtvého žokeje a Láska v temné ulici. Všechny příběhy charakterizuje Shawův chápavý humor, hluboký humanismus, znalost lidské psychiky a čiré potěšení, jež povídky čtenáři přinášejí.

New York Times Bestseller: A provocative novel about one man’s struggle with courage and his conscience at the height of McCarthyism. Clement Archer, head of a popular radio show, faces a profound dilemma: Five of his employees stand accused of being communists, and a magazine threatens disclosure unless Archer fires each and every one. Despite his efforts to meet his own moral standards and avoid self-incrimination, Archer finds himself hounded from both ends of the political spectrum for his seemingly righteous actions. The Troubled Air, Irwin Shaw’s second novel, was published immediately before the author moved to Europe, where he lived for the next twenty-five years. The story remains a powerful portrayal of a good, decent man ensnared by the hysteria and cruelty of a dark period in American history.

8 spannende verhalen, samengesteld en voorzien van een inleiding door de master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock.De verhalen:Mannichons oplossing (Irwin Shaw); Gratis grond (Charles Beaumont); Opruimingsdienst (Robert Sheckley); De indringer (Richard Matheson); Niet na middernacht (Daphne du Maurier); De erfenis van Peabody (August Derleth); De medepassagier (Chelsea Quinn Yarbro); De fatale groet (Ann Mackenzie).

La turbulenta familia Jordache, centro argumental de la novela, representa los Estados Unidos de la posguerra, desde las neurosis colectivas de la época McCarthy hasta el boom que siguió a la depresión johnsoniana. Hombre rico, hombre pobre sirvió de argumento para la inolvidable serie de televisión del mismo título.

nº 06 y 07, edicion 1983, traduccion de J. Ferrer Aleu, 685 paginas, tapa dura

Abreise und Heimkehr - bk960; Albrecht Knaus Verlag; Irwin Shaw; Paperback; 1985

Cover artist: A. Pedro Ironically, for Gilbert Snook who considered himself the human equivalent of a neutrino, a particle able to travel through the Earth without disturbing any other particle it all started with the panic that followed the sighting of the anti neutrino planet as it approached Earth. Earth was unaffected but Snook ended up in a small African Republic teaching English to diamond miners. Then the miners started seeing ghosts and Snook found himself at the centre of a bizarre and far reaching scientific discovery and in the middle of some very dirty political infighting.

Cover artist: A. Pedro

Роджер Деймон, un hombre bueno y honorable, recibe una llamada telefónica de un desconocido que lo llama "chico malo" y lo involucra en una aterradora carrera contra el tiempo y una lucha contra el mal irracional.

The Stands are a self-reliant family in New York City. Far from wealthy they are still reasonably content with their life until one night when their teenage daughter helps a wealthy and lonely Wall Street lawyer. Out of gratitude the lawyer showers the family with gifts and money. The Strands find their lives altered and not necessarily for the best.

Een succesvol zakenman tracht de verveling te verdrijven door een skivakantie. De ziekte van een hoteleigenaar en een verhouding met diens labiele echtgenote veranderen zijn levenshouding.

Michael Storr's joy comes from physical danger as a parachutist, a surfer, a hang glider, a free faller, a reckless skier. Oppressed by his life in New York City, he feels choked by his career as an executive in a high powered office as an executive in a high powered office, choked by the airless world of air conditioned towers. His own sanity depends on his finding a purer, simpler, more vigorous existence, and he sets out to search for one, even though he loses his wife in the process. He finds the physical excitement he craves but along with it developments he has not contempated. For some of the personal relationships in which he becomes entangled prove as threatening as the most dangerous of his sports.

A short-story collection dramatizing the author's views of the human condition

A dead man’s briefcase presents a down-on-his-luck pilot with the chance of a lifetime. Pilot Douglas Grimes’s best days are long behind him. Grounded due to a medical condition, Douglas has resigned himself to menial work as a desk clerk at a seedy hotel. But his fortune flips when he discovers a hotel guest dead from a heart attack and, next to him, a tube jammed with hundred-dollar bills. Douglas grabs the money and, with it, the chance to remake his life. In Europe, he meets Miles Fabian, an elegant and erudite con man with a flair for extravagance. Fabian recruits him for his latest ploy: robbing members of the idle rich. But what will happen when his bad behavior catches up with him?

"GOD WAS HIER, MAAR HIJ GING VROEG WEG OMDAT HIJ ER GEEN BROOD MEER INZAG" is een boek van Shaw. Het is uitgegeven door Reed Business. Deze editie verscheen in 1974. De vertaling is verzorgd door R. KLIPHUIS. Dit werk telt 173 pagina's. Het is geschreven in het Nederlands.

Одно из лучших произведений Ирвина Шоу. Не просто роман, который лег в основу знаменитых сериалов. Не просто "золотой эталон" семейной сани и современной англоязычной "психологической беллетристики"

One of Irwin Shaw's most unforgettable heroes battles to resurrect his declining career against a tough cast of women, whiskey, and old memories Jesse Crain was made for Cannes. A middle-aged filmmaker who dazzled audiences during Hollywood's Golden Age, Crain is talented, worldly, ambitious, and he knows how to play the game. As the Riviera sparkles in the spring of 1970, Crain juggles industry players while charming a persistent young journalist and fending off groupies. Beneath his polished exterior, though, Crain's life is coming apart at the seams. His last two films flopped, and for several years he's been adrift. Now desperate to reignite his career, a hit at any price feels like his only salvation. "Evening in Byzantium" is a masterwork that brilliantly documents a man's precipitous slide--along with that of his industry--from independence toward cynical mediocrity. It is a timeless story of a determined character grappling with the nature of success and power. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate.

A beautiful Italian girl, a one-time movie idol turned NATO diplomat, a violent, talented young American writer, a once-famous movie director, all come together in Rome in an attempt to salvage a movie and escape the demands of lives they are afraid to face.

Povídky zachycují atmosféru padesátých let v Americe a v Evropě, ukazují problémy bývalých letců silně poznamenaných válkou, problémy milostné a problémy lidí žijících ve vymoženostech americké civilizace.

Stejné IBSN jako vydání z roku 1995, jiná obálka, měkké, brožované vydání.

Tento román sa odohráva v napätom, vzrušujúcom prostredí medzinárodného sveta filmu - peniaze, úspechy, moc, rivalita - ústrednou postavou je Jack Andrus, predtým slávny filmový herec, v posledných rokoch - pre zranenie z druhej svetovej vojny, ktoré mu znemožnilo ďalšiu hereckú kariéru - radový zamestnanec NATO v Paríži.

Die jungen Löwen, das sind 1939 die jungen Soldaten, die voll Mut, Entschlossenheit und Tatendrang auf die Schlachtfelder Europas und Afrikas ziehen, die töten und zerstören, weil man es ihnen befiehlt und weil sie glauben, es für eine gerechte Sache zu tun. Manchem ist der Krieg das große Abenteuer, die Chance zur Befriedigung des persönlichen Ehrgeizes, vielen wird er zur Bewährungsprobe, nur wenige erleben ihn als "Aufbruch der Nation". Je länger der Krieg dauert, je grausamer er wird, desto mehr verblassen die großen Worte ..

Wesley, haunted by his father's murder, begins a strange and deeply personal quest; Billy becomes involved with a girl who leads him into unexpected dangers; Gretchen finds new challenges and experiences a remarkable twist to her life. Moving between Europe and America, "Beggarman, Thief" is a brilliant novel chronicling the fortunes of one family - the joys, sorrows, successes and failures. This is not only the gripping sequel to Irwin Shaw's bestselling "Rich Man, Poor Man", but also an outstanding novel in its own right.

The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other novelist has since, the scope, confusion, and complexity of war.