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Lt. Colonel Nathan Serling (Denzel Washington) unterläuft ein verhängnisvoller Irrtum - im Kampfgefecht jagt er einen Panzer seiner eigenen Division in die Luft und verschuldet so den Tod seiner Kameraden. Der Vorfall wird von den Militärbehörden als glorreicher Heldentod vertuscht und Serling ein hochbrisanter Pentagon-Auftrag übertragen, er soll die Anwärterschaft der Hubschrauber-Pilotin Karen Walden (Meg Ryan) auf eine Ehrenmedaille für i...

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A bolt from an Aero México DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a Mexican girl and throwing the faith of a young American Jesuit into crisis. Jamey van Zandt's mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed anger that he only unlashes once a year when he suicidally duels the Fate, God or Power who let the coincidence happen. A young woman, Risa McKeig, runs through the streets of Seattle searching for a "shooting star moment" ...

The children in the Chance family have taken precociousness to an entirely new plane, becoming seers of their parents' frustrations.

Das Staatsgefängnis Cold Mountain im US-Staat Georgia, Anfang der dreißiger Jahre: Seit vielen Jahren leitet der umsichtige Oberaufseher Paul Edgecomb den berüchtigten Block E - den Todestrakt. Doch als ihm der hünenhafte schwarze Häftling John Coffey überstellt wird, beschleichen Edgecomb zum ersten Mal Zweifel an seinem Job: Denn den verängstigten Riesen umweht eine geheimnisvolle Aura, der sich schon bald im Block E keiner mehr entziehen ka...

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Discussing authorial power, landscape metaphor and the notions of community and sense of place, this explores the ways in which spatial and cultural analysis have found much common ground in making sense of ourselves and the landscape we inhabit.

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Since its publication in 1983, THE RIVER WHY has become a classic. David James Duncan's sweeping novel is a coming-of-age comedy about love, nature, and the quest for self-discovery, written in a voice as distinct and powerful as any in American letters. Gus Orviston is a young fly fisherman who leaves behind his comically schizoid family to find his own path. Taking refuge in a remote cabin, he sets out in pursuit of the Pacific Northwest's e...

In his passionate, luminous novels, David James Duncan has won the devotion of countless critics and readers, earning comparisons to Harper Lee, Tom Robbins, and J.D. Salinger, to name just a few. Now Duncan distills his remarkable powers of observation into this unique collection of short stories and essays. At the heart of Duncan's tales are characters undergoing the complex and violent process of transformation, with results both painful an...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Once in a great while a writer comes along who can truly capture the drama and passion of the life of a family. David James Duncan, author of the novel The River Why and the collection River Teeth, is just such a writer. And in The Brothers K he tells a story both striking and in its originality and poignant in its universality. This touching, uplifting novel spans decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in th...

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This touching, uplifting novel spans decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. Here there is a father whose dreams of glory on a baseball field are shattered by a mill accident, a mother who clings obsessively to a religion as a ward against the darkest hour of her past, and four brothers who come of age during the seismic upheavals of the sixties and who each choose their own way to deal with what the worl...

This touching, uplifting novel spans decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. Here there is a father whose dreams of glory on a baseball field are shattered by a mill accident, a mother who clings obsessively to a religion as a ward against the darkest hour of her past, and four brothers who come of age during the seismic upheavals of the sixties and who each choose their own way to deal with what the worl...

This book is the "Desert Solitaire of water."--Jim Harrison"Original, skillful, and funny as hell."--Ian Frazier"My Story as told by Water "is the real McCoy, vivid and important, full of urgent news about living on earth."--Thomas McGuane

Alone among important American writers, Ambrose Bierce fought for four years in the Civil War. The writings he produced about that conflict comprise a body of work unique in our nation's literature. This volume gathers for the first time virtually everything Bierce wrote about the war, from letters composed on the field of battle to maps he drew as a topographical engineer, from his masterful short stories to his final bittersweet ruminations ...