Jack Engelhard

Jack Engelhard`s The Days of the Bitter End may well be the definitive word on the 1960s. This is a landmark book, masterfully evocative. Engelhard once again proves himself to be a truly great novelist in this beautifully crafted historical novel that recaptures an era that has left an indelible mark on our culture to this day. Read it and laugh, read it and weep, because it`s all here, the way it was back then, the age of innocence soon to be shattered, but then reborn. This is what it was like to be young, every moment an adventure. Brilliant. Reviews "It`s all here...masterfully written by one of the greatest novelists of our Age. Engelhard brings to bear his journalistic talents as well as matchless storytelling ability to...

Дата выхода: январь 2013

Дата выхода: январь 2013

All the short stories within this memoir illuminate and pack a wallop. They sparkle and shine in Engelhard`s unique minimalist style...prose that is lean, reserved and economical...if there is one word to describe Engelhard`s writing, it would be CHARM. What a gift to those of us who understand the trials and triumphs of growing up. Escape from Mount Moriah ...among the greatest memoirs ever. Torn from their homes in France at the onset of the Nazi invasion, and after a harrowing escape across the Pyrenees, the Engelhard family -- Noah, Ida, Sarah and Jack -- must begin lives as refugees in a new world -- first Canada (Montreal), later the United States. The experiences that shaped young Jack Engelhard were those that profoundly...

Reviewers have called it "powerful" and "brilliant." Newly released for its 25th anniversary edition, Jack Engelhard`s novel Indecent Proposal has found its place alongside such classics as Fitzgerald`s The Great Gatsby and Tolstoy`s Anna Karenina . Indecent Proposal remains one of the most widely-read and discussed novels around the world, due to the strong writing and riches that include a moral dilemma for the ages. The novel was translated into more than 22 languages, and Hollywood produced a mega-hit movie based on this book starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. The novel stands as a remarkable achievement from a great and legendary novelist. Though Hollywood only skimmed the surface of Engelhard`s masterpiece, the theme...

Дата выхода: январь 2013

In his usual hard-edged prose, for which he is internationally famous, bestselling novelist Jack Engelhard ( Indecent Proposal ) draws us into the mind of a compulsive gambler in a work stunningly brilliant and original, and seductively readable. Compulsive is a journey through today, with issues as current as the morning paper, brought to the fore by characters as timeless as the Bible. All this processed through a mind addicted to gambling as surely as others are addicted to heroin. A brisk read by one of America’s most accomplished authors... not to be missed. Jack Engelhard, the last of the Hemingways, is a writer without peer and the conscience of us all. About the Author : Contemporaries have hailed novelist Jack Engelhard...

Дата выхода: январь 2013