Ранняя осень. История одной леди

V starynnom osobnyake Pentland‑Khaus na stenakh beskonechnoy galerey vysyat portrety surovykh predstavyteley vysshego obshchestva Novoy Anglyy. To byly ystynnye vlastytely goroda Darema y ego okrugy, nedostyzhymye v svoyom velychyy. Nyneshnee pokolenye semeystva Pentlandov yzo vsekh syl staraetsya sokhranyt etu reputatsyyu, odnako ykh myr stremytelno prykhodyt v upadok. Olyvyy Pentland vot‑vot yspolnytsya sorok let. Ona s trudom terpyt svoego chopornogo muzha, ykh syn neyzlechymo bolen, a doch vlyublena v yunoshu, kotoryy polzuetsya durnoy slavoy. Olyvyya oshchushchaet, chto osen eyo zhyzny uzhe nastupyla, a vskore prydyot y zyma. Uspeet ly ona uznat, chto takoe nastoyashchee schaste? Vozmozhno, otvet na etot vopros znaet eyo kuzyna, derzkaya, ekstravagantnaya, ryzhevolosaya Sabyna Kellender, vnezapno vernuvshayasya yz Evropy…Roman yzvestnogo amerykanskogo pysatelya Luysa Bromfylda «Rannyaya osen» byl opublykovan v 1926 godu y prynyos avtoru mezhdunarodnuyu slavu. Spustya god roman byl nagrazhdyon Pulyttserovskoy premyey. Vpervye na russkom!

In the old Pentland House mansion, portraits of rugged New England high society hang on the walls of an endless gallery. These were the true rulers of the city of Durham and its surroundings, unattainable in their greatness. The current generation of the Pentland family is trying their best to preserve this reputation, but their world is rapidly declining. Olivia Pentland is about to turn forty. She can hardly stand her prim husband, their son is terminally ill, and their daughter is in love with a notorious young man. Olivia feels that the autumn of her life has already arrived, and soon winter will come. Will she have time to learn what true happiness is? Perhaps her cousin, the brash, extravagant, red-haired Sabine Callender, who suddenly returned from Europe, knows the answer to this question.…The novel "Early Autumn" by the famous American writer Louis Bromfield was published in 1926 and brought the author international fame. A year later, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. For the first time in Russian!