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Semeĭnyĭ roman, khronika roda Likhtov ot talantlivoĭ avanti͡uristki vosemnadt͡satogo veka Sary Likht do besslavnogo kont͡sa ėtogo roda v tridt͡satye gody veka dvadt͡satogo.Abrakham, patriarkh semeĭstva, vyrastil i slepil po svoemu obrazu i podobii͡u t͡selyĭ vyvodok odarennykh moshennikov, zhulikov i ubiĭt͡s, znatokov Igry, kak on nazyvaet svoi͡u zhiznennui͡u filosofii͡u. Puteshestvui͡a po Amerike, oni masterski obvodi͡at vokrug palʹt͡sa doverchivykh zhertv, igrai͡a na ikh porokakh - zhadnosti, pokhotlivosti, chvanstve.Abrakham vovlekaet svoi͡u semʹi͡u vo vse bolee zaputannye i ėffektnye avanti͡ury, no v kont͡se kont͡sov tshchatelʹno podgotovlennye makhinat͡sii rushatsi͡a, i on s glubokim razocharovaniem obnaruzhivaet, chto semeĭnye uzy okazyvai͡utsi͡a stolʹ zhe nenadezhnymi, skolʹ ego plany po naduvatelʹstvu naivnykh chuzhakov.Porazitelʹnai͡a izobretatelʹnostʹ, burnyĭ potok fantazii zavorazhivaet chitateli͡a romana 'Ispovedʹ moego serdt͡sa'...Deĭli telegrafRaskovannoe do bezrassudnosti, nichem ne sderzhivaemoe voobrazhenie. Dzhoĭs Kėrol Outs voskhishchaet... Ona polnostʹi͡u otdaetsi͡a svoemu tvorenii͡u. Ee roman napisan na redkostʹ plotnoĭ, bogatoĭ, iskusno vystroennoĭ prozoĭ...Sandi telegrafV 'Ispovedi moego serdt͡sa' Outs demonstriruet velikolepnoe sochetanie ironii, ėkst͡sentrichnosti i si͡uzhetnoĭ izobretatelʹnosti.San-Frant͡sisko kroniklDzhoĭs Kėrol Outs - amerikanskai͡a pisatelʹnit͡sa, prozaik, poėtessa, dramaturg, kritik. Laureat Nat͡sionalʹnoĭ Knizhnoĭ Premii, ee romany byli nominirovany na Pulitt͡serovskui͡u premii͡u. Svoi͡u pervui͡u knigu vypustila v 1963 godu i s tekh por opublikovala bolee pi͡atidesi͡ati romanov, bolʹshoe kolichestvo rasskazov, stikhov i dokumentalʹnoĭ prozy. Zasluzhiv reputat͡sii͡u plodovitogo avtora, ona byla odnim iz vedushchikh amerikanskikh romanistov s 60-kh godov. Takzhe pisala pod psevdonimami Rozamund Smit i Loren Kelli.

A family novel, a chronicle of the Licht family from the talented eighteenth-century adventurer Sarah Licht to the inglorious end of this family in the thirties of the twentieth century.Abraham, the patriarch of the family, raised and molded in his image a whole brood of gifted swindlers, crooks and murderers, experts in the Game, as he calls his philosophy of life. Traveling across America, they masterfully deceive gullible victims, playing on their vices - greed, lust, swagger.Abraham engages his family in increasingly intricate and spectacular adventures, but in the end, the carefully prepared machinations fall apart, and he is deeply disappointed to find that the family ties are as unreliable as his plans to deceive naive outsiders.Amazing ingenuity, a rapid flow of fantasy fascinates the reader of the novel "Confessions of my Heart"...The Daily Telegraph has a reckless, unrestrained imagination. Joyce Carol Oates is admirable... She gives herself completely to her creation. Her novel is written in extremely dense, rich, artfully constructed prose...Sunday Telegraph's 'Confessions of My Heart' Oates shows a great combination of irony, eccentricity and plot ingenuity.San Francisco Chroniclejoys Carol Oates is an American novelist, novelist, poet, playwright, and critic. Winner of the National Book Award, her novels have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She published her first book in 1963 and has since published more than fifty novels, a large number of short stories, poems,and nonfiction. Earning a reputation as a prolific author, she has been one of America's leading novelists since the ' 60s. She also wrote under the pseudonyms Rosamund Smith and Lauren Kelly.