Llewellyn Robert Livres

"These photographs of the capital of the New World shown not only the Washington of today, but the essential Washington that may remain throughout the eternal tomorrows."--Flaptext

Nina Nash is thirty-three when she decides the time has finally come to sort out her annoying little brother. Little brother Jason is thirty now and a failed dot.commer; Nina, who works for a high tech research company, is going to work out at last what makes Jason tick. She's going to stick a microchip under his skin and, literally, read his emotions on her computer screen. The experiment is more successful than Nina ever could have hoped. And the results of the experiment more astonishing...

Two posh girls, Gresham and Eupheme, are sitting on a train at Milton Keynes station when they see a trainspotter: a pathetic, badly-dressed saddo with a terrible haircut and a worse anorak. The two are half-sisters and have always fought: now their argument rages over the trainspotter. Is he doomed to eternal nerdiness or could he be taught to appreciate the finer things in life? Eupheme bets he can: in time for Gresham's engagement party she will have transformed him into a man that her sister would want to sleep with.

A collection of photographs portrays the cities, towns, countryside, and social life of Pennsylvania

Miles, a computer programmer and obsessive cyclist, made tons of money in Silicon Valley but it means nothing to him since he can no longer feel any kind of emotion. Anna, a German car designer can't find a reason to stop sleeping. The two have nothing in common except a radical trauma therapist.

Taková socka, ani k politování už není, stojí na nástupišti a zapisuje si čísla projíždějících vlaků, kdo by si ho všiml…? Všimnou si ho dvě nevlastní sestry z nóbl anglických kruhů. Sedí ve vlaku, který má porouchanou lokomotivu, a z nudy se hádají. Když dojde na vize společenského uspořádání-jedna hlásá možnost proměny člověka v lepšího, druhá jeho determinovanost-rozhodnou se mladíka z nástupiště využít pro praktický experiment. Od té doby se život Ianovi promění tak, že ho sám nepoznává. Náhle je v péči bohaté mladé dívky Eupheme, která se stará o jeho šatník, žaludek, peněženku i vzdělání a snad by neodmítla stát se i jeho milenkou. Jenže to by tu nesměla být její sestra Grasham, která v předtuše prohry onen poslední krok učiní sama, a to v předvečer vlastní svatby s notně noblesním, avšak už teď zjevně nevyhovujícím ženichem.