Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: When dream husband Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system — one among many to be found in these pages. We are introduced to the inverted worlds of the yellow journalist, Clint Smoker; the high priest of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Summer 1970 — a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, and the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing — twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel — is struggling to twist feminism and the rise of women…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 396 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 275) Аннотация: Lionel Asbo — a very violent but not very successful young criminal — is going about his morning duties in a London prison when he learns that he has just won GBP139,999,999.50 on the National Lottery. This is not necessarily good news for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Des Pepperdine, who still has reason to fear his uncle's implacable vengeance. Savage, funny, and mysteriously poignant,…
Скачать книгу (размер 549 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 109) Аннотация: Dans un bar enfumé à Londres, deux scénaristes s'escriment à peaufiner leur texte, tandis qu'à Hollywood les grosses machines du marketing éditorial s'affairent pour lancer sur le marché mondial le nouveau sonnet d'un poète anglais — un producteur songe même à en faire un remake! Comment faire bonne figure lors d'une course à pied dans…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. «House of Meetings» is about one such liaison. It is a triangular romance: two brothers fall in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: »Koba the Dread» is the successor to Martin Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It is largely political (while remaining personal). It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin:…