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Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Walking to Hollywood is a dazzling triptych — obsessive, satirical, elegiac — in which Will Self burrows down through the intersections of time, place and psyche to explore some of our deepest fears and anxieties with characteristic fearlessness and jagged humour. 'Very Little' is ostensibly the account of a curative journey to Canada and the USA, but in fact the record of a nematode's progress,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Scabrous, vicious and unpleasant in life, Lily Bloom has not been noticeably mellowed by death. She has changed addresses, of course, and now inhabits a basement flat in Dulston — London's borough for those no longer troubled by breathing — but if anything her temperament has worsened. Finding it hard to deal with the (enforced) company of a calcified, pop-obsessed fetus, her dead, foul mouthed…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: When Tom Brodzinski finally decides to give up smoking during a family holiday in a weird, unnamed land, a moment's inattention becomes his undoing. Flipping the butt of his last cigarette off the balcony of the holiday apartment, it lands on the head of the elderly Reggie Lincoln, and burns him. Despite Brodzinski's liberal attitudes and good intentions, the local authorities treat his action as…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: 'As good as anything he has written... one of Self's grisliest creations. There is no contemporary writer of fiction more perceptive about psychosis' — «Financial Times». 'Self's enjoyable, intelligent collection of savage stories is splendidly satiric. The title story is a brilliant novella that tells of dueling psychiatrists who use mental patients as weapons. You laugh, but you also flinch' —…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A portrayal of egos, appetites and addictions. It presents an examination of lives out of control and beyond saving by the pre-eminent chronicler of our neuroses and our times.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 'Self at his most nihilistic and funny; you'll laugh and flinch at the same time' — «Guardian». 'Self has turned out a hilarious collection, with the requisite touch of disorientation. «Flytopia», the story about a man who suddenly finds flies more lovable than his girlfriend, follows the Kafkaesque line Self opened with his recent novel «Great Apes» — man as animal... «Story for Europe», about a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life according to Dave? And, what if Dave had indeed made a mistake? Shuttling between the recent…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. In «The Quantity Theory of Insanity» we learn, amongst other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that London is full of dead people and that each and every human being is caught up in a colossal balancing act between the sane and the insane. «The Quantity Theory of Insanity» is acerbic, satirical,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When the young Ian Wharton first meets Mr Broadhurst, he is completely unaware of the influence he will come to exert over his life as 'The Fat Controller' — a constant companion and confidant and also the obese, erudite manifestation of Ian' s mental illness. As Ian's idea of fun becomes increasingly extreme, the reader is taken to a place where morality is eroded by the dull grind of modernity…