Уокер Перси – лучшие книги

Потомок новоорлеанского плантатора по имени Ланселот совершает зловещее и загадочное убийство. И хотя мотив вроде ясен — ведь жертвами пали жена главного героя и ее любовник, — мы не разберемся в случившемся, пока не выслушаем сумасбродно-вдохновенную исповедь убийцы.

Произведение Уокера Перси, великого американского писателя, которого вы до сих пор не читали и о котором даже не слышали, впервые публикуется на русском языке. «Ланселот», вызвавший яростные споры западных критиков, — это философский роман в упаковке «черного детектива».

This elegantly written account of a young man's search for signs of purpose in the universe is one of the great existential texts of the postwar era and is really funny besides. Binx Bolling, inveterate cinemaphile, contemplative rake and man of the periphery, tries hedonism and tries doing the right thing, but ultimately finds redemption (or at least the prospect of it) by taking a leap of faith and quite literally embracing what only seems irrational.

Dr. Tom More has created a stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he embarks on an unforgettable odyssey to cure mankind's spiritual flu. This novel confronts both the value of life and its susceptibility to chance and ruin.

This is the story of an unusual relationship that helps restore two struggling people to a new life: Will Barrett, a depressed widower, and Allison, the girl in the greenhouse who has just escaped from a mental institution.

The 1990s. Euthanasia and quarantines for AIDS have become the norm. But can even this world sanction a substance that "improves" people's behavior and so reduces crime, unemployment and teen pregnancy?

Will Barrett is a 25-year-old wanderer from the South living in New York City, detached from his roots and with no plans for the future - until the purchase of a telescope sets off a romance and changes his lifeforever.