Новинки Эндрю Шона Грира

In the follow-up to the “bedazzling, bewitching, and be-wonderful” (New York Times​) best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America.

«Мы думаем, что знаем тех, кого любим». С этих слов Перли Кук начинает непростой рассказ о тайнах своего супружества на фоне послевоенной Америки 50-х годов. Перли — молодая домохозяйка, жена бывшего военного со слабым сердцем и мама малыша, вскоре после рождения заболевшего полиомиелитом. Однажды на пороге ее дома появляется незнакомец, который переворачивает ее жизнь с ног на голову. Крепкий, казалось бы, брак Перли рушится у нее на глазах — она не способна поверить в то, что никогда до конца не знала собственного мужа. Сможет ли Перли смириться с неожиданным прошлым своего возлюбленного и будет ли готова бороться за его сердце и душу?

Накануне своего пятидесятилетия писатель-неудачник Артур Лишь получает приглашение на свадьбу бывшего, которого до сих пор не разлюбил. Пойти на церемонию слишком неловко, но отсиживаться дома — значит признать поражение. А потому, отыскав запылившиеся приглашения на все самые сомнительные литературные мероприятия, он отправляется в кругосветное путешествие...

Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town? ANSWER: You accept them all. What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm,…

Who says you can't run away from your problems?

You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.

QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?

ANSWER: You accept them all.

What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last.

Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, LESS is, above all, a love story.

A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author The New York Times has hailed as "inspired, lyrical," "elegiac," "ingenious," as well as "too sappy by half," LESS shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.

From the critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Confessions of Max Tivoli comes The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, a rapturously romantic story of a woman who finds herself transported to the “other lives” she might have lived.
After the death of her beloved twin brother and the abandonment of her long-time lover, Greta Wells undergoes electroshock therapy. Over the course of the treatment, Greta finds herself repeatedly sent to 1918, 1941, and back to the present. Whisked from the gas-lit streets and horse-drawn carriages of the West Village to a martini-fueled lunch at the Oak Room, in these other worlds, Greta finds her brother alive and well—though fearfully masking his true personality. And her former lover is now her devoted husband…but will he be unfaithful to her in this life as well? Greta Wells is fascinated by her alter egos: in 1941, she is a devoted mother; in 1918, she is a bohemian adulteress.
In this spellbinding novel by Andrew Sean Greer, each reality has its own losses, its own rewards; each extracts a different price. Which life will she choose as she wrestles with the unpredictability of love and the consequences of even her most carefully considered choices?

После смерти любимого брата и разрыва с давним возлюбленным Грета Уэллс прибегает к радикальному средству для борьбы с депрессией — соглашается на электросудорожную терапию у доктора Черлетти. Но лечение имеет необычный побочный эффект: Грета словно бы переносится из своего 1985 года в другую жизнь, которую могла бы вести с теми же родными и близкими в 1918-м, а потом и в 1941 году. И с каждым сеансом терапии так же путешествуют две «другие» Греты Уэллс — богемная авантюристка из 1918 года, верная жена и мать из 1941-го. В каждой реальности Грету ждут свои награды и утраты, каждая реальность имеет свою цену. Но что случится после…

Перед вами безусловный бестселлер, книга, претендующая на культовость. И вовсе не потому, что сюжет романа навеян песней культового в Америке Боба Дилана. И даже не из-за восторженно-снисходительных отзывов современных классиков от Джона Апдайка до Джона Ирвинга. Хотя лестно, конечно, когда автор «Кентавра» и «Иствикских ведьм» сравнивает тебя, еще не опьяненного славой, а только пригубившего из ее бокала, с Марселем Прустом. И уж вовсе не по причине невольной переклички романа о Максе Тиволи с мотивами Фицджеральда и Набокова. Нет, история о том, как время сыграло злую шутку с человеком, родившимся в теле глубокого старика и физически…

"Wir glauben, die zu kennen, die wir lieben."
Ein Roman über das Geheimnis eines Lebens und die erschütternde Zärtlichkeit der Liebe.
San Francisco: Draußen am Strand glaubt sich Holland sicher hier in seinem kleinen Haus mit seiner Frau Pearlie und dem Sohn. Doch die Vergangenheit klopft an die Tür, und Pearlie begreift, dass sie nur ein Teil in einem Dreieck ist. Drei Außenseiter, die mit ihren Leidenschaften ringen, und ein Gebot von 100.000 Dollar, um dem Leben eine neue Richtung zu geben die Geschichte einer Ehe.
Andrew Sean Greers großartiger Roman entfaltet einen poetischen Sog, dem sich niemand entziehen kann, der schon einmal um ein Herz gekämpft hat darum, es zu kennen, es zu halten oder, notfalls, freizugeben. "Bewegend", urteilte John Updike.

It is 1953, and in San Francisco Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself caring for both her husband’s fragile health and her polio-afflicted son. Then, one Saturday morning someone from her husband’s past appears on their doorstep. His arrival throws all the certainties by which Pearlie has lived into doubt, and she is brought face to face with the desperate measures people are prepared to take to escape the confines of their lives.

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"We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect, and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship--how we can ever truly know another person.

It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful young housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District in San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health, but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep, and everything changes.

"Хроника утраченного времени" в воспоминаниях Макса Тиволи, рожденного стариком и молодеющего с годами! "Век-перевертыш" глазами человека-перевертыша. Трагикомедия о любви и катастрофе. История мифа, обмана и реальности...

'Here is a writer of great daring and originality, who is not afraid of emotion. Max Tivoli may even make you cry.' - Peter Carey

'This is the kind of book that makes you laugh out loud, write notes in the margins and shed tears onto its pages. The Confessions of Max Tivoli is a thing of beauty.' Neil LaBute
Max Tivoli is a narrator like no other, and this is a heartbreaking love story. At his birth, Max has the external physical appearance of an old, dying creature. Max grows older like any child, but his physical age appears to go backward - on the outside a very old man, but inside still a fearful child. When Max is 17, he falls in love with a neighbour girl, Alice, who ages normally. As he gets older, his body grows younger, so each successive time he finds his Alice, she does not recognize him, she takes him for a stranger, and Max is given another chance at love. Set against the backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century, it's tale of love lost then found which achieves an emotional resonance that is unforgettable.