Издания и произведения

Американский писатель Джонатан Троппер - автор пяти романов, в числе которых мировой бестселлер "Дальше живите сами". Ему удается писать о серьезных вещах легко, иронично и в то же время проникновенно. Книги Троппера - о поиске себя и позднем взрослении, о попытках примириться с потерей близких и найти любовь - полны гомерически смешных сцен и искрометных диалогов. Герой "Книги Джо" - незадачливый молодой писатель, прославившийся разоблачительным романом о своем родном городе. Джо уверен, что никогда туда не вернется, но однажды ему приходится это сделать и взглянуть в глаза своим персонажам.

Fifteen years after leaving sleepy bush falls, Connecticut, Joe Goffman wrote a savage bestselling novel about his hometown. The book went on to become a hit movie, making Joe a pariah in the Falls, which was fine with him, since he never planned on going back. But when a family tragedy strikes, Joe is left with no choice. His return ignites a maelstrom of hostility among the town's still enraged residents. As Joe walks the familiar streets of his childhood, he revisits the terrible events of his senior year of high school, and the heartbreak and catastrophe from which he's never fully recovered. After almost two decades of hiding from it,…

Joe Goffman's vicious first novel has savaged the reputation of Bush Falls. When a family emergency summons him back to the town he left 17 years ago, he's not surprised at the welcome he receives: milk-shakes thrown in his face, copies of his novel pelting his house and violent threats to blow up his shiny new Mercedes. But the more Bush Falls resents Joe, the more it becomes obvious that Joe cannot turn his back on Bush Falls. As he walks along the familiar streets, memories return to haunt him with a vengeance - about a secret love affair, an old friendship and a tragic death. Now, decades later, Joe has to face his past without…