Клэнси Сигал – лучшие книги

The hero and narrator of this warm, hilarious, and satiric odyssey into the hospital cor- ridors and mentalities of established madness, is a Chicago writer fed up with America and exiled in London. Urged by his friends to seek psycho- therapy to break his writer's block. Bell begins the journey into his zone of the interior" and the world of the charismatic, miracle-making Scottish guru Dr. Willie Last, who deliberately thrusts him over the edge into schizophrenia. Willie Last is also a Western lm fan, and needs Sid Bell to be his sidekick in the Gun ght at OK Corral" fantasies he indulges in. At Meditation Manor. A free-for-all schizophrenic circus, Bell finally penetrates the spiritual ionosphere of Fashionable lunacy with some of the goo er sorts of mysticism Su sm. Gypsy palm reading. And even as an urban shaman" with healing powers. In practice. It is overrun by zany Americans who turn the church into a mixture of Laugh ln" and HeIlzapoppin'.

Mid- 20th century Hollywood; 'Raymond Chandler's LA before Pilates and cell phones'. Clancy Sigal (who would later be the inspiration for Doris Lessing's 'Saul Green') is just back from fighting in the Second World War and an abortive solo attempt to assassinate Hermann Goering at the Nurenburg trials.Charming his way into a job as an agent with the Sam Jaffe agency, Sigal plunges into a chaotic Hollywood peopled by fast women, washed-up screenwriters, wily directors, and starstruck FBI agents trailing 'subversives'. He parties with the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Tony Curtis and an anxious Peter Lorre, who becomes a drinking buddy.But this is the era of the Hollywood Blacklist and Sigal, like many of his contemporaries, is subpoenaed to testify before the HUAC. Will he give up the list of nine names, burning a hole in his pocket, to save his own skin?Hilarious, touching, intimate and revealing: Sigal’s memoir reads like a forgotten hardboiled detective novel and has all the makings of an instant classic.

The year is 1956, and a blacklisted Hollywood agent sets off on a cross-country adventure from Los Angeles to New York City. Along the way—stopping at bars, all-night restaurants, and gas stations—the twenty-nine-year-old narrator, at once egotistical and compassionate, barrels across the “blue highways” to meet, fight with, love, and hate old comrades and girlfriends, collecting their stories and reflecting on his own life experiences.


Driven by probing stream-of-consciousness prose and brutally honest self-analysis, Going Away is a sprawling autobiographical journey into a kaleidoscope of American mindsets; most significantly, that of its radical narrator. Crammed with acute social and political observations, this urgent novel captures the spirit of its times, so remarkably like that of today.