Лучшие книги Джонатана Эймса

Читая Джонатана Эймса, невозможно удержаться от смеха. Его роман - гремучая смесь П.Г.Вудхауса (создателя бессмертной парочки Дживса и Вустера) и этакого американского Венички Ерофеева. Через поток сознания главного героя, молодого писателя, разгильдяя и алкоголика, проступают очертания беззащитной, домашней, очень оранжерейной и очень самобытной Америки. Это - роман-путешествие по штату Нью-Йорк, трогательный и одновременно безжалостный, очаровательный и парадоксальный...

В романе царит сумасшедший ритм Нью-Йорка - фантастического мегаполиса, который смущает, искушает, возносит на небеса наслаждений и свергает на дно невротического ада. Здесь живут два чудака: молодой англоман Луис, мечтающий стать "совершенным джентльменом", и старый светский лев Генри. Они взирают на мир сквозь призму собственной эксцентричности, сдабривая искрометными каламбурами драматизм существования, и развлекаются каждый на свой лад: Генри - в аристократической тусовке среди богатых подруг-леди, а Луис - среди транссексуалов и завсегдатаев пип-шоу.

The Alcoholic

Now a major motion picture starring Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here is a gritty, harrowing story of corruption and one man’s violent quest for vengeance. Movie Tie-in edition. Vintage Original.

Joe has witnessed things that cannot be erased. A former FBI agent and Marine, his abusive childhood has left him damaged beyond repair. He has completely withdrawn from the world and earns his living rescuing girls who have been kidnapped into the sex trade.

When he’s hired to save the daughter of a corrupt New York senator held captive at a Manhattan brothel, he stumbles into a dangerous web of conspiracy, and he pays the price. As Joe’s small web of associates are picked off one by one, he realizes that he has no choice but to take the fight to the men who want him dead.

Brutal and redemptive in equal measure, You Were Never Really Here is a toxic shot of a thriller, laced with corruption, revenge and the darkest of inner demons.

Book Description Alan Blair, the hero of Wake Up, Sir! , is a young, loony writer with numerous problems of the mental, emotional, sexual, spiritual, and physical variety. He's very good at problems. But luckily for Alan, he has a personal

The eponymous and hapless detective Happy Doll returns with a new philosophy and a new case in this second installment of a series “that's a tightly coiled double helix of offbeat humor and unflinching violence” (NYTBR)

Although badly scarred and down to his last kidney after the previous caper, Happy Doll is back in business. When a beguiling young woman turns up at his door, it’s Doll’s past that comes knocking. Mary DeAngelo is searching for her estranged mother, Ines Candle—a singular and troubled woman Doll once loved. The last he’d seen her she’d been near-death: arms slit like envelopes. Although she survived the episode, she vanished shortly thereafter. Now, years later, Mary claims Ines is alive and has recently made contact—messaging her on Facebook and calling her from a burner phone—only to disappear once again. Although his psychoanalyst would discourage it, Doll takes the case, desperate to see Ines again. But as the investigation deepens, there are questions he can’t shake. What’s led the flighty Ines to reappear? Is Mary only relaying half the truth? And who is Mary’s strange and mysterious husband?


In this wholly original follow-up to A MAN NAMED DOLL, Happy travels through L.A., Washington, Oregon and back again—a journey that gets wilder and woolier with each turn. An irreverent and inventive mystery, THE WHEEL OF DOLL is not to be missed.