Новинки Джозефа Макэлроя

«Плюс» (1977) — пятый роман Джозефа Макэлроя, одного из крупнейших писателей послевоенной литературы США, «Мистера Бескомпромиссного», как его назвал критик Эндрю Эссекс (в первую очередь из-за опус магнум автора, 1192-страничного романа «Женщины и мужчины»). Предыстория сюжета в «Плюсе», как её можно восстановить, такова: инженер, у которого после радиоактивного облучения выявляют рак, решается принять участие в эксперименте — Операции «Travel Light». Его отделённый от тела мозг в капсуле Имп (Исследовательская межпланетная платформа) с названием «Плюс» отправляют на орбиту Земли для проведения экспериментов, связанных с влиянием солнечного света на водоросли.
Но sci-fi рамка романа — это повод поговорить о «репродукции языка», памяти, телесности, любви и утрате. Несмотря на небольшой объем текста, «Плюс» по праву считается одним из самых сложных романов 20 века.

Beginning in childbirth and entered like a multiple dwelling in motion, Women and Men embraces and anatomizes the 1970s in New York from experiments in the chaotic relations between the sexes to the flux of the city itself. Yet through an intricate overlay of scenes, voices, fact, and myth, this expanding fiction finds its way also across continents and into earlier…

Під час війни в Іраку військові знаходять загадкові Сувої, у яких міститься доєвангельська бесіда Ісуса про цінності вільного ринку, і намагаються переслати їх мережею горизонтальних колодязів під палацем Саддама Хусейна, проте несподівана поява постаті на трампліні та вибух змінюють їхні плани... Найновіший роман видатного американського письменника Джозефа…

Written in a voice of passion, warning, and awakening, Joseph McElroy's ninth novel, Cannonball, takes us to a distant war we never understood and have half forgotten upheld by an unearthed new testament and framed by the American competitive psyche; yet always back to a California family, a bold intimacy between brother and sister, and a story of two springboard…

Best known for his complex and beautiful novels - regularly compared to those of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo - Joseph McElroy is equally at home in the short story, having written numerous pieces over the course of his career that now, collected at last, serve as an ideal introduction to one of the most important contemporary American authors.…

Joseph McElroy began his distinguished career in 1966, with "A Smuggler's Bible," hailed in "The New York Times" as a novel of "daring, range, and brilliant subtlety . . . to ignore it would be as shameful an act of blind self-deprivation as that which so many of us performed when "The Recognitions" and "Under the Volcano" were first published." "Actress in the…

With "Lookout Cartridge," Joseph McElroy established a reputation as one of contemporary fiction's foremost innovators and deft observers into the fissures of modern society. It is a novel of dazzling intricacy, absorbing suspense, and the highest ambition: to redeem the great claim of paranoia on the American psyche.
In trying to figure out just who is so threatened by an innocent piece of cinema verité filmed in collaboration with a friend, Cartwright finds himself at the heart of a mystery stretching from New York and London to Corsica and Stonehenge. With each new fact he gathers, both the intricacy of the syndicate arrayed against him and what his search will cost him become alarmingly clear.

Imp Plus, a brain removed from an individual with a wife and child, begins to develop self-awareness as it orbits the earth in a space capsule.

An uninvited guest, entering the empty New York apartment of a man known to intimates as "Dom," proceeds to write for his absent host a curious confession. Its close accounts of friendship since boyhood with two men surely unknown to Dom and certainly to each other is interleaved with the story of Dom himself. This narrative which at first seems beamed from the…

A very tall man resumes his search for a kidnaped child long after the unsolved case has been officially closed. Hind dropped his search when he married. Now, some years later, at the instant the novel opens, he is leaving his apartment to visit his estranged wife Sylvia and his five-year-old daughter May; he wants to live with them. But at his door is a strange old…