Джошуа Феррис — новинки

Named a best book of the year by NPR, Vogue, and the New York Times Book Review, the hilarious and profound new novel from National Book Award finalist Joshua Ferris is “a fine American novel about family, love, and a decent but flawed man trying to be better" (Stephen King). Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare…

Людина всьому хоче знати причину, докопатися до суті, пояснити незбагненне. Тім і Джейн теж хотіли зрозуміти, що відбувається з Тімом, яка хвороба змушує його ходити. Кидати справи, обривати думку на півслові, йти через сніг чи палюче сонце, аж доки не виб’ється з сил. І тоді тільки сподіватися, що він засне в безпечному місці і потім зможе повернутися додому. Хвороба відступає і повертається, лікарі розводять руками, а Тім і Джейн уривають щасливі години, дні, місяці ремісії. Джошуа Ферріс не дає готових відповідей, але спонукає читача до роздумів — хто ми в цьому світі, що нами рухає і куди ми зрештою йдемо?

The first collection of short stories from the critically acclaimed, prize-winning author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling, strange, and comic. The modern tribulations of marriage, ambition, and the fear of missing out as the temptations flow like wine and the minutes of life tick down are explored with the characteristic wit and insight that have made Ferris one of our most critically acclaimed novelists. Each of these stories burrows deep into the often awkward and hilarious misunderstandings that pass between…

No one knows us quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.

With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells a true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment--the one we pretend is normal five days a week.

Эту книгу сравнивают с романами Джозефа Хеллера и Курта Воннегута, отмечая талант автора смешивать иронию, абсурд, тоску и одиночество в таких пропорциях, чтобы создать повествование, которое трогает, увлекает, дает пищу для размышлений. Главный герой, Пол О’Рурк, прекрасный стоматолог, рьяный атеист, фанат бейсбольной команды «Ред Сокс», мизантроп и циник, в один прекрасный день обнаруживает сайт собственной стоматологической клиники. Он никогда ничего подобного не создавал — хотя бы потому, что с Интернетом у него непростые отношения. Дальше — больше. От его имени в Сети появляются разнообразные комментарии религиозного характера о…

Introducing Paul O'Rourke: New Yorker, dentist and reluctant non-believer. Modern life disappoints him, and love never solves any of his problems.

Then someone steals his identity and starts impersonating Paul online. A cruel invasion of privacy, the real horror is yet to come: this virtual 'Paul', preaching an obscure, ancient religion, might just be a better, happier person than the real deal. Anxious to find out who is responsible for this disturbing turn of events, Paul embarks on a quest which will see him confront the meaning of life, the inevitability of death and the importance of good oral hygiene.

Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know how to live in it. He's a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan devastated by their victories, and an atheist not quite willing to let go of God.

Then someone begins to impersonate Paul online, and he watches in horror as a website, a Facebook page, and a Twitter account are created in his name. What begins as an outrageous violation of his privacy soon becomes something more soul-frightening: the possibility that the online "Paul" might be a better version of the real thing. As Paul's quest to learn why his identity has been stolen deepens, he is forced to confront his troubled past and his uncertain future in a life disturbingly split between the real and the virtual.

At once laugh-out-loud funny about the absurdities of the modern world, and indelibly profound about the eternal questions of the meaning of life, love and truth, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is a deeply moving and constantly surprising tour de force.

Paul O'Rourke, 40 year-old slightly curmudgeonly dentist, runs a thriving practice in New York. Yet he is discovering he needs more in his life than a steady income and the perfect mochaccino. But what?

As Paul tries to work out the meaning of life, a Facebook page and Twitter account appear in his name. What's at first an outrageous violation of privacy soon becomes something more frightening: the possibility that the online "Paul" might be a better version of the man in the flesh. Who is doing this and will it cost Paul his sanity?

Джошуа Феррис известен российскому читателю как автор нашумевшего в 2007 году бестселлера «И не осталось никого». Кто-то, впрочем, так и прошёл мимо автора, отмеченного самим Стивеном Кингом, — и совершенно напрасно. Появился шанс исправить это упущение — впервые на русском выходит другой роман Ферриса — «Безымянное». В этой книге автор предстаёт перед читателям в ином свете: он всё так же точно подмечает детали, но в «Безымянном» резкость и глубина этих деталей усилены. Мы смотрим на мир глазами главного героя, преуспевающего юриста, обречённого умереть от неизвестной болезни и на пороге смерти от непонятно чего судорожно пересматривающего…

No one knows us quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.

With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells a true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment - the one we pretend is normal five days a week.

In an America gone awry with strange weather, New York lawyer Tim Farnsworth suffers a peculiar affliction: the inability to stop walking. While his wife, Jane, struggles to keep their family together in the face of the unfathomable, Tim alone must battle to survive pitiless surroundings, encounters with hostile strangers, and the unrelenting demands of his own body. These challenges force Tim to ask life's most pressing questions, which he answers in a final return on foot across country to reunite with his wife and daughter.
Stripped of all defences, and the sense of hope that lies at the very heart of the American dream, Farnsworth is compelled to confront the terrifying reality of what it is to be a human being.

What drives a man to stay in a marriage, in a job? What forces him away? Is love or conscience enough to overcome the darker, stronger urges of the natural world? The Unnamed is a deeply felt, luminous novel about modern life, ancient yearnings, and the power of human understanding.

During their 20-year marriage, Tim and Jane Farnsworth have savored the fruits of his labor as a high-powered lawyer: they live in a beautiful home, they travel on exotic vacations, they don’t worry about money. Tim has battled a bizarre, inexplicable illness, but those episodes, while not exactly forgotten, have passed. Then it comes back, causing him to behave in a frighteningly new way, driving him out of his life and into a world and a self that he can’t recognize and Jane is helpless to control. How far will he go to fight his body’s incomprehensible desires, and what will they both risk to find the way back to the people they love?

A heartbreaking story of family and marriage, a meditation on the unseen forces of nature and desire, The Unnamed is a deeply felt, luminous novel about modern life, ancient yearnings, and the power of human connection.

Представьте себе: Чикаго, преуспевающее рекламное агентство, вы идете по коридору, а вам навстречу улыбающийся сотрудник с аккуратно вырезанной на футболке дырой. Вы идете дальше, и вдруг некто в костюме клоуна стреляет вам в сердце из пистолета. Понарошку, конечно, не пулями, а красящими шариками для пейнтбола, но вас-то он об этом не предупредил. Вот такая обстановка в этом романе. В общем-то, оно и понятно - чтобы окончательно не свихнуться среди стандартных стеклянных клеток современной американской фабрики по производству рекламных ценностей, нужно или изначально быть психом, или умело таким прикидываться. Об этом и повествует замечательный роман молодого американца Джошуа Ферриса, который другой американец, небезысвестный нам Стивен Кинг, по абсурдности ситуаций сравнил с "Уловкой-22" Джозефа Хеллера, и был абсолютно прав.

No one knows us quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.

With a demon’s eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells a true and funny story about survival in life’s strangest environment–the one we pretend is normal five days a week.

They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues.
There's Chris Yop, who is clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl Garbedian, secretly taking someone else's medication; Marcia Dwyer, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, who's just - well, just Benny. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water-cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them.

THEN WE CAME TO THE END is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. It's the story of your life, and mine.