Max Nemtsov Books

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova. With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to "Post Office" and "Factotum" is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his…

Самые неоднозначные и популярные произведения знаменитого Олдоса Хаксли. Работы, ставшие своеобразным интеллектуальным манифестом для поклонников психоделической культуры бурных шестидесятых. Ими восхищались Карлос Кастанеда и Тимоти Лири, Кен Кизи и Джим Моррисон. Они повлияли на умы сотен тысяч «сердитых молодых людей», искавших новый смысл бытия. Их смысл и суть — поиски идеальных путей расширения сознания.