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.
Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, at the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star, running three hundred hangovers a year and a sex life that would cripple Casanova. Women is a riotous and uncompromisingly vivid account of life on the edge.