Томас Макгуэйн – лучшие книги

«Шандарахнутое пианино» (1971) — второй роман Макгуэйна, который завоевал престижную награду фонда Ричарда и Хилды Розенталей и принес автору славу великого абсурдиста. Виртуозным языком, играя словами и пересыпая повествование шутками высочайшей пробы, Макгуэйн рассказывает нам историю Николаса Болэна - молодого человека, совсем отбившегося от рук. Роман этот — «дорожная» пикареска, потому что наш герой, нормальный американский фрик, отправляется странствовать по стране в зеленом «хадсон-хорнете» в погоне за юной миллионершей, жаждущей «реального опыта», в обществе двойного ампутанта, одержимого строительством по всей стране башен для…

A superb collection of stories—his first in twenty years—from one of our most acclaimed literary figures, whom The New York Times Book Review has called “a writer of the first magnitude.”

Тiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West to take up a more wholesome life. But things fester in America's utter South. And Skelton's plans to become a skiff guide in the shining blue subtropical waters place him on a collision course with Nichol Dance, who has risen to the crest of the profession by dint of infallible instincts and a reputation for homicide. Out of their deadly rivalry, Thomas McGuane has constructed a novel with the impetus of a thriller and the heartbroken humor that is his distinct contribution to American prose.

An American odyssey - one man's picaresque quest for his roots and his rightful inheritance, involving sex, slapstick violence and romance. The author's previous novels include "The Sporting Club" and "The Bushwacked Piano", and he has also written a collection of short stories.

Thomas McGuane’s first short story collection; 13 stories of great range, verve and humor.

Patrick Fitzpatrick is a former soldier, a fourth-generation cowboy, and a whiskey addict. His grandfather wants to run away to act in movies, his sister wants to burn the house down, and his new stallion is bent on killing him: all of them urgently require attention. But increasingly Patrick himself is spiraling out of control, into that region of romantic misadventure and vanishing possibilities that is Thomas McGuane’s Montana. Nowhere has McGuane mapped that territory more precisely — or with such tenderhearted lunacy — than in Nobody’s Angel, a novel that places him in a genre of his own.

In life Lucien Taylor has made several mistakes, but the two most grievous are as follows: leaving his wife and son to take up with his old flame, Emily; and putting up Emily’s bail when she is arrested for murder. The upshot is that Lucien is left stranded in Montana, with a malodorous hot spring and a squandered sense of purpose. As told by Thomas McGuane, Lucien’s attempt to recoup his losses makes for a funny, rueful, and beautifully rendered portrait of American manhood on the rocks–a book that says volumes about the lives of dogs and falcons, the yearnings of sons for fathers, and the skeptical truce that men and women sometimes reach when they get tired of fighting.