Последние издания книг Дениса Джонсона

Это история Шкипа Сэндса — шпиона, сотрудника Отдела психологических операций, действующего во Вьетнаме,— и всех тех несчастий, которые ждут его из-за знаменитого дяди Шкипа, ветерана войны, известного в кругах разведки просто как Полковник. А еще это история братьев Хьюстон, Билла и Джеймса, которых судьба занесла из аризонской пустыни на войну, где грань между дезинформацией и умопомешательством окончательно размылась и отделить правду от иллюзии практически невозможно. Это история тайных организаций, безумия джунглей и бесконечного одиночества, не похожая ни на что в современной американской литературе.

‘In this land of chaos and despair, all I can do is wish for magic armour and the power to disappear.’
Freetown, Sierra Leone. A city of heat and dirt, of guns and militia. Alone in its crowded streets, Captain Roland Nair has been given a single assignment. He must find Michael Adriko – maverick, warrior, and the man who has saved Nair's life three times and risked it many more.
The two men have schemed, fought and profited together in the most hostile regions of the world. But on this new level – espionage, state secrets, treason – their loyalties will be tested to the limit.
This is a brutal journey through a land abandoned by the future – a journey that will lead them to meet themselves not in a new light, but in a new darkness.

Соединяя в себе, подобно древнему псалму, печаль и свет, книга признанного классика современной американской литературы Дениса Джонсона (1949–2017) рассказывает историю Роберта Грэйньера, отшельника поневоле, жизнь которого, охватив почти две трети ХХ века, прошла среди холмов, рек и железнодорожных путей Северного Айдахо. Это повесть о мире, в который, несмотря на переполняющие его страдания, то и дело прорывается надмирная красота: постичь, запечатлеть, выразить ее словами не под силу главному герою – ее может свидетельствовать лишь кто-то, свободный от помыслов и воспоминаний, от тревог и надежд, от речи, от самого языка. Таким мог бы…

Соединяя в себе, подобно древнему псалму, печаль и свет, книга признанного классика современной американской литературы Дениса Джонсона (1949–2017) рассказывает историю Роберта Грэйньера, отшельника поневоле, жизнь которого, охватив почти две трети ХХ века, прошла среди холмов, рек и железнодорожных путей Северного Айдахо. Это повесть о мире, в который, несмотря на переполняющие его страдания, то и дело прорывается надмирная красота: постичь, запечатлеть, выразить ее словами не под силу главному герою — ее может свидетельствовать лишь кто-то, свободный от помыслов и воспоминаний, от тревог и надежд, от речи, от самого языка. Таким мог бы…

В 2012 году книга "Сны поездов" Дениса Джонсона стала финалистом Пулитцеровской премии по литературе.
Роберт Грэйньер живёт и работает на западе Америки начала XX века. Он обычный человек, ставший свидетелем необычайных времён. Времён, отнявших его семью. Грэйньер пытается сориентироваться в незнакомом ему новом мире, а мы становимся свидетелями переживаемых им тягот. И радикальных изменений, которые претерпевает современная ему Америка.
Джонсон, автор романа "Дымовое древо", удостоенного американской Национальной книжной премии, не впервые обнажает изнанку Америки. Но в этот раз он превзошёл сам себя. Повесть "Сны поездов" пронизана духом Запада Америки с его удивительной флорой и фауной, рабочими и строителями. На её страницах вас ждёт хроника исчезновения традиционного американского уклада.
Книга на английском языке.
Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century – an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.
Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West – its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge-builders – Train Dreams captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.

Денис Джонсон начинал как поэт, опубликовал несколько сборников стихов, писал романы, получал премии, но по-настоящему прославился после этой книги рассказов. Главный герой «Иисусова сына» — алкоголик и наркоман, ненадежный, но предельно откровенный рассказчик. Он совершает сомнительные поступки и ждет от себя вещей похуже, путается и сбивается — но временами видит мир с ясностью прозрения.

**A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF 2018**
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson, author of the groundbreaking, highly acclaimed Jesus’ Son. Written in the same luminous prose, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating mortality, the ghosts of the past, and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves.
Finished shortly before Johnson’

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves. Finished shortly before Johnson’s death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come.

American master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers

Denis Johnson's now classic story collection chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompasses every extreme of American culture. These are stories of transcendence and spiraling grief, of hallucinations and glories, of getting lost and found and lost again. The insights and careening energy in Jesus' Son have earned the book a place of its own among the classics of twentieth-century American literature.

Denis Johnson’s The Laughing Monsters is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game.

Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions.

Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century—an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.

Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West—its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge builders—the new novella by the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of Smoke captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.

Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell of spiraling grief and trancendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost an dfound and lost again. The raw beauty and careening energy of Denis Johnson's prose has earned this book a place among the classics of twentieth-century American literature.

Set in South-East Asia and the US, and spanning two decades, this is the story of Skip Sands, a CIA spy who may or may not be engaged in psychological operations against the Viet Cong; it is also the story of Skip's uncle, the Colonel, who is CIA as well, and either misunderstood or mad; and then there's Eddie, Voss and Jimmy, who Skip runs into - or from - every now and again: he doesn't know whose side they're on, but he does know it's not necessarily his. Taking the reader on a surreal yet vivid journey, Tree of Smoke (the name given to a 'psy op' that might or might not be hypothetical and might or might not be officially sanctioned)…

This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date.

‘A dazzling and savage first novel’ New York Times Angels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bus and decide to team up. So begins a stunning, tragic odyssey through the dark underbelly of America – the bars, bus stations, mental wards, and prisons that play host to Jamie and Bill as they find themselves trapped in a downward spiral though rape, alcohol, drugs and crime, to madness and death. From the author of Tree of Smoke , winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

Соединяя в себе, подобно древнему псалму, печаль и свет, книга признанного классика современной американской литературы Дениса Джонсона (1949–2017) рассказывает историю Роберта Грэйньера, отшельника поневоле, жизнь которого, охватив почти две трети ХХ века, прошла среди холмов, рек и железнодорожных путей Северного Айдахо. Это повесть о мире, в который, несмотря на переполняющие его страдания, то и дело прорывается надмирная красота: постичь, запечатлеть, выразить ее словами не под силу главному герою – ее может свидетельствовать лишь кто-то, свободный от помыслов и воспоминаний, от тревог и надежд, от речи, от самого языка. Таким мог бы быть сон, привидевшийся поезду, – если бы поезда могли видеть сны.
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The most critically acclaimed, and first, of Denis Johnson's novels, Angels puts Jamie Mays -a runaway wife toting along two kids - and Bill Houston -ex-Navy man, ex-husband, ex-con -- on a Greyhound Bus for a dark, wild ride cross country. Driven by restless souls, bad booze, and desperate needs, Jamie and Bill bounce from bus stations to cheap hotels as they ply the strange, fascinating, and dangerous fringe of American life. Their tickets may say Phoenix, but their inescapable destination is a last stop marked by stunning violence and mind-shattering surprise.

Denis Johnson, known for his portraits of America's dispossessed, sets off literary pyrotechnics on this highway odyssey, lighting the trek with wit and a personal metaphysics that defiantly takes on the world.

Michael Reed is a man going through the motions, numbed by the death of his wife and child. But when events force him to act as if he cares, he begins to find people who - against all expectation - help him through his private labyrinth.

Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the voice of an American woman whose mission in Central America is as shadowy as her surroundings. Is she a reporter for an American magazine as she sometimes claims, or a contact person for Eyes of Peace? And who is the rough English businessman with whom she becomes involved? As the two foreigners become entangled in increasingly sinister plots, Denis Johnson masterfully dramatizes a powerful vision of spiritual bereavement and corruption.

A contemporary noir, Already Dead is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune. A relentless failure, Nelson has botched nearly every scheme he's attempted to pull off. Now his future lies in a potentially profitable marijuana patch hidden in the lush old-growth redwoods on the family land.

Nelson has some serious problems. His marriage has fallen apart, and he may lose his land, cash and crop in the divorce. What's more, in need of some quick cash, he had foolishly agreed to smuggle $90,000 worth of cocaine through customs for Harry Lally, a major player in a drug syndicate. Chickening out just before bringing the drugs through, he flushed the powder. Now Lally wants him dead, and two goons are hot on his trail. Desperate, terrified and alone, for Nelson, there may be only one way out.

This is Denis Johnson's biggest and most complex book to date, and it perfectly showcases his signature themes of fate, redemption and the unraveling of the fabric of today's society. Already Dead, with its masterful narrative of overlapping and entwined stories, will further fuel the acclaim that surrounds one of today's most fascinating writers.