Straight Man

Veselaya i chestnaya, sostradatel'naya i ostroumnaya istoriya dlinoy v odnu nevozmozhnuyu nedelyu, sluchivshuyusya v zhizni Henka Devero. S neohotoy i protiv sobstvennoy prirody Uil'yam Genri Devero Mladshiy, predpochitayushchiy, chtoby ego zvali zaprosto Henk, rukovodit angliyskoy kafedroy v zahudalom kolledzhe gde-to v rzhavom poyase Pensil'vanii. Sam Henk po nature nablyudatel' i anarhist, no kafedra stremitel'no razvalivaetsya dazhe bez ego usiliy. V techenie nedeli Henku predstoit proyti cherez massu ispytaniy i dazhe katastrof. Rassvirepevshaya kollega razob'et emu nos, aspirantka popytaetsya ego soblaznit', po mestnomu TV ego obvinyat v kazni gusya, rodnoy otec pribudet s zhelaniem primirit'sya navsegda, a nekotorye funkcii organizma vdrug ob'yavyat zabastovku. Pechal'nyy i smeshnoy roman pro akademicheskih neudachnikov, pro svobodu-nesvobodu i prosto pro horoshih lyudey. Pressa o knige: 'Klassika amerikanskoy literatury, kotoruyu proglyadeli.'The Guardian 'Preumen'sheniem budet skazat', chto knizhka smeshnaya. Desyat' let nazad ya hohotal nad ney vsluh. Desyat' let i odnu akademicheskuyu stepen' spustya ya porazhen, naskol'ko ona po suti grustnaya… I v etom — ee krasota.'Fiction Advocate Vnimanie! Fonogramma soderzhit necenzurnuyu bran' Prodyusery: Vadim Buh, Mihail Litvakov