Юмористическая фантастика
Различные книги в жанре Юмористическая фантастикаYou Shoulda Cremated Him - Despicable Things to Say and Do at the Funeral of Your Least Favorite Friend
"You know that voice inside your head that comes up with hilarious thoughts that your best interest filters out and prevents you from actually saying? This book is full of those and worse from the mind of David Bolton."
Banshee
Samantha Baxter has a full, sane life—creative job, lovely family, and all the trappings of middle-age happiness. But when she gets a diagnosis that terrifies her, a lifetime of polite pleasing and putting others first ignites in her a surprising, pure rage. Maybe Sam will survive the surgery, and maybe not, but either way, she’ll spend the next three weeks burning her life down: sleeping with a student her daughter’s age, speaking every truth she’s ever swallowed, and refusing to apologize for her wildest, most essential self. “Sexy and sad, dark and funny, ruthless and kind, this is Rachel DeWoskin’s ferociously feminist masterpiece. Every page of it glitters with rage and with love…It radiates with truth.” —CHERYL STRAYED, NYT-bestselling author of Wild , Tiny Beautiful Things , Brave Enough , and Torch “A wicked, delicious ride towards an ambivalent redemption—angry, hilarious, all too true.” —ALLY SHEEDY, actress and author“ Banshee is the kind of book every woman I know wishes she'd written. Fierce, necessary, honest, a burn-it-all-down scorched earth policy to the toxic masculinity of this Age of Terror.” —Emily Rapp-Black, author of Poster Child and The Still Point of the Turning World “Raucous, white-hot, and page-turning brilliance…A singular and vital reading experience.” —Gina Frangello, author of A Life in Men
Virgil Wander
The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals—from Rune, a twinkling, pipe-smoking, kite-flying stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son; to Nadine, the reserved, enchanting wife of the vanished man, to Tom, a journalist and Virgil’s oldest friend; and various members of the Pea family who must confront tragedies of their own. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town.With intelligent humor and captivating whimsy, Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents, who, for reasons of choice or circumstance, never made it out of their defunct industrial district. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures including movies, fishing, necking in parked cars, playing baseball and falling in love, Virgil Wander is a swift, full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked American Upper Midwest by a “formidably gifted” (Chicago Tribune) master storyteller.
Nohow On
The three pieces that comprise this volume are among the most delicate and disquieting of Samuel Beckett’s later prose. Each confined to a single consciousness in a closed space, these stories are a testament to the mind’s boundless expanse. In Company, a man—"one on his back in the dark"—hears a voice speak to him, describing significant moments from his lifetime, and yet these memories may be merely fables and figments invented for the sake of companionship. Ill Seen Ill Said tells of a solitary old woman who paces around a cabin, burdened by existence itself. And Worstword Ho explores a world devoid of rationality and purpose, containing the famous directive: «Try again. Fail Again. Fail Better.»The quintessential distillation of Beckett’s philosophy on human existence and the ultimate example of his minimalist approach to fiction, Nohow On is a vital collection, concerned with conception and perception, memory and imagination.
Murphy
Murphy, Samuel Beckett’s first published novel, is set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic. The title character loves Celia in a “striking case of love requited” but must first establish himself in London before his intended bride will make the journey from Ireland to join him. Beckett comically describes the various schemes that Murphy employs to stretch his meager resources and the pastimes that he uses to fill the hours of his days. Eventually Murphy lands a job as a nurse at Magdalen Mental Mercyseat hospital, where he is drawn into the mad world of the patients which ends in a fateful game of chess. While grounded in the comedy and absurdity of much of daily life, Beckett’s work is also an early exploration of themes that recur throughout his entire body of work including sanity and insanity and the very meaning of life.
Имя Бога
Концептуально юмористический рассказ о параллельной реальности, сотворении мира и Создателе.
Ворона на дороге и другие. Юмористические рассказы
Юмористические рассказы "Ворона на дороге и другие" – это подлинные истории с добавлением фантазии, произошедшие с автором либо с близким окружением последнего в различные периоды жизни. Предназначаются рассказы прежде всего взрослым людям, воспринимаются легко и вызовут улыбку от содержания у тех, кто решит прочесть эту книгу.
Большая Е
В книге использованы фрагменты произведений: Н.В. Гоголь «Мертвые души» и «Бхагават-гита» и повествует в основном о простых человеческих радостях, порой переходящих в невинные извращения. Содержит нецензурную брань.
Путешествие
Неудачный научный эксперимент грозит серьезными последствиями. Чтобы предотвратить катастрофу, Наташа с отрядом секретных агентов отправляется на далекую Взвиськанию, где сможет ощутить на себе, каково это – быть инопланетянкой. Скрывать свою внешность и свое происхождение, обманывать местных жителей, притворяться и прятаться – все это малая часть того, что придется пережить хранительнице «Ока вечности», чтобы найти антивирус, способный спасти жизнь на Земле.
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