Скачать книгу (размер 576Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Barley Patch takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fiction — or so he thinks — forever. Using the form of an oblique self-interrogation, it begins with the Beckettian question “Must I write?” and proceeds to …

Скачать книгу (размер 871Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Adrian Sherd is a teenage boy in Melbourne of the 1950s — the last years before television and the family car changed suburbia forever. Earnest and isolated, tormented by his hormones and his religious devotion, Adrian dreams of elaborate …

Скачать книгу (размер 404Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: The major work of fiction in this collection, ‘A History of Books’, explores the relationship between reading and writing in twenty nine sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image in …