W mro?ny lutowy dzie? dwaj starzy przyjaciele spotykaj? si? w t?umie ?a?obnik?w, by towarzyszy? zmar?ej Molly Lane w ostatniej drodze. Clive Linley i Vernon Halliday byli kochankami Molly, zanim osi?gn?li sukces zawodowy – pierwszy jako najbardziej wzi?ty brytyjski kompozytor muzyki wsp??czesnej, drugi jako redaktor naczelny powa?nego dziennika. Cudowna, kapry?na Molly mia?a jeszcze innych kochank?w, w?r?d nich ministra spraw zagranicznych Juliana Garmony'ego, okrytego z?? s?aw? prawicowca, typowanego na kolejnego premiera rz?du Wielkiej Brytanii.Tu? po pogrzebie Clive i Vernon zawr? umow?, kt?rej ...
The second collection of short stories.Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. And in the course of a weekend with his teenage daughter, a guilt-ridden father discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence.At once chilling and beguiling, and written in prose of lacerating beauty, is a tour de force by one of England’s most acclaimed practitioners of literary unease.Review
Customarily, McEwan’s novels spring from a catastrophic incident in someone’s life, either a calamity that causes physical distress or a psychological trespass that causes emotional instability. For instance, in Enduring Love (1998), a man plunges to his death from a balloon, and in the aftermath, one witness continues to menace another witness. On Chesil Beach (2007) centers on an emotionally devastating wedding night. In his new novel, McEwan outdoes himself in terms of catastrophic occurrences. The protagonist, physicist Michael Beard, won a Nobel Prize several years ago and has been resting on his laurels ever since. A serial cheater, ...
