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 grustnayä I v etom - ee krasota."Fiction Advocate
Vnimanie! Fonogramma soderzhit necenzurnuyu bran'
Prodyusery: Vadim Buh, Mihail Litvakov