stairway to Heaven
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The new book of John Boyne is not only a "Romance with a key", where real people stand behind many main people, but also a psychological drama of considerable strength, which clearly shows how easy it is to conquer the world if you are ready to sacrifice your own soul. After all, if you look closely, you can find stories everywhere, and where there are stories - there are plots. What else does a young man need, who himself seemed to leave the pages of Roman Balzac or Forster? Maurice more than anything wants to become a writer, and a random meeting with a venerable writer, who has one rather terrible skeleton in the closet, becomes a necessary impetus for the hero’s career in modern commercial literature. And then the staircase is already being built into the sky itself, and its steps are the heads of those on whom the leg of the new Rastignac steps. The most personal and piercing novel of the classic of modern Irish literature is also an acute satire for the entire current literary and publishing world. After it, not a single book will seem to you just a book.
Press about the book
A delightfully dark story about ambitions, seduction and literary theft. Maurice Swift is an unforgettable hero, disgusting and attractive at once. This inventively composed novel confirms the reputation of Boyn as one of the best authors of his generation. Observer
Maurice Swift - Mr. Ripley, which was obsessed with literature, psychopathic hero of Patricia Haysmit. The Times
A comic and gloomy story about one purposeful climb. Daily Express
"Staircase to the sky" is a great example of the fact that good literature is often the only way to have a great time with a terrible person. In real life, we would shy away from such a villain, but in the cozy security of the novel the charm of the killer, thief and fraudster may be insurmountable. Such a hero caresses our ego, confirming our moral superiority, and we enjoy its poison. Believe me, you would not want to be in the way of Maurice, but you definitely want to go with him this path to the end. The Washington Post
The new novel by John Boyne is humor and darkness. Boyn gently ridicules the literary world, his capricious dependence on the prizes, the insincerity of writers in the festival non-stop, an avalanche of more and more books awaiting praise. The Guardian
Press about the book
A delightfully dark story about ambitions, seduction and literary theft. Maurice Swift is an unforgettable hero, disgusting and attractive at once. This inventively composed novel confirms the reputation of Boyn as one of the best authors of his generation. Observer
Maurice Swift - Mr. Ripley, which was obsessed with literature, psychopathic hero of Patricia Haysmit. The Times
A comic and gloomy story about one purposeful climb. Daily Express
"Staircase to the sky" is a great example of the fact that good literature is often the only way to have a great time with a terrible person. In real life, we would shy away from such a villain, but in the cozy security of the novel the charm of the killer, thief and fraudster may be insurmountable. Such a hero caresses our ego, confirming our moral superiority, and we enjoy its poison. Believe me, you would not want to be in the way of Maurice, but you definitely want to go with him this path to the end. The Washington Post
The new novel by John Boyne is humor and darkness. Boyn gently ridicules the literary world, his capricious dependence on the prizes, the insincerity of writers in the festival non-stop, an avalanche of more and more books awaiting praise. The Guardian
Author:
Author:Boyn D.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:18+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-86471-833-9
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