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When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings-the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec-struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence.

In one of the most acclaimed fiction debuts in years, Adam Haslett explores the lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them.

An ageing inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. An orphaned boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time resident of a rest home, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn, teenage volunteer.

With Checkovian restraint and compassion, conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, is a triumph.

Девять историй, девять жизней, девять кругов ада. Адам Хэзлетт написал книгу о безумии, и в США она мгновенно стала сенсацией: 23 % взрослых страдают от психических расстройств. Герои Хэзлетта — обычные люди, и каждый болен по-своему. Депрессия, мания, паранойя — суровый и мрачный пейзаж. Постарайтесь не заблудиться и почувствовать эту боль. Добро пожаловать на изнанку человеческой души. Вы здесь не чужие. Проза Адама Хэзлетта — впервые на русском языке.