Книга What's with Baum? Woody Allen

What's with Baum?

'Woody Allen’s wonderful novel reads like one of his films' The Telegraph

Автор: Woody Allen
Език: Английски език
Корици: С меки корици
Издател: Swift Press
Наличност: Очаква се зареждане
Издание 07. 07. 2026
10.88 21.28 лв
'Woody Allen’s wonderful novel reads like one of his films' The Telegraph'As a portrait of Woody All...

Информация за книгата

Автор
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С меки корици
Издадена
2026
страници
160
EAN
9781800756311
Enbook ID
51518777
Издател
Теглоt
260
Размери
129 x 198

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'Woody Allen’s wonderful novel reads like one of his films' The Telegraph'As a portrait of Woody Allen by Woody Allen, it’s a classic' The Standard'Good gags abound in this tale of a bespectacled Jewish writer caught up in a #MeToo takedown' GuardianAsher Baum is quietly losing his mind. Can you blame him?'Maybe what I really want is to make sense of all people’s lives. Of everything, the whole shebang'A middle-aged Jewish journalist turned novelist and playwright, consumed with anxiety about everything under the sun, Baum's turgid philosophical books receive tepid reviews and his prestigious New York publisher has dropped him. His third marriage is on the rocks and he suspects his handsome and successful younger brother may have seduced his Harvard-educated wife. He is uneasy with her close relationship with her son, a more successful author than he, and suspicious of her closeness with their neighbour in Connecticut. And in a moment of irrationality, he has impulsively tried to kiss a pretty young journalist during an interview that she is about to go public with. Is it any wonder Baum has started talking to himself? Strangers shake their heads and walk around him on the street. Meanwhile he learns a startling secret that could cause havoc should he expose it. Should he keep it to himself or reveal it and blow up his marriage?What's with Baum? is Woody Allen's first novel and it is everything you would expect of him--and more. A portrait of an intellectual crippled by neurotic concerns about the futility and emptiness of life; an amusing glimpse into the New York publishing establishment; above all, a highly entertaining, tightly plotted, beautifully wrought piece of fiction from one of America's greatest and most versatile cinematic and literary talents.

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