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Stephen Wright (b. 1946) is a veteran of the Vietnam War, a representative of the rebellious culture of the sixties hippies, a living classic of American literature, one of the brightest representatives of English-language modernism of the 20th century. Wright's prose, which expressed the emotional and spiritual throwing of young nonconformists of the "turbulent sixties", and then their bitter weariness from defeat in the struggle against bourgeois society, brought him a number of prestigious national awards. The novel, which occupies the 13th line in the famous list of Larry McCaffery " 100 Best English-Language Books of the 20th Century" was first published in 1994 - in the era of the second wave of "youth rebellion", counterculture and the struggle of the next generation of parents-rejected boys and girls for the right to live, think and feel in a new way. A kaleidoscopic novel in which a man who once rejected his wealthy, prestigious and spiritually wretched world, as if drawn from a picture in an advertising catalog, embarks on an aimless, meaningless and free journey through America - through the country of overworked yuppies and their bored wives, prostitutes and pimps, aging and "stuck" rock stars and hitchhikers, trucker philosophers and serial killers, amnesiac aliens and tired cops.