Шандарахнутое пианино

The Shackled Piano (1971) is McGuane's second novel, which won the prestigious Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Foundation award and brought the author fame as a great absurdist. With virtuosic language, playing with words and interspersing the narrative with jokes of the highest standard, McGuane tells us the story of Nicholas Bolan, a young man completely out of hand. This novel is a "road" picaresque, because our hero, a normal American freak, sets out to roam the country in a green "Hudson Hornet" in pursuit of a young millionaire, thirsting for "real experience", in the company of a double amputee obsessed with construction all over the country towers for bats that can rid the area of insect pests almost overnight ... All this may remind our reader of Pynchon's "Lot 49" and will please all fans of sharp and caustic cult literature.