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Cemetery for the Mad – Ray Bradbury – Eksmo, Dominoes – 2016 – ISBN 978-5-699-35633-1

Cemetery for the Mad
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Available for the first time in Russian, this is the second novel in a trilogy that also includes the already familiar "Death Is a Lonely Thing" and "Let's All Kill Constance." Once again, the action takes place in Hollywood, and once again the closest genre analogy—though by no means exhaustive—is detective noir. It all begins with the protagonist (a science fiction writer and screenwriter, Bradbury's alter ego) seeing a studio magnate who died on the same Halloween night twenty years earlier at a Halloween party, at the stroke of midnight, in a legendary cemetery adjacent to a legendary studio. Helping the protagonist find a way out of the labyrinth of deaths, real and imagined, are an arrogant Austrian-Chinese director with an ever-present monocle, the embalmer of Lenin's mummy, a Jesus-like drunkard named Jesus Christ, and the world's best dinosaur animator...
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