Beautiful Life

15 hrs. 17 min.

Language Russian

Author Matthew Stokoe

Narrator Vladimir Knyazev

Description

Interesting language, sex, drugs, and hopelessness—what else do you need for the premise of a new novel by a living classic of counterculture? A young guy full of hope, Jack, moves to Los Angeles in search of the famous American dream. However, Jack’s attempt ends in fiasco—he isn’t needed by anyone in the beautiful life of Hollywood. To make ends meet, he sells donuts in a cheap diner. Even trying to create some home comfort and getting married leads nowhere good. Karen, despite all expectations, doesn’t get off the panel—she continues doing prostitution, disappearing for weeks, and generally being treated like dirt. The end of family life is inevitable: Karen’s disfigured corpse lies in a ditch, and life—already terrible—becomes even more hopeless. And this is only the first chapter…