About the book: 2005 / 1977. The year of Saturday Night Fever, the rise of disco, the birth of punk. Vince Smith is eighteen. He dreams of becoming a movie star, writes a film script about his life, imitates first John Travolta, and then Sil Vicious, and falls madly in love with every second girl. His mother is a frivolous laugher who fries eggs without taking the egg out of the shell. His best friend is an insurance agent who even tries to sell insurance to girls at discos. His beloved is the daughter of a crazy physicist obsessed with running. His father is a quiet retiree who spends his days smoking a pipe and watching TV. And when this pensioner awakens to paranormal abilities, he becomes the messiah? In 1999, in the film of the same name by Peter Hewitt, Stephen Fry starred as a mad physicist. So what happened to Harold Smith? Comic novel by Ben Steiner - for the first time in Russian.