Vzroslenie v 90-h kak strashnaya skazka: 'Konec sveta, moya lyubov'', kniga-laureat premii 'NOS'-2020! Detal'naya, pronikayushchaya pod kozhu dostovernost' perepletaetsya s prichudlivoy fantasmagoriey, chtoby peredat' slozhnyy opyt vzrosleniya v 1990-e. Kazhdyy poet — shaman, i upravlyaet slovom magicheski, dazhe prinimayas' za prozu. Kazhetsya, imenno tak Alle Gorbunovoy udaetsya peredat' nevyrazimoe, rasskazyvaya o svoih geroyah — detyah, studentah, nishchih, molodyh poetah, balansiruyushchih mezhdu toskoy i eyforiey, svyatost'yu i padeniem. Pressa o knige 'Osharashivayushche raznoobraznaya i pri etom bezuprechno celostnaya, obnazhenno iskrennyaya i prichudlivo izobretatel'naya, naivnaya i mudraya, pugayushchaya i uyutnaya — kniga Ally Gorbunovoy slovno namerenno uskol'zaet ot lyubyh odnoznachnyh epitetov, ili, vernee, vmeshchaet ih vse, ostavayas' v to zhe vremya chem-to neizmerimo bol'shim i poprostu inym'. Galina YUzefovich 'Mozhno predpolozhit', chto eto kniga o detstve i yunosti avtora, prishedshihsya na 1990-e. A mozhet byt', eto detstvo vydumannoe, ili lyuboe chelovecheskoe, nevazhno. Tak ili inache — eto kniga udivitel'noy sily, otkrovennaya i gde-to dazhe zhestokaya, polnaya samoy hrustal'noy nezhnosti. Podrostkovye nevrozy i bytovoy postsovetskiy absurd smykayutsya zdes' s drevnimi skazochnymi arhetipami i temnym lesnym koldovstvom — chtoby vyyti v finale k oslepitel'nomu svetu vechnoy detskoy Rodiny, gde vsyo lyubov' i radost', i vsyo vsegda vpervye'. YUriy Saprykin '…chuvstvo yunosti kak postoyanno dlyashcheysya katastrofy, rastyanutogo vzryva. Russkie 90-e s ih ulichnym banditizmom, pamyat'yu ob Afgane, CHechney, modoy na ezoteriku dayut etomu chuvstvu materiyu, no samo ono bol'she. 'Snikersy' i 'Baltika' stanovyatsya elementami togo yazyka, na kotorom govoryat vechnye detsko-podrostkovye lyubov' i obida, adresovannye kazhdomu i nikomu'. Igor' Gulin