In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cows are sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Leibowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves.David Sedaris made his debut on NPR's Morning Edition with "SantaLand Diaries," recounting his strange-but-true experiences as an elf at Macy's, and soom became one of the show's most popular commentators. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior.Barrel Fever is a blind date with modern life, and anything can happen.
Bartleby the Scrivener (1853), by Herman Melville, tells the story of a quiet, hardworking legal copyist who works in an office in the Wall Street area of New York City. One day Bartleby declines the assignment his employer gives him with the inscrutable "I would prefer not." The utterance of this remark sets off a confounding set of actions and behavior, making the unsettling character of Bartleby one of Melville's most enigmatic and unforgettable creations. Herman Melville towers among American writers not only for his powerful novels, but also for the stirring novellas and short stories that flowed from ...
Bartleby y compa??a trata de todos aquellos no escritores o escritores interruptus que han existido. Aquellos que, como Rimbaud o Rulfo, dejaron de escribir tras la publicaci?n de sus obras maestras. Aquellos que nunca escribieron, como S?crates o como Cl?ment Cadou, que tras conocer a Witold Gombrowicz (a quien admir? mucho en mis juveniles a?os), decidi? no escribir nunca y s?lo fue autor de su epitafio, que pas? as? a ser su opera omnia.Bartleby y compa??a, nos remite a esos escritores del `No`, como ?l los llama, a los que han renunciado a la escritura (con pretexto o sin ?l) y tambi?n a la posibilidad de que esos libros en realidad no escritos, floten o est?n en estado latente en el mundo, hasta que alguien los encuentre y los escriba. Habla tambi?n Vila-Matas de una biblioteca de libros no publicados en Burlington, Vermont (USA), en donde aquellos libros escritos, pero no le?dos, son mimados, guardados y cuidados con esmero, a la espera de lector.
At last! An astonishing and original new novel by the author of Life of Pi.A famous author receives a mysterious letter from a man who is a struggling writer but also turns out to be a taxidermist, an eccentric and fascinating character who does not kill animals but preserves them as they lived, with skill and dedication – among them a howler monkey named Virgil and a donkey named Beatrice…
Premio Nadal 1998Tres mujeres: Cat, lesbiana convencida, M?nica devorahombres compulsiva Y Beatriz, que considera que el amor no tiene g?nero. Tres momentos de la vida de una mujer y dos ciudades, Edimburgo y Madrid, para una novela ?nicasobre el amor a los amigos, a la familia y a los amantes.
Juego de falsas apariencias y medias verdades que terminan por desvelar una sola verdad ?ltima, Beatus Ille revel? a uno de los j?venes narradores m?s rigurosos y mejor dotados de nuestra llteratura actual.Minaya es un joven estudiante, implicado en las huelgas universitarias de los a?os 60, que se refugia en un cortijo a orillas del Guadalquivir para escribir una tesis doctoral sobre Jacinto Solana, poeta republicano, condenado a muerte al final de la guerra, indultado y muerto en 1947 en un tiroteo con la Guardia Civil. La investigaci?n biogr?fica permite a Minaya descubrir la ...
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary American classic, a book that still captivates and inspires readers twenty years after its first publication. Now, in Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Oscar Hijuelos returns to this indelible story, to tell it from the point of view of its beloved heroine, Maria.She's the great Cuban beauty who stole musician Nestor Castillo's heart and broke it, inspiring him to write the Mambo Kings' biggest hit, ''Beautiful Maria of My Soul.'' Now in her sixties and living in Miami with her pediatrician daughter, Teresa, Maria remains a beauty, still capable of turning heads. But she has never forgotten Nestor, and as she thinks back to her days-and nights-in Havana, an entirely new perspective on the Mambo Kings story unfolds.
A fictional portrait of Jiang Ching follows her life from her youth as the unwanted daughter of a concubine, to her search for fame as an actress in Shanghai, to her marriage to revolutionary Mao Zedong, to her role in the turbulent Communist rule of China.
Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints of '-normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa's feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallised in the precious weeks before Tessa's time finally runs out.
For ten summers, the Seton family-all three generations-met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the eleventh summer, everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the chamber wound up in exactly the wrong hands at exactly the wrong time, and led to a nightmarish accident that put to the test the values that unite the family-and the convictions that just may pull it apart.Before You Know Kindness is a family saga that is timely in its examination of some of the most important issues of our era, and timeless in its exploration of the strange and unexpected places where we find love.As he did with his earlier masterpiece, Midwives, Chris Bohjalian has written a novel that is rich with unforgettable characters-and absolutely riveting in its page-turning intensity.
Bettina Wolter, eine deutsche Stewarde?, geh?rt zu den ?berlebenden einer Flugzeugkatastrophe in Tiflis. Ihr Schicksal wird Ru?land — und Dimitri, der ihren Fluchtweg im zerkl?fteten Kaukasus kreuzt. Und was eigentlich das Ende ihres Leidensweges bedeuten sollte, war erst der Anfang…Der vorliegende Roman erschien bisher unter dem Autorenpseudonym Henry Pahlen in einer gek?rzten Fassung
Bella y oscura es el relato aleg?rico de lo que poseemos sin haber conquistado: la sabidur?a de la infancia. Es la evocaci?n de un tiempo pasado, solitario, fermento necesario de la libertad esperada. Es la belleza que la fantas?a extrae de la crueldad y de los inocentes olvidados de la ni?ez.
"DAZZLING… MAGICAL… AN EXTRAORDINARY WORK!" -New York Times"BRILLIANT… RESONATES FROM PAST TO PRESENT." – San Francisco Chronicle"A MAGNIFICENT HEROINE… A GLORIOUS BOOK!" – Baltimore Sun"BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN… POWERFUL…TONI MORRISON HAS BECOME ONE OF AMERICA 'S FINEST NOVELISTS." -Cleveland Plain Dealer"THERE IS SOMETHING GREAT IN BELOVED: A PLAY OF HUMAN VOICES, CONSCIOUSLY EXALTED, PERVERSELY STRESSED, YET HOLDING TRUE. IT GETS YOU." – The New Yorker"A STUNNING BOOK… A LASTING ACHIEVEMENT!" -Christian Science Monitor"Magical… rich, provocative, extremely satisfying!" – Milwaukee Journal"Superb… a profound and shattering story that carries the weight ...
La ambig?edad de la traici?n es el motor de una intriga polic?aca que constituye el tema aparente de Beltenebros. Sin embargo, lo que en realidad encubre es el desorientado transitar de los personajes por una fascinante galer?a de espejos en la que se reflejan el amor y el odio, el pasado y el presente, la realidad y la ficci?n, en un trepidante clarouscuro de corte premeditadamente cinematogr?fico que mantiene al lector bajo su hipnosis hasta el ?ltimo rengl?n del libro.Convocado por una organizaci?n comunista subversiva, Darman, antiguo capit?n ...
Польская писательница. Дочь богатого помещика. Воспитывалась в Варшавском пансионе (1852–1857). Печаталась с 1866 г. Ранние романы и повести Ожешко ("Пан Граба", 1869; "Марта", 1873, и др.) посвящены борьбе женщин за человеческое достоинство.В двухтомник вошли романы "Над Неманом", "Миер Эзофович" (первый том); повести "Ведьма", "Хам", "Bene nati", рассказы "В голодный год", "Четырнадцатая часть", "Дай цветочек!", "Эхо", "Прерванная идиллия" (второй том).
Por su capacidad para poner en evidencia el rid?culo, pocos recursos art?sticos resultan tan eficaces como la caricatura que revela en breves trazos lo animalesco y monstruoso que todos llevamos dentro. Juan Jos? Arreola manejaba este recurso como pocos y en su Bestiario y en sus relatos breves supo esgrimirlo con destreza para se?alar nuestras pasiones y defectos y ayudarnos a conocernos mejor.
