The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last – until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.
The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, sexy story. Harry Angstrom – known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters – finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves – or further complicates – his problems, makes for a novel of the first order.Rabbit Redux is the second of five John Updike Rabbit novels, all of which focus on their central character Harry Angstrom. In Rabbit Redux, Harry Angstrom – known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters – finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first order. The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story.
The stunning novella that concludes John Updike's acclaimed Rabbit series is now available on audio.Set 10 years after Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom's death, Rabbit Remembered returns listeners to the small Pennsylvania town where Harry's widow, Janice, and his son, Nelson, still reside. They are faced with a surprise when Annabelle, Harry's 39-year-old illegitimate daughter, arrives on the scene, bringing with her ghosts from the past.
Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman. But happiness is more elusive than a medal, and Harry must continue to run–from his wife, his life, and from himself, until he reaches the end of the road and has to turn back....I read Rabbit, Run when I was in high school (and it wasn't even a school assignment!). Twenty years later (at ...
Los inolvidables personajes de esta novela, como la entra?able y desgarrada pareja formada por el adolescente David y su perro Chispa, el enamorado inspector Galv?n, o Rosa Bartra, la hermosa pelirroja embarazada, obedecen a una tristeza y una estafa hist?rica muy concretas, pero tambi?n a la estafa eterna de los sue?os, encarnada aqu? por las fantasmales apariciones de un padre libertario fugitivo y de un arrogante piloto de la RAF que, desde la vieja fotograf?a de una revista colgada en la pared, act?a como confidente del fantasioso David.Con estos personajes, ...
Najwi?kszym atutem "Rachat?ukum" jest niew?tpliwie g??wny bohater, kt?ry do ko?ca pozostaje bezimienny, w?a?ciwie anonimowy. Przez ca?? ksi??k? opowiada nam o mi?o?ci swojego ?ycia – rudow?osej Oldze. W?a?ciwie powie?? nie ma w?tk?w pobocznych, jedynie drobne epizody. Je?li jednak kto? my?li, ?e to kolejna md?a, romantyczna paplanina, jest w sporym b??dzie. Wolkers operuje j?zykiem jakby nieprzystaj?cym do tej tematyki. Obrzydliwym i obscenicznym, w?a?ciwie momentami wulgarnym, gdy? po prostu ta…
Nacido en un remoto lugar de Siberia, Rasputin podr?a haber llevado la existencia de un simple mujik semianalfabeto, de no haber sido por la curiosidad que en ?l despertaban la religi?n y sus enigmas, por su singular percepci?n de la realidad y los a veces extra?os acontecimientos que le sucedieron. Dotado de un magnetismo extraordinario, comenz? a ejercer su influjo sobre los campesinos y lugare?os, divulgando una nueva forma de entender la religi?n y de practicarla, hasta que representantes de la Iglesia ortodoxa vieron en ?l la encarnaci?n de la sencilla y ...
In an endeavor similar to his debut novel, The Kitchen Boy, Alexander couples extensive research and poetic license, this time turning his enthusiasm toward perhaps the most intriguing player in the collapse of the Russian dynasty: Rasputin. This eyebrow-raising account of the final week of the notorious mystic's life is set in Petrograd in December 1916 and narrated by Rasputin's fiery teenage daughter, Maria. The air in the newly renamed capital is thick with dangerous rumors, many concerning Maria's father, whose close relationship with the monarchy-he alone can stop the bleeding of the hemophiliac heir to the throne-invokes murderous rage ...
Considerada un cl?sico de la literatura moderna en lengua castellana, Rayuela (1963) es una de las obras m?s innovadoras de las ?ltimas d?cadas. La clave de su ruptura con el orden cl?sico del relato radica en la postulaci?n de una estructura inorg?nica: el libro puede leerse en forma normal del cap?tulo 1 al 56 y terminar ah?, despu?s est?n los cap?tulos?prescindibles?, del 57 al 155. Estos se leen alternadamente seg?n un orden que el autor va dando, mezclados con los primeros. De esa manera la novela comienza en el N? 73. Entre estos ...
In this novel of secret sorceries and forbidden desires, the mystic Cammon must put aside his personal feelings for Princess Amalie while he reads the souls of her suitors for any potential threats. But Cammon is unable to read Amalie, and he begins to suspect that she herself possesses magic powers-a revelation which would put her life in danger, and throw the kingdom into chaos.
A rebours est un ouvrage ?trange et assez d?stabilisant au premier aspect. La couverture offre aux regards un tableau d'Odilon Redon, Les yeux clos, baign? de teintes douces, entre gris-parme et marron clair. Une notice nous pr?sente le personnage principal – ou le personnage, tout simplement – en donnant quelques ?l?ments de g?n?alogie, des bouts d'enfance exp?di?s ?a et l?, et enfin donne l'image que notre h?ros garde du monde: un tableau amer et m?prisant. Apr?s un repas de deuil artificiel et surprenant, comme un rite de passage, il s'enferme dans ...
Anchee Min, now a painter, film-maker, photographer and writer, left China for America in 1984. She had been a prize pupil and a model member of Mao Tse-tung's Red Guard. For her dutiful work for the Party, she was awarded a place at the arduous Red Fire Farm, where she experienced – at great personal risk – her sexual and emotional awakening with the female company leader. Selected from 20,000 candidates to be a star of propagandist films, she left behind the farm and her lover, for fame and an exotic affair with one of Madame Mao's leading emissaries. In this autobiography Anchee Min reveals, through a series of relationships, both a little-known China and her own character – independent, enquiring, and anxious to grasp every experience that comes within her reach. It is an erotic autobiography which, through the dialogue and characterizations of a novel, traces her life and relationships through the political and cultural upheavals of the era.
Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets Harry Bolton, a bereft and damaged soul, who takes him on a tour of London that includes a scene of rococo decadence unlike anything else in Melville's fiction.
Karen Lord's debut novel, which won the prestigious Frank Collymore Literary Prize in Barbados, is an intricately woven tale of adventure, magic, and the power of the human spirit.Paama's husband is a fool and a glutton. Bad enough that he followed her to her parents' home in the village of Makendha, now he's disgraced himself by murdering livestock and stealing corn. When Paama leaves him for good, she attracts the attention of the undying ones--the djombi--who present her with a gift: the Chaos Stick, which allows her to manipulate the subtle forces of the world. Unfortunately, a ...
Una noche de 1987, alguien abandona a una ni?a reci?n nacida en el aeropuerto de Heathrow. Un a?o antes, tres chicas, Martha, Clio y Jocasta, se hab?an conocido por casualidad en un viaje y hab?an prometido volver a encontrarse, aunque pasar? mucho tiempo antes de que cumplan la promesa. Para entonces, Kate, la ni?a abandonada, ya ser? una adolescente. Vive con una familia adoptiva que la quiere, aunque ahora Kate desea conocer a su madre biol?gica. Es decir, una de aquellas tres j?venes, ahora mujeres acomodadas. Pero ?qu? la llev? a una situaci?n tan desesperada?La trama que desgrana este libro se sit?a all? donde confluyen entre estas cuatro vidas. Y es que Kate ver? cumplido su deseo aunque, como ense?an algunas f?bulas, a veces sea mejor no desear ciertas cosas…
RECOPILACI?N DE REFLEXIONES Y LECTURAS INSPIRADORAS PARA QUE TE ACOMPA?EN A DIARIO, COSAS B?SICAS PERO QUE A VECES NECESITAMOS QUE ALGUIEN NOS LAS RECUERDE.Es un proceso de aprender a desprenderse y humanamente se puede lograr porque, le repito, nada ni nadie nos es indispensable.Solo es costumbre, apego, necesidad. Pero… cierre, clausure, limpie, tire, oxigene, despr?ndase, sacuda, suelte.Hay tantas palabras para significar salud mental y cualquiera que sea la que escoja, le ayudara definitivamente a seguir para adelante con tranquilidad. PAULO COELHO На испанском языке
Premio Eugenio Nadal 1983Regocijo en el hombre es una documentada visi?n del mundo anglosaj?n y vikingo que nos ofrece tres relatos narrados en primera persona, cuyo resumen configura la historia en todos sus detalles. Un obispo, un rey y un pr?ncipe. Tres protagonistas de un argumento com?n pero a la vez con una perspectiva propia. A lo largo del relato van surgiendo los conocimientos, las concepciones pol?ticas, morales y religiosas de la mano de un escritor pr?digo en recursos. El uso del lenguaje, los modos arcaicos de resonancias cl?sicas, mantiene su calidad a lo largo del libro, no desmayando su inter?s en ning?n momento. Al final, es la solidaridad la que triunfa, la que enriquece a cada uno de nosotros, pues el hombre se regocija en el hombre, como canta el poema vikingo.
No deja de ser curioso y hasta sorprendente que, considerando la escasa atenci?n que tradicionalmente el cuento ha merecido por parte de los estudiosos, un autor que, como Francisco Ayala, se ha dedicado con preferencia al relato breve y que es autor de ?nicamente dos novelas importantes, haya conseguido la nombrad?a de que disfruta.
"A stunningly strange book about the rarest of fictional subjects: happiness." – Jonathan Lethem"One of the great English novels of the past ten years." – Zadie Smith***Traumatized by an accident which ‘involved something falling from the sky’ and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, Remainder’s hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes and situations from his past: a large building with piano music in the distance, the familiar smells and sounds of liver frying and spluttering, lethargic cats lounging on roofs until they tumble off them… But when this fails to quench his thirst for authenticity, he starts re-enacting more and more violent events, as his repetition addiction spirals out of control.A darkly comic meditation on memory, identity and history, Remainder is a parable for modern times.
In the year of the 150th anniversary of Origin of Species, set in a town where Jane Austen was a frequent visitor, Tracy Chevalier once again shows her uncanny sense for the topical. In the early nineteenth century, a windswept beach along the English coast brims with fossils for those with the eye! From the moment she's struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is marked for greatness. When she uncovers unknown dinosaur fossils in the cliffs near her home, she sets the scientific world alight, challenging ideas about the world's creation and stimulating debate ...
With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a life-changing and utterly hilarious predicament…When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she's in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident-in a Mercedes no less-Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, ...
