“Cosa de risa” por William Saroyan “Evan Nazarenus, profesor universitario de origen armenio, lleva a su familia a pasar una temporada en la casa de campo de su hermano en Clovis, California. Tras una larga ausencia por trabajo desea retomar su relación con Swan, su esposa, y acercarse a sus pequeños hijos, Red y Eva,
“A good school” by Richard Yates “William Grove is a nervous teenager trying to fit in at his new boarding School. (…) Their stories twine together in the claustrophobic confines of the small community of Dorset Academy.” Extraído de la contracubierta del ejemplar. Ver además: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Good_School http://bostonreview.net/BR24.5/onan.html http://www.richardyates.org/gallery_ags.html Los títulos seleccionados son una muestra de
“All other nights: a novel” by Dara Horn “How is tonight different from all other nights? For Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, it is a question his commanders have already answered for him — on Passover, 1862, he is ordered to murder his own uncle in New
“The lovely bones: a novel” por Alice Sebold “In “the book of memory” the perspective shifts to Auster’s role as a father. The narrator, “A”, contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of story-telling and writing.” Extraído de la cubierta del ejemplar. Ver además: http://www.rtlibrary.org/lovelybones.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Sebold http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovely_Bones Los títulos
“The invention of solitude” por Paul Auster “In “the book of memory” the perspective shifts to Auster’s role as a father. The narrator, “A”, contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of story-telling and writing.” Extraído de de la cubierta del ejemplar. Ver además: http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/20/specials/auster-solitude.html http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Auster Los títulos seleccionados son
“The brotherhood of the grape” by John Fante “The Brotherhood of the Grape is vintage Fante, brimming with love, death, violence and religion. Writing with great passion, Fante powerfully describes the damage that family can wreak upon us all.” Extraído de la contracubierta del ejemplar. Ver además: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fante http://www.john-fante.com/en/johnfante/books/brotherhood-of-the-grape.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/apr/07/discovering-john-fante Los títulos recomendados están en
“In the image: a novel” by Dara Horn “Seamlessly weaving its deeper preoccupations into a narrative thoroughly absorbing and satisfying, In the Image follows a young New Jersey woman, Leora, through the death of a friend in high school and on to college, career, and falling in love. Simultaneously, it traces the story of Bill
“Cuentos completos” de Flannery O’Connor “Este volumen reúne los títulos “Un hombre bueno es difícil de encontrar” y “Todo lo que asciende debe converger”, más unos pocos cuentos nunca recogidos en forma de libro. Cada una de estas piezas es una obra maestra donde se refleja el mundo violento del sur de los Estados Unidos,
“Couples” by John Updike “Couples is the book that has been assailed for its complete frankness and praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrait of love, marriage, and adultery in America. But be it damned or hailed, Couples drew back the curtain forever on sex in suburbia in the late twentieth century.” Extraído de
“El caso es que De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de amor (Alfred A. Knopf, 1981), buque insignia de la narrativa carveriana, es una de las biblias de lo que se dio en llamar realismo sucio, y al parecer una biblia profanada por el editor neoyorquino Gordon Lish que, corrigiendo y podando de forma desaforada el
