“Man walks into a room: a novel” by Nicole Krauss “Nicole Krauss’s elegant, haunting debut, Man Walks into a Room, is a what-if novel. What if, asks Krauss, a man woke up one day and he’d forgotten everything he knows? Samson Greene is found lost in the desert near Las Vegas, memory-less thanks to a
“Cold Spring Harbor” by Richard Yates “A brilliantly written exploration of youth and self-delusion by the author of Revolutionary Road. All the sorrows of Evan Shepard’s loutish adolescence were redeemed at seventeen, in 1935, when he fell in love with automobiles…In the small suburban town of Cold Spring Harbor, Evan Shephard and his young bride
“The gravedigger’s daughter” by Joyce Carol Oates “In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. After local prejudice and the family’s
“Noir” by Robert Coover “With impeccable skill, Robert Coover, one of America’s pioneering postmodernists, has taken the classic genre of the noir detective story and turned it inside-out. Here, Coover is at the top of his form, and Noir is a true page-turner—wry, absurd, and desolate.” Extraído de Overlook Press. Ver además: http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero12/cooveres.html http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Robert/Coover/reinventar/fabula/misma/elpepicul/19780816elpepicul_5/Tes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Coover
“The book of getting even: a novel” by Benjamin Taylor “Son of a rabbi, budding astronomer Gabriel Geismar is on his way from youth to manhood in the 1970s when he falls in love with the esteemed and beguiling Hundert family, different in every way from his own. Over the course of a decade-long drama
“Agape agape and other writings” by William Gaddis “William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a
“Las novelas de John Irving (Exeter, New Hampshire, EE.UU, 1942) alcanzan el éxito de los superventas al tiempo que la crítica elogia su calidad literaria. El número de páginas asusta, pero la lectura de unas pocas capta indefectiblemente el interés. Sus libros siempre ofrecen amplios panoramas de la vida norteamericana, que reflejan la inmensidad del
“Letter to my daughter” by Maya Angelou “Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. Here
“Ask the dust” by John Fante “Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until,
“Luz de agosto” por William Faulkner “Una de las obras más representativas de William Faulkner. En Luz de agosto aparecen retratados algunos de los personajes más memorables de Faulkner: la cándida e intrépida Lena Grove en busca del padre de su hijo; el reverendo Gal Hightower -atormentado por constante visiones de soldados de caballería confederados-
