“Strong motion: a novel” by Jonathan Franzen “Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes’ cause
“I, etcétera” by Susan Sontag “In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intellect in narratives seamed with many of the themes of her essays
“Oracle night “ by Paul Auster “Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank
“Anagrams: a novel” by Lorrie Moore “Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry
“Summer crossing“ by Truman Capote “Summer Crossing is Truman Capote’s first novel and was written during the 1940s. An unrefined prototype of his later, famous writings, it was cast aside by Capote and thought to be lost for over 50 years, but was eventually published in 2005.” Extraído de la Wikipedia. Ver además: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/dec/03/featuresreviews.guardianreview16 http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/universo/turbador/Truman/Capote/elpepicul/20051003elpepicul_1/Tes
“The blindfold” by Siri Hustvedt “Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse, employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects that belonged to a murder victim.
“Of mice and men” by John Steinbeck “Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they’ll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But
“Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café” by Fannie Flagg “The story is told through many generations and begins in 1985 with an unfulfilled housewife named Evelyn Couch, who comes with her husband to visit his elderly mother, who dislikes Evelyn, at Rose Terrace Nursing Home. While avoiding her, Evelyn meets nursing home resident
“Look at the birdie: unpublished short fiction” by Kurt Vonnegut “Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut
“Oblivion: stories” by David Foster Wallace “In his best work, Infinite Jest, Wallace leavened his smartest-boy-in-class style, perfected in his essays and short stories, with a stereoscopic reproduction of other voices” Extraído de Amazon. Ver además: http://www.themodernword.com/reviews/wallace_oblivion.html http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/books/staring-either-absently-or-intently.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace Los títulos recomendados están en la Biblioteca del Instituto Internacional. Si te interesa leer ésta