Literatura norteamericana
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“Tenth of december” by George Saunders “A new story collection, the first in six years, from one of our greatest living writers, MacArthur «genius grant» recipient and New Yorker contributor George Saunders.” Extraído de GoodReads. Ver además: http://nyti.ms/1sv12EX http://www.georgesaundersbooks.com/read-the-short-story-tenth-of-december/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_of_December:_Stories Los títulos recomendados están en la Biblioteca del Instituto Internacional. Si te interesa tener acceso
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“Bark: stories” by Lorrie Moore “A new collection of stories by one of America’s most beloved and admired short-story writers, her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America. These eight masterly stories reveal Lorrie Moore at her most mature and in a perfect configuration of craft, mind, and bewitched spirit, as she explores the
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“Let’ s explore diabetes with owls” by David Sedaris “A guy walks into a bar car and…From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you
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“Oldest living confederate widow tells us” by Allan Gurganus “Allan Gurganus’s Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninety-nine-year-old Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heroines in American literature.” Extraido de Amazon. Ver además: http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/16/home/garganus-widow.html
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“Tender is the night” by F. Scott Fitzgerald “Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star,
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“The goldfinch” by Donna Tartt “Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don’t know how to talk to him, and
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“American dream machine” by Matthew Specktor “American Dream Machine is the story of two talent agents and their three troubled boys, heirs to Hollywood royalty. It’s a sweeping narrative about fathers and sons, the movie business, and the sundry sea changes that have shaped Hollywood and, by extension, American life.” Extraido de Amazon. Ver además:
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“Stoner” by John Williams “John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.” Extraido de Amazon.
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“A Capote reader” by Truman Capote “’The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day I started writing …’ Truman Capote began writing at the age of eight, and never looked back. «A Capote Reader» contains much of the author’s published work: his
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“Canada” por Richard Ford “The only writer ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel (Independence Day) Richard Ford follows the completion of his acclaimed Bascombe trilogy with Canada. After a five-year hiatus, an undisputed American master delivers a haunting and elemental novel about the cataclysm that undoes one