“Chronic City” por Jonathan Lethem “Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan’s social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called Martyr & Pesty. Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped
“Bagombo snuff box: uncollected short fiction” by Kurt Vonnegut “For this unusual collection, Vonnegut has selected twenty-four of his favourite stories never published before in book form and has written a new preface for the occasion.” Extraído de Rbooks. Ver además: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-399-14505-6 http://www.vonnegutweb.com/vonnegutia/biblio.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagombo_Snuff_Box Los títulos seleccionados son una muestra de los materiales de la
“The New York stories of Elizabeth Hardwick” selected by Darryl Pinckney “The earlier stories in this collection are wonderful. The power of them isn’t evident in any one line but gathers slowly, often sneaking in under cover of irony. The characters – a mix of upper-class intellectuals and down-at-heel bohemians – might present well to
“Honrarás a tu padre” por Gay Talese “El primer libro de no ficción que desveló los secretos de la Mafia y puso en jaque la vida de su autor, quien viajó a Sicilia y se infiltró en la intimidad de los Bonanno durante seis años.” Extraído de Alfaguara. Ver además: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Padrino/Soprano/elpepuculbab/20110604elpbabpor_45/Tes http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Lecciones/Gay/Talese/elpepucul/20110517elpepucul_12/Tes http://www.elpais.com/elpaismedia/ultimahora/media/201106/03/cultura/20110603elpepucul_3_Pes_PDF.pdf http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Talese Los
“That old cape magic” by Richard Russo “Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.” Extraído de
“The color purple” by Alice Walker “Tells the story of Celie, a Black woman in the South. Celie writes letters to God in which she tells about her life–her roles as daughter, wife, sister, and mother.” Extraído de library.csi.cuny.edu. Ver además: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Purple http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/purple/context.html http://www.bookrags.com/notes/tcp/ Los títulos seleccionados son una muestra de los materiales de la
“The female of the species: tales of mystery and suspense” by Joyce Carol Oates “With wicked insight, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates why the females of the species-be they six-year-old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or aging mothers-are by nature more deadly than the males.” Extraído de Harcourt Books. Ver además: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/books/review/22frey.html http://www.mostlyfiction.com/mystery/oates.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Carol_Oates Los títulos
“En el condado de Grouse” por Tom Drury “Un inolvidable triángulo que teje un entramado de vínculos personales. Una historia sincera y diferente narrada por una de las voces más originales de la literatura norteamericana actual.” Extraído de la contracubierta. Ver además: http://www.451editores.es/catalogo/2050/en_el_condado_de_grouse http://www.enotes.com/end-vandalism-salem/end-vandalism-0080501193 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Drury Los títulos recomendados están en la Biblioteca del Instituto Internacional.
“Outer Dark” by Cormac McCarthy “Outer Dark is a novel at once mythic and starkly evocative, set in an unspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother’s child, a boy; the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes.
“El profesor de Harvard: novela” por John Kenneth Galbraith “Autor de numerosos libros y artículos, fue profesor de la Universidad de Harvard desde 1949. Su obra incluye elementos del institucionalismo crítico, pues da un papel central a las instituciones y, en particular, a las organizaciones industriales con una política económica propia del keynesiano más progresista.”