El sopar

Tan esquiva siempre la fórmula de un clásico. Suele combinar dos condiciones, tan básicas como improbables de encontrar a la par: una estética no perecedera y un mito; una metáfora capaz de esa mutación que le permita a la realidad acomodársele adentro y tomar su forma. De eso se trata este libro. Los años 1960. Mientras en homogéneo costumbrismo una generación de dramaturgos se preocupa por la alienación de la clase media, un veinteañero no alineado ensueña a Edgar Allan Poe tambaleante de taberna en taberna, y pone parlamento a sus visiones. Se desmarca. La obra se llamará...

Para ganarse su herencia, Valentino LeBlanc tenía que intercambiar su puesto con el de su hermano gemelo durante seis meses y aumentar los beneficios anuales de la compañía familiar en mil millones de dólares, pues así lo había estipulado su padre en su testamento. Sin embargo, para hacerlo, Val necesitaría a su lado a Sabrina Corbin, la hermosa ex de su hermano, que era, además, una coach extraordinaria. La química entre ambos era explosiva e innegable... y pronto un embarazo inesperado complicaría más las cosas.

Ever since her husband, Doug, left her suddenly and without explanation, Galla spends her days on the couch, staring at the magnolia on the patio and fantasizing about throwing herself off the balcony to escape excruciating pain blamed on herself. During her first solo trip, to Munich, she accidentally walks into a museum where the work of the German painter Gabriele Münter is exhibited and her works so full of color and so devoid of joy mesmerize her. From that moment on, Gabriele's voice enters Galla's life: it torments and mocks her as she recounts her long love story with Kandinski, much ...

Maggie came to scenic little Lupine, Oregon, to live as a foster child in the Jarrett home. Thirteen years later, she’s a legitimate member of the family, living in the back yard cottage with two children. Her husband, Mo, has moved on to Texas in search of opportunity. He wants Maggie and their children to follow, but she is mired in indecision. Her baby’s a handful and her 9-year-old son, Jay-Jay, is in such trouble at school they want to put him in the “anger group.” She seeks comfort and advice from her friends, but her problems and theirs don’t seem to be occurring in the same...