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In this splendid novel, Celeste finds herself engaged to Alex, a wealthy man whose standards are as exacting as her own -- or so she thought. As she begins to question their relationship and herself, Celeste is haunted by painful memories: of her past in well-heeled, blue-blooded Connecticut; of the friends and family who seem to have disappeared from her life; and of Nathan, for whom Celeste still carries a lingering passion. At last coming to terms with the lies and illusions that have propelled her forward for years, Celeste must take responsibility for the choices she has made. She...

This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows two American academics in London—a young man and a middle-aged woman—as they each fall into unexpected romances. In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an Ivy League professor. She doubts she could get a man’s attention if she waved a brightly colored object in front of him. And though she loves her work, her specialty—children’s folk rhymes—earns little respect from her fellow scholars. Then, alone on a flight to London for a research trip, she sits next to a man she would...

Bajo el título de uno de ellos, La balada del café triste, se agrupan en este libro varios de los relatos más significativos de la singular y sutil narrativa de Carson McCullers, que han accedido ya a la consideración de clásicos de la moderna literatura norteamericana y constituyen incursiones en la silenciosa, secreta y sagrada intimidad del alma de sus personajes. "Wunderkind", "El jockey", "Madame Zilensky y el rey de Finlandia", "El transeúnte", "Dilema doméstico" y "Un árbol. Una roca. Una nube" custodian esta balada de impronta inconfundible en la que la frontera entre la prosa ...

El ser humano avanza implacable siempre hacia su "progreso". Es todo aquello que no es participe de la misma ideología que debe perecer o bien, alejarse y nunca más volver, pues para todo aquello ya no hay lugar en esa nueva era. Pero... ¿Qué pasaría si hubiese un lugar, por pequeño que sea, capaz de no solo resistir ese paso tan abrupto, sino también de oponérsele, tejiendo entre las sombras un milenario plan? Esta es la historia del Pantano de NevilleTown.