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The intimate story of two of the most famous, yet enigmatic, figures in modern literature—Jack Kerouac and his friend, traveling companion, and hero, Neal Cassady—this is a firsthand account of life among the Beat generation, written by the woman who was Cassady’s wife and Kerouac’s lover. Beginning with the early days of Kerouac and Cassady’s friendship, Carolyn Cassady’s riveting memoir narrates the explosive success of Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s "Howl," the flowering of the Beat generation, and the social revolution of the 1960s that saw Kerouac and Cassady taken...

José Leandro Urbina, escritor y profesor universitario chileno, nos entrega Los dueños del mundo, una historia de la corrupción que se escapa a la rigidez del ensayo académico, sin perder erudición ni perspectiva, y que acompaña a esta serie de criminales y crímenes con una ironía que permite comprender cómo desde la Biblia, e incluso mucho antes, las sociedades se ven enfrentadas a la pillería, el robo y la trampa. Tan antigua como la vida en comunidad, el desvío de la norma o, directamente, su incumplimiento, nos acompaña desde el origen de lo humano y ha configurado las...

TRUE STORY es un conjunto de historias ilustradas que te sacuden por dentro. Este libro es un revolver cargado de relatos, de maltrato, soledad, desigualdad y coraje. Cada una de sus balas se clava en tu pecho para emocionarte, abrir tu consciencia, entregarte un mensaje.

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...