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Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter—environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man—she was doing her small part to build a better world.
But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz—outré rocker and Walter's college best friend and rival—still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become "a very different kind of neighbor," an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes?
In his first novel since , Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of 's characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
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Jonathan Franzen’s exhilarating novel tells a spellbinding story with sexy comic brio, and evokes a quirky family akin to Anne Tyler’s, only bitter. Franzen’s great at describing Christmas homecomings gone awry, cruise-ship follies, self-deluded academics, breast-obsessed screenwriters, stodgy old farts and edgy Tribeca bohemians equally at sea in their lives, and the mad, bad, dangerous worlds of the Internet boom and the fissioning post-Soviet East.
All five members of the Lambert family get their due, as everybody’s lives swirl out of control. Paterfamilias Alfred is slipping into dementia, even as one of his inventions inspires a pharmaceutical giant to revolutionize treatment of his disease. His stubborn wife, Enid, specializes in denial; so do their kids, each in an idiosyncratic way. Their hepcat son, Chip, lost a college sinecure by seducing a student, and his new career as a screenwriter is in peril. Chip’s sister, Denise, is a chic chef perpetually in hot water, romantically speaking; banker brother Gary wonders if his stifling marriage is driving him nuts. We inhabit these troubled minds in turn, sinking into sorrow punctuated by laughter, reveling in Franzen’s satirical eye:
Gary in recent years had observed, with plate tectonically cumulative anxiety, that population was continuing to flow out of the Midwest and toward the cooler coasts…. Gary wished that all further migration [could] be banned and all Midwesterners encouraged to revert to eating pasty foods and wearing dowdy clothes and playing board games, in order that a strategic national reserve of cluelessness might be maintained, a wilderness of taste which would enable people of privilege, like himself, to feel extremely civilized in perpetuity.
Franzen is funny and on the money. This book puts him on the literary map.
If some authors are masters of suspense, others postmodern verbal acrobats, and still others complex-character pointillists, few excel in all three arenas. In his long-awaited third novel, Franzen does. Unlike his previous works, The 27th City (1988) and Strong Motion (1992), which tackled St. Louis and Boston, respectively, this one skips from city to city (New York; St. Jude; Philadelphia; Vilnius, Lithuania) as it follows the delamination of the Lambert family Alfred, once a rigid disciplinarian, flounders against Parkinson’s-induced dementia; Enid, his loyal and embittered wife, lusts for the perfect Midwestern Christmas; Denise, their daughter, launches the hippest restaurant in Philly; and Gary, their oldest son, grapples with depression, while Chip, his brother, attempts to shore his eroding self-confidence by joining forces with a self-mocking, Eastern-Bloc politician. As in his other novels, Franzen blends these personal dramas with expert technical cartwheels and savage commentary on larger social issues, such as the imbecility of laissez-faire parenting and the farcical nature of U.S.-Third World relations. The result is a book made of equal parts fury and humor, one that takes a dry-eyed look at our culture, at our pains and insecurities, while offering hope that, occasionally at least, we can reach some kind of understanding. This is, simply, a masterpiece. Agent, Susan Golomb. (Sept.)Forecast: Franzen has always been a writer’s writer and his previous novels have earned critical admiration, but his sales haven’t yet reached the level of, say, Don DeLillo at his hottest. Still, if the ancillary rights sales and the buzz at BEA are any indication, The Corrections should be his breakout book. Its varied subject matter will endear it to a genre-crossing section of fans (both David Foster Wallace and Michael Cunningham contributed rave blurbs) and FSG’s publicity campaign will guarantee plenty of press. QPB main, BOMC alternate. Foreign rights sold in the U.K., Denmark, Holland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Spain. Nine-city author tour.
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El éxito de `Rosario Tijeras`
CARTAGENA DE INDIAS.- En Medellín tiene una lápida con foto. La última morada de Rosario Tijeras, el personaje creado por el escritor Jorge Franco, es visitada en la ciudad donde murió Gardel, que fue base de operaciones de uno de los más sangrientos carteles del narcotráfico en los años 80.
`Rosario Tijeras`, la novela que dio fama internacional a su autor, vendió en siete años más de 150.000 ejemplares sólo en Colombia. Es, además, canción en la música del cantautor Juanes, y film, de la mano del mexicano Emilio Maillé.
Con serenidad, Franco cuenta a LA NACION que, salvo los protagonistas y la historia de amor, todos los hechos son reales. `Los sicarios hervían las balas en agua bendita antes de matar y en el Museo de San Pedro, en Medellín, hay un mausoleo con unos narcos sepultados y 24 horas de música. Estos eran ritos del narcotráfico`, dice el escritor.
La novela de Franco es reclamada por `los muchachos como lectura en las escuelas. Es maravilloso que, en medio de tantas distracciones, a los jóvenes les interese leer una novela`, dice.
`No sé cuál es la clave del éxito de esta novela. El personaje es de carne y hueso. Y el lector lo siente, como yo sufrí escribiéndola`, cuenta Franco, nacido en Medellín. Novelas como la suya, o ` La Virgen de los Sicarios`, de Fernando Vallejo, reciben en Colombia un nombre curioso que ya acuña una tendencia cultural: narcorrealismo o sicaresca, por la mezcla de elementos del sicariato y la picaresca española.
`Los artistas de mi generación tenemos mucho para contar sobre el narcotráfico, porque todos nuestros problemas sociales y políticos como país están ligados a este asunto. Tenemos que contar lo que vemos, lo que oímos y lo que sabemos mientras esto nos afecte de manera tan fuerte. El otro tema en la literatura joven es la violencia urbana y la violencia política actual ligadas al mismo asunto`, dice el narrador. `Los políticos nos han decepcionado profundamente. Mi generación ha ido de la esperanza a la frustración. Por eso hay que apoyar toda iniciativa por la paz`. Franco lo dice una vez más con esperanza, en relación con la erradicación de cultivos de coca y la desmilitarización de Colombia que ocupa hoy al gobierno de Alvaro Uribe.
Para conocer a `Rosario Tijeras` hay que dejarla hablar: `¿Te has fijado que muerte rima con suerte? Es más difícil amar que matar`.
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Adam Cassidy tiene veintiséis años y odia su empleo miserable en una compañía tecnológica, pero su vida cambia por completo cuando le ofrecen convertirse en espía infiltrado en la Trion Systems, el principal competidor de su empresa. Sus superiores le preparan, le proporcionan información sobre su nueva empresa y, en cuanto empieza a trabajar en ella, se convierte en empleado estrella ascendiendo rápidamente a puestos de gran responsabilidad. Ahora su vida es perfecta: adora su trabajo, conduce un Porsche y tiene una novia que quita el sueño; lo único que tiene que hacer para mantener las cosas como están es traicionar a todos los que le rodean.
«Ha llegado el nuevo Grisham… Paranoia es un thriller magistralmente narrado y tremendamente absorbente» People Magazine
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En el mundo del espionaje, poderes extraordinarios es un término que se utiliza para referirse al permiso que se le otorga a un agente secreto de mucha confianza para que en circunstancias extremadamente especiales viole las órdenes de su empleador si es absolutamente necesario para cumplir el objetivo de una misión de suma importancia.
Poderes extraordinarios es una novela de suspenso escrita por un novelista catalogado como uno de los mejores escritores de thrillers del mundo, Joseph Finder, graduado en la universidad de Yale y Harvard.
La novela narra la historia de Ben Ellison, quien se encarga de investigar el accidente que terminó con la vida de su suegro, director de la CIA en el momento más exitoso de su carrera. Pero, aparentemente, no se trata de un accidente. Ben utilizará sus poderes de percepción extrasensorial para buscar al ex jefe de la KGB, el único que puede revelar la verdad. Pero mientras Ben lleva a cabo su investigación, un asesino le asecha.
Joseph Finder describe una conspiración concebida en el corazón de la inteligencia norteamericana. Una fortuna perdida, de origen soviético y habilidades parapsicológicas condimentan una trama muy atrapante.
El libro tiene un valor tremendo, es muy bueno. Además, su autor afirma que si bien ciertas cosas de la novela son parte de la ficción, la historia está basada en hechos históricos muy misteriosos y poco conocidos, pero existen registros muy interesantes que demuestran su veracidad. A medida que se avanza en la lectura, Joseph Finder presenta artículos periodísticos que respaldan su afirmación.
Se trata de una verdadera obra de arte, te la recomiendo.
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Proud, iron-willed Tennessee widow Tamsin MacGreggor is wanted-dead or alive-for a crime she didn't commit. But out West the law is shoot first, ask questions later. So she's running for her life-with notoriously handsome bounty hunter Ash Morgan in hot pursuit.
Tamsin is Morgan's match, shrewd and strong enough to escape his capture. Twice. But catching her now is more than Morgan's duty-it's personal. For somehow she has slipped past his defenses and stolen his well-guarded heart. Their passionate love erupts in the wilds of a harsh, unforgiving land where a bounty hunter must finish his job-and an innocent woman will do whatever it takes to save herself from a hangman's noose…
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