Irwin Shaw Libros

La turbulenta familia Jordache, centro argumental de la novela, representa los Estados Unidos de la posguerra, desde las neurosis colectivas de la época McCarthy hasta el boom que siguió a la depresión johnsoniana. Hombre rico, hombre pobre sirvió de argumento para la inolvidable serie de televisión del mismo título.

nº 06 y 07, edicion 1983, traduccion de J. Ferrer Aleu, 685 paginas, tapa dura

A short-story collection dramatizing the author's views of the human condition

In this lively anthology of 21 stories and one classic poem about football, fathers and sons tackle their issues, coaches and quarterbacks collide, and ordinary heroes emerge from the blitz.

New York Times Bestseller: A provocative novel about one man’s struggle with courage and his conscience at the height of McCarthyism. Clement Archer, head of a popular radio show, faces a profound dilemma: Five of his employees stand accused of being communists, and a magazine threatens disclosure unless Archer fires each and every one. Despite his efforts to meet his own moral standards and avoid self-incrimination, Archer finds himself hounded from both ends of the political spectrum for his seemingly righteous actions. The Troubled Air, Irwin Shaw’s second novel, was published immediately before the author moved to Europe, where he lived for the next twenty-five years. The story remains a powerful portrayal of a good, decent man ensnared by the hysteria and cruelty of a dark period in American history.

The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other novelist has since, the scope, confusion, and complexity of war.