Donna Tartt Libros

No es fácil hacer amigos en una universidad de Nueva Inglaterra siendo un chico modesto y falto de afecto que llega de California. Richard Papen lo sabe y agradece ser admitido en un pequeño grupo de cinco estudiantes liderados por un carismático profesor de literatura clásica. Los chicos, que se ríen de la ingenuidad de los demás y sueltan comentarios en griego, pasan su tiempo bebiendo y consumiendo pastillas. Sin embargo, lo que parecía ser solo diversión se convierte en algo más serio. Richard y su grupo pronto descubren lo complicado que es vivir sin máscaras y lo fácil que es matar sin remordimientos. La novela combina la tensión psicológica, el ritmo de un thriller y la crónica de una juventud que anhela demasiado sin saber qué ofrecer a cambio. El resultado es una obra que se destaca entre las mejores del siglo XX. La historia de estos estudiantes excéntricos, influenciados por su profesor, revela un mundo alejado de la vida común, donde cruzar las fronteras de la moralidad transforma sus vidas para siempre. La narrativa explora las complejidades de la vida y la muerte, dejando una profunda huella en sus personajes.

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last - inexorably - into evil.

"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America, and a drama of almost unbearable acuity and power. It is a story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the enormous power of art"--

This is an anthology of fiction, by those who began publishing in the 1990s. The authors include Terry McMillan, Mark Leyner, Jeffrey Eugenides, Paul Watkins, William Vollman, Darcey Steinke and Dorothy Alison.

Twelve-year-old Harriet is doing her best to grow up, which is not easy as her mother is permanently on medication, her father has silently moved to another city, and her serene sister rarely notices anything. All of them are still suffering from the shocking and mysterious death of her brother Robin twelve years earlier, and it seems to Harriet that the family may never recover. So, inspired by Captain Scott, Houdini, and Robert Louis Stevenson, she sets out with her only friend Hely to find Robin's murderer and punish him. But what starts out as a child's game soon becomes a dark and dangerous journey into the menacing underworld of a small Mississippi town.

Theodore Decker a 13 ans quand sa vie bascule : alors qu'il visite une exposition au Metropolitan de New York avec sa mère, qui attire son attention sur Le Chardonneret, exquise représentation de l'oiseau par Carel Fabritius, élève de Rembrandt et inspirateur de Vermeer -, un attentat à la bombe pulvérise le musée. Theo s'en sort, pas sa mère. Choqué, hagard, il subtilise le fameux tableau, miraculeusement préservé. Le cours de son existence y sera lié à jamais. D'abord accueilli dans la riche famille d'un ami de lycée, le garçon est sommé de suivre son père, un alcoolique qui ne s'est jamais occupé de lui, dans un quartier glauque de Las Vegas. Puis, de retour à New York après la mort brutale de son père, Theo va prendre contact avec un antiquaire de Greenwich et s'immerger dans le milieu des trafiquants d'art - dissimulant toujours son précieux talisman...

Un piccolo raffinato college nel Vermont. Cinque ragazzi ricchi e viziati e il loro insegnante di greco antico, un esteta che esercita sugli allievi una forte seduzione spirituale. A loro si aggiunge un giovane piccolo borghese squattrinato. In pigri weekend consumati tra gli stordimenti di alcol, droga e sottili giochi d'amore, torna a galla il ricordo di un crimine di inaudita violenza. Per nascondere il quale è ora necessario commeterne un altro ancora più spietato...

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last - inexorably - into evil.

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