El color púrpura cuenta, a lo largo de distintas décadas, la intensa vida de Celie, una mujer de la América rural del Sur. Forzada a casarse con un hombre brutal. Celie se retrae y comparte su desgracia sólo con Dios. Celie sufrirá una transformación gracias a la amistad que comparte con dos extraordinarias mujeres, adquiriendo la autoestima y la fuerza que necesita para perdonar.
Janna, bella ed elegante, con alle spalle un solido successo professionale, conosce una piccola e vecchia signora, Maudie, e da questo incontro casuale nasce una stretta amicizia, un legame quasi simbiotico. La prima comincia a condividere le manie e le abitudini della seconda, i suoi malanni senili, e viene così a contatto con un mondo disordinato e dolente ma anche affascinante, che le permette di scoprire dimensioni esistenziali da lei ignorate fino a quel momento. Il diario di Jane Somers si configura, nel panorama contemporaneo della letteratura in lingua inglese, come uno dei più impietosi esperimenti di autoanalisi mai compiuti da uno scrittore.
When Alice B. Toklas was asked to write a memoir, she initially refused. Instead, she wrote The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, a sharply written, deliciously rich cookbook memorializing meals and recipes shared by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wilder, Matisse, and Picasso. And of course by Alice and Gertrude themselves
This legendary Henry Chinaski novel is now available in a newly repackaged trade paperback edition, covering the period of the author's alter-ego from the mid-1950s to his resignation from the United States Postal Service in 1969.
Este gigantesco maratón sexual es un proceso de aprendizaje, de conocimiento, en el que Bukowski no escatima sarcásticas observaciones de si mismo, y en el que el machismo de textos anteriores queda seriamente erosionado; todo ello unido a incontables borracheras. Bukowski parece sugerir que las alternativas - una carrera mas respetable, literaria o la que fuese - son aún más deshumanizadas.
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of dawn. With nothing but goodwill, controlled substances, and wit to sustain him in this anti-quest, he runs until he reaches his reckoning point, where he is forced to acknowledge loss and, possibly, to rediscover his better instincts. This remarkable novel of youth and New York remains one of the most beloved, imitated, and iconic novels in America.
Con el paso del tiempo, en el camino, un libro que fue la biblia y el manifiesto de la generación beat, se ha convertido en una novela de culto y en un clásico de la literatura norteamericana. Con un inconfundible estilo bop, en esta novela se narran los
Fearing that he was directly responsible for the death of his father, an American multimillionaire food magnate, sixteen-year-old Frank Pierson learns of a plot to kidnap him and enlists the aid of Tom Ripley, an American expatriate in Paris
Considerada por muchos un clásico del erotismo contemporáneo, esta novela cuenta, en un primer nivel, la historia del definitivo despertar de Isadora Wing a los placeres de la vida y el sexo. Pero más allá de esta primera lectura, este libro apasionante y divertido es también una novela que han leído las mujeres para aprender a liberarse, y los hombres para aprender acerca de las mujeres
