Paula Fox Libros

Sophie y Otto Bentwood son una acomodada pareja neoyorquina de mediana edad, sin hijos y con una vida aparentemente envidiable, rodeada de pequeños lujos, alta cultura y amistades cool, que vive en una casa remodelada en un Brooklyn que apenas comienza a gentrificarse. Una noche, un gato callejero muerde a Sophie cuando ella le da de comer. Este accidente, aparentemente anodino, será el pistoletazo de salida de una serie de pequeñas tragedias, de pequeños encuentros y desencuentros que, de manera tan sutil como quirúrgica, dibujan el quebrado y turbulento paisaje interior de Sophie. Convencida de haber contraído la rabia, Sophie parece verlo todo a través de unos ojos febriles y de un malestar impreciso, creciente. Así, el miedo a padecer la enfermedad se mezcla, paulatinamente, con la otra «rabia», con esa combustión interior en la que arden los sueños rotos y el hastío ante una vida sin sentido. «Bajo el caparazón de la vida corriente y sus pactos imperfectos, acechaba la anarquía», reflexiona Sophie en cierto momento. De esa fractura, de esa convulsa y soterrada angustia que subyace bajo la impoluta superficie de la privilegiada pero vacua y convencional cotidianidad de Otto y Sophie trata Personajes desesperados, un libro que juega sabiamente con la tensión entre la mesura y el desgarro para señalar el vértigo y el vacío al que se abren las vidas de sus protagonistas.

Set against the harrowing backdrop of the transatlantic slave trade, a thirteen-year-old boy named Jessie finds himself kidnapped and aboard a ship bound for Africa. Tasked with playing music during the exercise periods for the enslaved individuals, he grapples with the brutal reality of his situation. As he navigates the moral complexities of his role, Jessie must summon courage and resilience to confront the horrors around him and seek a way to survive.

A Great American Novel -- from the author of 'Borrowed Finery'. Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked outside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a half-starved neighbourhood cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague their lives, revealing the faultlines and fractures in a marriage -- and a society -- wrenching itself apart. Includes an introduction by Jonathan Franzen.

Eleven-year-old Clay Garrity is on his own. His father lost his job and left the family. Now Clay's mother is gone from their welfare hotel. Clay is homeless and out on the streets of New York. In the park he meets two homeless men. Buddy and Calvin become Clay's new family during those harsh winter weeks. But the streets are filled with danger and despair. If Clay leaves the streets he may never find his parents again. But if he stays on the streets he may not survive at all.

The retelling of three Italian folktales: Amzat and His brothers, Mezgalten and Olimpia, Cucol and the Door.

An eleven-year-old shoots a stray cat with his new air rifle, subsequently suffers from guilt, and eventually assumes responsibility for it.

A collection of writings by women on the tangled bonds they share with their(often) less-than-perfect mothers. Every woman has something to say on the subject of her mother. In fact, many of us spend our lives trying to figure out just how we are like-or unlike-them. And yet, as intricate as the ties that bind mothers and daughters can be, most women never let go of the desire to really know their mothers. In How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships, women authors explore what is perhaps the most complicated of family relationships. In this elegant collection of writings, daughters describe their relationships with mothers whose own lives sometimes stood in the way of their ability to fill society's ideal of what a good mother should be. With critically acclaimed authors-including Jamaica Kincaid, Paula Fox, and Alice Walker-sharing the page with emerging writers, How I Learned to Cook proves that every daughter has much to discover and understand about her mother.

A young boy who skips school to go to his secret place, a deserted house, is forced to join three older boys in their dognapping ring.

In this elegant and affecting companion to her “extraordinary” memoir, Borrowed Finery, a young writer flings herself into a Europe ravaged by the Second World War (The Boston Globe) In 1946, Paula Fox walked up the gangplank of a partly reconverted Liberty with the classic American hope of finding experience—or perhaps salvation—in Europe. She was twenty-two years old, and would spend the next year moving among the ruins of London, Warsaw, Paris, Prague, Madrid, and other cities as a stringer for a small British news service. In this lucid, affecting memoir, Fox describes her movements across Europe’s scrambled borders: unplanned trips to empty castles and ruined cathedrals, a stint in bombed-out Warsaw in the midst of the Communist election takeovers, and nights spent in apartments here and there with distant relatives, friends of friends, and in shabby pensions with little heat, each place echoing with the horrors of the war. A young woman alone, with neither a plan nor a reliable paycheck, Fox made her way with the rest of Europe as the continent rebuilt and rediscovered itself among the ruins. Long revered as a novelist, Fox won over a new generation of readers with her previous memoir, Borrowed Finery. Now, with The Coldest Winter, she recounts another chapter of a life seemingly filled with stories—a rare, unsentimental glimpse of the world as seen by a writer at the beginning of an illustrious career.

Voller Kraft und Poesie Zum ersten Mal in deutscher Sprache Ein literarisches Meisterwerk für junge Leser Während ihr Vater sich einer Operation unterziehen muss, wird Emma für ein paar Wochen bei ihrer Tante Bea und Onkel Krispin untergebracht. Die beiden leben in einem Strandhaus in Long Island, direkt am Meer. Emma kennt sie kaum und fühlt sich von Anfang an in dieser Umgebung nicht wohl. Tante Bea verhält sich merkwürdig und behandelt das Mädchen mit eisiger Schroffheit, da kann auch Onkel Krispin mit seiner unbeholfenen Herzlichkeit nichts ausrichten. Emma flüchtet aus der beklemmenden Enge des Hauses an den herrlich weiten Strand, wo sie ein Mädchen kennen lernt. Gemeinsam bauen sie über Tage ein Dorf am Meer - aus Steinen, Muscheln, Zweigen und anderem angespülten Strandgut. Voller Stolz erzählt sie ihrem Onkel und ihrer Tante beim Abendessen davon. Tante Beas Eifersucht ist geweckt ... Paula Fox wurde einmal eine »Meisterin des emotionalen Realismus« genannt. In diesem erstmals auf Deutsch erscheinenden Roman für junge Leser beschreibt sie mit untrüglicher Präzision und Einfühlsamkeit die Gefühle eines Kindes in einer hermetisch verschlossenen Erwachsenenwelt.