Cathleen Schine Libros

Divorcio en Nueva York cuenta la historia de Betty Weissmann, abandonada por su marido después de 48 años de matrimonio, y de sus dos hijas mayores, Miranda y Annie, ambas hijas de un primer matrimonio de Betty. Las tres se encuentran de manera imprevista en la calle, sin poder permitirse ni siquiera el lujo de alquilar un piso en Manhattan. Cuando Betty se ve exiliada del lujoso apartamento en el que vivía con su marido, se refugia con sus dos hijas en una casa de verano vieja y poco habitable en Westport, Connecticut, un cottage propiedad de su viejo y rico primo Lou. Divorcio en Nueva York es una recreación respetuosa de la famosa novela de Jane Austen, Sentido y sensibilidad, un remake hecho desde la devoción y con un gran sentido del humor. La hermanas Weissmann se relacionarán con la aristocracia de Westport y pasarán grandes apuros para mantener su dignidad herida antes de que finalmente el amor haga acto de presencia en sus vidas. Miranda y Annie debatirán entre los estragos de la pasión y las exigencias de la razón. Cathleen Schine ha asombrado al público estadounidense con esta magnífica comedia romántica, una recreación del mundo de Jane Austen que nos descubre una nueva autora a tener en cuenta.

En una manzana de Nueva York conviven personajes de lo mas variopinto: una solterona resignada a no encontrar la pareja ideal, una celestina obsesionada por planear citas a ciegas para su hermano, un ligón empedernido, un divorciado desengañado del amor... Lo que une a Everett, Jody, Simon y Polly es su pasión por los perros. Y son sus adorables mascotas las que terminan por convertirse en tiernos cupidos que lanzan flechas a sus amos..., aunque suelan equivocarse de objetivo. Go Go Grill, el restaurante a la par que ONG del barrio, será la cocina donde se cuezan los enredos en los que se verán envueltos los protagonistas de esta deliciosa comedia coral.

An enchanting, comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language. From the author compared to Nora Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new novel celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language. The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist, devotes herself to preserving the dignity and elegance of Standard English. Laurel, who gives up teaching kindergarten to write poetry, is drawn, instead, to the polymorphous, chameleon nature of the written and spoken word. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war, absurdly but passionately, over custody of their most prized family heirloom: Merriam Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition. Cathleen Schine has written a playful and joyful celebration of the interplay of language and life. A dazzling comedy of sisterly and linguistic manners, a revelation of the delights and stresses of intimacy, The Grammarians is the work of one of our great comic novelists at her very best.

From one of America’s greatest comic novelists, a hilarious new novel about aging, family, loneliness, and loveThe Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws, and same-sex spouses. But families don’t just grow, they grow old, and the clan’s matriarch, Joy, is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would have wished. When Joy’s beloved husband dies, Molly and Daniel have no shortage of solutions for their mother’s loneliness and despair, but there is one challenge they did not count on: the reappearance of an ardent suitor from Joy’s college days. And they didn’t count on Joy herself, a mother suddenly as willful and rebellious as their own kids.The New York Times–bestselling author Cathleen Schine has been called “full of invention, wit, and wisdom that can bear comparison to [ Jane] Austen’s own” (The New York Review of Books), and she is at her best in this intensely human, profound, and honest novel about the intrusion of old age into the relationships of one loving but complicated family. They May Not Mean To, But They Do is a radiantly compassionate look at three generations, all coming of age together.

There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed the fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

A “gem of a novel” that sends up marriage, academia, and literary stardom, by the New York Times–bestselling author of They May Not Mean To, But They Do (Publishers Weekly). In this delightful novel from an author who “has been favored in so many ways by the muse of comedy,” we meet Margaret Nathan, the brilliant but forgetful author of an unlikely bestseller (The New York Review of Books). Happily married to a benevolently egotistical, slightly dull but sexy professor, Margaret seems blessed—until she finds herself seduced by an eighteenth-century novel she discovers in the library. Wrapped in its lascivious world, Margaret begins to imitate its protagonist, embarking on a hilarious jaunt around Manhattan in search of renewed passion. Will she find fulfillment through her escapades or settle for her husband? Part romantic comedy, part intellectual parody, Rameau’s Niece is wise, affecting, and thoroughly entertaining.

Ein anonymer Liebesbrief bringt die wohlgeordnete Welt der attraktiven Helen McFarquhar aus dem Gleichgewicht: ob geschrieben vom »Jungen in Flammen« oder nur ein belangloser Scherz, der Brief verstrickt die kühle Verführerin in Leidenschaften, die in ihrem Leben eigentlich gar keinen Platz mehr haben. Ein unbeschwerter, sommerlicher Wandel auf dem Pfad der Selbsterkenntnis, wenn man sich Helen McFarquhar verwandt fühlt.

When Jane unexpectedly encounters her cousin, Martha, in the Galapagos Islands, she feels that she finally has the opportunity to talk to her about their deteriorating friendship and find out what it was that caused their once strong bond to end so suddenly. Reprint.

Alice è seducente, irresistibile e irriverente verso il mondo dei maschi. Nella sua camera d'ospedale, dove è costretta all'immobilità da una malattia misteriosa, entrano e escono genitori stravaganti, innamorati respinti, spasimanti bizzarri. Il suo letto diventa così un folle volano, un osservatorio dal quale il lettore può intuire gli spazi smisurati dei desideri, i sentimenti che durano solo un minuto, le fantasie amorose più trasgressive.

Sono come lei racconta a storia di tre donne, intimamente legate nel bene e nel male. Sono madri e figlie la cui vita prende una svolta inaspettata quando la passione e la malattia irrompono con forza nella loro esistenza. Elizabeth, giovane studiosa di Flaubert, viene convocata a Hollywood da un brillante produttore cinematografico che le commissiona una sceneggiatura ispirata a Madame Bovary. Il tema dell'adulterio è un soggetto delicato per chi, come lei, è refrattaria a sposarsi pur essendo legata da anni allo stesso uomo. Le cose si complicano quando sua madre, una donna dolce e accomodante, le chiede di aiutarla perché la nonna, un'eccentrica e viziata ottantenne, ha scoperto di avere un tumore alla pelle del viso.