Andrew Sean Greer

"Todos creemos conocer a los que amamos. Pero lo que amamos resulta ser una mala traducción, una traducción hecha por nosotros mismos de un idioma que apenas dominamos." Pearlie Cook inicia el relato de su vida con una sinuosa y devastadora exploracion del misterio que encierra toda relacion intima. Estamos en 1953, y la joven Pearlie vive en San Francisco, donde cuida celosamente de su hijo y de su marido, Holland, de salud delicada desde que volvio de la guerra. Para protegerlo de sobresaltos innecesarios, Pearlie suaviza el sonido de los timbres de la puerta y el telefono, y elimina del periodico las noticias desagradables. La vida familiar transcurre con placidez y armonia hasta que, una mañana, un desconocido aparece en la puerta de su casa, y todo cambia. El relato de Pearlie, reflexivo y sutil, sobrio y pausado, cobra creciente intensidad con inesperadas y sorprendentes revelaciones que mantendran en vilo al lector hasta el desenlace. Ultima novela de Andrew Sean Greer -que se situo en el panorama literario internacional gracias al enorme exito de Las confesiones de Max Tivoli-, Historia de un matrimonio ha alcanzado las listas de mas vendidos en Estados Unidos,Francia, Italia e Inglaterra.

''All writers of fiction should be required by law to go out and do a bit of reporting from time to time, just to remind them how different the real world in front of their eyes is from the invented world behind them''. This is what Frayn did in mid-career, when he took up his old trade, journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles for the Observer about some of the places in the world that interested him. He wanted to describe ''not the extraordinary but the ordinary, the typical, the everyday'' and his accounts became the starting-point for some of the novels and plays he wrote later. From a kibbutz in Israel to summer rains in Japan, bicycles in Cambridge to Notting Hill at the end of the 1950s, they are glimpses of a world which sometimes seems tantalisingly familar, sometimes vanished forever. Features some of the places in the world that interested the author. From a kibbutz in Israel to summer rains in Japan, bicycles in Cambridge to Notting Hill at the end of the 1950s, this title presents the glimpses of a world which sometimes seems familar, sometimes vanished forever.

A "Today" show Summer Reads Pick, "The Story of a Marriage" is set in a climate of fear and repression--political, sexual, and racial--and portrays three people trapped by the confines of their era, and the desperate measures they are prepared to take to escape it.

It is 1985, and Greta Wells wishes she lived in any time but this one: she has lost her brother to AIDS, her lover Nathan to another woman, and can not seem to go on alone. To ease her sadness, her doctor suggest an unusual procedure, one that opens doors of insight into the relationships in her life, her conflicting affections, and the limitations put on a woman's life. Throughout, Greta glimpses versions of war, history, herself, and the people she loves, and as the procedures come to an end, she realizes she must make a choice: one which will close every door but one, forever.

Pearlie Cook inicia el relato de su vida con una sinuosa y devastadora exploración del misterio que encierra toda relación íntima. Estamos en 1953, y la joven Pearlie vive en San Francisco, en una apartada y neblinosa zona residencial junto al oceano. Alli, cuida celosamente de su hijo y de su apuesto marido, Holland, de salud delicada desde que volvio de la guerra. Para protegerlo de sobresaltos innecesarios, Pearlie suaviza el sonido de los timbres de la puerta y el telefono, y elimina del periodico las noticias desagradables. La vida familiar transcurre con placidez y armonia hasta que, una mañana, un desconocido aparece en la puerta de su casa, y todo cambia.El relato de Pearlie, reflexivo y sutil, sobrio y pausado, cobra creciente intensidad con inesperadas y sorprendentes revelaciones sobre si misma, sobre su marido, sobre su pasado que mantendran en vilo al lector hasta el desenlace.Ultima novela de Andrew Sean Greer que se situo en el panorama literario internacional gracias al enorme exito de Las confesiones de Max Tivoli, acogida con inusitado entusiasmo por la critica, Historia de un matrimonio esta ambientada en la America de la posguerra, los años de la guerra de Corea, la segregacion racial y el juicio de los Rosenberg. Una epoca de supuesta inocencia y simplicidad, que en realidad estuvo marcada por las barreras invisibles del miedo y el silencio. El libro ha alcanzado las listas de mas vendidos en Estados Unidos, Francia, Italia e Inglaterra.

El torpe pero adorable Arthur Less regresa en un inolvidable viaje por carretera a través de los Estados Unidos Del autor de Less, Premio Pulitzer 2018 Por sorprendente que resulte, a Arthur Less la

LESS (PULITZER PRIZE FICTION 2018)

It is 1985, and Greta Wells wishes she lived in any time but this one: she has lost her brother to AIDS, her lover Nathan to another woman, and can not seem to go on alone.To ease her sadness, her doctor suggest an unusual procedure, one that opens doors of insight into the relationships in her life, her conflicting affections, and the limitations put on a woman's life. Throughout, Greta glimpses versions of war, history, herself, and the people she loves, and as the procedures come to an end, she realizes she must make a choice: one which will close every door but one, forever.

We are each the love of someone's life." So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other.Born with the physical appearance of an elderly man, Max grows older mentally like any child, but his body appears to age backwards, growing younger every year. And yet, his physical curse proves to be a blessing, allowing him to try to win the heart of the same woman three times as at each successive encounter she fails to recognize him, taking him for a stranger, so giving Max another chance at love.Set against the historical backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century, Andrew Sean Greer's The Confessions of Max Tivoli is a beautiful and daring feat of the imagination, questioning the very nature of love, time, and what it means to be human.

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So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. At his birth, Max''s father declares him a ''Nisse'', a creature of Danish myth: for the baby boy has the external physical appearance of an old, dying creature. Yet, as Max ages, his body will grow younger...Max''s curse will prove also his blessing: in youth, he falls hopelessly for neighbourhood girl Alice. But with age he will grow into a stranger to her eyes, and so be granted another chance at love. Out of the womb in 1871, Max Tivoli looked to all the world like a tiny 70-year-old man. But inside the aged body was an infant. Victim of a rare disease, Max grows physically younger as his mind matures. In Andrew Sean Greer''s finely crafted novel, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Max narrates his life story from the vantage point of his late fifties, though his body is that of a 12-year-old boy. He has known since a young age that he is destined to die at 70, and he wears a golden ''1941'' as a constant reminder of the year he will finally perish in an infant form. His mother, a Carolina belle concerned over her son''s troubling appearance, curses Max with ''The Rule'': ''Be what they think you are.'' Max fails to keep this Rule only a handful of times in his life, but it is the burden of living by it that wounds him and slowly alienates him from the people he loves. Over Max''s narration of the preceding decades of his life, he offers outsider''s snapshots of San Francisco and all of America across the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Throughout, Greer uses the literary device of reverse aging to interrogate the evolution of social conventions, the finitude of a human life, and the decay of memory. Max wants love. But his curse destines him to deception. He loses his wife, Alice, changes his name, and remains hidden from his own son to keep his true identity secret. Only his lifelong friend, Hughie, stands by Max and can see the person inside the anachronistic body. Like the best science fiction and myth, the novel uses its central conceit to reveal human prejudice and explode all assumptions of normalcy to profound effect.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less.A riveting and fascinating novel full of stunning observations and brilliant moments of truth and sympathy. Colm TóibínIt is 1953, and in San Francisco Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself caring for both her husbands fragile health and her polio-afflicted son. Then one morning someone from her husbands past appears on their doorstep. His arrival throws all the certainties by which Pearlie has lived into doubt, and is brought face to face with the desperate measures people are prepared to take to escape the confines of their lives.

It is 1985, and Greta Wells wishes she lived in any time but this one: she has lost her brother to AIDS, her lover Nathan to another woman, and can not seem to go on alone. To ease her sadness, her doctor suggest an unusual procedure, one that opens doors of insight into the relationships in her life, her conflicting affections, and the limitations put on a womans life. Throughout, Greta glimpses versions of war, history, herself, and the people she loves, and as the procedures come to an end, she realizes she must make a choice: one which will close every door but one, forever.

Its 1965, on a small island in the South Pacific, a group of astronomers gather to witness the passing of a comet, but when a young boy dies during a meteor shower, the lives of the scientists and their loved ones change in subtle yet profound ways.Andrew Sean Greers remarkable and sweeping novel is an exploration into chances taken and lost, of love found and broken, and of times gravitational pull on the lives of everyday and extraordinary people.

Absolute joy' Sarah Winman'The funniest of writers. . . Villa Coco is such a sunny book' Kate Atkinson'Every sentence in this novel sings' David Sedaris'Eccentric, funny, touching: I adored it' Nina Stibbe'Sheer, riotous, unmitigated joy' Kiran Millwood HargraveBroke and directionless, our young protagonist takes a job in the Italian countryside as the assistant to Lisabetta - better known to her friends as Coco - a strong-willed, wealthy aristocrat of great local renown.Trained as an archivist, he thinks he's been hired to catalogue the contents of the beautiful, crumbling mansion nestled in the green Tuscan hills. But what are his actual duties? Days are spent in a series of increasingly eccentric pursuits: entertaining an endless carousel of guests (from bohemian painters to elderly princesses to unnervingly handsome nephews), attending a funeral in order to make off with the urn, and aiding and abetting Coco's great and final plan - to reunite with the lost love of her life before it's too late.As summer turns into autumn and the Italian countryside begins to work its magic, the secrets of Villa Coco and its inhabitants are slowly brought to light - and with them, an unforgettable story of the enduring power of friendship.A 'charm novel' for our times, Villa Coco is a sun-drenched paean to youth, to age and to the fulfilment of love - filled with great wisdom and a spirit of unadulterated joy.

The new novel from the author of Less, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and an international bestseller

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 'You will sob little tears of joy' Nell Zink 'I recommend it with my whole heart' Ann Patchett 'I adore this book' Armistead Maupin 'Charming, languid and incredibly funny, I absolutely adored Arthur' Jenny Colgan 'Marvellously, endearingly, unexpectedly funny' Gary Shteyngart 'Bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful' New York Times Book Review 'A fast and rocketing read . . . a wonderful, wonderful book!' Karen Joy Fowler 'Hilarious, and wise, and abundantly funny' Adam Haslett WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM YOUR PROBLEMS? Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on his desk to half-baked literary events around the world. From France to India, Germany to Japan, Arthur almost falls in love, almost falls to his death, and puts miles between him and the plight he refuses to face. Less is a novel about mishaps, misunderstandings and the depths of the human heart.