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Una brillante nueva novela por el maestro contemporáneo de las letras americanas, autor de Ragtime y La gran marcha. Doctorow nos embarca en un viaje extremo a lo más profundo de la mente de un hombre que es su peor enemigo.Cuando le habla a un interlocutor desconocido, Andrew esta pensando, hablando, contandonos la historia de su vida, sus amores y las tragedias que lo han llevado a este momento y lugar concretos. A medida que va confesando y que va quitando capas a su extraña historia, nos vemos forzados a cuestionarnos lo que sabemos de la verdad y la memoria, del cerebro y la mente, la personalidad y el destino, sobre el otro y nosotros mismos. Escrito con profundidad y precision lirica, esta novela que juega con el suspense y experimentacion formal resulta perfecta para nuestros tiempos: divertida, incisiva, esceptica, traviesa y profunda. El cerebro de Andrew es un giro de tuerca y un logro singular en la obra de un autor cuya prosa tiene el poder de crear su propio paisaje y cuyo gran tema, en palabras de Don DeLillo es 'el alcance del concepto de lo posible en Estados Unidos, en que cabe que vidas ordinarias adopten la cadencia que marca historia'.

To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally protege to one of the great murdering gangsters of the Depression-era underworld in New York City. The luminous transformation of fact into fiction that is E. L. Doctorow's trademark comes to triumphant fruition in Billy Bathgate," "a peerless coming-of-age tale and one of Doctorow's boldest and most beloved bestsellers.

Nueva York a finales del siglo XX es, difícilmente, la ciudad que San Agustín soñó. Lo que sí es: una metrópolis que está a punto de entrar en un nuevo milenio, en la que el caos reina y donde Dios brilla por su ausencia. En otoño de 1999 una cruz de laton desparece del altar de una iglesia episcopaliana del East Village para aparecer mas tarde en el techo de una sinagoga del Upper West Side. Everett, un escritor en busca de inspiracion, se interesara por este extraño suceso y con esa excusa entablara una relacion amistosa el parroco de la iglesia saqueada, el librepensador Thomas Pemberton. Al mismo tiempo, el parroco conocera al rabino Joshua Gruen, que dirige la sinagoga donde aparece finalmente la cruz. Juntos discuten sobre lo valido de la religion en un siglo que ha vivido barbaries inconcebibles con un derramamiento de sangre que pareciera inacabable. Como punto de fuga de estas conversaciones encontramos a Sarah Blumenthal, la esposa de Joshua y rabino ella misma. Este personaje nos habla de la historia de su padre durante el Holocausto y de un manuscrito que escondio en el gueto. Todas estas voces entrecruzadas constituyen el bastidor que da cuerpo a una novela que oscila entre la tragedia mas desconcertante y la comedia del absurdo; que incluye partes de letras de canciones populares de las tres primeras decadas del siglo XX asi como especulaciones sobre la naturaleza del infinito; que contiene los apuntes de un observador de aves y una descripcion en verso libre de una batalla aerea de la segunda Guerra MundialEste es el lienzo sobre el que Doctorow pinta un retrato impresionista de un hombre de fragil moral y de sus posibilidades de redencion.

From a master of modern American letters comes an enthralling collection of brilliant short fiction about people who, as E L Doctorow notes in his Preface, are somehow "distinct from their surroundings_people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world...

Brilliant brothers Langley and Homer Collyer are born into bourgeois New York comfort in settled times, their home a fin-de-siecle mansion on upper Fifth Avenue, their future rosy But before he is out of his teens Homer begins to lose his sight, Langley returns from the War in Europe with his lungs seared by gas, and when the death of their parents in the influenza epidemic of 1918 leaves the brothers orphaned, they seem perilously ill-equipped to deal with the new era...

* A new masterpiece from E. L. Doctorow - the story of two eccentric New York brothers adapting to life in a century of change, it is humane, wise, funny and moving.

This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been an inadvertent agent of disaster. Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves. Written with psychological depth and great lyrical precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking novel delivers a voice for our times-funny, probing, skeptical, mischievous, profound. Andrew's Brain is a surprising turn and a singular achievement in the canon of a writer whose prose has the power to create its own landscape, and whose great topic, in the words of Don DeLillo, is "the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history."

This novel recounts the interrelated early 20th-century lives of the families of a New Rochelle manufacturer, an immigrant socialist, and a Harlem musician and their involvement with Evelyn Nesbit, Henry Ford, Houdini, Morgan, Freud, Zapata, and other period notables.

Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J. P. Morgan dominates the financial world and Henry Ford manufactures cars by making men into machines. Emma Goldman preaches free love and feminism, while ex-chorus girl Evelyn Nesbitt inspires a mad millionaire to murder the architect Stanford White. In this stunningly original chronicle of an age, such real-life characters intermingle with three remarkable families, one black, one Jewish, and one prosperous WASP, to create a dazzling literary mosaic that brings to life an era of dire poverty, fabulous wealth, and incredible change in short, the era of ragtime.