MICHAEL COLLINS

La noche de la inauguración del curso en la Universidad de Bannockburn, el profesor de literatura E. Robert Pendleton decide suicidarse. Han sido demasiados años de desplantes académicos y fracasos literarios. Pero tampoco le acompaña la suerte en esta ultima mision y en lugar de morir, cae en un profundo coma. Cuando Adi, una doctoranda que investiga la obra de Pendleton, descubre una novela inedita en el sotano de la casa del autor y la publica convencida de su genialidad, al escritor parece llegarle por fin el reconocimiento. Pero desde su silla de ruedas, Pendleton no es consciente de que pronto saldran a la luz las sorprendentes similitudes entre el asesinato a sangre fria que cierra la novela, y el caso real de una niña torturada hasta la muerte diez años antes.

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'There was a new beginning. He felt it everywhere, in the sweep of change, in the simple pronouncement of 'Yes we can!" It's 2008 and Norman Price - a moderately successful forty-something playwright living in Chicago - considers the shuddering impact of the financial crash. What's needed, he thinks, is the will for a new existence. When his parents die, one shortly after the other, The New Existence becomes Norman's mantra as he tries to recalibrate his own shaken world. Into Norman's tentative re-building, a couple of bombshells are dropped. His parents' old house has to go on the market, forcing him to revisit the past. And then he receives a mysterious email from a man he has never met but whose name is instantly, painfully, familiar. Norman's new existence is suddenly threatened by past secrets. Michael Collins takes post 9/11 America as the background for a deeply moving novel about complex identities and the fragility of humanity.

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For Robert Pendleton, a professor clinging to tenure and living in the shambles of his once-bright literary career, death seems to be the only remaining option. But his suicide attempt fails, halted at the last moment by the intervention of Adi Wiltshire, a graduate student battling her own demons of failure and thwarted ambition. During Pendleton''s long convalescence, Adi discovers a novel hidden in his basement: a brilliant, semi-autobiographical story with a gruesome child-murder at its core.The publication of Scream causes a storm of publicity: a whirlwind into which Adi, Horowitz and the still-incapacitated Pendleton are thrust. The novel is treated as an existential masterpiece and looks set to bring its author the success he''s always sought - when, ironically, he is no longer in a condition to appreciate it - until questions begin to be asked about its content: in particular about the uncanny resemblance between Pendleton''s fictional crime and a real-life, unresolved local murder. Enter Jon Ryder, a world-weary detective who could have walked off the pages of a police thriller, and the hunt for the murderer is on.

Nel luglio 1969, Michael Collins pilota il modulo di comando dellApollo 11, consentendo ai compagni di viaggio Neil Armstrong e Buzz Aldrin di calpestare per la prima volta la superficie di un altro corpo celeste; un evento definito la piu grande avventura dellumanita.In questo appassionante libro di memorie, Collins racconta in modo personale e senza filtri il dramma, la bellezza e persino lumorismo di quellepica missione. Ma ripercorre anche la sua carriera professionale, dalle prime esperienze di volo nellAeronautica militare alle vicende come pilota collaudatore, fino al coinvolgimento nel progetto Gemini e alla sua prima passeggiata spaziale con la Gemini 10, prologo alla successiva missione lunare che lo ha consegnato alla Storia.Dotato di un raro talento come scrittore e di un animo definito riflessivo e poetico dai suoi colleghi astronauti, Michael Collins riesce a descrivere le proprie esperienze in modo piu vivido e coinvolgente di chiunque altro abbia volato nello spazio.Mai troppo tecnica, sempre schietta e sincera, la sua narrazione e caratterizzata da momenti di introspezione che ci permettono di condividere episodi indimenticabili, come quando si trovo a contemplare in solitaria lintero genere umano, raccolto sulla Terra e sulla Luna osservate attraverso gli oblo della sua navicella Columbia.Questa appassionante autobiografia non e una semplice cronaca delle missioni aeree e spaziali di Collins, ma una fondamentale ed emblematica testimonianza di unepoca in cui lo slancio verso lo spazio ha davvero rappresentato un grande balzo per lumanita.

Michael Collins (16 October 1890 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th century struggle for Irish independence. During the War of Independence he was Director of Intelligence of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and a government minister of the self-declared Irish Republic. He was then Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State from January 1922 and commander-in-chief of the National Army from July until his death in an ambush in August 1922, during the Civil War.Collins bequeathed to posterity a considerable body of writing: essays, speeches and tracts, articles and official documents in which he outlined plans for Irelands economic and cultural revival, as well as a voluminous correspondence, both official and personal. Selections have been published in The Path to Freedom and Michael Collins in His Own Words.