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The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Sylvia Plath · 2005
<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
Lana Del Rey · 2020
La carretera
Cormac McCarthy · 2007
Barcelona. 21 cm. 236 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. McCarthy, Cormac 1933-. Traducción de Luis Murillo Fort. Traducción de: The road .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 9788467226935
Rebelion En La Granja
George Orwell · 1999
Spanish translation of "Animal farm". A savage satire against totalitarianism and the corrupting influence of power.
Los abismos
Quintana. Pilar · 2021
Una niña contempla con una agudeza y una sensibilidad extraordinaria el conflictivo matrimonio de sus padres. Entre la actitud desdeñosa y las confidencias imprudentes de ella y la amargura y el silencio obstinado de él, intenta construir la realidad que la rodea, conjeturando, adivinando, interpretando lo que no se dice, o lo que se dice a medias.<br/><br/>La vida de Claudia transcurre con normalidad en Cali, una infancia sin preocupaciones, como tantas otras, porque todas las familias felices se parecen. Pero como cada una es infeliz a su manera, de repente irrumpe en la ecuación alguien ajeno a ella que acaba con la armonía. Y entonces ocurre: la vida se convierte en otra cosa cuando se quiebra la línea recta del camino, desbaratada en favor de esos monstruos sin nombre, martilleos constantes hacia la agonía de sufrir cada minuto y acariciar los abismos, fríos, crueles, invisibles y despiadados.<br/><br/>Con el telón de fondo del estrecho universo femenino formado por mujeres acomodadas a su vida, que no pueden romper con una educación de otro tiempo, Pilar Quintana ha construido una novela intimista, con una voz narradora deslumbrante en su ingenuidad que, desde la memoria del hogar, conduce al lector por las obsesiones que pueblan la niñez de la que se está despidiendo.<br/><br/>«Los abismos se adentra en la oscuridad del mundo de los adultos a través del punto de vista de una niña que, desde la memoria de su vida familiar, intenta comprender la conflictiva relación entre sus padres. Con el telón de fondo de un mundo femenino de mujeres atadas a la rueda de una noria de la que no pueden o no saben escapar, la autora ha creado una historia poderosa narrada desde una aparente ingenuidad que contrasta con la atmósfera desdichada que rodea a la protagonista. Con una prosa sutil y luminosa en la que la naturaleza nos conecta con las posibilidades simbólicas de la literatura, y los abismos son tanto los reales como los de la intimidad.»
Luna llena
Aki Shimazaki · 2022
Una gran novela breve en torno al amor y los secretos de quienes nos rodean.<br/>«Bajo esta prosa notablemente sobria, compacta y controlada, palpita un volcán.» Le Devoir<br/>«Una tierna reflexión sobre el lugar que ocupan los recuerdos.» Le Monde<br/>En una pequeña localidad japonesa, el matrimonio compuesto por Tetsuo y Fujiko Niré vive apaciblemente en una residencia en cuyos jardines cantan toda clase de cigarras. Son ya abuelos, y se mudaron allí cuando ella, Fujiko, empezó a mostrar síntomas de alzhéimer. Y una mañana, al levantarse, Fujiko, extrañada, no reconoce a Tetsuo, su marido. Gracias a una improvisada ayuda, Fujiko se tranquiliza: una enfermera de la residencia le dice que Tetsuo es su novio, el prometido que, según la antigua tradición japonesa, ha conocido gracias a un encuentro, un miai. A partir de ese momento, Tetsuo no solo se enfrentará a situaciones que lo desconcertarán, sino que, ante todo, tendrá que decidir si quiere convertirse en el novio de la que ha sido su esposa durante décadas. Porque las sorpresas solo acaban de empezar.
Lo que no tiene nombre
Bonnett Piedad · 2022
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Down the Drain
Julia Fox · 2023
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<br/><br/>The hotly anticipated book from “one of the all-time pop-culture greats” (New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams.<br/><br/>Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow, and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media, where she entertains and educates her millions of followers. But all these share the trait for which she is most famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself.<br/><br/>This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in Down the Drain. With writing that is both eloquent and accessible, Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: her parents’ volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs “The Artist”; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son. Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn’t just capture her improbable evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience—it’s all here, in raw, remarkable, and riveting detail.<br/><br/>More than a year before the book’s publication, Fox’s description of it as “a masterpiece” in a red carpet interview went viral. As always, she was just being honest. Down the Drain is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.
When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal
Brianna Wiest · 2022
Stop having hard conversations with people who don’t want to change.<br/>Stop showing up for people who are indifferent about your presence. Stop prioritizing people who make you an option. Stop loving people who aren’t ready to love you. The reality is that you exist in so many different forms and images and beliefs and stories—and yet, the only one that is ever really going to matter is the one you tell yourself. Healing is not a one-time event. It can begin with a one-time event — typically some form of sudden loss that disrupts our projection of what the future might be. However, the true work of healing is allowing that disruption to wake us from a deep state of unconsciousness, to release the personas we adapted into, and begin consciously piecing together the full truth of who we were meant to be. In her follow-up collection to the international bestseller 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, Brianna Wiest shares 45+ new pieces that will help you find your inner sanctum and embark on the path of true transformation. Wiest’s words are a balm for any soul on the journey of their own becoming.
La decisión
Viola Ardone, Maria Borri · 2023
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
Lo que pasa es que te quiero: Poemas de amor (y desamor)
Gloria Fuertes · 2023
Para Gloria Fuertes el amor era algo involuntario, como la poesía o el hipo. Curiosa, melancólica y mordaz, durante toda su vida amó y escribió con un espíritu de libertad y ternura insólito en la España de su época. Le rompieron el corazón mil veces, y mil veces lo recompuso para seguir queriendo. Esta antología se centra en la faceta más íntima de Gloria a través de un centenar de poemas que navegan entre el amor y el desamor, llenos de camas, bocas, desvanes, lágrimas, ríos, cuerpos y noches en vela. Un imaginario personal de una poeta única, isla ignorada, «Patrona de los Amores Prohibidos».
Bunny
Mona Awad · 2020
The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of rich girls.<br/>'We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?'<br/>Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort – a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny', and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one.<br/>But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled 'Smut Salon', and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door – ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the sinister yet saccharine world of the Bunnies, the edges of reality begin to blur, and her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies are brought into deadly collision.<br/>A spellbinding, down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, creativity and agency, and friendship and desire, Bunny is the dazzlingly original second book from the author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl.
