Sinopsis
Chappy amaba a los niños, los amaba tanto -especialmente a Alice, una enigmática niña de doce años- y de maneras tan prohibidas, que desde hace veintitrés años está en la cárcel. Vive allí en un infierno de cuerpos maduros y homosexualidad, en una oscura jerarquía de dominación y sometimiento, hasta que un día comienza a recibir las cartas de una joven universitaria que ha vuelto a casa por vacaciones y planea seducir a un niño de doce años, fascinada ella también por la inmadurez, por la terrible y excitante inocencia de la fruta verde. ¿Y quién puede saber de esto más que Chappy? Al comienzo, el recluso y su corresponsal no muestran todas su cartas, en un juego de fingimientos y medias verdades. Pero poco a poco, entre mentiras, trampas y trampantojos, irá surgiendo la atroz verdad del prisionero, que se presenta como un doliente Humbert Humbert, desolada y triste víctima de sus deseos, y también la verdad de su joven corresponsal y cómplice, que ya mira con los ojos perversos de un adulto el territorio de la infancia, pero está ella misma perdida en la desolación del pasaje a la madurez, en la soledad de una tierra de nadie de la sexualidad y de la vida.
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Autor
A.M. Homes
Author
A.M. Homes is the author of the novels, The Unfolding, May We Be Forgiven, which won the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music For Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the short-story collections, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects, the travel memoir, Los Angeles: People, Places and The Castle on the Hill, and the artist's book Appendix A: An Elaboration on the Novel the End of Alice. In April of 2007 Viking published her long awaited memoir, The Mistress's Daughter, the story of the author being "found" by her biological family, and a literary exploration and investigation of identity, adoption and genealogical ties that bind. Her work has been translated into eighteen languages and appears frequently in Art Forum, Harpers, Granta, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Zoetrope. She is a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair, Bomb and Blind Spot. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, NYFA, and The Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library, along with the Benjamin Franklin Award, and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. In addition she has been active on the Boards of Directors of Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center In Provincetown, The Writers Room, and PEN-where she chairs both the membership committee and the Writers Fund. Additionally she serves on the Presidents Council for Poets and Writers. A.M. Homes was a writer/producer of the hit television show The L Word in 2004-2005 and wrote the adaptation of her first novel JACK, for Showtime. The film aired in 2004 and won an Emmy Award for Stockard Channing. Director Rose Troche's film adaptation of The Safety of Objects was released in 2003, and Troche is currently developing In A Country of Mothers as well. Music For Torching is in development with director Steven Shainberg with a script by Buck Henry, and This Book Will Save Your Life is in Development with Stone Village Pictures. Born in Washington D.C., she now lives in New York City.
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Detalles editoriales
editorial
Editorial Anagrama
formato
Paperback
páginas
280
idioma
Spanish; Castilian
publicación
1999-01-01
isbn
9788433972620
kindle
$8.99