Sinopsis
La pequeña y tranquila ciudad portuaria de St. Botolphs hace tiempo que dejó atrás su época de máximo esplendor. Allí, en la costa nororiental estadounidense, viven los Wapshot, una familia que también conoció tiempos mejores. Su núcleo familiar lo forman Leander, un venerable lobo de mar; su mujer Sarah, una mujer respetada en la localidad; sus jóvenes hijos Moses y Coverly, cuyo futuro parece perfilarse lejos de St. Botolphs, y la excéntrica y tiránica tía Honora, la única Wapshot que aún posee algo de patrimonio.
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Autor
John Cheever
Author
John Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs" or "the Ovid of Ossining." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the suburbs of Westchester, New York, and old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born. His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character's decorous social persona and inner corruption, and sometimes as a conflict between two characters (often brothers) who embody the salient aspects of both--light and dark, flesh and spirit. Many of his works also express a nostalgia for a vanishing way of life, characterized by abiding cultural traditions and a profound sense of community, as opposed to the alienating nomadism of modern suburbia.
Detalles editoriales
editorial
RBA
formato
Hardcover
páginas
385
idioma
Spanish; Castilian
publicación
2013-03-08
isbn
9788490065051
kindle
$11.99
Premios
National Book Award
Fiction · Ganado
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