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Con estas palabras describe la autora Nicole Pierre su novela: "Me ha hecho falta tiempo para comprender que un modo de ser –una tendencia a apostar por la calma, un gusto por la evasión, un rechazo por las pasiones violentas, una apetencia de felicidad contra viento y marea– también había influido profundamente en mi forma de pensar. Me gustaría que este libro, escrito sobre el fondo de dramas pasados, tanto colectivos como privados, sea una lectura vigorizante, un reconstituyente para resistir al mal tiempo actual." En Sálvese quien pueda, la socióloga Nicole Pierre firma una...

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...

Su niñez, su intensa relación con la poetisa y cantante Patti Smith, su introducción en el mundo del arte neoyorquino, su romance con el mecenas Sam Wagstaff, su obsesión por los bajos fondos del sexo en Nueva York y su lucha antes de sucumbir al sida.