Luces del último siglo III

Un grupo de amigos entrañables experimentan durante sus tumultuosos años adolescentoides a la vez que navegan la música y vida del México de los años 50s.

It was a time of tense emotion. Each was a surge with an almost uncontrollable excitement as the two men moved up the whole length of the riffled sluice. Neither uttered one single word. But they moved slowly on either side of the long, primitive, box-like construction, keeping pace, each with the other, as though in a mutual desire that such fortune as was theirs should be witnessed together, as though neither had courage to face alone the possibilities of this their first serious "washing." At each riffle the men paused. The more emotional of the two, Len Stern, thrust out a hand and...

Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered to comfort his widow, and to pay their respects to one of the last great romantics. As they trade tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and consuming sorrow, a complex portrait emerges of an enigmatic man, a loyal friend, a beloved husband, an incurable alcoholic. Alice McDermott's striking novel, Charming Billy, is a study of the lies that bind and the weight of familial love, of the way good intentions can be as destructive as the truth they were meant to hide. Charming Billy is the winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction.

Las exóticas playas de Corfú son un lugar inigualable para encontrar el amor verdadero... ¡o al menos para tener un fabuloso romance! Y eso es exactamente lo que Philly Angelis necesita. Después de todo, ha sobrevivido a un amor no correspondido... y a una proposición sexual vergonzosamente rechazada. Volar a Grecia para empaparse de su sensualidad, así como para encontrar a un hombre apasionado que le haga olvidarse de su enamoramiento de largos años, parece el antídoto perfecto.Roman Oliver no puede creer lo que está haciendo. Philly es la hermana pequeña de su mejor amigo,...