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Burroughs and Kerouac: Two Outsiders Lost in Mexico This edition comprises two texts that explore the voyages of William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, who traveled to Mexico half a century ago: The Lost Bullet (1995 Malcolm Lowry Prize for Literary Essay) and The Disguise of Innocence. "I have left both texts intact," says Jorge Garca-Robles, "thinking that they were written in a specific time and space, and this makes them irreducible." This book combines, in an admirable and spontaneous manner, the portraits of two sui generis outsiders. Our backdrop consists of deserted landscapes,...

Nord Lafferty contrata los servicios de la detective Kinsey Millhone para un trabajo sencillo y bien remunerado: custodiar a Reba, su única y rebelde hija, que está a punto de conseguir la libertad condicional tras cumplir dos años de condena por estafa. Kinsey deberá recogerla en la cárcel, llevarla a casa y asegurarse de que se reintegra a su vida acomodada. Pero Reba Lafferty no es una chica fácil, sino todo lo contrario: bebedora empedernida, fumadora compulsiva, jugadora impenitente y adicta a todo tipo de vicios. Para acabar de complicarle las cosas a Kinsey, la misma noche en que ...

In subtle, sensuous prose, the stories in Sara Majka's debut collection explore distance in all its forms: the emotional spaces that open up between family members, friends, and lovers; the gaps that emerge between who we were and who we are; the gulf between our private and public selves. At the center of the collection is a series of stories narrated by a young American woman in the wake of a divorce; wry and shy but never less than open to the world, she recalls the places and people she has been close to, the dreams she has pursued and those she has left unfulfilled. Interspersed with...

El escándalo es una novela confesional de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, es decir, una novela sobre el pecado y la redención que trata desde una perspectiva moralista el tema del amor frustrado. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón fue un escritor español nacido en Guadix en 1833 y fallecido en Granada en 1891. Sus obras oscilan entre el realismo imperante en su época y un romanticismo tardío que lo emparenta con Byron o Espronceda. Cultivó tanto la novela como el teatro, la poesía o los libros de viaje, alcanzando la excelencia de todos los campos.