COLLECTED SHORT STORIES / MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET

Título : COLLECTED SHORT STORIES : VOLUME 3 Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET, Autor Editorial: NYC : PENGUIN BOOK Fecha de publicación: 1951 Número de páginas: 252 PP. ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-14-018591-1 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Palabras clave: FICTION  SHORT STORIES Resumen: This third volume of Maugham’s stories, introduced and selected by the author himself, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in WWI. Based on Maugham’s own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality.

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E6430	F^MAU	Libro	Biblioteca Anglo	Colección general	Disponible

MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION / OTTESSA MOSHFEGH

Título : MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: OTTESSA MOSHFEGH, Autor Editorial: NYC : PENGUIN BOOK Fecha de publicación: 2019 Número de páginas: 288 PP ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-525-52213-3 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Palabras clave: FICTION  SATIRE  BLACK HUMOUR Resumen: From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.

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THERAPY / LODGE, DAVID

Título : THERAPY Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: LODGE, DAVID Editorial: NYC : PENGUIN BOOK Fecha de publicación: 1995 Número de páginas: 320 PP ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-14-024900-2 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Palabras clave: FICTION  COMEDY  BRITISH Resumen: By all appearances, Laurence Passmore is sitting pretty. True, he is almost bald and his nickname in "Tubby", but the TV sitcom he writes keeps the money coming in, he has an exclusive house in Rummridge, a state-of-the-art car, a vigorous sex life with his wife of thirty years, and a platonic mistress to talk shop with. What money can't buy, and his many therapists can't deliver, is contentment. It's not the trouble behind the scenes of his TV show that's bugging him or even the persistent pain in his knee; it's this deeper, nameless unease. Is it a spiritual crisis or just one of the midlife variety? Tubby's quest for the source of it will lead into an obsession with Kierkegaard, brushes with the police, gossip-column notoriety, and strange beds and bedrooms worldwide.

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