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Moral tales
Published in their day by several media like The New Yorker or Harper’s, the ten stories that make up Tenth of December confirm George Saunders’ (Texas, 1958) good condition. The author plays with...
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Dangers of being a rock star
LA CALLE GREAT JONES Don DeLillo 293 pgs Seix-Barral Don DeLillo (New York, 1936) wrote Great Jones Street, his third novel, the same year as Carrero Blanco was flying through the air here. Maybe in...
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Books and wine, infamous pleasures
Books and wine. Behind this combination of words, products, and above all, hobbies, is hidden Tipos Infames, a Madrilenian meeting point for literature lovers who enjoy it more adding to it a...
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Will to offend
Lionel Asbo: State of England Martin Amis 352 pages Anagrama That is the way Lionel is, a real lad: the tracksuit, the dogs, the beer hangovers, muscle-building as a lifestyle, awful diction and the...
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Falling and laughing
Lost in Music. A Pop Odyssey Giles Smith 310 pages Contra When Giles Smith wrote this book, he never imagined that twenty years later it would be translated into other languages. The writer’s first...
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Hedonism and alcohol: a hilarious theory
Everyday Drinking Kingsley Amis 324 páginas Malpaso Do not get confused: the consumption of alcohol is glorified here. But not in the way an adolescent ends up peeing on himself before being admitted...
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Life support
The Extra Man Jonathan Ames 375 pages Principal de los Libros There are days when the sun shines with such benign intensity that it seems as if nothing bad can happen. When you are walking down the...
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A family in convulsion
Dissident gardens Jonathan Lethem 412 pages Literatura Random House To gather the American counter-culture of the second part of the 20th century –and the beginning of the 21st – in a single novel,...
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A classic for the decade (of Mad Men)
The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit Sloan Wilson 370 pages At a moment in his life, Tom Rath decides that the time has come to forget everything and start over from scratch. He tells himself that the fact...
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Writing it all
MY STRUGGLE KARL OVE KNAUSGARD ANAGRAMA 629 PGS I like Knausgård. I liked his two novels. That is why I am recommending them. Karl Ove Knausgård has insanely decided to tell us all his life. Or, at...
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