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El Tiempo Es Un Canalla / A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Ganadora del Premio Pulitzer (2011) y elegida como uno de los mejores libros de la dcada por la revista Time, esta novela est compuesta por trece historias interconectadas que giran alrededor de la vida de Bennie Salazar, antiguo rockero punk envejecido y ejecutivo discogrfico, y Sasha, su apasionada y problemtica asistente. Una historia generacional con mltiples cadas que abordan desde la contracultura de San Francisco en los aos setenta hasta el hasto de los noventa y la incertidumbre posterior al 11S. Con la msica palpitando en cada pgina, Egan muestra los efectos del tiempo y la tecnologa en las personas, as como las transformaciones que provocan en nuestras vidas. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCE WINNER With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption "features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human" (The Chicago Tribune). Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. "Pitch perfect.... Darkly, rippingly funny.... Egan possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart." --The New York Times Book Review
Ganadora del Premio Pulitzer (2011) y elegida como uno de los mejores libros de la dcada por la revista Time, esta novela est compuesta por trece historias interconectadas que giran alrededor de la vida de Bennie Salazar, antiguo rockero punk envejecido y ejecutivo discogrfico, y Sasha, su apasionada y problemtica asistente. Una historia generacional con mltiples cadas que abordan desde la contracultura de San Francisco en los aos setenta hasta el hasto de los noventa y la incertidumbre posterior al 11S. Con la msica palpitando en cada pgina, Egan muestra los efectos del tiempo y la tecnologa en las personas, as como las transformaciones que provocan en nuestras vidas. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCE WINNER With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption "features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human" (The Chicago Tribune). Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. "Pitch perfect.... Darkly, rippingly funny.... Egan possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart." --The New York Times Book Review
Paperback
$23.95