Oscar Hopkins is a high-strung preacher's kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees. Lucinda Leplastrier is a frizzy-haired heiress who impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. In the early parts of this lushly written book, author Peter Carey renders the seminal turning points in his protagon...more
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Nueva edición de la más famosa y estimada narración escrita por Francois Marie Arouet, mejor conocido como Voltaire. Traducción, prefacio, estudio biográfico y notas de Antonio Espina New edition of the most famous and highly regarded prose by François Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire. Translation, preface, biographical study and not...more
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When the boy was almost eight, a woman stepped out of the elevator into the apartment on East Sixty-second Street and he recognized her straightaway. No one had told him to expect it. That was pretty typical of growing up with Grandma Selkirk . . . No one would dream of saying, Here is your mother returned to you.His Illegal Self is the story of Ch...more
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