"La nueva novela del maestro del family noir. Un thriller asfixiante y conmovedor con un profundo trasfondo de crítica social.
Una tarde tranquila y soleada en la ciudad de Los Ángeles, un edificio aparentemente anónimo y, de repente, una explosión se produce en su interior. El edificio devastado albergaba una de las pocas clínicas que realizan abortos. Hubo una víctima y entre los testigos indefensos se encontraban Brendan, un conductor de Uber de unos cincuenta años, y su cliente, Elise, una antigua profesora universitaria que ayuda a las mujeres que están a punto de abortar.
En el lugar equivocado y en el momento más imprevisible, ambos se ven envueltos en una peligrosa carrera contrarreloj. Al principio, todo parece demostrar que se trata de un atentado perpetrado por un pequeño grupo de fundamentalistas religiosos, pero la realidad es mucho más turbia y alarmante...
A medio camino entre la novela negra y la crónica social de una América en crisis, Los hombres tienen miedo a la luz es sobre todo un poderoso retrato de un hombre y una mujer atrapados por la violencia y los extremismos de nuestro tiempo."
"Una dramática historia sentimental ambientada en la Nueva York de los años 50, escrita por uno de los grandes autores estadounidenses.
Nueva York, víspera de Acción de Gracias de 1945. La guerra ha terminado y la fiesta de Eric Smythe está en pleno auge. Todos sus amigos de Greenwich Village, en el corazón bohemio de Manhattan, están ahí. También su hermana Sara, una joven independiente y despierta que empieza a abrirse camino en la gran ciudad. La irrupción de Jack Malone, un periodista del ejército estadounidense recién vuelto de Alemania, marca el inicio de una vertiginosa historia de amor.
Ambientado en la América de los años cincuenta, entre el dinámico optimismo de posguerra y la caza de brujas de McCarthy, En busca de la felicidad es un drama familiar forjado con lealtades contrapuestas, decisiones morales y destinos azarosos. Un relato épico e íntimo tremendamente conmovedor."
"Nueva York, años 80. Embriaguez y excesos. Alice Burns, una prometedora editora en el Manhattan de la era Reagan, se enfrenta a la treintena, a su complicada vida sentimental y a un manuscrito demasiado técnico sobre la psicología de la familia. Un fragmento la marca de un modo especial: 'Todas las familias son sociedades secretas. Reinos de intriga y de guerras internas regidos por sus propias reglas'.
Tal vez sea porque su propia familia acaba de romperse en mil pedazos.
Así empieza esta gran epopeya americana que sigue los pasos de Alice, una chica que lidia con el acoso en el instituto, descubre el primer amor y el sexismo en una universidad de élite, vive una temporada en la Irlanda de los años setenta y sufre una tragedia que la envía de vuelta a casa, en el momento en que su país se enamora de un actor llamado Ronald Reagan. Y que también es la historia de sus padres y hermanos, personajes complejísimos que escriben su destino con las mentiras que se cuentan a sí mismos y a los demás.
'La sinfonía del azar' es un relato trepidante y enormemente ambicioso, una novela con una belleza oculta que conectará de verdad con cualquiera que haya vivido con estupor el dolor que solo la propia familia es capaz de causar."
"Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Great Wide Open written by Douglas Kennedy, read by Regina Reagan.
“All families are secret societies. Realms of intrigue and internal warfare, governed by their own rules . . .”
It’s 1980s New York. Heady, excessive times. Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations resonates, perhaps because she has just watched her own family implode.
As she reads she wonders: When did the sadness start? And could it be that unhappiness is a choice?
Thus begins a great American epic which follows Alice as she navigates high school bullying, first love and sexism at an elite college, a spell in 1970's Ireland, and a tragedy that sends her stateside as the US embraces a cowboy actor named Reagan. But it is also the tale of her endlessly complex parents and brothers; how their destinies are written by the lies they tell themselves and others.
The Great Wide Open is an immensely ambitious and compulsive saga; a novel which will speak volumes to anyone who has marvelled at that pain that can only be caused by family itself."
"Robin knew Paul wasn’t perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true.
In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be – passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant.
But when Paul suddenly disappears, and Robin finds herself the prime suspect in the police inquiry, everything changes.
As her understanding of the truth starts to unravel, Robin lurches from the crumbling art deco of Casablanca to the daunting Sahara, caught in an increasingly terrifying spiral from which there is no easy escape.
With his acclaimed ability to write page-turners that also make you think, Douglas Kennedy takes the reader on a roller-coaster journey into a heart of darkness that asks the question: what would you do if your life depended on it?
‘Kennedy is a complete genius when it comes to understanding the minds of stylish but troubled women’ Daily Mirror
‘Kennedy is an absolute master at love stories with heart-stopping twists’ The Times
‘Kennedy's skill is to send you racing down the slope of sheer story.’ Esquire"
"From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment comes a poignant and profound American love story.
How long does it take to fall in love?
For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and a good mother. She's supported her husband through redundancy, she's worried about her son, she's encouraged her daughter.
She's stopped thinking about all the places she'd like to go and all the books she'd like to talk about.
She's not unhappy, exactly. She's not that self-indulgent. As anyone would tell you, Laura is wonderfully constant, caring, selfless. She's certainly an expert at putting on a brave face.
But a chance meeting in a hotel lobby - and the five days that follow - remind Laura of the young woman she used to be - and the woman she could have become.
Is it ever too late to have the life you wanted? Or do we owe it to ourselves to pursue the promise of happiness?
From 'the absolute master of love stories with heart-stopping twists' (The Times), Five Days is a compelling novel about how life can change with one brief encounter."
"Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine - in touch only with his daughter and still trying to reconcile himself to the end of a long marriage that he knew was flawed from the outset - he finds his solitude disrupted by the arrival, one wintry morning, of a box postmarked Berlin. The return address on the box - Dussmann - unsettles him completely. For it is the name of the woman with whom he had an intense love affair twenty-six years ago in Berlin - at a time when the city was cleaved in two, and personal and political allegiances were haunted by the deep shadows of the Cold War.
Refusing initially to confront what he might find in that box, Thomas nevertheless finds himself forced to grapple with a past he has never discussed with any living person - and in the process relive those months in Berlin, when he discovered, for the first and only time in his life, the full, extraordinary force of true love. But Petra Dussmann - the woman to whom he lost his heart - was not just a refugee from a police state, but also someone who lived with an ongoing sorrow beyond dreams... and one which gradually rewrote both their destinies.
In this, his tenth novel, Douglas Kennedy has written that rare thing: a love story as morally complex as it is tragic and deeply reflective. Brilliantly gripping, it is an atmospherically dense, ethically tangled tale of romantic certainty and conflicting loyalties, all set amidst a stunningly rendered portrait of Berlin in the final dark years before The Wall came down.
Like all of Kennedy's previous, critically acclaimed bestselling novels, The Moment is both unputdownable and profound. Posing so many searching questions about why and how we fall in love - and the tangled way we project on to others that which our hearts seek - it is a love story of great epic sweep and immense emotional power."
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