"Why is everyone rushing to flee Tampa on a cruise ship to hell?
Serge is back with a bullet, torn between homicide and souvenirs. So is Coleman, torn between getting hammered and getting more hammered. Then there's good ol' Jim Davenport, the E-Team, the Diaz Brothers, and Johnny Vegas, the Accidental Virgin, cranking up the fevered action as the pot boils over on a street called Lobster Lane.
It's reunion time in the Sunshine State, and we're not just talking the family jamboree of that blood-soaked criminal clan, the McGraws, whose nastiest, meanest member is finally released from prison and heads south bent on revenge. On top of it all, the government is covering up a growing list of mysterious victims across Florida who may or may not be connected to a nefarious plot being hatched against national security.
But wait! There's more on the horizon! Who is the oddly familiar femme fatale named Rachael? Is Serge wrong that guns, drugs, and strippers don't mix? What sets the Non-Confrontationalists off on a rampage? What finally brings Coleman and Lenny together? Will they succeed in building the biggest bong ever? And can Serge surf a rogue wave to victory?
So batten the hatches, don the life jackets, and take cover as all these questions and more are answered in the latest adventure from the acclaimed author of Hurricane Punch."
"La evocacio?n es el filtro que utiliza el personaje de este conjunto de relatos para marcar, a menudo con fina ironi?a, tres etapas de una vida de ilusiones y desilusiones, encuentros y desencuentros en un mundo existencial.
?Nora Glickman nacio? en La Pampa, Argentina. Es profesora de espan?ol en Queens College de la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York. Es autora del libro de cuentos Uno de sus Juanes, numerosos ensayos y varias obras teatrales. Adema?s, es co-editora de Tradition and Innovation: Reflections on Latin American Jewish Writings y Argentine Jewish Theater: A Critical Anthology.
Glickman recuerda esta cita de Marcel Proust: "La vida es extran?amente fra?gil y dulce con ciertas personas de gran distincio?n natural, inteligentes, afectuosas, pero capaces de todos los vicios, aunque no ejerciten ninguno pu?blicamente y no se les pueda atribuir con certeza ni uno solo"."
"Roberto Delmar se enfrenta a sus acreedores y e?stos le dan su contrapropuesta. Delmar piensa en su familia, en su posicio?n de presidente de la Asociacio?n de Padres... y luego actu?a. Un relato del conocido escritor peruano Julio Ramo?n Ribeyro, ganador del Premio Juan Rulfo.
"¿Buscan un relato con personajes interesantes, trama bien definida y comentario social sutil? Escojan Junta de Acreedores, narrado en un estilo fa?cil de escuchar por Fortuna Calvo"."
"Julio Ramo?n Ribeyro reunio? una coleccio?n de sus cuentos, entre ellos Los Jacaranda?s, en un volumen que llamo? "La Palabra del Mudo". Explico? este ti?tulo asi?:
"En la mayori?a de mis cuentos se expresan
aque?llos que en la vida esta?n privados de la palabra, los marginados, los olvidados, los condenados a una existencia sin sintoni?a y sin voz. Yo les he restituido este ha?lito negado y les he permitido modular sus anhelos, sus arrebatos y sus angustias".
El cuento y la novela son lo esencial en la obra de Ribeyro pero tambie?n escribio? ensayos, memorias y teatro. Vivio? muchos an?os en Pari?s, donde fue emba- jador del Peru? ante la UNESCO. Nacio? en Lima, Peru?, en 1929 y murio? en 1994, el mismo an?o que gano? el Premio Juan Rulfo."
"El narrador de Pa?nico refleja la mezquindad moral y emocional que E.M. Forster considera, con suave ironi?a, ti?pica de la clase alta inglesa. Este personaje emite juicios sobre todas las situa- ciones y personas que lo rodean. Sin embargo, como se ¡acta de saber contar una historia sin exageraciones, resuelve hacer un relato imparcial de los extraordinarios sucesos ocurridos ocho an?os atra?s: "Aunque el hermoso cielo azul estaba arriba y los verdes bosques primaverales debajo, y a mi alrededor bondadosos amigos, me domino? un miedo atroz, un miedo como no deseo volver a experimentar, pues nunca, antes
ni despue?s, heconocido otro semejante".
E?ste es el primer cuento del escritor ingle?s, que vivio? 91 an?os. Su fama de novelista y cuentista perdura, tanto por sus temas como por su estilo, mientras que su popularidad ha ido en aumento despue?s de su muerte en 1970, en parte debido
a una serie de peli?culas basadas en sus obras.
El conocido escritor y periodista argentino Rodolfo Walsh tradujo esta versio?n de Pa?nico al espan?ol."
"First published in 1982, Cakewalk was the first short story collection by iconic Southern writer Lee Smith. Comic and observant, Smith's fourteen tales in Cakewalk introduce readers to a host of memorable Southern characters. Her protagonists include aging gossips, a soap opera–hooked housewife, a runaway teenager, and divergent sisters in various combinations. Smith's gutsy Southern women don't always triumph, but, with her sympathetic portrayals, readers gain appreciation for the merits of spirited perseverance, right or wrong, in the face of modern adversity. The characters are everyday folks with everyday problems, particularly the tensions of home and family and loneliness and connection. Smith is keenly aware of the foibles that make people so maddeningly funny but also deeply sensitive to their pain and sorrow.
'Cakewalk is great fun, its tales shrewdly observant of segments of North Carolina life.'—Wall Street Journal"
"Peter Robinson is one of the crime world's finest stylists. Not Safe After Dark is a collection that will explore our hidden paranoia, challenge all that we take for granted, lure us to new, exotic places only for us to wish we could run back home, and keep us up all night just waiting for the safety of the dawn . . .
Not Safe After Dark was Peter’s first collection of stories to be published in the UK and featured ‘Innocence’, winner of the Crime Writer of Canada’s Best Short Story Award."
"Peter Robinson is one of the crime world's finest stylists. Not Safe After Dark is a collection that will explore our hidden paranoia, challenge all that we take for granted, lure us to new, exotic places only for us to wish we could run back home, and keep us up all night just waiting for the safety of the dawn . . . This is the second volume of a three volume audio series.
Not Safe After Dark was Peter’s first collection of stories to be published in the UK and featured ‘Innocence’, winner of the Crime Writer of Canada’s Best Short Story Award."
"Peter Robinson is one of the crime world's finest stylists. Not Safe After Dark is a collection that will explore our hidden paranoia, challenge all that we take for granted, lure us to new, exotic places only for us to wish we could run back home, and keep us up all night just waiting for the safety of the dawn . . . This is the final volume of a three volume audio series.
Not Safe After Dark was Peter’s first collection of stories to be published in the UK and featured ‘Innocence’, winner of the Crime Writer of Canada’s Best Short Story Award."
"Love is a pure and sincere emotion. Cupid may be blindfolded, yet it continually finds its way into people's hearts. Love, in essence, is recognizing others' 'self' as one's own. Love is the enrichment of life, much like a cup brimming with wine. What matters is love, not being loved."
""I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing." -William Faulkner
Winner of the National Book Award
Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Compressing an epic expanse of vision into hard and wounding narratives, Faulkner's stories evoke the intimate textures of place, the deep strata of history and legend, and all the fear, brutality, and tenderness of the human condition. These tales are set not only in Yoknapatawpha County, but in Beverly Hills and in France during World War I. They are populated by such characters as the Faulknerian archetypes Flem Snopes and Quentin Compson, as well as by ordinary men and women who emerge so sharply and indelibly in these pages that they dwarf the protagonists of most novels."
"With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer – who The Wall Street Journal recently compared with Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson – will receive his due as a great storyteller. This volume kicks off a series that will, when complete, anthologize all of L'Amour’s short fiction, volume by handsome volume.
Here, in Volume Five, is a treasure-trove of frontier tales for his millions of fans and for those who have yet to discover L'Amour’s thrilling prose – and his vital role in capturing the spirit of the Old West for generations to come."
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