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Cita En Samarra / Appointment in Samarra


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Una de las 100 mejores novelas en inglés del siglo XX, de acuerdo a Modern Library.

Un brillante retrato de una Norteamérica a punto de naufragar en la Gran Depresión y un hito de la narrativa contemporánea.

«Si quieres leer un libro de un hombre que sabe exactamente de lo que está escribiendo y lo hace maravillosamente bien, lee Cita en Samarra.» --Ernest Hemingway

En diciembre de 1930, poco antes de Navidad, la aristocracia de Gibbsville resplandece en bailes y fiestas donde la música suena hasta altas horas de la madrugada y el alcohol fluye generosamente. En el centro de la élite están Julian y Caroline, una espectacular pareja objeto de la envidia de todos. Sin embargo, en el transcurso de una de esas veladas Julian osa romper las reglas de la encopetada sociedad y empieza un rápido y vertiginoso descenso hacia la destrucción y el ostracismo.

Junto a Hemingway y Scott Fitzgerald, John O'Hara es uno de los grandes novelistas de la literatura norteamericana del siglo XX y quizá el más mordaz, lúcido, impertinente y descarado narrador urbano.

Cita en Samarra, elegida una de las cien mejores novelas en inglés del siglo XX por la Modern Library y una de las cien mejores de todos los tiempos según Time, está considerada unánimemente su obra maestra. Un brillante retrato de una Norteamérica a punto de naufragar en la Gran Depresión y un hito de la narrativa contemporánea.

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One of Time's All-Time 100 Best Novels

The writer whom Fran Lebowitz called "the real F. Scott Fitzgerald"

One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is John O'Hara's crowning achievement. In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction.

Brimming with wealth and privilege, jealousy and infidelity, O'Hara's iconic first novel is an unflinching look at the dark side of the American dream--and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence if a major American writer.
About the Author: John O'Hara nació en 1905 en Pottsville (Pennsylvania) y se graduó en la Niagara Preparatory School de Lewiston (Nueva York). La muerte de su padre y las dificultades económicas de su familia le impidieron cumplir su sueño de estudiar en Yale. Muchas de sus historias están ambientadas en Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, una ficcionalización apenas disimulada de Pottsville. Sus temas predilectos son los conflictos de clase, la situación social y las costumbres sexuales. Su habilidad para crear personajes y su excelente oído para los diálogos se ponen de manifiesto en Cita en Samarra (1934; Lumen, 2009; 2022), elegida una de las cien mejores novelas en inglés del siglo XX por la Modern Library y una de las cien mejores de todos los tiempos según Time. Y en 10 calle Frederick (National Book Award) y Butterfield 8 (1935), adaptada al cine por Daniel Mann y protagonizada por Elizabeth Taylor, quien fuera Oscar a Mejor Atriz. O'Hara también destacó como brillante y prolífico cuentista, género en el que fue conocido sobre todo por el libro Pal Joey (1940), que se llevó a la gran pantalla en forma de comedia musical. Sólo sus cuentos publicados en The New Yorker llegaron a ser más de doscientos. Murió en Princeton en 1970.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788426423498
  • Publisher: Prh Grupo Editorial
  • Publisher Imprint: Lumen Press
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 312
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 148 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8426423493
  • Publisher Date: 18 Oct 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 449 gr


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