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Historia novelada de las apariciones de la Virgen de Lourdes que, por su propia fuerza y por el consumado arte narrativo de su autor, cautiva desde el primer momento. Cuenta el autor: "Durante los últimos días de junio de 1940, tras la caída de Francia, huyendo desde nuestro domicilio en el sur del país, fuimos a parar a Lourdes. Mi mujer y yo teníamos la esperanza de poder escapar a tiempo y, pasando la frontera española, llegar a Portugal. En mi gran desesperación, hice una promesa. Si lograba salir de esa situación y alcanzar las costas salvadoras de América, lo primero que escribiría sería LA CANCIÓN DE BERNADETTE. Este libro es el cumplimiento de mi promesa. En nuestros días, un canto épico sólo puede tener forma novelada. LA CANCIÓN DE BERNADETTE es una novela, pero no una ficción". Franz Werfel, Novelista, poeta y dramaturgo austriaco de religión judía. Nació en Praga en 1890 (por entonces parte del imperio Austrohúngaro). Estudió en el Carolinum de Praga y sirvió en e...

Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme -- With Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, and Teddy. Product details Format Paperback | 198 pages Dimensions 108 x 171 x 15.24mm | 113g Publication ...

The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS in 1955, SEYMOUR ? An Introduction in 1959. Whatever their differences in mood or effect, they are both very much concerned with Seymour Glass, who is the main character in my still-uncompleted series about the Glass family. It struck me that they had better be collected together, if not deliberately paired off, in something of a hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly or undesirably close contact with new material in the series. There is only my word for it, granted, but I have several new Glass stories coming along ? waxing, dilating ? each in its own way, but I suspect the less said about them, in mixed company, the better. Oddly, the joys and satisfactions of working on the Glass family peculiarly increase and deepen for me with the years. I can't say why, though. Not, at least, outside the casino proper of my fiction. ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The inspiration for the major motion picture Rebel in the Rye One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, the author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now he is the subject of this definitive biography, which is filled with new information and revelations garnered from countless interviews, letters, and public records. Kenneth Slawenski explores Salinger's privileged youth, long obscured by misrepresentation and rumor, revealing the brilliant, sarcastic, vulnerable son of a disapproving father and doting mother. Here too are accounts of Salinger's first broken heart--after Eugene O'Neill's daughter, Oona, left him--and the devastating World War II service that haunted him forever. J. D. Salinger features this author's dramatic encounters with luminaries from Ernest Hemingway to Elia Kazan, his office intrigues with famous New Yorker editors an...

Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme -- With Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, and Teddy. Product details Format Paperback | 198 pages Dimensions 108 x 171 x 15.24mm | 113g Publication ...

She's a tomboy. He's the boy next door. With three older brothers, Charlotte Reynolds, aka Charlie, has always been more comfortable calling the shots on a basketball court than flirting with the opposite sex. So when her police officer dad demands she get a summer job to pay for the latest in a long line of speeding tickets, she's more than a little surprised to find herself working at a chichi boutique and going out with a boy who has never seen her tear it up in a pickup game. Charlie seeks late-night refuge in her backyard, talking out her problems with her neighbor and honorary fourth brother, Braden, sitting back-to-back against the fence that separates them. Braden may know her better than anyone. But there's a secret Charlie's keeping that even he hasn't figured out-she's fallen for him. Hard. She knows what it means to go for the win, but if spilling her secret means losing him for good, the stakes just got too high. On the Fence is a sweet an...