The whole course of one’s life really can change in an instant.Peter is forty-four, prosperous, the owner of a big New York apartment and a player in the NY contemporary art dealing scene. He has been married to Rebecca for close on twenty years. Their marriage is sound, in the way marriages are. Peter might even describe himself to be happy. But when Mizzy, Rebecca’s much younger brother, comes to stay, his world is turned upside down. Returning to their New York flat after work one day, Peter...
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, ‘The Hours’ is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf.Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken from her beloved Bloomsbury and watched by her husband Leonard, Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind and make a start on her new novel.In the brooding heat of 1940s Los Angeles, a young wife and mother yearns to escape the claustrophobia of suburban...
‘Specimen Days’ is three linked visionary narratives about the relationship between man and machine. The first narrative, a ghost story set at the height of the Industrial Revolution, tells the story of man-eating machines. An ecstatic boy, barely embodied in the physical world, speaks in the voice of the great visionary poet Walt Whitman. He works at an oppressive factory connected to the making of a mysterious substance with some universal function and on which the world's economy somehow...
¿Qué tienen en común un chico que se enamora perdidamente de la novia de su hermano muerto en un accidente fabril a principios del siglo XX; una psicóloga forense que investiga a un joven terrorista que planea un atentado en la Nueva York posterior al 11S; y un androide que se obsesiona con una inmigrante extraterrestre en un futuro lejano? Walt Whitman.Con toda su potencia alucinada, las palabras de Whitman y su Hojas de hierba emergen en la narración como faros que iluminan oblicuamente los...
