Blake Bailey

The renowned biographer's definitive portrait of a literary titan.

The Biography

Philip Roth

An incisive portrait of celebrated American novelist and short short writer Richard Yates describes his turbulent personal life, his struggle with alcoholism and manic depression, his financial woes, and his remarkable literary works--including The Easter Parade and Revolutionary Road--chronicling the desperation of the American middle class. Reprint.

The Life and Work of Richard Yates

A Tragic Honesty

A portrait of the author of the acclaimed The Lost Weekend traces the experiences that inspired his famed autobiographical novel, his relationship with his gay brother, his celebrity friendships and his lifelong struggles with addiction. By the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Cheever: A Life. 25,000 first printing.

The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson

Farther and Wilder

This darkly humorous account of growing up in a prosperous, eccentric family with an older brother whose erratic and increasingly dangerous behavior threatens them all was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait

Zapatista se basa fielmente en los hechos del levantamiento indígena de Chiapas en 1994, en el sur de México. Tanto si buscas aventuras como si quieres adentrarte en el drama real de la revolución de un pueblo, Zapatista te introduce en medio de todas las luchas, la gloria y el valor a través de la inesperada participación de un hombre en la supervivencia.Peter, el protagonista, huyendo de los devastadores acontecimientos de su vida y de la culpa que conllevan, se encuentra en el corazón de la Sierra Madre, con la esperanza de beber, escribir y encontrar aventuras, en ese orden. Pero Peter consigue más aventura de la esperada a través de una serie de circunstancias torbellino que le lanzan en medio de una lucha a vida o muerte por una causa revolucionaria y el amor de Lexil, una mujer revolucionaria, con catalizadores que cambian para siempre la vida de Peter.

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Zapatista

Excitement to one person can be horror to another. Day in and day out, ordinary people encounter situations that have the ability to transform their interpretation of reality from what they perceive it to be to what truly exists outside of self accepted prisons of the mind. For Sally Anne, one day life is marching along to the hum drum status quo. Then, without warning, events unfold that force her to emerge into a realm of unexperienced opportunities that show her things about herself and the world, things she never could have imagined and, now, never wants to lose. As she journeys through the unknown, her life touches the lives of others causing the same effect to ripple through their reality. Join these sojourners as their adventures take them out of the confinement of theirindividual "caves" and thrust them into life in a much more spectacular way - ways they never dreamed existed.

The Thought of Her

Philip Roth. La biografia

John Cheever

This landmark volume combines the entire Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, "The Stories of John Cheever," with seven selections from Cheever's first book, "The Way Some People Live."

John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #188)

A Family Portrait

The Splendid Things We Planned

Philip Roth: A Biografia

Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always exposed readers to the unsettling hypocrisies of our modern age. In Blake Bailey's masterful and entertaining biography, Yates himself serves as the fascinating lens into mid-century America, a world of would-be artists, depressed housewives, addled businessmen, high living, wistful striving, and self-deception. The story of Richard Yates here stands as a singular reminder of what the writer must sacrifice for his craft, the devil's bargain of artistry for happiness, praise for sanity.

Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates

Un retrato imprescindible de un maestro estadounidense y de la escena literaria de la posguerra. La figura del escritor ha encontrado pocas encarnaciones tan emblemáticas como en Philip Roth. Tras pasar años estudiando a fondo su archivo personal, Blake Bailey realizó entrevistas a amigos, amantes y colegas, y mantuvo conversaciones de una franqueza asombrosa con el propio Roth. Esta biografía recorre la vida del autor, desde su infancia, en un entorno judío de clase media-baja, hasta la cumbre de su fama. Analiza el peso que su desastroso primer matrimonio tuvo en su carrera, su labor en beneficio de colegas disidentes del otro lado del Telón de Acero, su rivalidad con amigos como John Updike o William Styron y su tumultuosa vida amorosa, en especial su relación con Claire Bloom. Un texto honesto y documentado a conciencia que rastrea el recorrido de un maestro de la novela tan amado como cuestionado, pero imprescindible para la literatura contemporánea. La crítica ha dicho: «Philip Roth. La biografía (Debate), del perseguidor de vidas de escritores Blake Bailey, es una proeza en la que asombra cómo su autor persigue el dédalo de interminables detalles documentados hasta la extenuación de los 85 años que vivió el hombre que escribió El lamento de Portnoy sin que la prosa del conjunto desfallezca. [...] Bailey, [...] logra ahora al pelearse con el fantasma de Roth durante casi mil páginas que el adjetivo "apasionante" no suene manido y huero». Daniel Arjona, El Confidencial «Minuciosa y rica en detalles, la obra de Bailey dota de un marco y una profundidad esclarecedores, siempre eludiendo el juicio moral, a la obra del autor, tan paralela a su vida». Andrés Seoane, La Lectura, El Mundo «Una biografía encantadora, sabia e ingeniosa que logra un equilibrio y una exhaustividad que parecerían imposibles tras tan poco tiempo de la muerte de Roth». Jonathan Lethem «Todo lo que siempre quiso saber sobre Philip Roth lo puede descubrir en sus novelas. Todo lo que siempre quiso saber sobre lo que le costó convertirse en uno de los mayores escritores estadounidenses de nuestro tiempo lo encontrará en la impresionante biografía de Blake Bailey». Nicole Krauss «La novela del siglo XIX sigue viva. Su nombre hoy es «biografía»; su naturaleza es de magnitud dostoievskiana. Y el exhaustivo relato de la vida de Philip Roth que hace Bailey es una obra maestra de la narrativa». Cynthia Ozick «Superlativa, definitiva y genuinamente apasionante. Guía con lucidez a través de un denso palimpsesto de identidades ficticias, enemistades literarias y mujeres». The Sunday Times «Una lectura compulsiva.Magníficamente escrita. Es difícil imaginar un libro que ofrezca respuestas más definitivas que este». The Observer

Philip Roth. La biografía

John Cheever spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. Written with unprecedented access to essential sources—including Cheever’s massive journal, only a fraction of which has ever been published—Bailey’s Cheever is a stunning example of the biographer’s art and a brilliant tribute to an essential author.

A Life

Cheever

The renowned biographer’s unforgettable portrait of a family in ruins—his own. Meet the Baileys: Burck, a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legion’s “Citizen of the Year” in his tiny hometown of Vinita, Oklahoma; his wife Marlies, who longs to recapture her festive life in Greenwich Village as a pretty young German immigrant, fresh off the boat; their addled son Scott, who repeatedly crashes the family Porsche; and Blake, the younger son, trying to find a way through the storm. “You’re gonna be just like me,” a drunken Scott taunts him. "You’re gonna be worse." Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Blake Bailey has been hailed as "addictively readable" by the New York Times and praised for his ability to capture lives "compellingly and in harrowing detail" by Time. The Splendid Things We Planned is his darkly funny account of growing up in the shadow of an erratic and increasingly dangerous brother, an exhilarating and sometimes harrowing story that culminates in one unforgettable Christmas.

A portrait of the life of John Cheever reveals a soul in conflict, describing his life as a high-school dropout, alcoholic, secret bisexual, and a man who concealed his deeply-rooted anxieties while becoming one of the most iconic literary figures of ourt

John Cheever was one of the foremost chroniclers of post-war America, a peerless writer who on his death in 1982 left not only some of the best short stories of the twentieth century and a number of highly acclaimed novels, but also a private journal that runs to an astonishing four million words. Cheever’s was a soul in conflictm who hid his troubles - alcoholism, secret bisexuality - behind the screen of genial life in suburbia, but as John Updike came to remark: ‘Only he saw in its cocktail parties and swimming pools the shimmer of dissolving dreams . . .’ Blake Bailey, writing with unprecedented access to the journal and other sources, has brought characteristic eloquence and sensitivity to his interpretation of Cheever’s life and work. This is a luminous biography that reveals – behind the disguises with which he faced the world – a troubled but strangely lovable man, and a writer of timeless fiction. ‘Stunningly detailed . . . Even more eloquent and resourceful than Bailey’s celebrated biography of Richard Yates, A Tragic Honesty . . . Bailey’s interweaving of Cheever’s fiction with his experience is a tour de force’ New York Times Book Review

Here, for his centennial, is the definitive two-volume edition of the stories and novels of John Cheever. The first volume, Collected Stories and Other Writings, combines the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Stories of John Cheever with seven selections--here restored to print--from Cheever's first book, The Way Some People Live (1943) and seven additional stories first published in periodicals between 1930 and 1953. The second, Complete Novels, presents all five of Cheever's novels: The Wapshot Chronicle (winner of the National Book Award); The Wapshot Scandal (winner of the William Dean Howells Medal); Bullet Park; Falconer; and Oh What a Paradise It Seems. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

The Collected Works of John Cheever

The Library of America presents this definitive collection of Cheever's novels: "The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park, Falconer," and "Oh What a Paradise It Seems."

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