Ficción moderna y contemporanea





Para vosotros, que me acompañáis en mi escritura Y leéis mis libros, Hago la dedicatoria de este, que va para todos. Quisiera que encontrarais en él: Mucho gusto, disfrute, entretenimiento, compañía, Paz, verdad en vuestras dudas, Y que sacie vuestros deseos. Que os incite el amor a la lectura, Soñando ilusiones, mundos nuevos y aventuras. Que os haga recordar mis madrugadas Y otros ratos de escritura. Siempre estaréis en mi jubiloso recuerdo. Con cariño, Martín









Isolated and depressed following the death of his wife, Robbie McDermott is living an aimless existence in rural Michigan - until the chance discovery of a British Library audio collection inspires him to write a novel as a means of bringing a sense of purpose to his days. Set in England between 1944 and 1975, McDermott's plot is centered upon his unlikely relationship with the violent Cracker McCracken, and the journey of the ill-matched pair from the bully-infested streets of their working-class childhood to their leadership of the most famous primary school in Britain. McDermott's immersion in his fictional world, allied to the ministrations of a local psychotherapist, afford him a renewed sense of optimism. Despite intermittent periods of doubt about his writing and recurring episodes of grief, he appears to be on the way back - until his emergence from solitude leads to the resurgence of his long-dormant libido and the subsequent arrival of guilt as a new companion. Moving back and forth between the emotional minefield he treads in present-day, rural America, and the tumultuous years of his English











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Les nits de Lola Patòn és una història de ficció ambientada en un lloc real, el cèlebre prostíbul de Figueres, la Torre Basca. En aquest suggerent casalot que els figuerencs més grans encara recorden, s’hi desgranen els dies –i sobretot les nits- de la Lola Pàton, la madame glamurosa que regenta la casa i que, com gairebé tothom, també estima, acumula decepcions i alimenta somnis. Les veus de diversos personatges –la nena, la tieta, la Quima- aniran desplegant per als lectors, com en un gran calidoscopi, visions diferents de la Lola i les seves noies, personatges tèrbols i atractius alhora. Gràcies a allò que ens expliquen, serem capaços de reconstruir aquest món prohibit de passions llicencioses i il•lusions perdudes.