Cita en Samarra / Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara
Cita en Samarra / Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara
Una de las 100 mejores novelas en ingles del siglo XX, de acuerdo a Modern Library.
Un brillante retrato de una Norteamerica a punto de naufragar en la Gran Depresion y un hito de la narrativa contemporanea.
Si quieres leer un libro de un hombre que sabe exactamente de lo que esta 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 musica suena hasta altas horas de la madrugada y el alcohol fluye generosamente. En el centro de la elite estan 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 rapido y vertiginoso descenso hacia la destruccion 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 quiza el mas mordaz, lucido, impertinente y descarado narrador urbano. Cita en Samarra, elegida una de las cien mejores novelas en ingles del siglo XX por la Modern Library y una de las cien mejores de todos los tiempos segun Time, esta considerada unanimemente su obra maestra. Un brillante retrato de una Norteamerica a punto de naufragar en la Gran Depresion y un hito de la narrativa contemporanea.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
One of Time’s All-Time 100 Best Novels
The writer whom Fran Lebowitz called the real F. Scott Fitzgerald makes his Penguin Classics debut with this beautiful deluxe edition of his best-loved book.
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.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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