Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything is a witty and heart-wrenching teen novel that will appeal to fans of books by John Green and Ned Vizzini, novels such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and classics like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye. Varsity tennis captain Ezra Faulkner was supposed to be homecoming king, but that was before--before his girlfriend cheated on him, before a car accident shattered his leg, and before he fell in love with unpredictable new girl Cassidy Thorpe. As Kirkus said in a starred review, Schneider takes familiar stereotypes and infuses them with plenty of depth. Here are teens who could easily trade barbs and double entendres with the characters that fill John Green's novels. Funny, smart, and including everything from flash mobs to blanket forts to a poodle who just might be the reincarnation of Jay Gatsby, The Beginning of Everything is a refreshing contemporary twist on the classic coming-of-age novel--a heart-wrenching sto...
Obra singular en el marco de la literatura brasileña, por un lado rompe con las fórmulas del Romanticismo y, por otro, anticipando recursos del Modernismo y descubrimientos del psicoanálisis, es extremadamente osada en su exposición irónica y mordaz de los privilegios de la élite carioca de la época. Estas peculiares memorias de ultratumba, texto que en su momento supuso un auténtico punto y aparte en su país por su experimentalismo y por su originalidad, constituyen una oportunidad de conocer y disfrutar una de las obras maestras de la literatura brasileña y de acercarse a un autor tan valioso y en realidad tan poco conocido por estos lares como Machado de Assis.
Product details
- Paperback | 408 pages
- 170 x 240mm | 970g
- 06 Oct 2017
- Editorial Sexto Piso
- Spain
- Spanish
- New edition
- 841667759X
- 9788416677597
- 1,619,124
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