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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Sometimes revisiting "old friends" from the literary world can be very disappointing, but that was not the case for me as I read the third book centered on Russell and Corrine Calloway. The first book about them, BRIGHTNESS FALLS, is one of my all time favorites and I just re-read it in anticipation of this book coming out. He held up wonderfully and I think this was a great third piece of their story. I don't exactly know why but I just fall into their world and become thoroughly immersed in the story. ( ) Tras décadas juntos, Russell y Corrine Calloway querrían tener una vida familiar tranquila y estable, algo que parece imposible de conseguir en Nueva York tras la quiebra de Lehman Brothers. Sueñan con poder criar a sus hijos más cerca del campo, pero su situación económica no se lo permite. En un arriesgado intento por reflotar su editorial, Russell contratará un libro que será su salvación o su ruina, mientras que la reaparición de un amigo de Corrine cuestionará la solidez de su relación. Días de luz y esplendor es una adictiva novela que nos sumerge de lleno en el Manhattan de principios del XXI, con la elección de Obama y el colapso económico mundial como telón de fondo. En ella McInerney vuelve a seguir los pasos de Russell y Corrine para ahondar en los retos del amor y el matrimonio y, como un Fitzgerald de nuestro tiempo, trazar un soberbio retrato de las luces y sombras del sueño americano. Una brillantísima conclusión a su trilogía de novelas dedicada a los Calloway. I'm glad I started with The Good Life because neither of the other books in this trilogy would have compelled me to read them all. They're okay but not great in a run out and buy more right now kind of way. Bright, Precious Days provides a real in-depth examination of a marriage and I really came to care about the characters who are approaching 50. After all, I've known them since they were in university! The writing is good and the characters are complex and well drawn, which is the most important thing for me. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"The crowning achievement from the preeminent writer of his generation: following Brightness Falls and The Good Life, Bright, Precious Things builds on a series increasingly akin to John Updike's Rabbit novels but with a long-standing if weathered couple at its heart. Russell and Corrine Calloway seem to be living the New York dream: book parties one night and high-society charity events the next; jobs they care about (and actually enjoy); twin children, a boy and a girl whose birth was truly miraculous; a loft in Tribeca and summers in the Hamptons. But all of this comes at a high cost. Russell, an independent publisher, has cultural clout but minimal cash; as he navigates an industry that requires, beyond astute literary taste, constant financial improvisation, he encounters an audacious, expensive and potentially ruinous opportunity. Meanwhile, instead of seeking personal profit in this incredibly wealthy city, Corrine is devoted to feeding its hungry poor, and they soon discover they're being priced out of their now fashionable neighborhood. Then Corrine's world is turned upside down when the man with whom she'd had an ill-fated affair in the wake of 9/11 suddenly reappears. As the novel unfolds across a period of stupendous change including Obama's historic election and the global economic collapse he inherited the Calloways will find themselves and their marriage tested more severely than they ever could have anticipated"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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