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Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.… (más)
Este libro y es increíble. Irónico hasta la médula. Te ríes, y eso que decir que yo me ría a carcajada limpia, no es algo común ni poca cosa. Está bien escrito, palabra a palabra. Y hasta puede darte envidia el narrador escogido porque gracias a ellos puede permitirse todo tipo de licencia. Sin sacarte de la historia, ni perder arte, ni gracia, ni cabeza. Realmente genial. Mientras te haces la inevitable pregunta existencial del mundo en general, te ríes a costilla limpia hasta que por un segundo te das cuenta que te estás riendo de tu propia miseria: y entonces te ríes más fuerte. Lo recomiendo mucho. Es una literatura dinámica, entretenida e inteligente
Este libro y es increíble. Irónico hasta la médula. Te ríes, y eso que decir que yo me ría a carcajada limpia, no es algo común ni poca cosa. Está bien escriA_long_way_downto, palabra a palabra. Y hasta puede darte envidia el narrador escogido porque gracias a ellos puede permitirse todo tipo de licencia. Sin sacarte de la historia, ni perder arte, ni gracia, ni cabeza. Realmente genial. Mientras te haces la inevitable pregunta existencial del mundo en general, te ríes a costilla limpia hasta que por un segundo te das cuenta que te estás riendo de tu propia miseria: y entonces te ríes más fuerte. Lo recomiendo mucho. Es una literatura dinámica, entretenida e inteligente. ¿Qué más? (bueno tal vez el que estuviera disponible en español, porque al menos yo no lo he encontrado) ( )
...Hornby doesn't confuse the simplicity of this thought with the impossibility of sometimes living it. For all his light touches, he is never superficial enough to suggest that these lives that have fallen apart, in four of the millions of ways lives may do so, can easily be patched up and renewed. Whatever limited consolations the book's survivors find in each other, Hornby resists melodramatic resolutions or glorious moments of redemption, and he doesn't smuggle away or refute all the reasons his characters took with them to the rooftop where they met, the ones that urged them toward the edge rather than down to the ground the slow way, back into the world.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The cure for unhappiness is happiness. I don't care what anyone says. --Elizabeth McCracken, Niagara Falls All Over Again
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
To Amanda
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short.
I once asked dad what he'd be doing if he wasn't working in politics and he said he'd be working in politics and what he meant, I think, is that wherever he was in the world, whatever job he was doing, he'd still find a way back, in the way that cats are supposed to be able to find a way back home when they move house. He'd be on the local council or he'd give out pamphlets or something. Anything that was a part of that world, he'd do.
We all spend so much time not saying what we want because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious or ungrateful or disloyal or childish or banal … Go on, say what you want. Maybe not out loud if it's going to get you into trouble. “I wish I'd never married him.” “I wish she was still alive.” “I wish I'd never had kids with her.” “I wish I had a whole shitload of money.” “I wish all the Albanians would go back to fucking Albania.” Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth shall set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch on the nose.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
It didn't look as though it was moving, but it must have been, I suppose.
Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.
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