¡No pasarán!

This book is an exploration of Jack Kerouac, the writer that a whole generation turned into their reluctant spokesman. Duval gives a voice to key figures from that movement: the poet Allen Ginsberg; Carolyn Cassadys wife and Kerouacs lover; Joyce Johnson, who was in a relationship with the writerwhen he became famous; Timothy Leary, the psychedelic guru of the sixties; Anne Waldman, beat poet; and Ken Kesey, a central figure of American counter-culture. Through their stories, we investigate the mysterious figure of Jack Kerouac, the man who wrote the most important novel of his generation to...

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...

Mi Camino es una lección de vida inserta en un relato nostálgico, irónico y optimista de un niño que se sobrepone a la pobreza hasta convertirse en un corresponsal extranjero en América Latina. A través de una narración sin pretensiones, pero apasionante y a veces reflexiva, la obra reúne anécdotas infantiles, los avatares de una educación difícil y las experiencias de un periodista en un continente donde se enfrentaban las dictaduras militares de derechas y los extremismos de izquierdas. Pero más allá de la simple narración, Mi Camino es un testimonio del agradecimiento del...

En El héroe improbable Mauricio Sabaj indaga en la vida y en la trayectoria política de Alejandro Atchugarry: los humildes orígenes familiares, la infancia donde ya sorprendía por su inteligencia, la temprana formación intelectual, la simbiosis política con Jorge Batlle, el hombre de Estado, el legislador prestigioso, la infinita paciencia para las grandes negociaciones del país que contrastaba con sus explosiones de ira por asuntos cotidianos. Narra las circunstancias que lo llevaron a asumir como ministro de Economía, el reconocimiento popular como el salvador de la crisis, los...