Conejo en paz (Biblioteca) (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Updike, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8483832488 ISBN 13: 9788483832486

Publisher: Maxi-Tusquets, 2010

Synopsis

Muchos conocen ya a Harry «Conejo» Angstrom, el entranable personaje creado por John Updike, un hombre dividido entre la libertad y la responsabilidad, el deseo de independencia y un anticuado sentido del deber, entre apremios sexuales y vagas especulaciones espirituales. En esta cuarta novela de la tetralogia protagonizada por Conejo, este, a sus 55 anos, solo se dedica a jugar al golf y a ver la television; desde el infarto, le embarga una irremediable fatiga. Janice, la esposa desvalida, es ahora toda una mujer de negocios. Nelson, el hijo, estafa y roba a sus padres para mantener su adiccion a la cocaina. Conejo vive en el temor constante, obsesivo, de la muerte que, en efecto, parece rodearle por todas partes. Y ahora solo le quedan un pasado nostalgico, sombrias especulaciones sobre el futuro, y ser testigo pasivo y risible de hechos que ya no controla. / It's 1989, and Harry ""Rabbit"" Angstrom feels anything but restful. In fact he's frozen, incapacitated by his fear of death--and in the final year of the Reagan era, he's right to be afraid. His 55-year-old body, swollen with beer and munchies and racked with chest pains, wears its bulk ""like a set of blankets the decades have brought one by one."" He suspects that his son Nelson, who's recently taken over the family car dealership, is embezzling money to support a cocaine habit.

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From the Back Cover:

It's 1989, and Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom feels anything but restful. In fact he's frozen, incapacitated by his fear of death--and in the final year of the Reagan era, he's right to be afraid. His 55-year-old body, swollen with beer and munchies and racked with chest pains, wears its bulk "like a set of blankets the decades have brought one by one." He suspects that his son Nelson, who's recently taken over the family car dealership, is embezzling money to support a cocaine habit.

About this edition

• Publisher: Maxi-Tusquets
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 8483832488
• ISBN 13: 9788483832486
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 432