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Venecia, Cannes y Paris componen el falsamente glamouroso escenario de la vida de Florence McCarthy Harris, una muchacha americana que pasa su juventud viajando por Europa y viviendo de la caridad de los familiares de la mano de su madre, Bonnie, que, a causa de su divorcio, no podía soportar ya seguir viviendo en América. Mientras asistimos al atribulado descenso a la locura de Flor, serán cuatro las voces que, a modo de un cuadro cubista, se superpondrán y revelarán la realidad fracturada de una joven que es arrastrada por su madre a una vida de movimiento constante en un continente desconocido. Una novela sobre la naturaleza humana que, enmarcada en una enfermiza relación maternofilial, trata con gran delicadeza sobre la necesidad de un hogar y la fragilidad que supone el desarraigo.

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This generous collection of fifty-two stories selected from across her prolific career by the author, is preceded by a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art.With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of spare complexity, often pushing the boundaries of the form in boldly unconventional directions. The settings in the COLLECTED STORIES range from Paris to Berlin to Switzerland, from the Riviera to the Côte d'Azur, and her characters are almost all exiles of one sort or another, as she herself was the most of her expatriate life. The wit and precision of her prose, combined with her expansive view of humanity, provide a rare and deep reading pleasure. With breathtaking control and compression, Gallant delivers a whole life, a whole world, in each story.

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