Con las Odas elementales Neruda logro una de las realizaciones mas ambiciosas de toda su obra y de la poesía universal. La visión cósmica y las energias de la naturaleza se pacifican y se hacen armoniosas. El objeto individual y cotidiano se incorpora a la plenitud de las magnas…
Con las Odas elementales Neruda logro una de las realizaciones mas ambiciosas de toda su obra y de la poesía universal. La visión cósmica y las energias de la naturaleza se pacifican y se hacen armoniosas. El objeto individual y cotidiano se incorpora a la plenitud de las magnas…
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A young man's quest for manhood in 1950s Texas. He is the scion of an oil family. Failing to achieve manhood with his fists, he tries love, stealing a football player's girlfriend. Subsequently he takes to the wilderness to eat fish raw, but the quest ends badly.
Set in north Texas, and the Southwest in general, this coming-of-age novel pits a protagonist with a traditional, rural background, against the ""sophistication"" of Dallas in the late 1960s. The title character, Trotter, falls for a woman about to be married, and must deal with…
Set in north Texas, and the Southwest in general, this coming-of-age novel pits a protagonist with a traditional, rural background, against the ""sophistication"" of Dallas in the late 1960s. The title character, Trotter, falls for a woman about to be married, and must deal with…
Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges for this very reason. Regard…
Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges for this very reason. Regard…
Publisher's description : Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me : "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges for this very reason. Rega…
This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.