Bike's Love

Cuando hacen rellenar el absurdo test de orientación profesional en el instituto, todo el mundo elige profesiones elegantes, bien remuneradas y con reconocimiento social. Yo dejé la casilla en blanco, pues todavía no había decidido qué carrera universitaria quería cursar. Al final acabé con una licenciatura en bioquímica alimentaria y un novio dispuesto a casarse conmigo en cuanto lográramos un buen puesto de trabajo. Solo conseguí una de las dos cosas. Sigo soltera. Y no he sentido en ningún momento la tentación de establecer una relación convencional porque no he tenido ni...

An exceptional novel, a modern classic of extreme elegance and frankness and one of the most brilliant x-rays of the United States in which women began to speak in the first person. The Group is considered the best-known --and controversial-- work of the North American Mary McCarthy. Endowed with a strong autobiographical charge, published in 1963, it addressed issues such as free love, socialism, contraception or abortion from an unprejudiced and purely feminine point of view. In fact, its sale was prohibited in various countries as it was considered offensive to public morals. McCarthy...

Published to coincide with the Anchor Books edition of Peel My Love Like an Onion, this Spanish translation is a major addition to the Vintage Español list. Equal parts soap opera, tragicomedy, and rhapsody, Carmen la coja is Ana Castillo's imaginative variation on the themes of Bizet's Carmen, set in the Latin community of Chicago and the seductive world of flamenco. Carmen "La Coja" Santos is a renowned local dancer who has long maintained an affair with the great Agustín, the married director of her troupe. An angry rivalry is sparked when she begins a passionate new liaison with...

I owe him a debt. A big one. The payment can't be settled with money or favors. He only wants one thing. Me. Every action gets a reward. A button. Once I fill his jar with three hundred and sixty five buttons he'll let me go. He'll let me walk away. But I have to earn every single one. By submitting to the darkest, cruelest, and most beautiful man I'd ever known. ***TRIGGER WARNING*** There are some difficult and dark scenes that may upset some readers.