El niño malo cuenta hasta cien y se retira

Peter Jernigan is barely over forty, lives in a suburb in New Jersey with his teenaged son Danny, and works in a New York real estate agency. Intelligent, but lacking success, Jernigan flounders through his ordinary life, from which neither his addictions nor his sarcasm can save him. His eccentricity and the recent death of his wife drag him towards a tortuous decadence. But things seem capable of changing when he meets Martha Peretsky, his son’s girlfriend’s divorced mother, and the two begin a promising relationship. This is the entertaining story of a man who, guided by his worst...

La fuerza de la sangre cuenta la historia de Leocadia, una joven que es violada por un libertino de una noble familia de Toledo.

Martin Amis, con esta magistral y divertidsima novela, ha logrado esta vez crear un personaje antolgico, John Self, y recrear como nadie dos ciudades centrales del fino del siglo, Londres y Nueva York. El inefable antihroe John Self es hombre de numerosas adiciones: bebida, tabaco, fast food, pornografa, todo lo cual consume en cantidades industriales. Pero su principal droga es el dinero, nica forma de cultura que conoce. Sostenida con un ritmo trepidante en el brillante monlogo de su protagonista, Dinero es un magnfico e hilarante retrato de uno de los tipos ms peculiares que haya producido ...

Daisy Lake is just a childhood memory for successful lawyer Gavin Carmichael, but for some reason, he has never been able to forget her. One day, during a dinner at a fancy club, he discovers that the girl he once knew has become the famous music hall singer Delilah du Lac. Gavin wants to save her from that life, but all Daisy wants is to be on stage. Perhaps Gavin could make this dream come true? She has slept with men for less. As they spend more time together, which one will end up enslaved by love?