La Mujer que Amé

En este libro, fruto de cuatro años de trabajo por parte del autor, se nos presenta el Chesterton de siempre -el polemista, el escritor y el converso- junto a un Chesterton nuevo, no por ello menos verdadero: el amigo, el amante, el padre, el hermano y, sobre todo, el cristiano. A partir de sus textos, muchos de ellos inéditos, Joseph Pearce nos acerca, con amenidad y buen hacer, a una de las figuras más enigmáticas y apasionantes de la literatura inglesa y universal, forjando una obra imprescindible para la comprensión del personaje y de la Europa de este siglo.

Esta es una formidable biografía de uno de los pianistas más emblemáticos de la historia: Glenn Gould, y del "dúo dinámico" que lo acompañó: su afinador, el casi ciego y sinestésico Vern Edquist, y su piano, el CD 318, al cual el canadiense dedicó una milimétrica y obsesiva búsqueda, no sin discutir con Edquist, por el sonido perfecto. Gould, un artista que renunció al formato de concierto y se dedicó a realizar grabaciones que se volvieron fundamentales, tuvo una relación fascinante con su piano. Detrás de un gran pianista hay un gran afinador, reza la frase. En el contexto...

The #1 New York Times bestseller from the cancer survivor who became a four-time Tour de France champ. ?In 1996, young cycling phenom Armstrong discovered he had testicular cancer. In 1999, he won the Tour de France. Now he's a new father and a memoirist: with pluck, humility and verve, this volume covers his early life, his rise through the endurance sport world and his medical difficulties. The book features a disarming and spotless prose style, one far above par for sports memoirs.? ?Publishers Weekly

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...