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Schwartz Engano De Beth Loring (Spanish Edition)
Editorial Planeta, S.A. 8408040731 / 9788408040736 PAPERBACK Very Good
8408040731 Fernando Schwartz es autor de narrativa y ensayo. Entre sus novelas, pueden destacarse: El desencuen-tro, Premio Planeta 1996; La venganza (1998) y El Peor hombre del mundo (1999). nA inicios de los anos sesenta, una joven australiana, Beth Loring, se instala en Mallorca con su hija peque-na, Flower. Beth ha acudido a la isla atraida por el prestigio de un mitico poeta britanico que vive allf desde hace ahos, rodeado de fervorosos discipulos. La colonia extranjera, formada principalmente por artistas, escritores y vividores, acoge a madre e hija como parte de los suyos. Poco a poco, en ese lumi-noso microcosmos mediterraneo en el que extranjeros e islehos se observan los unos a los otros como si fueran actores de sus respectivos teatros, la ambiciosa Beth comienza a disponer las piezas de un ingenioso engano por el que su hija terminara siendo considerada la descendiente de una antigua y aristocratica familia europea. nEl engano de Beth Loring es una esplendida novela en la que el autor nos vuelve a re-tratar a una mujer singular. Con ella explo-ramos los caminos que conducen hacia la construction y la necesidad del engano, al tiempo que traza un retrato magistral de una parcela basica de la cultura y la educa-cion sentimental del siglo XX.
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Schwartz Engano De Beth Loring (Spanish Edition)
Editorial Planeta, S.A. 8408040731 / 9788408040736 PAPERBACK New
8408040731 Fernando Schwartz es autor de narrativa y ensayo. Entre sus novelas, pueden destacarse: El desencuen-tro, Premio Planeta 1996; La venganza (1998) y El Peor hombre del mundo (1999). nA inicios de los anos sesenta, una joven australiana, Beth Loring, se instala en Mallorca con su hija peque-na, Flower. Beth ha acudido a la isla atraida por el prestigio de un mitico poeta britanico que vive allf desde hace ahos, rodeado de fervorosos discipulos. La colonia extranjera, formada principalmente por artistas, escritores y vividores, acoge a madre e hija como parte de los suyos. Poco a poco, en ese lumi-noso microcosmos mediterraneo en el que extranjeros e islehos se observan los unos a los otros como si fueran actores de sus respectivos teatros, la ambiciosa Beth comienza a disponer las piezas de un ingenioso engano por el que su hija terminara siendo considerada la descendiente de una antigua y aristocratica familia europea. nEl engano de Beth Loring es una esplendida novela en la que el autor nos vuelve a re-tratar a una mujer singular. Con ella explo-ramos los caminos que conducen hacia la construction y la necesidad del engano, al tiempo que traza un retrato magistral de una parcela basica de la cultura y la educa-cion sentimental del siglo XX.
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Lynne S. Schwartz In the Family Way: An Urban Comedy
Harper Perennial 0688177905 / 9780688177904 PAPERBACK Very Good
0688177905 Editorial Reviews n nAmazon.com Review nLynne Sharon Schwartz prefaces her urban comedy with this bit of wisdom: "The true narrative form of our time is the sitcom." In the Family Way, Schwartz's personal Three's Company, is populated by an extended Manhattan family who dwell in an Upper West Side apartment building like bees in a hive. Their queen is, appropriately enough, Bea, a wild-haired, warm-hearted, middle-aged caterer who once was married to Roy, a therapist. Roy, however, left her for cool Serena, who in turn left Roy for Bea's sister May. Now all live under the same roof, along with several of their children and Roy's third wife, Lisa, who is the math teacher of Roy and Bea's daughter Sara--who, incidentally, prefers to be called Shimmer. Bea is having an affair with the super, Dmitri, a Russian given to poetic flights which come thudding to earth when he misremembers his thesaurus. (He whispers ardently to her, "My love. My wild orchid. My landscape with the secret bog.") Meanwhile, Bea's mother, the landlady, is busily trying to lure Oscar, the doorman, into bed. Three of the tribe become pregnant, yielding a climactic three-babies-in-one-night set piece that caps a novel crowded with delightfully implausible coincidence. n nAnyone familiar with Schwartz's exquisite Disturbances in the Field--unaccountably out of print--knows her to be a serious and ambitious novelist. So what's she doing in Full House territory? Writing a damned entertaining novel, that's what, and using comic form to comment caustically on the way we live now. Roy, for instance, tells himself, "as he often told his patients: Not all guilt is something you want to get rid of. Some guilt is justified--if, that is, you choose to inhabit a moral universe." Bea and her family earnestly want to live in a moral universe, but don't quite, and their ambivalence and guilt give Schwartz's frolic a sour, pungent undercurrent. It's the taste of reality's failures, and it turns out to be what sitcoms have been missing all along. --Claire Dederer --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. n nFrom Publishers Weekly nSchwartz breaks out of type in this hilarious chronicle of the lives and loves of an unusual "extended family" on New York's Upper West Side. The narrative takes on the flavor of a Woody Allen film or an intelligent sitcom as it exposes the unsettled morals and mores of sophisticated, liberal urbanites. Roy, a good-natured and hedonistic middle-aged psychotherapist, and his ex-wife Bea, a caterer who helps run the building her mother owns near Central Park West, head a formidable cast of characters who, while "all seeking happiness, naturally," occasionally transgress such social conventions as monogamy. Bea, who believes that "keeping the family together is more important than sexual jealousy," accepts almost any configuration brought about by the fulfillment of desire, as long as the parties involved remain close to her, preferably in apartments within her building. The relatives and lovers in Bea's circle include Roy's second wife, Serena, who becomes the lesbian lover of Bea's artist sister, May; youthful Lisa, Roy's third wife; Dmitri, an expatriate Russian who is Bea's lover and the building's superintendent; Bea's mother, Anna, a slightly senile but still randy widow; and Bea and Roy's four children (two from Roy's wartime liaison with a Vietnamese prostitute) and their romantic interests. Schwartz (Ruined by Reading; Leaving Brooklyn) masterfully orchestrates, providing enough outrageous situations and ironic twists to keep the reader chuckling appreciatively throughout. Roy, for instance, agrees to impregnate ex-wife Serena so that she and May can raise a child. Finally, Roy must ask himself whether he is at the center of his own cherished "harem," or whether he is just a link in the growing network of women and mothers surrounding him, the most powerful and taxed of whom is Bea, trying "to hold back entropy single-handed." Agent, Peter Matson. (Oct.) nCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover e
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F. Schwartz La Venganza
Editorial Planeta, S.A. 8408031139 / 9788408031130 PAPERBACK Very Good
8408031139 Description nBorja, el protagonista de esta novela, escogió el triunfo profesional, mientras la víctima de esa preferencia egoísta, la bella Marga, encarnación de una pasión y de un amor incondicionales, descubría la infinita acritud de la decepción. Humillada por el capricho de una ambición indolente, Marga acumuló la furia necesaria para convertir ese deseo insatisfecho en una venganza.
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Charlotte Schwartz Puppy Training: Owner's Week-By-Week Training Guide (Training Book Series)
Kennel Club Books 1593783655 / 9781593783655 PAPERBACK Very Good
1593783655 Editorial Reviews n nProduct Description nKennel Club Books introduces a breakthrough in puppy-training books! Well-known author Charlotte Schwartz has taken a key commonsense principal of canine development and applied it to the education of every new puppy. All dog trainers and behaviorists agree that the first eight weeks of a dog's life are the most critical time for training and shaping the dog's behavior and obedience potential. Puppy Training presents a unique and useful approach for new owners, carefully detailing an eight-week home-training program. n nWith over 40 years of experience in dog training, Charlotte Schwartz reveals to the owner the secrets to successful house-training and obedience training. Using positive-training techniques, the author describes her methods of house-training, puppy motivation (treat training), personality tests, basic obedience commands as well as some fun tricks for the puppy. Puppy Training is designed to give owners' an easy-to-follow sequence, week by week, presenting all of the behaviors that new owners want to teach their puppies-just as if the owners and puppies were in an obedience class. n nReadable, entertaining and based on the author's tried and true methods, this book is illustrated with over 135 color photographs, many of which capture puppies successfully trained by Miss Schwartz. Whether this is your first puppy or one-hundredth, Puppy Training will prove to be an invaluable resource in the education of your new canine companion.
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