SCOTT SPENCER

Esta novela cuenta la historia de David Axelrod y su abrumadora pasión por Jade Butterfield. Cuando el padre de Jade destierra a David de la casa, este fantasea con que obtendrá su perdón si rescata a la familia, y toma una decision drastica. Entonces se despliega una pesadilla, David va cayendo en una espiral obsesiva y los actos se suceden como en una montaña rusa. ¿Que dice el amor sobre su objeto y sobre nosotros mismos? Algunos encontraran romanticismo, otros un amor siniestro y patologico, seguramente ambas facetas sean ciertas. Un clasico estadounidense amado y respetado por escritores, criticos y lectores, que cuenta con ediciones en decenas de idiomas y dos adaptaciones al cine.

Fielding Pierce, un joven abogado y aspirante a político, cree que si planifica su vida cuidadosamente, avanza paso a paso y trabaja dentro del sistema conseguirá algún cambio. Su pareja, Sarah Williams, es una activista convencida de que el sistema solo puede cambiarse desde fuera y que trabajar dentro de el es una traicion. Cuando Sarah muere en un atentado terrorista mientras ayuda a unos exiliados politicos chilenos, Fielding queda destrozado y se vuelca en su profesion. Años despues, mientras se abre camino en la oficina del fiscal, le ofrecen presentarse como candidato y seguro ganador a congresista, y su ambicion entra en conflicto con su moral. Abrumado por el recuerdo de Sarah, se cuestiona no solo sus ideales sino tambien su cordura, y se derrumba tras una especie de vertigo.De intensidad desgarradora, esta novela es un profundo examen del idealismo, la identidad, el amor y la perdida. Una obra politica y romantica que no acaba siendo cinica.

A wildly entertaining and occasionally heartbreaking story of frustrated longing, and the lengths we will go for those we loveeven if they dont love us in returnAn Ocean Without a Shore, from the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Endless Love and Man in the Woods, is a beautifully rendered exploration of that most timeless of human dilemmas: the one in which your love is left unreturned.Since their college days, Kip Woods has been infatuated with Thaddeus Kaufman, who, years later, is a married father of two children and desperately trying to revive a failing career. Kips devotion to Thaddeus has been life-defining and destiny-altering, but it has been one that Thaddeus has either failed to notice or refused to acknowledge. But over the course of this heated and mesmerizing novel, set against a background of privilege and affluence in Manhattan and the Hudson Valley, Kip will be forced to reckon with the prison of his own making and decide how much he is willing to sacrifice for a love that may never be shared.Picking up where his most recent novel, River Under the Road, left off, but writing squarely in the vein of Endless Love, his classic novel of passion and obsession, Scott Spencer gives us an intimate, immersive, and unsettling portrait of the devastation we will wreak in the name of love, and the bitterness of a friendship ravaged by fathomless yearning.

Thirty-seven-year-old freelance writer Avery Jankowsky is devastated when his girlfriend, Deirdre, confesses that she has been having an affair. Beside himself with jealousy and grief, Avery accepts his uncle Ezras adviceand his tickets to an all-expenses-paid international sex tour. Sensing a white-hot book idea (and a chance to get back at faithless Deirdre), Avery joins a group of mostly wealthy and accomplished travelers on a mad Nordic whirl, descending ever deeper into a world that is equal parts hilarity and nightmare.From two-time National Book Award finalist Scott Spencer comes a startling tour de force that explores the limits of male restraint, the intoxications of privilege, and the maddening dangers of freedom.

A smart, haunting thriller with bass reverb and a pounding heart.Jayne Anne Phillips, author of the National Book Award finalist Lark and TermiteScott Spencer, the acclaimed author of Endless Love and A Ship Made of Paper, reaffirms his storytelling mastery with Man in the Woodsa gripping psychological thriller about a carpenter at loose ends and the crime of passion that radically reorders his world. Rudy Wurlitzer lauds Man in the Woods as a stunning work that offers heartbreaking insights into the dark frailties of human nature, and which he calls, a page turner from beginning to end. And New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose hails its achievement, writing, In this brilliant novel, Scott Spencer further expands his range.

From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Man in the Woods and Endless Love, a stunning, stinging portrait of class and creativity-and the double-edged sword of successThirteen parties over the course of two decades-an opium infused barbeque, a reception for a doomed presidential candidate, a fund-raiser for a blind child who speaks in tongues, a visit to one of New Yorks fabled sex clubs-brilliantly reveal the lives of two couples, one hoping to be admitted to the kingdom of Art, the other hoping for a small share of the American dream, both driven by forces of history they rarely perceive or acknowledge. Thaddeus Kaufman, the son of booksellers, and Grace Cornell, raised in a basement apartment she longs to escape, meet at a neighborhood art fair in Chicago. Soon after, they head to New York, aloft on the wings of young love. Jennings Stratton, the son of a caretaker, and Muriel Sanchez, the daughter of a cop, meet in a house he is refurbishing in New Mexico, and they, too, head for the big city. In a vast Hudson River estate, the lives of the two couples ultimately intertwine. Thaddeus has made it big in an unexpected way, setting off a chain reaction of envy among his friends and peers and forever changing the dynamic of his marriage with Grace, for whom success has been elusive, and art, once a source of solace, has become a font of bitterness. And Jennings, hoping to transcend his reputation as the local Casanova, a man suited only for menial tasks, has ventured into a cycle of theft and betrayal that threatens to destroy the fragile life of his family.Funny and cutting, affecting and expansive, River Under the Road is Scott Spencers masterpiece of all that lies beneath our everyday lives-a story about the pursuit of love, art, and money, and the inevitable reckoning that awaits us all.

Esta novela cuenta la historia de David Axelrod y su abrumadora pasión por Jade Butterfield. Cuando el padre de Jade destierra a David de la casa, este fantasea con que obtendrá su perdón si rescata a la familia, y toma una decision drastica. Entonces se despliega una pesadilla, David va cayendo en una espiral obsesiva y los actos se suceden como en una montaña rusa.¿Que dice el amor sobre su objeto y sobre nosotros mismos? Algunos encontraran romanticismo, otros un amor siniestro y patologico, seguramente ambas facetas sean ciertas. Un clasico estadounidense amado y respetado por escritores, criticos y lectores, que cuenta con ediciones en decenas de idiomas y dos adaptaciones al cine.

Fielding Pierce, un joven abogado y aspirante a político, cree que si planifica su vida cuidadosamente, avanza paso a paso y trabaja dentro del sistema conseguirá algún cambio. Su pareja, Sarah Williams, es una activista convencida de que el sistema solo puede cambiarse desde fuera y que trabajar dentro de el es una traicion. Cuando Sarah muere en un atentado terrorista mientras ayuda a unos exiliados politicos chilenos, Fielding queda destrozado y se vuelca en su profesion. Años despues, mientras se abre camino en la oficina del fiscal, le ofrecen presentarse como candidato y seguro ganador a congresista, y su ambicion entra en conflicto con su moral. Abrumado por el recuerdo de Sarah, se cuestiona no solo sus ideales sino tambien su cordura, y se derrumba tras una especie de vertigo.