Joseph O'Connor
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Este es el testimonio de cómo nace y muere un grupo de rock: la historia de la esperanza ciega que lo alumbra y de las ambiciones que lo condenan. Una novela de una profundidad y una gracia deslumbrantes, de un conocimiento musical enciclopédico y una comprensión profunda y conmovedora del alma humana.
Luton, 1982. La música pop obsesiona a una generación, y el joven irlandés Robbie Goulding conoce a tres personas que le cambiarán la vida....
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In the bitter winter of 1847, leaving an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of refugees, some of them optimistic, many more of them desperate. Among them are a maid with a devastating secret, the bankrupt Lord Merridith accompanied by his wife and children-and a killer stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution. This journey will see many lives end, while...
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1907 Edwardian Dublin, a city of whispers and rumors. At the Abbey Theatre W. B. Yeats is working with the talented John Synge, his resident playwright. It is here that Synge, the author of The Playboy of the Western World and The Tinker's Wedding, will meet an actress still in her teens named Molly Allgood. Rebellious, irreverent, beautiful, flirtatious, Molly is a girl of the inner-city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America. Witty and watchful,...