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The intimate story of two of the most famous, yet enigmatic, figures in modern literature—Jack Kerouac and his friend, traveling companion, and hero, Neal Cassady—this is a firsthand account of life among the Beat generation, written by the woman who was Cassady’s wife and Kerouac’s lover. Beginning with the early days of Kerouac and Cassady’s friendship, Carolyn Cassady’s riveting memoir narrates the explosive success of Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s "Howl," the flowering of the Beat generation, and the social revolution of the 1960s that saw Kerouac and Cassady taken...

¿En qué consiste el día a día de la selección nacional? ¿Cómo son realmente los campeones del mundo? ¿Qué hacen durante los viajes? ¿Qué música escuchan? ¿Qué libros leen? ¿Cómo se entretienen en las concentraciones? ¿Qué dieta alimenticia llevan? Silvia Barba, la periodista de TVE que acompaña a la selección por todos los lugares del mundo, nos anima a descubrir, de boca de los propios protagonistas, detalles y curiosidades que poca gente conoce. ¿Sabíais que muchos jugadores de la Roja están enganchados al parchís, mientras que otros prefieren el póker o la pocha?...

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

Unique for its focus on the early, formative years of the world-renowned Basque designer, this thorough examination of Cristóbal Balenciaga’s life and career is a textual and visual wonder, with an abundance of documents and unpublished images of his hometown, his childhood, and even his personal notes. From his birth in Getaria, a small fishing village on Spain’s northern coast, to his move to Paris following the Spanish Civil War, this exploration of the designer’s origins examines in detail the events and experiences that influenced Balenciaga’s designs and turned him into a...