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During 1994's World Cup in the United States, Joe McGinniss develops a passion that changes his life forever, going against North America's historical lack of interest in soccer as a whole. He discovers the intense emotions brought on by the sport and Italy's "calcio," succumbing to Roberto Baggio's style, which impresses and fails spectacularly in equal parts during that particular World Cup. Soon after, now a full-blown soccer convert, McGinniss understands the achievements of an underdog team from Castel di Sangro, a town of fewer than 5,000 residents lost within the rural Abruzos of...

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...

Robert Gerhard es, sin duda, uno de los compositores españoles más relevantes del siglo xx; muchas veces es nombrado como la figura más importante del citado período junto a Falla. Sin embargo, tanto su biografía como su música son escasamente conocidas en nuestro país. La presente monografía reclama la atención sobre este gran compositor: ofrece una biografía rigurosa y actualizada, un análisis de su pensamiento estético e ideológico, y estudia la parte de su producción en la que Gerhard utilizó la Literatura como excusa creativa, dando lugar a algunas obras maestras como su...

La historia de Norma Arrostito es, tanto por lo trágica como por lo legendaria, uno de los capítulos relegados de la vida política argentina en los setenta. Con curiosidad, rigor y un ritmo narrativo sostenido e intenso, Gabriela Saidon nos cuenta esa historia y nos permite asomarnos a un personaje con perfiles paradójicos.