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portada Jernigan (in Spanish)
Type
Physical Book
Year
2010
Language
Spanish
Pages
384
Format
Paperback
ISBN
8492663170
ISBN13
9788492663170
Edited in
España
Edition No.
1

Jernigan (in Spanish)

David Gates (Author) · Libros del Asteroide · Paperback

Jernigan (in Spanish) - David Gates

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Synopsis "Jernigan (in Spanish)"

Peter Jernigan is barely over forty, lives in a suburb in New Jersey with his teenaged son Danny, and works in a New York real estate agency. Intelligent, but lacking success, Jernigan flounders through his ordinary life, from which neither his addictions nor his sarcasm can save him. His eccentricity and the recent death of his wife drag him towards a tortuous decadence. But things seem capable of changing when he meets Martha Peretsky, his son’s girlfriend’s divorced mother, and the two begin a promising relationship. This is the entertaining story of a man who, guided by his worst qualities, succeeds in turning his life into a failure of epic proportions. Peter Jernigan’s captivating voice accompanies us through his peculiar descent into hell, while offering a hilarious dissection of the selfishness, indifference, and cruelty that exists within all of us. Published in 1991, and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, this is David Gates’s first and most acclaimed novel, and its protagonist has become one of modern American literature’s classic antiheroes. Peter Jernigan tiene poco más de cuarenta años, vive en un barrio residencial de Nueva Jersey con su hijo adolescente, Danny, y trabaja en una inmobiliaria neoyorquina. Inteligente pero con escaso éxito, Jernigan naufraga en una adocenada vida de la que no consiguen sacarlo ni sus adicciones ni su sarcasmo. Su estrafalaria manera de relacionarse con los demás y la reciente muerte de su mujer lo arrastran a una tortuosa decadencia. Parece que las cosas pueden empezar a cambiar cuando conoce a Martha Peretsky, la madre divorciada de la novia de su hijo, e inician una prometedora relación. Esta es la divertídisima historia de un hombre que, dejándose llevar por sus peores cualidades, consigue convertir su vida en un estrepitoso fracaso. La cautivadora voz de Peter Jernigan nos acompaña en su particular descenso a los infiernos, a la vez que ofrece una desternillante disección del egoísmo, la indiferencia y la crueldad que se hallan en el fondo de cada  uno de nosotros. Publicada en 1991 y finalista del Premio Pulitzer, esta es la primera y más aclamada novela de David Gates, y su protagonista se ha convertido en uno de los antihéroes clásicos de la literatura norteamericana reciente.

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