"On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod left his dorm-room to play a pick-up game of basketball. In the skirmish for a loose ball, a boy's finger hooked behind Axelrod's eyeball and severed his optic nerve. Permanently blinded in his right eye, Axelrod returned a week later to the same dorm-room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the smooth veneer of reality had been broken,...

"An exquisite new translation of Colette's tragicomic masterpiece, a pair of novels exploring the relationship between an aging courtesan and a much younger man. Chéri and its sequel, The End of Chéri, mark Colette's finest achievements, in their brilliant, subtle, and frank investigations of love and power. Set in the Parisian demimonde in the last days of the Belle Époque, Chéri tells the story of Léa, a courtesan at the end of a successful...

"En medio de una Caracas revuelta, Armando es un hombre de cincuenta a©łos que trabaja en su propio laboratorio de pr©đtesis dentales. En su tiempo libre busca a hombres j©đvenes en paradas de autob©ðs y les ofrece dinero a cambio de que lo acompa©łen a su casa, pero solo busca compa©ł©Ưa y observarles, no pide m©Łs. Pero Armando tambi©♭n tiene otra costumbre, la de espiar a un hombre de edad avanzada, con quien tiene un v©Ưnculo...

While living in Manhattan, a young man makes a relentless flight through nightclubs, fashion shows, and parties but is finally forced to rediscover his better instincts.