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miércoles, 27 de agosto de 2014

Ebook en oferta: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, de Karen Joy Fowler

En estos momentos se puede adquirir en Amazon España el ebook We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, de Karen Joy Fowler, por 2,49€. Esta novela fue una de las nominadas al Premio Nebula de este año.

Ésta es su sinopsis:
Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves, round about page 77, what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other.

Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone - vanished from her life. There's something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern. And it was this decision, made by her parents, to give Rosemary a sister like no other, that began all of Rosemary's trouble. So now she's telling her story: full of hilarious asides and brilliantly spiky lines, it's a looping narrative that begins towards the end, and then goes back to the beginning. Twice.

It's funny, clever, intimate, honest, analytical and swirling with ideas that will come back to bite you. We hope you enjoy it, and if, when you're telling a friend about it, you do decide to spill the beans about Fern - it's pretty hard to resist - don't worry. One of the few studies Rosemary doesn't quote says that spoilers actually enhance reading.

jueves, 10 de abril de 2014

Ebook en oferta: The Science of Herself, de Karen Joy Fowler

La oferta de hoy en Weightless Books es la colección de relatos The Science of Herself de Karen Joy Fowler. Se puede adquirir, sólo durante el día de hoy, por 1,99$ en formato electrónico sin DRM.

Ésta es su sinopsis:
Widely respected in the so-called “mainstream” for her New York Times bestselling novels, Karen Joy Fowler is also a formidable, often controversial, and always exuberant presence in Science Fiction. Here she debuts a provocative new story written especially for this series. Set in the days of Darwin, “The Science of Herself” is a marvelous hybrid of SF and historical fiction: the almost-true story of England’s first female paleontologist who took on the Victorian old-boy establishment armed with only her own fierce intelligence—and an arsenal of dino bones.  
Plus… “The Pelican Bar,” a homely tale of family ties that makes Guantánamo look like summer camp; “The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man,” a droll tale of sports, shoplifting and teen sex; and “The Motherhood Statement,” a quietly angry upending of easy assumptions that shows off Fowler’s deep radicalism and impatience with conservative homilies and liberal pieties alike. And Featuring: our Outspoken Interview in which Fowler prophesies California’s fate, reveals the role of bad movies in good marriages, and intimates that girls just want to have fun (which means make trouble).  
Table of Contents 
The Science of Herself
The Motherhood Statement
The Pelican Bar
More Exuberant Than is Strictly Tasteful: Outspoken Interview by Terry Bisson
The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man