Cara y cruz

“Este no es un libro sobre la política de inmigración. En realidad, no es un libro sobre inmigración en absoluto. Trata de la falta de un hogar, no en el sentido tradicional, sino en el de la inestable deriva psicológica en que nos hallamos los inmigrantes indocumentados como yo. Este libro cuenta lo que es mentir y verse obligado a mentir para sobrevivir; y cuenta lo que es pasar como estadounidense y ciudadano de pro. Habla de las familias, de cómo mantenerlas juntas o, cuando eso no es posible, de verse obligado a formar familias nuevas. Este es un libro sobre vivir permanentemente...

Persona advocates a new morality; an ethics of rational self-interest that stands in complete opposition to the political, social and religious attitudes of our day. My unique philosophy of objectivism is the underlying theme of the book; the basic tenets of a new ethos that challenges the accepted standards of our age. The psychological experience of a journey through innocence to learning; through normality and abnormality and emotional encounters in the quest for inner enlightenment.

"Exceptional bridge between anglophone and francophone cultures, the historian Herbert Lottman explores the relationship that brought Oscar Wilde with Paris, which was deployed along the half-life of the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Indeed, Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1854-Paris, 1900) visited the French capital on numerous occasions, the first one in his twenty years before joining Oxford, and in 1884, for their honeymoon after his wedding to Constance Lloyd."

"Built on her wildly popular Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a breathtaking memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38 year old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years, after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--