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Chase Insteadman is a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, living off his earnings as a child star. Chase owes his current social status to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, and trapped in a vague routine punctuated only by Upper Eastside dinner parties and engagements. Into Chase's life enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range...

In these pages, Jonathan Galassi gives us an extraordinarily sensitive, satirically sharp novel set in the world of books that he knows so well. At the center is Paul Dukach, editor-in-chief and heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of New Yorks last great independent publishing houses.

IT'S A FEAR MORE PARALYZING THAN FALLING. MORE TERRIFYING THAN ABSOLUTE DARKNESS. MORE HORRIFYING THAN ANYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE. IT'S THE ONE FEAR YOU CANNOT ESCAPE, NO MATTER WHERE YOU RUN...NO MATTER WHERE YOU HIDE. IT'S THE FEAR OF YOURSELF. IT'S REAL. IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. AND FACING IT CAN BE DEADLY. FEAR FOR YOUR MIND.

Una malvada bruja decide cortarle la cabeza a su hijastra para robarle un delantal. Obviamente, falla. Este prometedor comienzo da paso a un cuento al que no le falta de nada: botas de siete leguas, varita mágica, hechizos, amor, olvido y final feliz... Pocos títulos de los hermanos Grimm resumen mejor que El amadísimo Rolando la esencia del cuento popular. Por ello, Toño Benavides lo ha elegido para ilustrarlo en color, adaptando sus dibujos a la estética de hoy en día. La excelente traducción de Álvaro y Luis Alberto de Cuenca enriquece esta edición con la que disfrutarán los...