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Henrietta St. Bernard grows up in the 1960s, a member of a large family of French-speaking Canadian immigrants trying to survive in an English-speaking country. She is the only child born with the St. Bernard thumb—a pimple-like mass on her chin that finally goes away when she is three months old, leaving a brown spot on her chin from age three. From an early age, Henrietta experiences severe abuse from her parents and, to a lesser degree, her older siblings. They called her ugly and stupid, eventually settling on the nickname “La Folle”—the crazy girl. As she gets older, the abuse...

En la decimocuarta entrega de la serie del inspector Pendergast, la siniestra sombra de una venganza ancestral amenaza la vida del agente del FBI. A las nueve y veinte de la noche llaman al timbre de la residencia neoyorquina del agente especial Aloysius Pendergast, y la fiel Constance Greene acude a abrir. En el umbral aparece Alban, el hijo de Pendergast, cuyo cuerpo atado con cuerdas gruesas cae estrepitosamente al suelo. Está muerto. Su padre sale a la calle y persigue sin éxito a un sospechoso coche negro. Un informe dictaminará más tarde que el cadáver no presentaba signos de...

Irina se marcha de la Tierra, va a trabajar a un inhóspito planeta fuera de nuestra galaxia. Un planeta sin vida propia cuyos habitantes, llegados de todos los confines del universo conocido, han ido a trabajar en la Mina donde se extrae un preciado mineral, un trabajo duro no exento de retos y dificultades, donde expondrán sus vidas y salvarán la de otros. En casa de Miss Flowers, donde se hospeda, Irina convivirá con otras jóvenes llegadas de diferentes lugares del universo: Carol, Kasumi, Thalia, Aruma y Oshin. Irina guarda un secreto, desea emular a su padre y ganar una competición...

A passionate and solitary inventor of agricultural machinery fights for love and recognition from his community. Through this partially autobiographical tale, author Sherwood Anderson aims his critique on the rise of technology and industries at the turn of the century. At the same time, he recreates a story where nature has no judgments and beauty is troubling. Pobre blanco was praised by writers such as H. L. Mencken and Hart Crane when it was originally published. It remains a curiously contemporary novel and a marvelous testimony to Anderson.