Ron Currie

In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in 36 years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does

Segunda novela del autor de Dios ha muerto, considerado por la crítica como «una nueva estrella de la ficción literaria.»The Boston Globe Desde su nacimiento, el súper genio Junior Thibodeaux escuch

A bold and arresting story about the impossibility of love and the inevitability of grief by the acclaimed author of "Everything Matters!" Ron Currie, Jr.'s first two works of fiction, "God Is Dead" and "Everything Matters!," dazzled readers and critics alike with their audacity, originality, and psychological insight. Hailed by the "New York Times"'s Janet Maslin as a "startlingly talented writer," Currie once again moves and provokes us with his latest genre-bending novel, one that asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths. The protagonist of "Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles" is named Ron Currie, Jr., and as you'd expect, he's a lot like the guy who wrote the book. Both of them are writers; both of their fathers are dead; both are deeply in love with women whose beauty and allure are matched only by their elusiveness. When Currie the character travels to a small Caribbean island to begin a new book about the woman he loves, he inadvertently fakes his own death, which turns out to be the best career move he's ever made-until he learns that the one thing that the world will not forgive is having been told a deeply satisfying lie.

Dios se aloja en el cuerpo de una joven en Sudán. Al morir la mujer su cadáver es devorado por unos perros y Dios también fallece. Ante la dura realidad que supone la ausencia de un ser superior, el mundo sufre una transformacion inevitable. En un electrizante debut en el que mezcla con fluidez el humor con los grandes interrogantes sobre la muerte, la etica y las debilidades humanas, Ron Currie coloca un espejo distorsionado ante el mundo de nuestro tiempo.Fue elegido Libro Destacado del año por los periodicos San Francisco Chronicle y Richmond Post Dispatch y fue galardonado con los premios Young Lions Fiction Award de la Biblioteca Publica de Nueva York y el Addison M. Metcalf Award de la Academia Americana de Artes y Letras.Corrosivamente divertida... ingeniosa y absorbente por igual. Currie mantiene el impulso como todo un experto. Kirkus Review