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The first novel from the brilliant, protean Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy tells the story of a 35-year-old writer for a New York arts and culture magazine whose life melts into a fever dream when he falls in love with the handsome, charming, possibly heroin-addicted, and almost certainly insane Gregory Burgess. In the derelict brownstones of the Lower East Side in the late 80s, among the coked-out restauranteurs and art world impresarios of the supposed "downtown scene", the narrator wanders through the fog of passion. Meanwhile, the AIDS epidemic is spreading through the city....

Darkness has a way of creeping up when Ian is with Priss. Even when they were kids, playing in the woods of their small Upstate New York town, he could feel it. Still, Priss was his best friend, his salvation from the bullies who called him "loser" and "fatboy" - and from his family's deadly secrets.

Ese día, después de hacer el amor, sentí por primera vez un deseo irrefrenable de matarlo. No puedo explicar cómo fue. Sólo sé que al verlo satisfecho, adormilado por el esfuerzo de complacerse y complacerme, tuve la urgencia de taparlo con la almohada hasta que dejara de respirar. Medí mis fuerzas. Yo también estaba exhausta, pero si lo cogía así, dormido, tal vez alcanzaría a asfixiarlo antes de que pudiera reaccionar y defenderse.

Noah is teetering on the edge of sanity. His sick obsession for the beautiful stranger pushing him further and further to the brink of madness. His Emily. He greets her daily at the pharmacy where she works just to catch a moment with her. He's a harmless guy, right? It's just a crush, surely. But then things start to get scary. By the time Emily realizes the depth of Noah's obsession for her, it may be too late.

Anika Muhammad’s whole life is wrapped up in her battle with paranoid schizophrenia. Shocked to discover her wedding never actually happened, she relapses into a chaotic world of inner turmoil. When she’s institutionalized against her will, she feels devastated and completely alone.

¿Médicos psiquiatras que escriben cuentos? Pues quién mejor que ellos para comprender los resquicios de la mente humana, para escudriñar en esos recovecos mentales donde guardamos lo peor —¿o lo mejor?— de nosotros mismos. Estos cuentos, que se basan en distintos males mentales, son certeros y profundos relatos de los delirios y los grises tonos que el espíritu humano y la mente pueden alcanzar.

Puffton Village. Back in the 1980s, a group of strangers lived in a college town apartment complex. They became great friends and went through daily struggles together. They supported each other and comforted each other. They became an untraditional family. A Crazy Life. A life filled with drama, love, fear, bonding, and adventures. A life filled with fear, terror, heartache, and questions.

Con un lenguaje preciso, cuidado y cargado de silencios, esta novela acusa dentro de sí el rumor seco, sordo y remoto de las piedras que arrastra en torbellino furioso el río revuelto de los secretos familiares y sus prejuicios. Núñez Handal acude una vez más a la tradición literaria de la locura como ficción, en esta historia de mujeres que se miran al espejo, sin el miedo de verse en lo que son. Historias sin maquillaje, sin afeites, contadas apenas con la luz con que ilumina y salva al final del camino, la verdad.

Maupassant fue admirador y amigo de Gustave Flaubert al que conoció en 1867. Flaubert lo tomó bajo su protección, le abrió la puerta de algunos periódicos y le presentó a Iván Turgueniev y Émile Zola. El escritor viajó a París tras la derrota francesa en la Guerra Franco-Prusiana de 1870 y trabajó como funcionario en varios ministerios, hasta que publicó en 1880 su primera gran obra, Bola de Sebo. Esta publicación permite a Maupassant adquirir notoriedad en el mundillo literario.

Bree’s destiny had always been kept. Like a dirty secret, it was nearly impossible to escape a certain dark fate. Just when she was beginning to turn things around and had repaired her relationships came the final blow. Locked in isolation and desperate for someone to put her trust in, Bree began talking to a mysterious man over the Internet. Placing her trust in him was the biggest mistake of her life. Now, caught in his evil web, she must decide - once and for all - how to take control of her life.