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Los padres de Matthew están preocupados. Con once años, ya es demasiado mayor para tener un amigo imaginario; sin embargo, a menudo lo encuentran hablando con una presencia que no está físicamente allí. Esta presencia -Chocky- interroga a Matthew sobre cuestiones extrañas y menosprecia el progreso humano. Poco a poco dejan de parecer absurdas las preguntas ¿quién es Chocky? ¿Qué puede querer de un niño? "Chocky", la última novela que Wyndham publicó durante su vida, es al mismo tiempo una historia de inocencia y una sombría muestra de manipulación.

When you kick over a rock, you never know what's going to crawl out.    Alex Velesky is about to discover that the hard way. He's stolen records from the Swiss bank that employs him, thinking that he'll uncover a criminal conspiracy. But he soon finds that he's tapped into the mother lode of corruption. Before he knows it, he's being hunted by everyone from the Russian mafia to the CIA.    Court Gentry and his erstwhile lover, Zoya Zakharova, find themselves on opposites poles when it comes to Velesky. They both want him but for different reasons.    That's a problem for tomorrow. Today they need to keep him and themselves alive. Right now, it's not looking good.

The two intrepid sisters of the title story grapple with loss and memory on a perfect summer evening; “Impatient Griselda” explores alienation and miscommunication with a fresh twist on a folkloric classic; and “My Evil Mother” touches on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. At the heart of the collection are seven extraordinary stories that follow a married couple across the decades, the moments big and small that make up a long life of uncommon love—and what comes after.