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Peñas arriba, publicada a principios de 1895, alcanzó un éxito inmediato por su capacidad de captar las dimensiones simbólicas de un paisaje, el de la montaña cántabra, que aparece contrapuesto a la vida sofisticada y mendaz de la urbe. En el frívolo y mundano Marcelo y en la relación que establece con su tío, el ejemplar don Celso, se cifra ese camino de regreso a lo natural. En su edición para la Biblioteca Clásica, Laureano Bonet sitúa el "realismo regionalista" de Pereda en su contexto estético e ideológico (tradicionalista y antiliberal), ubica la novela en unas coordenadas europeas más amplias y le insufla, además, una mirada renovadora, de orden antropológico, que la aproxima a angustias de nuestro propio tiempo. Para el establecimiento del texto se ha escrutado detalladamente el difícil proceso de redacción de la novela -interrumpida por el suicidio del hijo-, cuyo autógrafo se conserva, y se han tenido en cuenta la primera edición y la que se incluyó en las Obras completas del autor.

The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 National Book Award winner and bestseller Hell of a Book People Like Us is Jason Mott’s electric new novel. It is not memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason’s life. And while rooted in reality, it explodes with dreamlike experiences that pull a reader in and don’t let go, from the ability to time travel to sightings of sea monsters and peacocks, and feelings of love and memory so real they hurt. In People Like Us, two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence. One is on a global book tour after a big prize win; the other is set to give a speech at a school that has suffered a shooting. And as their two storylines merge, truths and antics abound in equal measure: characters drink booze out of an award trophy; menaces lurk in the shadows; tiny French cars putter around the countryside; handguns seem to hover in the air; and dreams endure against all odds.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?