Faces in the Crowd

✍ Luiselli, Valeria 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Coffee House Press 🌐 English ⚖ 137 KB

"In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through your nerve endings, opening your eyes and heart. Youth, from unruly st

Faces in the Crowd

✍ Luiselli, Valeria 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Coffee House Press 🌐 English ⚖ 153 KB

"An extraordinary new literary talent."— _The Daily Telegraph_ "In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through your n

Faces in the Crowd

✍ Luiselli, Valeria 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Coffee House Press 🌐 English ⚖ 153 KB 👁 3 views

"An extraordinary new literary talent."— _The Daily Telegraph_ "In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through your n

Faces in the Crowd

✍ Valeria Luiselli 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Coffee House Press 🌐 English ⚖ 218 KB 👁 3 views

In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. In Harlem, a translator is desperate to publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet. And in Philadelphia, Gilberto Owen recalls his friendship with Lorca, and the young woman he saw in t

Faces in the crowd

✍ Frances Hesselbein 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 John Wiley and Sons ⚖ 205 KB

Faces in the Crowd

📂 Standards 📅 2014 🏛 Coffee House Press 🌐 English ⚖ 600 KB

In the heart of Mexico City, a woman, trapped in a house and a marriage she can neither fully inhabit nor abandon, thinks about her past. She has decided to write a novel about her days at a publishing house in New York; about the strangers who became lovers and the poets and ghosts who once lived i