La Estrella de Plata
La Estrella de Plata
By:Jeannette Walls
Published on 2015-10-13 by
Decada de los setenta en una pequena ciudad de California. |Bean| Holladay tiene doce anos y su hermana Liz quince cuando su madre las abandona |para encontrarse a si misma| y triunfar en la musica. Aunque les deja dinero para subsistir un mes o dos, las pequenas tienen miedo de acabar siendo recogidas por los servicios sociales y deciden viajar a Virginia, donde su tio Tinsley vive en la decadente mansion que ha sido la casa de su familia durante generaciones. Pero el pequeno pueblo en el que nacieron ha cambiado mucho, y la vida es muy diferente. Ante la escasez de dinero, las hermanas tendran que hacer pequenos trabajos para Jerry Maddox, el poderoso capataz de la algodonera. Las ninas deberan adaptarse para volver a empezar a la vez que descubriran la historia oculta de quien es su padre y por que su madre tuvo que abandonar Virginia. Jeannette Walls vuelve a conmover con una novela sobre la familia, la amistad y el triunfo de la justicia frente a la adversidad. Y sobre personas que encuentran un modo de amar a los demas y al mundo pese a todos sus defectos. English Description From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls gripping new novel that |transports us with her powerful storytelling...She contemplates the extraordinary bravery needed to confront real-life demons in a world where the hardest thing to do may be to not run away| (O, The Oprah Magazine). It is 1970 in a small town in California. Bean Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that s been in Charlotte s family for generations. An impetuous optimist, Bean soon discovers who her father was, and hears stories about why their mother left Virginia in the first place. Money is tight, and the sisters start babysitting and doing office work for Jerry Maddox, foreman of the mill in town, who bullies his workers, his tenants, his children, and his wife. Liz is whip-smartan inventor of word games, reader of Edgar Allan Poe, nonconformist. But when school starts in the fall, it s Bean who easily adjusts, and Liz who becomes increasingly withdrawn. And then something happens to Liz in the car with Maddox. Jeannette Walls has written a deeply moving novel about triumph over adversity and about people who find a way to love each other and the world, despite its flaws and injustices. |
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