Isabel Coixet
Author
Language
Español
Description
Estos textos de Isabel Coixet son un mapa de los intereses, preocupaciones, aficiones y pasiones de la cineasta. En ellos reflexiona sobre sus viajes, la política, el cine, los libros, la música y, en definitiva la vida. Isabel Coixet comparte sus recomendaciones sobre qué películas ver, qué libros leer, qué música escuchar. En estas páginas encontramos a Isabel Coixet hablando de la vida, de la amistad, de los premios, del nacionalismo, del...
2) The bookshop
Language
English
Formats
Description
England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence’s obstacles amass...
3) Elegy
Publisher
Shout Factory
Language
English
Description
David Kepesh is growing old. He's a professor of literature, a student of American hedonism, and an amateur musician and photographer. When he finds a student attractive, Consuela, a 24-year-old Cuban, he sets out to seduce her. Along the way, he swims in deeper feelings, maybe he's drowning. She presses him to sort out what he wants from her, and a relationship develops. They talk of traveling. He confides in his friend, George, a poet long-married,...