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""There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies--I mean books--that were written for one person only...A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that's how I sell books." Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes...
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"A lively and warmhearted novel starring four precocious Gen X teens-turned-twenty-first-century middle-agers who are seeking . . . well, if not exactly justice from a long-ago hurtful teacher, then at least some kind of long-desired reckoning and closure. Late one morning, parked in a desk chair at his humdrum job, Tip Murray finds himself reading the suicide note of his long-lost high school friend Pete Stroman. Mentioned in the note as a root cause...
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Editorial Arcopress
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"Breaking the silence narrates in the first person the shocking story of Estefan̕a Igartua, whose life has been marked by the different ill-treatment received in her childhood; among them, the most monstrous of all, that your own father sexually abuses you. Later , during her adolescence and much of her youth, she allowed herself to be used as an object by many men, becoming their worst enemy because she despised herself."
"Romper el silencio narra...
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