Rodrigo Fresán

Aparecidos, desaparecidos, desaparecedores profesionales y amateurs, Mickey Mouse, Eva Perón, golpes de Estado, estados depresivos, Estados Unidos, tiempo tormentoso, truenos y rayos, hiperconductividad, gurkhas, Lawrence de Arabia, primera persona, tercera persona, gauchos minimalistas, variaciones Goldberg, montoneros, rock & roll, la calavera de Mozart, inexactitudes biográficas, ciencias exactas, dulce de leche, drogas duras, yuppies en caída, catástrofes aéreas, ninfas posmodernas, naufragios, islas Malvinas, colegios ingleses, gastronomía hindú, astucias aztecas, campeones mundiales, sueños recurrentes, canciones de moda, prostitutas ilustres, árboles sin nombre, novelas perdidas, exilio, un prócer amnésico, un escritor que recuerda demasiadas cosas, la imposibilidad de cambiar la historia y el relativo consuelo de poder contarla de otra manera...

"An homage to American science fiction films and novels, The Bottom of the Sky is the story of two boys, a disturbingly beautiful girl, and their joint love for other planets. Their friendship is formed during the heyday of sci-fi writing, a time defined by almost cult-like literary groups and pulp covers awash in gaudy alien landscapes. But time has passed, and the three members of The Faraways have drifted apart. The future they once dreamed of is now happening, but interstellar travel to Urkh 24 has been replaced with 9/11, the Gulf War, and a mysterious "incident" at the center of it all. A Kurt Vonnegut novel told by David Lynch, filtered through the madness of Philip K. Dick, The Bottom of the Sky is a triumph of style, or, as Fresán says in the afterword, "a clump of simultaneously broadcast messages, like a storyline that only wants to be a succession of marvelous moments seen all at the same time."--

"A children's writer unreels a shocking confession in Rodrigo Fresan's English-language debut. Known to millions by his pen name, Peter Hook, Fresan's hero has survived the death of his rock-star parents, and a childhood surrounded by 1960s excess, to become the most successful children's author of his generation, best loved as the creator of the time-traveling boy Jim Yang. Over the course of one night, Peter tells his life story - and that of J. M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan - to the child actor cursed with playing Jim Yang in the movies. Gradually, a bizarre and terrible tale emerges, a tale of shadow identities and suicide, lost boys and foundlings. Moving between the Edwardian age and Swinging London, Kensington Gardens is an exploration of the charms and perils of children's literature and nostalgia."--BOOK JACKET