Name: The Roommates: True Tales of Friendship, Rivalry, Romance, and Disturbingly Close Quarters (Picador True Tales)
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Author: Stephanie Wu
ISBN: 9781250051455

portada The Roommates: True Tales of Friendship, Rivalry, Romance, and Disturbingly Close Quarters (Picador True Tales)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Stephanie Wu

Illustrated by

Hanya Yanagihara

Publisher

Picador

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 13.9 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9781250051455

Synopsis "The Roommates: True Tales of Friendship, Rivalry, Romance, and Disturbingly Close Quarters (Picador True Tales)"

THE SECOND ENTRY IN THE PICADOR TRUE TALES SERIES: ONE OF LIFE'S TRICKIEST RITES OF PASSAGE COLLECTED INTO AN UNFORGETTABLE VOLUME OF STORIES The fraught relationship between roommates is a true cultural obsession. Shows like Friends, The Golden Girls, The Odd Couple, and New Girl have held us rapt for decades, simultaneously delighting and disconcerting us with their depictions of mismatched couples' cringe-worthy awkwardness and against-all-odds friendship. Maybe it's that uniquely unnatural experience of living with a total stranger that ignites our curiosity, or just that almost all of us, for better or worse, have had one of our own. In Stephanie Wu's The Roommates, people of all ages reveal their disastrous, hilarious, and sometimes moving stories of making their best friend for life or lifelong nemesis. Learn what it's like to share a room in places as unusual as a thirty-person beach house, a billionaire's yacht, a reality show mansion, and a retirement hotel, and those as familiar as sleepaway camps, boarding schools, and college dorms. Put down your roommate's dirty dishes and passive-aggressive Post-it's for this eye-opening glimpse into how people live together in the modern age. You'll meet: The Amateur Taxidermist - The Alcoholic Genius - The Kleptomaniac - The Rent Stiffer - The Naked Nanna - The Serial Roommate - The Top Chef - The Recovered Addict - The Russian Missionary - The Obsessive Lesbian - The Impersonator - The Party Poopers...and many more!

Hanya Yanagihara

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Nació en 1974 en Los Ángeles, California. Tras graduarse en el Smith College en 1995, se mudó a Nueva York para trabajar como publicista y en 2017 se convirtió en la directora de la célebre revista T, el suplemento de moda de The New York Times. En 2015 publicó Tan poca vida (Lumen, 2016), la novela con la que alcanzó el éxito internacional. Publicada en veinticinco países, fue nominada al Man Booker Prize y al National Book Award, elegida mejor novela del año por The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Guardian, The Economist, Newsweek, People, Time Out New York, Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly y Kirkus Reviews, entre otros medios, y ha conquistado a más de dos millones y medio de lectores. La gente en los árboles (Lumen, 2018) fue su primera novela, considerada una de las mejores de 2013 y la que distinguió a Yanagihara como una joven promesa en el mundo literario. Su última y esperada novela, Al paraíso, que también publicará Lumen, será un acontecimiento editorial internacional en 2022.

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