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Verano de 1973. Carolina del Norte. El joven universitario Devin Jones consigue trabajo en un pequeño parque de atracciones llamado Joyland. Allí se encarga de las tareas de mantenimiento, se disfraza de la mascota del parque o entretiene a los niños. Y allí descubre también la historia de un cruento crimen que tuvo lugar en la Casa Embrujada y que nunca fue resuelto. Pero Devin no es el único fascinado por el parque y su leyenda negra. Cerca de su pensión vive Mike, un chico enfermizo con el que pronto traba una peculiar amistad. El chaval no ha visitado nunca Joyland y le encantaría hacerlo antes de morir. Es entonces cuando Devin planea una visita privada para el final de temporada. El día transcurre entre montañas rusas e historias de terror sobre lo que pudo haberle pasado a la joven asesinada. Sin embargo, las visitas indeseadas y las preguntas indiscretas pueden provocar reacciones imprevisibles. Sin saberlo, Devin se ha metido en un peligroso juego del que tal vez no saldrá nunca.

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

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Suttree

Cormac McCarthy

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Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy

An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

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All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Along with The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998), it constitues McCarthy's "Border Trilogy", an elegy for the American Frontier, written in an unconventional format which omits traditional Western punctuation (such as quotation marks) and makes use of polysyndetic syntax in a manner similar to that of Ernest Hemingway. The book was adapted as a 2000 eponymous film, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. (main source EN.wikipedia)

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Kafka on the Shore

村上春樹

"Kafka on the Shore" is a novel written by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The novel follows two main characters: Kafka Tamura, a teenage boy who runs away from home to escape an Oedipal curse, and Nakata, an older man with the ability to talk to cats. The novel is set in Japan and explores themes of loss, guilt, and the search for identity. Kafka's story is set in a small town in Japan and follows his journey as he tries to find his place in the world and escape the curse that his father has placed on him. Along the way, he meets a diverse cast of characters, including Miss Saeki, the librarian who becomes a mother figure to him, and Oshima, a transvestite who becomes his friend and mentor. Nakata's story, on the other hand, is set in Tokyo and tells of his journey to find a lost cat and his own identity. Nakata is a man with a childlike mind and limited education, who has the ability to talk to cats. The journey takes him to meet different people and he will learn about his own past and how his life is connected to Kafka's. The novel is known for its blending of realistic and surreal elements, as well as its exploration of deep philosophical and psychological themes. The novel was well received by critics and considered a classic of contemporary literature.

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