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The Lonely Hearts Club

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"The singles scene of Barcelona's lonely low life. Sweet and seedy."- Elle "An expertly constructed parable of human loneliness, brilliantly disguised as an extremely funny book."- Philadelphia Inquirer "It's funny, dirty, sporadically grotesque and set in Barcelona. What more do you want?"- The Face A night porter in a sleazy Barcelona hotel, the only thing the 40-year-old Antonio Castro has going for him is his resemblance to Frank Sinatra. Thinking he has nothing to lose, Antonio joins a lonely hearts club and into his life come a Pérez Galdós widow, a dwarf poet, a gay barman. The Lonely Hearts Club is a novel of Barcelona. Its people and its places, the Ramblas, the Plaza Real, the Barrio Chino, are brought to life in a book that is outrageously funny but never loses sympathy with its characters.

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The Lonely Hearts Club, Raúl Santana Núñez

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2002
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Titre
The Lonely Hearts Club
Langue
Anglais
Publié
2002
Format
souple
Pages
160
ISBN10
1852427523
ISBN13
9781852427528
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"The singles scene of Barcelona's lonely low life. Sweet and seedy."- Elle "An expertly constructed parable of human loneliness, brilliantly disguised as an extremely funny book."- Philadelphia Inquirer "It's funny, dirty, sporadically grotesque and set in Barcelona. What more do you want?"- The Face A night porter in a sleazy Barcelona hotel, the only thing the 40-year-old Antonio Castro has going for him is his resemblance to Frank Sinatra. Thinking he has nothing to lose, Antonio joins a lonely hearts club and into his life come a Pérez Galdós widow, a dwarf poet, a gay barman. The Lonely Hearts Club is a novel of Barcelona. Its people and its places, the Ramblas, the Plaza Real, the Barrio Chino, are brought to life in a book that is outrageously funny but never loses sympathy with its characters.