by Irwin Shaw · PLANETA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408015994
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«Pérdidas aceptables» is the suspense novel by American writer Irwin Shaw, published by Planeta in paperback (234 pages, in Spanish).
Roger Damon is a literary agent at the peak of his career, with a stable life and a healthy bank account. An anonymous call full of hatred turns him into the victim of inexplicable harassment that triggers his downfall. The novel also portrays the New York of the era, cosmopolitan and ruthless with the defeated.
Translation by César Armando Gómez Martínez. Planeta Bolsillo edition (no. 71). The work was originally published in 1982 as «Acceptable Losses».
For readers of suspense and contemporary fiction, especially those looking for a short novel by an American author.
Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best known for two of his novels: The Young Lions (1948), about the fate of three soldiers during World War II, which was made into a film of the same name starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), about the fate of two brothers and a sister in the post-World War II decades, which in 1976 was made into a popular miniseries starring Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, and Susan Blakely.
