by Richard Martin Stern · Circulo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422606291
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«Rascacielos» is the suspense and disaster novel by Richard Martin Stern, published in 1975 by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (404 pages, in Spanish).
New York, opening night of the city's tallest skyscraper: while guests celebrate on the upper floors, a fire caused by an electrical fault spreads and traps the attendees. The novel combines suspense, action, and criticism of cuts in construction safety.
The original title, The Tower, was published in 1973; the Spanish translation is by Sebastián Martínez and Luis Vigil. The novel inspired the film The Towering Inferno (Coloso en llamas).
For readers of suspense and disaster novels, and for those who want to discover the literary basis of 1970s disaster cinema.
Richard Martin Stern was an American novelist. Stern began his writing career in the 1950s with mystery tales of private investigators, winning a 1959 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, for The Bright Road to Fear.
