Rafael Pombo

Through his leading role in the three Superman films, Christopher Reeve became so closely identified with the superhero that he wasn't just seen as the actor who played Superman, he was Superman. Which is why the tragic riding accident which left him paralysed from the neck down shocked the world. Superman was not superhuman. It is also why he is now the world's most recognisable person in a wheelchair. In true superhero style, Christopher Reeve refuses to resign himself to the life of a quadriplegic, and is actively campaigning to raise the profile of spinal-cord injury victims and research. ...

Se trata de un libro de relatos cortos sobre la vida, sobre el día a día, mi día a día, el estigma de la enfermedad mental en la sociedad, la salud y las dificultades que cualquier persona puede encontrarse cuando tiene ansiedad, miedo o, simplemente, tiene un mal día.

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

"Lecumberri, el lado blanco del Palacio Negro" Roberto tiene algo que compartir. Vivió una injusticia, una equivocación de la ley. A los veinte años entró a Lecumberri, donde estuvo quince, de 1955 a 1971. Lo acusaron del asesinato de una mujer a la que cuatro jóvenes con antecedentes penales atacaron. Como puede verse al estudiar el expediente, Roberto no estuvo en el lugar de los hechos. Su juicio duró escasamente tres meses y fue sentenciado a veintitrés años. Un mes después, en otro juzgado, otra persona, Alberto Hernández Rodríguez, recibió una sentencia de treintaiún años...