El rescate (The Rescue)

by Nicholas Sparks

Overview

El bombero voluntario Taylor McAden se siente empujado a asumir grandes riesgos para salvar vidas, no importa si se trata de fuegos incontrolados o accidentes mortales. Sin embargo, hay algo a lo que Taylor sí tiene miedo: enamorarse. Cuando una tormenta feroz llega al pueblo donde vive Taylor, Denise Holton tiene un accidente cuando su coche patina y se sale de la carretera. La joven, que viajaba con su hijo de cuatro años, un niño con dificultades de aprendizaje severas, queda inconsciente y sangrando. Cuando Denise despierta, tiene que enfrentarse con una terrible noticia: Kyle ha desaparecido. La búsqueda del niño hace que Taylor y Denise acaben por conocerse y establecer un vínculo muy fuerte. Taylor se verá arrastrado a la posibilidad de ser él el rescatado en esta ocasión: rescatado de una vida sin amor…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788415729297
Publisher:	Roca Ediciones S.A.
Publication date:	03/30/2014
Edition description:	Spanish-language Edition
Pages:	300
Sales rank:	440,826
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.40(h) x 1.10(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Ever since The Notebook made Nicholas Sparks a word-of-mouth publishing sensation in 1996, he has maintained his status as a bestselling author of tragedy-tinged love stories. His spare, simply themed novels star ordinary people overcome by extraordinary emotions, and changed by them.

It's possible that Sparks might have enjoyed his level of popularity by writing these stories strictly from imagination, but in fact his family's struggles play an important role in many of his books, especially the earliest novels. (For exampleThe Notebook, his tale of a great love affair extending into old age, was inspired by his wife's grandparents; Message in a Bottle drew from Sparks' father's life story and A Walk to Remember from his late sister's.) In addition, a three-week trip he and his older sibling Micah undertook in 2003 became the basis for Three Weeks with My Brother, a unique memoir as moving and tenderhearted as any of his fiction.

Sparks is very methodical about his writing, an approach he makes transparent on his web site with several essays, updates on works in progress, and notes on the mechanics of his novels. Unsurprisingly, critics have faulted him for being too formulaic or cliched. Still, Sparks never fails to move his stories along quickly, maximizing emotional impact and featuring strong, down-to-earth characters. His endings also tend to depart from convention a bit, revealing tragedy where the walk into the sunset should be.

Although he is often classified as a Romance writer, Sparks is quick to point out that his books don't really satisfy the requirements of Romance publishers. Instead, he admits to writing love stories, a different genre altogether. Whatever he cares to call them, one thing's for sure: Nicholas Sparks continues to strike gold with his bittersweet novels of love and loss.

Hometown:

New Bern, North Carolina

Date of Birth:

December 31, 1965

Place of Birth:

Omaha, Nebraska

Education:

B.A. in finance, University of Notre Dame, 1988

Website:

http://nicholassparks.com