El rey ha muerto : Los relatos completos

Walter Tevis, the master of American literature who explored like no other the hidden face of talent, defeat, and redemption in works such as Mockingbird, The Hustler, and Footprints of the Sun, brought to the short story the same narrative precision and disarming tenderness that permeate his novels. In The King Is Dead, his complete short stories are collected for the first time in Spanish. In these pages, a man receives a call from his future self, an actor and a young actress become entangled in a game of masks, a prisoner finds solace before a chessboard, and the pool players of the old halls, among them the legendary Eddie Felson "The Quick," once again confront their destiny. Each story reveals Tevis's lucid and compassionate gaze, his profound understanding of loneliness, and the impulse to keep playing, even knowing the game is lost.