La Sombra Siempre Es Negra

Fifty years ago Richard Bach made a promise to himself when he was a child: to write a book containing the sum of all he has learned and deliver it to his nine-year-old self, Dickie. He forgot his promise until one day. Whilst flying in his Delta Wing, he found Dickie, who expected him to fulfill his promise.

Excerpt from Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie: And Memoir by His Sons, Rev. David K. Guthrie and Charles J. Guthrie Our first care was naturally with the Autobiography. Being unfinished and never revised, it became a question whether it should be published separately and as a frag ment, or incorporated with a completed memoir. The former was deemed the better course. For the sake of convenience, it has been broken up into chapters, and a few short notes appended but no alterations have been made in the text save such as seemed unavoidable from the circumstances, that Dr. Guthrie was prevented...

Prólogo de Elvira Lindo «Si hace cinco años me hubieran dicho que escribiría un libro, habría pensado que me estaban gastando una broma. En aquella época me encontraba sumida en el proceso de pérdida total de la visión y lo último que podía pensar en esos difíciles momentos era que encauzaría mi vida hacia un destino que me colmaría de satisfacciones: el voluntariado lector. Llevar la lectura a personas y colectivos que, por sus especiales circunstancias, tienen un menor acceso a ello es una actividad muy gratificante». La lectora ciega es un emocionante testimonio de...

El tono con el que Margo escribe es casi siempre festivo. Hasta cuando nos habla de lo más terrible, recurre al guiño, al gracejo o al juego de palabras que despojan a la expresión de cualquier tremendisimo y la dotan de fresca vitalidad. Víctor Gerardo Rivas