Cornell Woolrich is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s finest writer of pure suspense fiction. The author of numerous classic novels and short stories (many of which were turned into classic films) such as Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Waltz Into Darkness, and I Married a Dead Man, Woolrich began his career in the 1920s writing mainstream novels that won him comparisons to F. Scott Fitzgerald. The bulk of his best-known work, however, was written in the field of crime fiction, often appearing serialized in pulp magazines or as paperback novels. Because he was prolific, he found it necessary to publish under multiple pseudonyms, including "William Irish" and "George Hopley" [...] Woolrich lived a life as dark and emotionally tortured as any of his unfortunate characters and died, alone, in a seedy Manhattan hotel room following the amputation of a gangrenous leg. Upon his death, he left a bequest of one million dollars to Columbia University, to fund a scholarship for young writers.
Lo acabé hace una semana pero me olvidé de ponerlo jjj. El ojo de cristal es mi infancia, me acuerdo de leerlo en el colegio con toda la intriga del mundo y fijandome sobretodo en las ilustraciones porque eran una maravilla. Me acuerdo que luego todas las casas que dibujaban eran como las de este libro, porque me parecía muy bonita.
Honestamente es una historia que se lee rápido, pero pensé que iba a tener un final inesperado y no fue así. Haciendo este relato poco creíble debido a que de la nada un niño dice que va a ocurrir algo, hace lo cree de cierta cosa y al final todo es cierto sin ninguna mega investigación.
En fin, sí quieren leer algo corto debido a que están mega ocupados o tienen cosas que hacer, léanlo, se lee en 1 hora
Cuando tenía más o menos 10 años encontré este libro en la biblioteca, y no creí que me fuera a gustar, así que no lo saqué. Pero resultó que en el instituto era lectura obligatoria, así que tuve que leerlo con 12 años aproximadamente. Así que lo leí obligada, ya que nunca lo hubiera elegido voluntariamente. Y la verdad es que no me gustó demasiado =/ Suelo tener buen ojo para los libros que me van a gustar o no, y con este acerté, aunque hubiera preferido que no fuera así y haberlo disfrutado más =(
When I was about 10 years old, I found this book in the school library, but I thought that I wont like it, so I didn't borrow it.
Unfortunately it was a high school required reading, so I read it when I was 12 years old. I never have chosen that book voluntary, so I read it by obligation. And actually I didn't like it very much =/
I'm often good to know which books I'll like or don't, and I was right with this one, but I would like that I was wrong and I could enjoy this book =(