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Rafael Yglesias has 22 books on Goodreads with 8857 ratings. Rafael Yglesias’s most popular book is A Happy Marriage.
Aug 10, 2010 · Rafael Yglesias has employed the artist's approach to working through his pain. In his admittedly autobiographical novel, he presents in alternating chapters the rapturous beginning of new love from his first sighting of his wife, through her ultimate capitulation to cancer, rendered in searing detail and pain, almost 30 years later.
Fearless, Yglesias’ seventh novel, was also adapted by the author into a movie directed by Peter Weir. It follows Max and Carla, strangers from different classes and neighborhoods of New York, through their survival of a horrific airplane crash that killed more than half the passengers.
Rafael Yglesias’ novel — long and graceful and written to display an intimacy wincingly believable—is about life, itself, not just one particular marriage. As the book alternates between past and present, we grow, along with the characters: as they jump boundaries, so do we; as they resign themselves to a sad inevitability, we feel viscerally cornered, too.
Jul 7, 2009 · Rafael Yglesias is an American novelist and screenwriter, the son of writers Jose and Helen Yglesias. He dropped out of high school upon publication of his first novel, Hide Fox, And All After in 1972 at age seventeen.
San Francisco architect and family man Max Klein survives the plane crash that kills his best friend and undergoes a mystical transformation. Having overcome not only his fear of flying, but his fear of death, Max emerges from the crash in a blissed, beatific state—and finds himself no longer able to engage in normal life.
Rafael Yglesias is an American novelist and screenwriter, the son of writers Jose and Helen Yglesias. He dropped out of high school upon publication of his first novel, Hide Fox, And All After in 1972 at age seventeen. He is the author of nine novels, including A Happy Marriage, winner of the 2009 Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize, Dr. Neruda's Cure For Evil and Fearless, which he adapted for ...
