«A todos, de alguna manera, el pasado nos agobia y lo almacenamos en una bodega sellada al paso del tiempo. Pero desus grietas se escurre una sustancia viscosa de recuerdos contagiados por el virus del fracaso. Qu sigue cuando ya has hecho todo lo que tocaba hacer con tu vida? Para el protagonista de esta historia, sus d as han perdido el brillo. Se debate entre sus achaques marcados por los excesos, el insomnio que le trae delirios y la apat a de un presente que solo le plantea el deseo de destruirse sin prisas. En plena reinvenci n de s mismo, para celebrar su cumplea os n mero sesenta, emprende un viaje con su novia y unos amigos a Acapulco. En un hotel incrustado en un risco, desde donde se domina la bah a, los recuerdos de su infancia y juventud le llegan en oleadas. Aparecen, entonces, las speras vacaciones familiares, la relator a de los fracasos amorosos, y lugares como el m tico Hotel Flamingos, la guarida de bacanales hollywoodenses, donde tiene lugar un ins lito encuentro entre Johnny Weissm ller, el Tarz n m s famoso del mundo, Charles Manson y un escritor beat. A medio camino entre las memorias y la ficci n noir, esta novela es un alucinante y sorprendente recorrido por lugares olvidados. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "In one way or another, the past weighs heavily on us all, and we store it away in a sealed cellar as time passes. But from its cracks seeps a viscous substance of memories infected by the virus of failure."
What comes next when you've already done everything you needed to do with your life? For the protagonist of this story, his days have lost their luster. He struggles with ailments marked by excess, insomnia that brings him delusions, and the apathy of a present that only offers him the desire to slowly destroy himself. In the midst of reinventing himself, to celebrate his 60th birthday, he embarks on a trip with his girlfriend and some friends to Acapulco. In a hotel nestled on a cliff overlooking the bay, memories of his childhood and youth come flooding back. Then come the rough family vacations, the account of romantic failures, and places like the legendary Hotel Flamingos, the den of Hollywood bacchanals, where an unusual encounter takes place between Johnny Weissm ller, the world's most famous Tarzan, Charles Manson, and a Beat writer. Halfway between memoir and noir fiction, this novel is a mind-blowing and surprising journey through forgotten places.
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