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From coffee tables with legs to the ironic pop portraits of the 80's, Pedro Lemebel to Rodrigo Lira, Pia Zadora to Michael Jackson, from childhood in Talca to the heart-rending buildings of downtown Santiago, journalist Óscar Contardo unfolds here in his best form, linking strangeness and tenderness, fury and compassion. In Fuera de lugar, he gathers a good part of his published and unpublished journalistic work, and shows that, both in short columns and small postcards or in long chronicles and profiles, always in tension between the present and the past, between Santiago and the province, between what is and what could not be, Contardo is able to make a social portrait describing the man who helps him to write, to go through the most recent history of Chile from the evocation of the magazines he read in his childhood, or wondering about the appalling prejudices generated by the different story of a little girl named Gem who was his schoolmate.
