Trovati 3433 documenti.
London [etc.] : Penguin, 2011
Titolo e contributi: Libra / Don DeLillo
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Penguin, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 456 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780141041995
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When “history” presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.
London [etc.] : Penguin, 2024
Penguin modern classics
Titolo e contributi: Brideshead revisited : the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder / Evelyn Waugh ; with an introduction by Paula Byrne
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Penguin, 2024
Descrizione fisica: [XXV], 451 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Penguin modern classics
ISBN: 9780141182483
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece — a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire. Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities.
London : Vintage, 2021
Titolo e contributi: Love / Roddy Doyle
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage, 2021
Descrizione fisica: 326, [1] p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781529112672
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: One summer''s evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be.
London : Vintage, 2009
Vintage classics
Titolo e contributi: Cathedral / Raymond Carver
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 214 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Vintage classics
ISBN: 9780099530336
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: A remarkable collection that includes the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life.
London : Penguin, 2019
Titolo e contributi: The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin, 2019
Descrizione fisica: XVIII, 329 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780143038092
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money.
Revolutionary road / Richard Yates
London : Vintage, 2007
Vintage classics
Titolo e contributi: Revolutionary road / Richard Yates
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage, 2007
Descrizione fisica: 338 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Vintage classics
ISBN: 9780099518624
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Perhaps Frank and April Wheeler married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to unravel.
Daddy was a number runner / Louise Meriwether ; with a foreword by James Baldwin
London : Virago, 2021
Virago modern classics ; 434
Titolo e contributi: Daddy was a number runner / Louise Meriwether ; with a foreword by James Baldwin
Pubblicazione: London : Virago, 2021
Descrizione fisica: IX, 207 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Virago modern classics ; 434
ISBN: 9780349015927
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it’s both a place of refuge and the source of untold dangers for her and her poor, working class family. The beloved “daddy” of the title indeed becomes a number runner when he is unable to find legal work, and while one of Francie’s brothers dreams of becoming a chemist, the other is already in a gang.
Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West / Cormac McCarthy
New York : Vintage international, 1992
Titolo e contributi: Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West / Cormac McCarthy
Pubblicazione: New York : Vintage international, 1992
Descrizione fisica: 351 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780679728757
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
The round house / Louise Erdrich
London : Corsair, 2023
Titolo e contributi: The round house / Louise Erdrich
Pubblicazione: London : Corsair, 2023
Descrizione fisica: 374 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781472108142
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared.
London : Vintage, 2000
Titolo e contributi: The human stain / Philip Roth
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage, 2000
Descrizione fisica: 361 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781784875565
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished his most virulent accuser.
Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis
London : Picador, 2023
Titolo e contributi: Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis
Pubblicazione: London : Picador, 2023
Descrizione fisica: XIII, 195 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781035012756
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.
Paperback ed.
London : Virago, 2019
Virago modern classics ; 708
Titolo e contributi: Corregidora / Gayl Jones
Paperback ed.
Pubblicazione: London : Virago, 2019
Descrizione fisica: 195 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Virago modern classics ; 708
ISBN: 9780349012148
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Blues singer Ursa is consumed by her hatred of Corregidora, the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her mother and grandmother. Charged with ''making generations'' to bear witness to the abuse embodied in the family name, Ursa Corregidora finds herself unable to keep alive this legacy when she is made sterile in a violent fight with her husband.
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz
Paperback ed.
London : Faber and Faber, 2009
Titolo e contributi: The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz
Paperback ed.
Pubblicazione: London : Faber and Faber, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 335 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780571239733
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA.
The thousand crimes of Ming Tsu : a novel / Tom Lin
New York [etc.] : Back Bay Books, 2022
Titolo e contributi: The thousand crimes of Ming Tsu : a novel / Tom Lin
Pubblicazione: New York [etc.] : Back Bay Books, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 273 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780316542142
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with Ada, the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate, and the two elope, he seizes the opportunity to escape to a different life. Soon after, in a violent raid, the tycoon's henchmen kidnap Ada and conscript Ming into service for the Central Pacific Railroad.
The thread that connects us / Ayaan Mohamud.
London : Usborne, 2024.
Titolo e contributi: The thread that connects us / Ayaan Mohamud.
Pubblicazione: London : Usborne, 2024.
Descrizione fisica: 396 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781803704517
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Safiya has struggled to pick up the pieces of her family since her dad left them and moved to Somalia. She refuses to trust in love, despite wishing she could fall for boy-next-door Yusuf.. And then her dad moves back to town with his new family, shattering her life all over again.Halima doesn't want to move to England. She resents her stepdad for dropping her in a strange new life with a new language to learn - replacing her friends with bullies who set out to shame her.When the girls are thrown together at school, it's hate at first sight. But as they uncover life-changing secrets from their parents' past, they begin to realize..What if the key to all their problems lies in their sisterhood?
London : 4th Estate, 2024
Titolo e contributi: Day / Michael Cunningham
Pubblicazione: London : 4th Estate, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 273 p. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780008637569
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: April 5, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, husband and wife, are slowly drifting apart—and both, it seems, are a little bit in love with Isabel’s younger brother, Robbie. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while his sister, Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents.
London : Granta, 2024
Titolo e contributi: Ours / Phillip B. Williams
Pubblicazione: London : Granta, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 580 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781803510774
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjurer who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has freed to a haven of her own creation: a town just north of St. Louis, magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours. It is in this miraculous place that Saint’s grand experiment - a truly secluded community where her people may flourish - takes root.
After Annie : a novel / Anna Quindlen
New York : Random house, 2024
Titolo e contributi: After Annie : a novel / Anna Quindlen
Pubblicazione: New York : Random house, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 285 p. ; 25 cm
ISBN: 9780593229804
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the lynchpin of all their lives. Bill is overwhelmed without his beloved wife, and Annemarie wrestles with the bad habits her best friend had helped her overcome. And Ali, the eldest of Annie’s children, has to grow up overnight, to care for her younger brothers and even her father and to puzzle out for herself many of the mysteries of adult life.
London : Macmillan, 2024
Titolo e contributi: The women / Kristin Hannah
Pubblicazione: London : Macmillan, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 471 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781035005680
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
London : Magpie books, 2024
Titolo e contributi: Leaving / Roxana Robinson
Pubblicazione: London : Magpie books, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 327 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9780861547746
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Sarah and Warren’s college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites threatening the foundations of their lives.
