Trovati 6169 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?
Mon coeur a déménagé : le destin de Folette : roman / Michel Bussi
Paris : Les presses de la cité, 2024
Titolo e contributi: Mon coeur a déménagé : le destin de Folette : roman / Michel Bussi
Pubblicazione: Paris : Les presses de la cité, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 389, [1] p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9782258208407
Data:2024
Lingua: Francese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Francia
Abstract: "Papa a tué maman." Rouen, avril 1983. Ophélie a – presque – tout vu, du haut de ses sept ans. Mais son père n'est pas le seul coupable. Un autre homme aurait pu sauver sa mère. Dès lors, Ophélie n'aura plus qu'un but: retrouver les témoins, rassembler les pièces du puzzle qui la mèneront jusqu'à la vérité. Et, patiemment, accomplir sa vengeance..
Du même bois : roman / Marion Fayolle
Paris : Gallimard, 2024
nrf
Titolo e contributi: Du même bois : roman / Marion Fayolle
Pubblicazione: Paris : Gallimard, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 112, [2] p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Serie: nrf
ISBN: 9782073025814
Data:2024
Lingua: Francese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Francia
Abstract: "Les enfants, les bébés, ils les appellent les “petitous”. Et c'est vrai qu'ils sont des petits touts. Qu'ils sont un peu de leur mère, un peu de leur père, un peu des grandsparents, un peu de ceux qui sont morts, il y a si longtemps. Tout ce qu'ils leur ont transmis, caché, inventé. Tout. C'est pas toujours facile d'être un petit tout, d'avoir en soi autant d'histoires, autant de gens, de réussir à les faire taire pour inventer encore une petite chose à soi." Dans une ferme, l'histoire se reproduit de génération en génération: on s'occupe des bêtes, on vit avec, celles qui sont dans l'étable et celles qui ruminent dans les têtes. Peintes sur le vif, à petites touches, les vies se dupliquent en dégradé face aux bêtes qui ont tout un paysage à pâturer
Fantastique histoire d'amour : roman / Sophie Divry
Paris : Seuil, 2024
Titolo e contributi: Fantastique histoire d'amour : roman / Sophie Divry
Pubblicazione: Paris : Seuil, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 505, [1] p. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9782021538090
Data:2024
Lingua: Francese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Francia
Abstract: Bastien, inspecteur du travail à Lyon, est amené à enquêter sur un accident: un ouvrier employé dans une usine de traitement des déchets est mort broyé dans une compacteuse. Maïa, journaliste scientifique, se rend au Cern, le prestigieux centre de recherche nucléaire à Genève, pour écrire un article sur le cristal scintillateur, un nouveau matériau dont les propriétés déconcertent ses inventeurs. Bastien apprend que l'accident est en réalité un homicide. Maïa, elle, découvre que l'expérience a mal tourné. Sa tante, physicienne dans la grande institution suisse, lui demande de l'aider à se débarrasser de ce cristal devenu toxique
La lignée : roman / Aurélie Valognes
Paris : Fayard, 2024
Titolo e contributi: La lignée : roman / Aurélie Valognes
Pubblicazione: Paris : Fayard, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 352, [1] p. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9782213720562
Data:2024
Lingua: Francese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Francia
Abstract: Louise et Madeleine. Deux écrivaines, deux générations. L’une écrit pour fuguer, l’autre fugue pour écrire. L’une débute dans l’écriture, l’autre n’écrit plus. À travers une correspondance intime, elles partagent leurs doutes face à la création et à leurs vies de femmes artistes, d’épouses et de mères. Être prête à décevoir, à déplaire, à oser dire ce que l’on pense et à faire ce qui doit être fait pour devenir – au-delà des injonctions, de la culpabilité, des injustices sociales et de genre – la personne que l’on devait être. Une ode à la transmission, à la nature et à la liberté qui pose la question brûlante: quand on a pris certains chemins dans la vie – travail, mariage, enfants –, a-t-on encore le droit d’être soi?
Paris : Éditions de l'Observatoire, 2024
Titolo e contributi: Humus / Gaspard Koenig
Pubblicazione: Paris : Éditions de l'Observatoire, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 379, [1] p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9791032927823
Data:2024
Lingua: Francese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Francia
Abstract: Deux étudiants en agronomie, angoissés comme toute leur génération par la crise écologique, refusent le défaitisme et se mettent en tête de changer le monde. Kevin, fils d'ouvriers agricoles, lance une start-up de vermicompostage et endosse l'uniforme du parfait transfuge sur la scène du capitalisme vert. Arthur, enfant de la bourgeoisie, tente de régénérer le champ familial ruiné par les pesticides mais se heurte à la réalité de la vie rurale. Au fil de leur apprentissage, les deux amis mettent leurs idéaux à rude épreuve
