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Par Jorge Luis Borges. 1983
Recueil de nouvelles : L'autre ; Ulrica ; Le congrès ; There are more things ; La secte des Trente…
; La nuit des dons ; Le miroir et le masque ; Undr ; Utopie d'un homme qui est fatigué ; Le stratagème ; Avelino Arredondo ; Le disque ; Le livre de sable. Dans cette dernière, le narrateur fait l'acquisition d'un livre au nombre de pages infini. Aucune n'est la première aucune n'est la dernière.Par Angela Carter. 1985
Reprenant une série de dix contes célèbres pour enfant, la romancière britannique entreprend ici une réécriture de ces récits de…
tradition masculine. Le film a été primé au festival d'Avoriaz 1985.Par Luis Sepúlveda. 1998
Un professionnel n'a pas à s'interroger sur les raisons du contrat ou sur la personnalité de la cible. Cependant, le…
tueur sentimental est intrigué dès le premier jour et son chagrin d'amour l'empêche de se contrôler, il sera amené à exécuter son dernier contrat... Une histoire savoureuse avec le regard ironique qu'un macho peut porter sur lui-même.Par Alain Roy. 1990
Ironie douce, tendresse mêlée d'humour, extrême justesse du ton et du regard, ce premier livre d'Alain Roy nous révèle la…
sensibilité des jeunes urbains d'aujourd'hui et, plus largement, celle de la «modernité», à la fois banale et troublante.Par Claudia Larochelle. 2011
"Jeunes, moins jeunes ou bien installées dans la vieillesse, les femmes dépeintes par Claudia Larochelle marchent en talons sur le…
fil de fer tendu au-dessus de l'abîme. Travaillées au ventre par le désir ou la solitude, par l'absence ou la promesse de maternité, par l'abandon et par le temps ravageur que des couches infinies de fard ne peuvent contrer, elles offrent au monde le visage de la passion et du désespoir combinés, la tension sous la beauté, et le carnage sous le visage peint. Ces femmes sont champs de bataille." -- 4e de couvPar Sophie Marceau. 2023
Sous forme de fragments de vie, de fables ou de contes, treize histoires, entrecoupées de poèmes, autour du poids du…
destin féminin, exprimé par un corps, un sexe, une éducation, un héritage, un rôle.Par J.M.G Le Clézio. 2023
Un recueil de huit histoires qui suivent chacune un personnage en quête d'identité. Tous sont jeunes, pleins de vie mais…
en marge de la société. Ce qui lie ces récits est la question de survie dans un monde hostile aux différences.Selections include stories from prolific authors such as Robert Silverberg, John Kessel, and Stephen Baxter, as well as newer writers.…
In "Immersion" the scientists go to Africa to study the great apes and become one with them; in "The Flowers of Aulit Prison," shared reality for a native is shattered by a Terran. Includes twenty-eight stories. Strong language, violence, and some descriptions of sexTwenty hard-boiled mystery stories first published in 1996. Includes well-known authors Jonathan Kellerman and Elmore Leonard. In "Red Clay," a…
movie star is accused of murder in a small southern town. In "Hot Springs," a football coach continues his losing streak. Some strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sexEleven short stories of terror and fright written by popular young adult authors. In "The Bogey Man," a boy discovers…
too late that his grandmother wasn't lying about the dangers of the basement. In "The Beautiful Thing," a teenager longs for the power and the thrill of borrowing his friend's gun. Includes an afterword by each author. For senior high and older readersIn a departure from the usual alphabetical format, this year's collection is arranged into four categories to serve as a…
"reminder of the rich possibilities of the story form...." Manners and Right Behavior includes a story by Robert Stone; Identifying the Stranger has one by Cynthia Ozick; Perceived Social Values includes a story by Clyde Edgerton; and Rites of Passage includes Tobias WolffSixteen short stories by writers from the south. In "Spittin' Image of a Baptist Boy," three children are introduced to…
their new stepgrandmother, who has come to "check out the divorcee." In "Zoe," a teenager meets another of her mother's new boyfriends. Strong language and some violenceSixteen short stories selected from among the best writers of the south, including Reynolds Price, Jill McCorkle, and Lee Smith.…
In "The Arabesque," two sisters live in dread of their mother, who is insane. In "Intensive Care," a middle-aged man leaves his family for a woman he knew in high school, only to have her die of cancer. Some strong language and some descriptions of sexEighteen short stories concerned with relationships, love, and family. In "White Boys and River Girls," a man remembers a summer…
girlfriend who has since moved away. In "Major Six Pockets," a father on a camping trip with his children recalls how a fire destroyed his two sons physically but strengthened them in other ways. Some strong languageSixteen short stories by southern writers. A couple in their forties are contemplating separation when their young daughter calls to…
announce her pregnancy and her forthcoming marriage to the sixty-three-year-old father in "Aren't You Happy For Me?" "My Other Life" tells of a young woman in the Peace Corps who introduces her African boyfriend to her parents when they come to visit. Some strong languageSeventeen short stories from prominent southern writers including Lee Smith, James Lee Burke, and Larry Brown. In "Explaining Death to…
the Dog," a grieving mother tries to explain to her pet that the baby will never be coming back. "A Sturdy Pair of Shoes That Fit Good" tells how another woman spends her family's food money on shoes for the eleven children next doorAn annual collection of short stories, essays, and poetry published in magazines and by small presses. In "Grounded," a mother…
joins her son, who is running away from home. In "Oxygen," a man recalls one summer he spent delivering oxygen tanks to dying people. Descriptions of sex and strong languageIn this anthology of southern writers, the most prominent story is by William Faulkner, which went unpublished until 1995. "Rose…
of Lebanon" features a Confederate widow who, after sixty-five years, returns to Memphis and finally recounts what she told the Yankee marauders. Some strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sexShort mysteries by such diverse authors as Edith Wharton, John Cheever, Naguib Mahfouz, and Alice Walker. In "Miss Forbes's Summer…
of Happiness," a governess is killed, apparently in a fit of passion. In "The Johore Murders," someone is eliminating expatriates as they prepare to leave for home. Violence and some strong languageCollection of short stories dealing with southerners. In "Gravity," an elderly spinster--the last of a distinguished family--contends with her mother's…
impending death. In "Every Building Wants to Fall," a young girl whose late father was a demolitionist watches her own life fall down around her. Some strong language