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The music at Long Verney: twenty stories
Par Sylvia Warner. 2001
Satirical British short stories from the New Yorker. In the title piece, an old couple move to the gamekeeper's cottage…
and rent out the ancestral mansion to "new money." In "Maternal Devotion" a young lady sends her unwanted beau to her mother, whose conversation rattles them both. 2001Orphan journey home
Par Liza Ketchum, C. B. Mordan. 2000
In 1828, the Damron's family farm fails in Illinois, so they trek back to Kentucky. After a short time, both…
parents die from "milk sickness", and orphaned Jesse and her siblings must make their way back to their grandmother. For grades 3-6Mourir comme un chat: nouvelles
Par Claude-Emmanuelle Yance. 1987
Subtilité et finesse caractérisent l'art de cette auteure qui a choisi la nouvelle pour se poser diverses questions métaphysiques. La…
nouvelle-titre a été diffusée par Radio-Canada en 1986. Prix Adrienne-Choquette de la nouvelle, 1986. Prometteur; si C.-E. Yance ne se retrouve pas coincée entre Duras et Sarraute. [SDMStacey McGill... matchmaker? (The baby-sitters Club Ser. #No. 124)
Par Ann Martin. 1998
Baby-Sitters Club member Stacey McGill takes a sitting job with a new client, Mr. John Brooke. Mr. Brooke is divorced,…
and Stacey decides he might make a perfect match for her divorced mother. But Mr. Brooke's two children have different ideas. Stacey soon finds herself in a matchmaking mess. For grades 3-6The interestings: A novel
Par Meg Wolitzer. 2023
Named a best book of the year by Entertainment Weekly , Time , and The Chicago Tribune , and named…
a notable book by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”— The New York Times Book Review "A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's."— Entertainment Weekly (A) From Meg Wolitzer, the New York Times –bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, a novel that has been called "genius" ( The Chicago Tribune ), “wonderful” ( Vanity Fair ), "ambitious" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), and a “page-turner” ( Cosmopolitan ). The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings , Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married best friends, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a lifeOther voices, other rooms
Par Truman Capote. 1994
Twelve-year-old Joel Knox goes to live with his invalid father in a dilapidated Louisiana mansion. There the sensitive boy encounters…
a perverse stepmother, a pathetic uncle, and a tomboy who becomes his fast friend. 1948Legacy of silence
Par Belva Plain. 1998
When it becomes obvious that World War II is imminent, Caroline Hartzinger and her adopted older sister, Lore, flee from…
Berlin to Geneva. Walter, who plans to wed Caroline, goes with them. Life takes a dramatic turn and Caroline and Lore escape to America alone. But their time in Switzerland provides a legacy that affects several generations. BestsellerNouvelles histoires du Wyoming
Par Annie Proulx. 2007
"Ce nouveau recueil d'histoires nous plonge au coeur de l'Ouest américain, âpre désert de beautés et de dangers, à la…
rencontre de personnages isolés, tourmentés, qui avancent coûte que coûte sur une route dont ils sont à la fois les héros et les prisonniers. C'est à un voyage jusqu'à l'ultime frontière d'un monde presque disparu, et jusqu'aux dernières franges de l'âme des hommes, que nous convie Annie Proulx, elle qui sait comme personne conjuguer le réalisme et l'intime pour explorer le mythe américain, le confronter à ses contradictions et ses excès, ses violences et ses splendeurs." -- 4e de couvLa nuit sans fin: sept histoires pour occuper le jour
Par Thierry Horguelin. 2009
Sept histoires légères en forme de labyrinthes pour éprouver de délicieux vertiges. Proche des obsessions d'un Borges, la prose de…
Thierry Horguelin est d'une rare précision d'écriture. -- 4e de couvSixteen short stories from different locales in Israel. Depicting contemporary life in popular tourist locations, the selections give travelers a…
view of places they may plan to visit. All are translations from Hebrew. Some violence and some descriptions of sexMises à mort: nouvelles
Par Suzanne Myre. 2007
"Deux enfants aux langues curieuses se retrouvent prisonniers d'un poteau gelé. Un chien saucisse est allergique aux pâtisseries. Une jeune…
femme aspire à trouver son point G alors qu'une autre fuit la réalité dans un monastère. Une fillette est amoureuse de son frère, une autre de sa meilleure amie. Certains personnages de Mises à mort verront leur destinée soudainement modifiée. Rempli de petites fins du monde, Mises à mort dépeint des tragédies quotidiennes, des combats comiques et existentiels. Certes, Suzanne Myre ne prétend pas expliquer l'univers, mais seulement en raviver les cendres, aussi amères soient-elles." -- 4e de couvThe music school: short stories
Par John Updike. 1966
An anthology of twenty short stories, nine of them dealing with divorce, in a style that explores stream of consciousness…
and point of view. In the title work, the author ponders life and divorce while waiting for his beloved daughter at her piano lessonMont Désirs: nouvelles (Collection Miroirs)
Par Bill Gaston. 2007
"Sexe, drogue, alcool, argent, travail, amour... Les personnages excentriques et colorés de ces douze nouvelles sont tous des affamés de…
plaisirs. S'ils se laissent parfois emporter par la démesure de leurs appétits, c'est dans l'espoir d'assouvir leurs soifs et d'atteindre une sorte de paix où tout désir serait enfin comblé. Avec subtilité et une rare puissance d'évocation, Bill Gaston explore dans ces histoires imprévisibles, hallucinantes parfois, les facettes troubles des désirs et des passions." -- 4e de couvBack of beyond: stories of the supernatural
Par Sarah Ellis. 1997
Twelve stories about teenagers whose everyday existence is changed by encounters with the mysterious. In "Gore," sibling teasing over possession…
of a new horror book takes on an ominous tone. In "Knife," Curtis tells about a lost Swiss army knife that strangely reappears. For junior and senior high readers"Un petit commerçant palestinien débarque à Puerto Eden, au plus profond de la Patagonie chilienne. "Le Turc", comme on l'a…
surnommé, explique sa conception des échanges à l'aide d'une très ancienne histoire phénicienne. Il s'appelle Aladino Guarib et donne son nom à ce recueil de nouvelles dans lesquelles Luis Sepúlveda tente de sauver de l'oubli des moments, des lieux et des existences uniques. C'est de la lampe d'Aladino que surgissent comme par magie des contes magistraux, de merveilleux romans miniatures, faits de personnages inoubliables et d'histoires comme Luis Sepúlveda en a le secret. On y retrouve, entre autres, le Vieux chasseur de jaguars et amateur de romans d'amour ou Butch Cassidy et Sundance Kid, une dame grecque d'Alexandrie, des poètes disparus et un hôtel aux confins amazoniens de l'Équateur, de la Colombie et du Brésil". -- 4e de couvCaution, men in trees: stories
Par Darrell Spencer. 2000
Nine short stories about men and their failings. In "Blood Work," a son, after his second divorce, moves back to…
his ailing father's house. In "There's Too Much News," a man relocates to the country for his wife's third round of psychotherapy. Some strong language. Flannery O'Connor Award. 2000My Louisiana sky (Major And Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide To Ser.)
Par Kimberly Holt. 1998
Louisiana, 1950s. Twelve-year-old Tiger Ann Parker begins to feel embarrassed in front of the other kids about the "slowness" of…
her parents. Her grandmother is the one who keeps the family intact. After Granny dies, Tiger has a chance to move to the city with her sophisticated aunt, but she is reluctant to abandon the parents who love her. For grades 6-9Jack and Jill: From the Original Publisher
Par Louisa Alcott, Jane Dyer, Louisa Alcott. 1999
Jack and Jill are the best of friends and when they are severely injured in a sledding accident they become…
even closer. With the help of Jack's mother, the two are provided with many amusements to pass the Christmas season. But will Jill ever walk again? For grades 5-8Midnight magic: selected stories of Bobbie Ann Mason
Par Bobbie Mason. 1998
Set in Kentucky, seventeen short stories revolving around country people as they learn to cope with modern life. In "Big…
Bertha Stories," Jeannette watches her husband's descent into mental illness and its effects on her son. In "Residents and Transients," a woman takes a lover when her husband moves to LouisvilleTwelve short stories describe difficult situations experienced by teens and various viewpoints expressed by the teachings of the world's major…
religions. Authors include Virginia Euwer Wolff, Naomi Shihab Nye, M.E. Kerr, and Nancy Springer. Settings include Japan, Haiti, South Carolina, and an American ashram. For junior and senior high readers. 2000