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The 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. BestsellerLe parfum d'Adam
Par Jean-Christophe Rufin. 2007
"[...] Du Cap-Vert à la Pologne, du Colorado jusqu'aux métropoles brésiliennes, Le parfum d'Adam est un thriller planétaire haletant. Mais…
ce roman d'aventures est aussi un voyage littéraire, où l'on retrouve les portraits, les paysages et l'humour qui ont fait le succès de L'Abyssin ou de Rouge Brésil". -- 4e de couvUne femme entre nous
Par Greer Hendricks. 2018
" En lisant ce livre, vous allez faire beaucoup de suppositions. Vous allez croire que c'est l'histoire d'une femme jalouse,…
délaissée par son mari. Vous allez penser qu'elle est obsédée par la maîtresse de celui-ci, une femme plus jeune qu'elle. Vous allez vous dire que vous connaissez déjà toutes les facettes d'un tel triangle amoureux. Un conseil : laissez tomber toutes vos hypothèses. Jamais vous ne pourrez imaginer ce qui se cache derrière les apparences, ni anticiper les multiples rebondissements qui émaillent ce livre. A la façon de Gillian Flynn, Greer Hendricks et Sarah Pekkanen ont élaboré une construction inédite, littéralement diabolique, afin de nous faire éprouver l'espoir et le désespoir des femmes, l'usure du couple, l'amitié féminine, tout cela sous couvert d'une intrigue captivante et de personnages bouleversants. Best-seller depuis sa sortie aux Etats-Unis, bientôt traduit dans plus de trente pays, en cours d'adaptation cinématographique par la maison de production de Steven Spielberg, plus qu'un roman : un événement ! "Le premier et le dernier miracle: thriller psychologique
Par Antoine Filissiadis. 2007
"Le souffle coupé, Sébastien Leblanc - médecin et journaliste - rédige le dossier noir qui mettrait en péril le pouvoir…
du lobby des grands laboratoires pharmaceutiques. Soudain, son regard scrute la porte de sa chambre qu'il vient de barricader : la poignée ne vient-elle pas de bouger imperceptiblement? La peur au ventre, il se remémore, en un éclair, le chemin initiatique qu'il vient de parcourir, de Genève à Chypre, mandaté par le grand ponte de ce lobby pour une mission délicate : démasquer un "guérisseur" considéré comme le Médecin de la dernière chance. Improvisé "agent très spécial", son enquête vient de se clore sur un bilan inattendu qui dépasse tout ce qu'il pouvait supposer, le confrontant personnellement à ce qu'il n'aurait pu imaginer... Dorénavant, il lui faudra coûte que coûte dévoiler à la face du monde ce secret qui n'a pas de prix. [...] Un thriller envoûtant sur l'univers impitoyable des lobbies pharmaceutiques". -- 4e de couvMind's eye
Par Paul Fleischman. 1999
A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind…
from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook. For senior high and older readers. 1999As I lay dying: the corrected text (Vintage international)
Par William Faulkner. 1990
The Bundrens, poor whites in Mississippi, face numerous obstacles as they trek across the countryside to deliver their mother's body…
for burial in her home town. First published in 1930; this edition includes changes made by Noel Polk in 1985 based on the author's notesThree women
Par Marge Piercy. 1999
Successful attorney Suzanne Blume's contented, solitary life is disrupted when her troubled older daughter loses another job and returns home.…
Then, as Suzanne warily pursues an in-person meeting with an online friend, her political-activist mother suffers a crippling stroke and moves in. Explicit descriptions of sex and strong language. 1999The lucky gourd shop: a novel
Par Joanna Scott. 2000
Three adopted Korean-American teenagers are curious about their roots. What they do not know is that their birth mother had…
been a foundling raised in a Seoul coffeeshop. After the death of their father, the children's grandmother saved them from starvation by taking them to an orphanage. 2000Necessary roughness
Par Marie Lee. 1996
Korean-American teenager Chan Kim and his twin sister, Young, work hard to be assimilated into their new high school after…
their father moves the family from L.A. to rural Minnesota. Chan switches from soccer to football to gain acceptance, but then tragedy strikes the family. For junior and senior high readersLadyGold
Par Angela Amato. 1998
NYPD detective Gerry Conte is leery of her new assignment: posing as the girlfriend of Eugene, a young gangster who…
is being forced to help bring down a mob boss. When it becomes clear that the force doesn't plan to protect Eugene, Gerry fights for him. Strong language and some violenceMr Paradise (Rivages thriller)
Par Elmore Leonard. 2006
"[...] Mr Paradise marque le retour d'Elmore Leonard à Detroit, la ville où il a déjà situé nombre de ses…
romans. Une brochette de personnages hauts en couleur, des répliques teintées d'humour à froid, un sens aigu du scénario et une ambiance à la NYPD Blue, tels sont les ingrédients de cette recette leonardienne qui se révèle toujours aussi délectable." -- 4e de couvAsylum for Nightface
Par Bruce Brooks. 1996
Fourteen-year-old Zimmerman's parents are always mocking him for his religious beliefs until they join a cult while vacationing in Jamaica.…
When their minister decides to use him as a "poster boy" for his church, Zimmerman steals a valuable trading card in order to tarnish his reputation. For junior and senior high readersLa vie comme une image: roman (Romanichels)
Par Jocelyne Saucier. 1996
Un papa fugueur dans une famille modèle. Comment s'en tirent la mère (devenue incontinente) et la fille adolescente (aux rêves…
meurtriers) après trois années d'attente et d'illusions? (cf. p. 60). Un premier roman à la fois intense et sobre, riche en non-dit, comme le signale R. Martel. L'histoire d'une absence cruellement ressentie mais occultée par le souci de n'en rien dire. [SDMSummer of storms
Par Judith Kelman. 2001
Thirty-three-year old photographer Anna Jameson returns to work in New York City three decades after her sister Julie is murdered…
there during a hurricane. As she investigates the past and uncovers family secrets, she becomes a target of the killer, who is still very much alive. Some violence and some strong language. 2001À genoux: roman (Seuil policiers)
Par Michael Connelly. 2008
"Le corps du Dr Stanley Kent vient d'être retrouvé au belvédère naturel proche de Mulholland Drive : deux balles dans…
la nuque, style exécution. Nouvellement affecté à la section Homicide Special, l'inspecteur Harry Bosch découvre vite que le Dr Kent avait accès à des matières radioactives utilisées dans le traitement de certains cancers féminins... et que ces matières ont disparu. Aux yeux de l'agent spécial du FBI Rachel Walling, que Bosch aime encore malgré leur rupture après le fiasco d'Echo Park, ce meurtre et cette disparition risquent fort de marquer le début d'un attentat terroriste à la bombe sale. Donc conflit ouvert et cette fois, Bosch n'est pas sûr d'avoir le dessus : il y a certes de la parano dans les services de la sécurité du territoire, mais la menace islamiste est bien réelle..." -- 4e de couvSneakers: a novel
Par Dewey Gram. 1992
In 1969, college student Martin Bishop escapes being arrested for politically motivated computer crimes. But in 1992, the feds catch…
up with Bishop, who is running a security consulting firm. They offer him immunity if he and his group will commit a crime for them. Strong language and some violenceLook homeward, angel: a story of the buried life
Par Thomas Wolfe. 1929
In this largely autobiographical novel, Wolfe describes Eugene Gant, who longs to escape his drab existence with his alcoholic father…
and neurotic mother in a provincial North Carolina town. Finally, through his fascination with literature and ideas, Eugene escapes to the university and later to Harvard. Some strong languageMr. White's confession
Par Robert Clark. 1998
St. Paul, Minnesota; 1939. When two dance hall girls are murdered, the police accuse Herbert White, a lonely, daffy clerk…
and amateur photographer. But recently widowed police lieutenant Wesley Horner has doubts. When White runs, Horner follows him. Some strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex