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Into the Dark / Fiona Cummins
Titre : Into the Dark Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Fiona Cummins Editeur : London : MacMillan Année de publication : 2022 Importance : 326 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-5290-4015-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : One late autumn morning, Pipers best friend arrives at Seawings to discover an eerie scene the kettle is still warm, all the familys phones are charging on the worktop, the cars are in the garage. But the house is deserted. In fifteen-year-old Riva Holdens bedroom, scrawled across the mirror in blood, are three words: Make Them Stop. What happens next? Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344506 LANG CUMM LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Into the Forest / Jean Hegland
Titre : Into the Forest Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Jean Hegland Editeur : New York : Dial Press Année de publication : 1996 Importance : 241 p. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-553-37961-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other. Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11350144 LANG HEGL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 13/06/2024 It Ends With Us / Colleen Hoover
Titre : It Ends With Us Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Colleen Hoover Editeur : London : Simon & Schuster Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 376 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4711-5626-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : A bold, heart-wrenching story of love coming at the ultimate price from the beloved No. 1 New York Times bestselling author, Colleen Hoover. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346947 LANG HOOV LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Italian Shoes / Henning Mankell
Titre : Italian Shoes Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Henning Mankell Editeur : London : Vintage Année de publication : 2010, cop. 2006 Importance : 358 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-951298-1 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : As with the best of crime fiction, Mankell deals not only in character, plot and action, mystery and revelation, concealment and discovery, but also creates a world with its own mental and emotional atmosphere Irish TimesMankell has always been an ambitious writer this novel transcends the limits of his earlier work Sunday TimesSurgeon Frederick Welin has lived alone on a deserted island, in self-imposed exile, since he was disgraced for trying to cover up a mistake on operating table. Then, one morning, he sees a figure struggling across the ice towards him and realises that his past is about to catch up with him.The figure approaching him is Harriet, the only woman he ever loved, the woman he abandoned forty years ago in order to study in America. Now Harriet has tracked him down to ask him to honour a promise made many years ago: to take her to a beautiful lake, hidden deep in the forests of northern Sweden. But Welin soon discovers that Harriet has left his biggest surprise until last.Authoritative plotting and well-defined characterisation an examination of the boundless human capacity for making the wrong decisions and a recognition of the challenges posed by ageing Daily Express Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11070006 LANG MANK LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Just Me / Sheila Hancock
Titre : Just Me Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Sheila Hancock Editeur : London : Bloomsbury Année de publication : 2008 Importance : 274 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-7475-8882-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : 'Well now, prove it, Sheila. As John would say, 'Put your money where your mouth is'. Be a depressed widow boring the arse off everyone, or get on with life. Your choice.' This work presents a story about moving on, but it is also about looking back, and looking anew. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11100278 LANG HANC LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Killed at the Whim of a Hat / Colin Cotterill
Titre : Killed at the Whim of a Hat Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Colin Cotterill Editeur : London : Quercus Année de publication : 2011 Importance : 373 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-84916-552-5 Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : When crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to follow her family from Chiang Mai to a fishing village on the Gulf of Siam, she's convinced her career is over. Her journalism will surely dwindle to reports on the annual monsoon-induced floods, for what crimes could possibly happen in such an out-of-the-way place? Answer: plenty. A local palm oil plantation owner and his worker are excavating a well. They dig down six feet and hit metal. It turns out to be the roof of an old Volkswagen combi, which, once unearthed, is found to contain two skeletons - one of them wearing a hat. A monk is murdered in Lang Suan, the nearest town. There is apparently no motive for the killing and no suspects are found. But there are odd connections between this killing and several others. Suddenly Jimm's new life becomes somewhat more promising - and a great deal more dangerous. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11100723 LANG COTT LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms / George R.R. Martin
Titre : A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : George R.R. Martin Editeur : London : Harper Collins Année de publication : 2017 Collection : Voyager Importance : 355 p. Présentation : ill. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-823809-4 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Before Tyrion Lannister and Podrick Payne there was Dunk and Egg.
A young, naïve but courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall towers above his rivals in stature if not experience. Tagging along with him is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg whose true identity must be hidden from all he and Dunk encounter: for in reality he is Aegon Targaryen, and one day he will be king. Improbable heroes though they be, great destinies lie ahead for Dunk and Egg; as do powerful foes, royal intrigue, and outrageous exploits.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346703 LANG MART LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Lessons / Ian MacEwan
Titre : Lessons Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ian MacEwan Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2022 Autre Editeur : London : Vintage Importance : 486 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-5291-1631-1 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.
Now, when his wife vanishes, leaving him alone with his tiny son, Roland is forced to confront the reality of his restless existence. As the radiation from Chernobyl spreads across Europe, he begins a search for answers that looks deep into his family history and will last for the rest of his life.
From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic and climate change, Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history, but more often struggles against it. Haunted by lost opportunities, he seeks solace through every possible means - music, literature, friends, sex, politics and, finally, love cut tragically short, then love ultimately redeemed. His journey raises important questions for us all. Can we take full charge of the course of our lives without damage to others? How do global events beyond our control shape our lives and our memories? And what can we really learn from the traumas of the past?Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11350140 LANG MACE LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 25/05/2024 Life after Life / Kate Atkinson
Titre : Life after Life Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Kate Atkinson Editeur : London : Black Swan Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 621 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-552-77968-5 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Résumé : During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale.
What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?
Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in lifes bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11077210 LANG ATKI LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk / Kathleen Rooney
Titre : Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Kathleen Rooney Editeur : New York : St. Martin's Press Année de publication : 2017 Importance : 287 p. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-250-13760-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy's to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, "in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it."
Now it's the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. It's chilly enough out for her mink coat and Manhattan is grittier now--her son keeps warning her about a subway vigilante on the prowl--but the quick-tongued poetess has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her over 10 miles around the city, she meets bartenders, bodega clerks, security guards, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be, while reviewing a life of excitement and adversity, passion and heartbreak, illuminating all the ways New York has changed--and has not.
A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop.
Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11101290 LANG ROON LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Lionel Asbo : State of England / Martin Amis
Titre : Lionel Asbo : State of England Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Martin Amis Editeur : Vintage Books Année de publication : 2013 Importance : 275 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-958205-2 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful young criminal - is going about his morning duties in a London prison when he learns that he has just won £139,999,999.50 on the National Lottery. This is not necessarily good news for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Des Pepperdine, who still has reason to fear his uncle's implacable vengeance.
Savage, funny, and mysteriously poignant, Lionel Asbo is a modern fairytale from one of the world's great writers.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11324935 LANG AMIS LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Little bee / Chris Cleave
Titre : Little bee Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Chris Cleave Editeur : New York : Simon & Schuster Année de publication : 2009 Importance : 271 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4165-8964-8 Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : This is the story of two women. Their lives collide one fateful day, and one of them has to make a terrible choice, the kind of choice we hope you never have to face. Two years later, they meet again - the story starts here....
Once you have read it, you'll want to tell your friends about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens. The magic is in how the story unfolds.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11076806 LANG CLEA LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Little Foxes Took Up Matches / Katya Kazbek
Titre : Little Foxes Took Up Matches Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Katya Kazbek Editeur : Portland : Tin House Année de publication : 2022 Importance : 360 p. Format : 23 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-953534-02-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : When Mitya was two years old, he swallowed his grandmothers sewing needle. For his family, it marks the beginning of the end, the promise of certain death. For Mitya, it is a small, metal treasure that guides him from within. As he grows, his life mirrors the uncertain future of his country, which is attempting to rebuild itself after the collapse of the Soviet Union, torn between its past and the promise of modern freedom. Mitya finds himself facing a different sort of ambiguity: is he a boy, as everyone keeps telling him, or is he not quite a boy, as he often feels?
After suffering horrific abuse from his cousin Vovka who has returned broken from war, Mitya embarks on a journey across underground Moscow to find something better, a place to belong. His experiences are interlaced with a retelling of a foundational Russian fairytale, Koschei the Deathless, offering an element of fantasy to the brutal realities of Mityas everyday life.
Told with deep empathy, humor, and a bit of surreality, Little Foxes Took Up Matches is a revelation about the life of one community in a country of turmoil and upheaval, glimpsed through the eyes of a precocious and empathetic child, whose heart and mind understand that there are often more than two choices. An arresting coming of age, an exploration of gender, a modern folktale, a comedy about family, Katya Kazbek breaks out as a new voice to watch.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344523 LANG KAZB LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Lord of the Flies / William Golding
Titre : Lord of the Flies Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : William Golding Editeur : New York : Penguin Année de publication : 2006 Importance : 208 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-399-50148-7 Note générale : With a biographical and critical note Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature.
William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with themthe world of cricket and homework and adventure storiesand another world is revealed beneath, primitive and terrible.Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies has established itself as a true classic.Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11076809 LANG GOLD LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 21/05/2024 Love, etc / Julian Barnes
Titre : Love, etc Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Julian Barnes Editeur : London : Cape Année de publication : 2000 Importance : 249 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-224-06109-4 Prix : 41,90 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11033920 LANG BAR LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Martin Dressler / Steven Millhauser
Titre : Martin Dressler : The Tale of an American Dreamer Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Steven Millhauser Editeur : Vintage Books Année de publication : 1997 Importance : 293 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-679-78127-1 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vision becomes bolder and bolder he walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry, a sense of doom builds piece-by-hypnotic piece until this mesmerizing journey into the heart of an American dreamer reaches its bitter-sweet conclusion. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11075478 LANG MILL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Memoirs of a Geisha / Arthur Golden
Titre : Memoirs of a Geisha Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Arthur Golden Année de publication : 1998 Importance : 434 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-977151-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Contemporary / American English Memoirs of a Geisha is one of the great stories of our time. We follow Sayuri's life: her early years in a small fishing village and as a geisha in Gion. And throughout her struggle, we know of her secret love for the only man who ever showed her any kindness - a man who seems to be out of her reach. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11070599 LANG GOLD LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible A Mercy / Toni Morrison
Titre : A Mercy Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Toni Morrison Editeur : London : Vintage Année de publication : 2009 Importance : 165 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-950254-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11059173 LANG MORR LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Miss Iceland / Audur Ava Olafsdóttir
Titre : Miss Iceland Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Audur Ava Olafsdóttir ; Brian FitzGibbon, Traducteur Editeur : London : Pushkin Année de publication : 2020 Importance : 250 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-78227-567-1 Note générale : Trad. de l'islandais : "Ungfrú Island" Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : A funny and poignant new novel about a female writer trying to make it in a conservative world, from Iceland's hottest literary star. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346019 LANG OLAF LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Murder House / James Patterson
Titre : Murder House Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : James Patterson ; David Ellis Editeur : London : Arrow Books Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 546 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-959488-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : But when a Hollywood power broker and his mistress are found dead in the abandoned Murder House, Jenna becomes involved in a case that at first seems open and shut, but reveals more secrets than she could possibly imagine. As more bodies surface and Jenna is drawn deeper into the dark history of No.... Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346044 LANG PATT LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible My Cousin Rachel / Daphné Du Maurier
Titre : My Cousin Rachel Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Daphné Du Maurier Editeur : Virago Année de publication : 2017, cop. 1951 Importance : 335 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-349-00985-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in making Philip his heir, knowing he will treasure his beautiful Cornish estate. But Philip's world is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love and marries - and then dies suddenly in suspicious circumstances.
Before long, the new widow - Philip's cousin Rachel - arrives in England. Despite himself, Philip is drawn to this beautiful, mysterious woman. But could she have caused Ambrose's death?Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11079920 LANG DUMA LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Never Let Me Go / Kazuo Ishiguro
Titre : Never Let Me Go Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Kazuo Ishiguro Editeur : London : Faber and Faber Année de publication : 2006 Importance : 282 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-571-22413-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.
Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them specialand how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day.Exemplaires (1)
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Titre : Normal people Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Sally Rooney Editeur : London : Faber and Faber Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 284 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-571-33465-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life-changing begins. Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can't. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346942 LANG ROON LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Notes on an Execution / Danya Kukafka
Titre : Notes on an Execution Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Danya Kukafka Editeur : London : Phoenix Année de publication : 2022 Importance : 308 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4746-2595-1 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours.
He knows what hes done, and now awaits the same fate he forced on those girls, years ago. Ansel doesnt want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. But this is not his story.
As the clock ticks down, three women uncover the history of a tragedy and the long shadow it casts. Lavender, Ansels mother, is a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation. Hazel, twin sister to his wife, is forced to watch helplessly as the relationship threatens to devour them all. And Saffy, the detective hot on his trail, is devoted to bringing bad men to justice but struggling to see her own life clearly.
This is the story of the women left behind. Blending breathtaking suspense with astonishing empathy, Notes On An Execution presents a chilling portrait of womanhood as it unravels the familiar narrative of the American serial killer, interrogating our cultural obsession with crime stories, and asking readers to consider the false promise of looking for meaning in the minds of violent men.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344526 LANG KUKA LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible On Chesil Beach / Ian MacEwan
Titre : On Chesil Beach Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ian MacEwan Editeur : London : Jonathan Cape Année de publication : 2007 Importance : 166 p. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-224-08118-4 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come..."On Chesil Beach" is another masterwork from Ian McEwan - a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. Exemplaires (1)
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