Angela's Ashes / Frank MacCourt

Aucun avis sur cette notice. Titre : Angela's Ashes Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Frank MacCourt Editeur : Charles Scribner Année de publication : 1996 Importance : 364 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-684-87435-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy -- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling-- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors--yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.

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11344879	LANG MACC	LIV	Adultes	Livres en anglais	Disponible

Billy Summers / Stephen King

Aucun avis sur cette notice. Titre : Billy Summers Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Stephen King Editeur : Charles Scribner Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 517 p. Format : 25 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-982182-05-2 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Esquire Best Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the Year A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist From legendary storyteller Stephen King, whose "restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained" (The New York Times Book Review), comes a thrilling new novel about a good guy in a bad job. Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong? How about everything. This spectacular can't-put-it-down novel is part war story, part love letter to small town America and the people who live there, and it features one of the most compelling and surprising duos in King fiction, who set out to avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man. It's about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption. You won't put this story down, and you won't forget Billy.

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11344722	LANG KING	LIV	Adultes	Livres en anglais	Disponible

The Old Man and the Sea / Ernest Hemingway

Aucun avis sur cette notice. Titre : The Old Man and the Sea Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ernest Hemingway Editeur : Charles Scribner Année de publication : 1952 Importance : 140 p. Format : 21 cm Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais (Etats-Unis) Index. décimale : 843

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11032457	FC HEMI	LIV	Adultes	Fonds classiques, fonds spéciaux	Disponible

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