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Titre : All that man is Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : David Szalay Editeur : Vintage Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 441 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-959369-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving – in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel – to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now.
Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are – ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood.Exemplaires (1)
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Titre : Ashland & Vine Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : John Burnside Editeur : Vintage Année de publication : 2018 Importance : 336 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-955493-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : It is 1999. Kate Lambert, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. The woman, Jean Culver, declines, but makes her a bizarre counter-offer: if Kate can stay sober for four days, she will tell her a story. And if she can stay sober beyond that, there will be another, and then another, amounting to the entire history of one family’s life.
Though still shattered by the death of her father, and by the desultory abuse imposed by Laurits, her enigmatic collaborator and erstwhile lover – Kate is soon drawn into a Scheherazade-like matrix of tales, some painfully final, some still unfinished, in which Jean gradually offers a heartbreaking account, not only of one family, but of the American century itself, from World War II to Vietnam and the Weather Underground.Exemplaires (1)
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Titre : Brave New World Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Aldous Huxley Editeur : Vintage Année de publication : 2004 Importance : 229 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-947746-4 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse distaste for the pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress-Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece. Exemplaires (1)
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Titre : Italian Shoes Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Henning Mankell Editeur : 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 Times‘Mankell 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)
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Titre : Lessons Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ian MacEwan Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2022 Autre Editeur : 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?Exemplaires (1)
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