Animal Dreams / Barbara Kingsolver

Aucun avis sur cette notice. Titre : Animal Dreams Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Barbara Kingsolver Editeur : Londres : Harper Perennial Année de publication : 2005 Importance : 352 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-06-092114-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : "Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What the finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.

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11070592	LANG KING	LIV	Adultes	Livres en anglais	Disponible

The gravedigger's daughter / Joyce Carol Oates

Aucun avis sur cette notice. Titre : The gravedigger's daughter Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Joyce Carol Oates Editeur : Londres : Harper Perennial Année de publication : 2008 Importance : 582 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-725846-8 Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Beautiful Hazel Jones and her young son Zach are liked and admired by all they meet - but they inspire curiosity too. Why is Zach forbidden to mention his father, and how did Hazel get the scars on her forehead wich she takes such pains to hide ? Why do they roam from the place to place, settling nowhere and confiding in no one ? Because Hazel Jones wasn't always Hazel Jones. Once she was Rebecca Schwart, the dark-eyed daughter of German asylum seekers who fled to the US to escape the Nazis. Her father, hampered by language and chained by poverty, could only find work as a gravedigger, and Rebecca and her family lived in a hovel on the edge of the cemetery. Driven mad by subjection to daily humiliation and destitution, Rebecca's father commited a horrific crime wich changed the course of her life forever. But can you re-invent yourself in the aftermath of murder - or is history destined to repeat itself ?

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11076802	LANG OATES	LIV	Adultes	Livres en anglais	Disponible

The Patron Saint of Liars / Ann Patchett

Aucun avis sur cette notice. Titre : The Patron Saint of Liars Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ann Patchett Editeur : Londres : Harper Perennial Année de publication : 2007 Importance : 336 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-06-133921-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Unanticipated pregnancy makes liars out of young women, this thoughtful first novel shows, as they try to rationalize, explain, and accept what is happening to them. When she arrives at St. Elizabeth's, a home for pregnant girls in Habit, Kentucky, Rose Clinton seems as evasive and deceptive as the other unwed mothers. But Rose is different: she has a husband whom she has deserted. Unlike most St. Elizabeth's visitors, she neither gives up her baby nor leaves the home, staying on as cook while her daughter grows up among expectant mothers fantasizing that they, too, might keep their infants. The reader learns from Rose how she came to St. Elizabeth's, but it is her doting husband and rebellious daughter who reveal her motives and helpless need for freedom. Together, the three create a complex character study of a woman driven by forces she can neither understand nor control.

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11057912	LANG PATC	LIV	Adultes	Livres en anglais	Disponible

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