Crossing the Lines / Melvyn Bragg

Aucun avis sur cette notice. Titre : Crossing the Lines Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Melvyn Bragg Editeur : Sceptre Année de publication : 2003 Importance : 490 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-340-82967-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Set in Britain during the 1950s, this moving and evocative novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives. As a teenager in the small northern town of Wigton, Joe Richardson falls in love with Rachel, just when her life is about to be uprooted. While his parents, Sam and Ellen, face the frontiers of middle age, Joe finds himself drawn by the intoxicating world outside home, and swept into situations that seem beyond his control. Vividly conveying the spirit of the mid-century and the profound social changes taking place at the time, this is a masterly successor to the award-winning THE SOLDIER'S RETURN and A SON OF WAR.

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11100280	LANG BRAGG	LIV	Adultes	Livres en anglais	Disponible

Memories of the future / Siri Hustvedt

Aucun avis sur cette notice. Titre : Memories of the future Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Siri Hustvedt Editeur : Sceptre Année de publication : 2020 Importance : 318 p. Présentation : ill. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4736-9446-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Memories of the Future tells the story of a young Midwestern woman’s first year in New York City in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbor, Lucy Brite. As she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, S.H., aka “Minnesota,” transcribes her neighbor’s bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a notebook, along with sundry other adventures, until one frightening night when Lucy bursts into her apartment on a rescue mission. Forty years later, S.H., now a veteran author, discovers her old notebook, as well as early drafts of a never-completed novel. S.H. measures what she remembers against what she wrote that year and has since forgotten to create a dialogue between selves across decades.

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BCD104689913	LANG HUST	LIV	Adultes	Livres en anglais	Disponible

A shout in the ruins / Kevin Powers

Aucun avis sur cette notice. Titre : A shout in the ruins Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Kevin Powers Editeur : Sceptre Année de publication : 2019 Importance : 261 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4736-6781-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Spanning over one hundred years, from the antebellum era to the 1980's, A Shout in the Ruins examines the fates of a diverse cast of characters connected to Beauvais Plantation in Chesterfield County, Virginia. When war arrives, the master of Beauvais, Anthony Levallios, foresees that mastery in a new America will be measured not in acres of tobacco under cultivation by his slaves, but in industry and capital. A grievously wounded Confederate veteran loses his grip on a world he no longer understands, and his daughter finds herself married to Levallois, an arrangement that feels little better than imprisonment. And two people enslaved at Beauvais plantation, Nurse and Rawls, overcome impossible odds to be together, only to find that the promise of coming freedom may not be something they will live to see. Seamlessly interwoven is the story of George Seldom, a man orphaned by the storm of the Civil War, looking back from the 1950s on the void where his childhood ought to have been. Watching the government destroy his neighborhood to build a stretch of the interstate highway system through Richmond, Virginia, and recognizing that his days on earth are coming to an end, he travels south to try to fill in that void. With the help of a young woman, he goes in search of his beginnings, all the while remembering the life that witnessed so much change during the 20th century, and so much that didn't. As the narrative finds that young woman farther in the future, now in her middle age, the questions remain: How do we live in a world built on the suffering of others? And can love exist in a place where for 400 years violence has been the strongest form of intimacy?

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BCD104667844	LANG POWE	LIV	Adultes	Livres en anglais	Disponible

Stork mountain / Miroslav Penkov

Aucun avis sur cette notice. Titre : Stork mountain Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Miroslav Penkov Editeur : Sceptre Année de publication : 2017 Importance : 437 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4736-2220-3 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : In Stork Mountain, a young Bulgarian immigrant returns to the country of his birth in search of his grandfather, who suddenly and unexpectedly cut all contact with the family three years ago. The trail leads him to a village on the border with Turkey, a stone's throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains − a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring, possessed by Christian saints, men and women dance barefoot across live coals in search of rebirth. Here in the mountains, he gets drawn by his grandfather into a maze of half-truths. And here, he falls in love with an unobtainable Muslim girl. Old ghosts come back to life and forgotten conflicts blaze anew until the past surrenders its shameful secrets.

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BCD104192994	LANG PENK	LIV	Adultes	Livres en anglais	Disponible

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