Traduzione dei racconti di Harold Brodkey Stories in an Almost Classical Mode - Il prodigo sognatore - Sulle onde - Contabilità - Hofstedt e Jean e altri - Il tiro a segno - Innocenza - Gioco - Una storia in modo quasi classico - Suo figlio, tra le braccia, nella luce, lassù - Pubertà
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo's most powerful and riveting novel--"a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle)--Underworld is about the second half of the twentieth century in America and about two people, an artist and an executive, whose lives intertwine in New York in the fifties and again in the nineties. With cameo appearances by Lenny Bruce, J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby Thompson, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Toots Shor, "this is DeLillo's most affecting novel...a dazzling, phosphorescent work of art" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
A novel concerned with the nature of gay relationships in the AIDS age, the vulnerability of families, the conflicts of the generations and the failure of communication. David Leavitt's "Family Dancing" was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner prize.
Folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar is determined to see his new job as hog site scout for Global Pork Rind through to the end. However he is forced to face the idiosyncratic inhabitants of Woolybucket and to question his own notions of loyalty and home.A brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain. That Old Ace in the Hole is a richly textured story of one man's struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle, told with razor-sharp wit and a masterly sense of place.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance caused a literary sensation when it was first published in 1974. The story of the narrator, his son Chris and their month-long motorcycle odyssey from Minnesota to California, profoundly affected an entire generation. A combination of philosophical speculation and psychological tension, the book is a story of relationships, values, madness and, eventually, enlightenment.
If Gabriel García Márquez had chosen to write about Pakistani immigrants in England, he might have produced a novel as beautiful and devastating as Maps for Lost Lovers. Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared. Like thousands of people all over England, they were lovers and living together out of wedlock. To Chanda’s family, however, the disgrace was unforgivable. Perhaps enough so as to warrant murder. As he explores the disappearance and its aftermath through the eyes of Jugnu’s worldly older brother, Shamas, and his devout wife, Kaukab, Nadeem Aslam creates a closely observed and affecting portrait of people whose traditions threaten to bury them alive. The result is a tour de force, intimate, affecting, tragic and suspenseful.
'So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don't know how she did it' - Phoebe Waller-Bridge Now with an introduction from Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love, revealing how a new generation of women can take inspiration from Nora's sharp wit and wisdom about life. * Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from. * If the shoe doesn't fit in the shoe store, it's never going to fit. * When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. * If only one third of your clothes are mistakes, you're ahead of the game. * Anything you think is wrong with your body at the age of thirty-five you will be nostalgic for by the age of forty-five. __________________________________________________________________ 'I give this as a present more than other book. I buy it for people so often that I've been known to give girlfriends two copies, one birthday after another' - Dolly Alderton __________________________________________________________________ 'I am only one of millions of women who will miss Nora's voice' Lena Dunham 'Oh how I loved Nora Ephron' Nigella Lawson 'Funny, knowing and smart' India Knight 'The book that most influenced me' Lily Allen 'Nora's exacting, precise, didactic, tried-and-tested, sophisticated-woman-wearing-all-black wisdom is a comfort and a relief' Dolly Alderton
'What I want you to have, Imogen, above all, is a sense of your own history; a sense of where you come from, and of the forces that made you.' Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story of the young blind girl, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all those years ago. This is a story of generations, of the relationships within a family - and of what goes to make a child. Called "the best English novelist of his generation" by Nick Hornby, Jonathan Coe extends his range in this magnificent account of a Shropshire family in the last half of the twentieth century.
Julia e Pete Winters, una coppia americana in cerca di evasione dalla routine coniugale, e Edward e Iris Freleng, bohémien eleganti e ricchi, si trovano bloccati a Lisbona nel giugno del 1940, mentre l'Europa scivola verso la guerra. In un'atmosfera seducente e precaria, attendono l'arrivo della nave SS Manhattan per tornare a New York, ma non sono certi di volerlo. Si incontrano al Café Suiça, dove emerge immediatamente una tensione tra di loro: entrambi i coniugi nascondono segreti che li uniscono fin dal primo istante, tormentati dalle convenzioni sociali e sessuali del loro tempo. Mentre l'Europa lotta per mantenere un fragile equilibrio, anche la stabilità dei Winters e dei Freleng inizia a vacillare. Dopo sei anni di silenzio, l'autore torna con un romanzo lirico che esplora il potere della manipolazione e il cambiamento delle persone in circostanze straordinarie. La storia offre un ritratto di Lisbona, affollata di espatriati in attesa di salvezza, preoccupati per ciò che stanno per perdere, ma immersi in una languida sospensione. Un affresco di quattro destini che affrontano il conflitto tra le convenzioni del loro mondo e i loro scandalosi desideri di felicità.
In London, 1958, unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is unexpectedly sent to Brussels for six months to oversee The Brittania, a new pub central to the British presence at Expo 58, the largest World's Fair since World War II. Upon arrival, Thomas feels liberated from his repressive homeland, enchanted by the modernity of the Expo and the striking Atomium structure. He is equally captivated by Anneke, a charming Flemish hostess. However, his newfound freedom comes with complications: the Cold War looms large, and the American and Soviet pavilions are provocatively placed side by side. To make matters more intriguing, Thomas is shadowed by two enigmatic agents from the British Secret Service. As he navigates this glittering yet precarious environment, Thomas must confront his loyalties—both public and private. This comic novel, set in the vibrant mid-50s, will resonate with fans of Coe's previous works and those who appreciate the wit of authors like Nick Hornby and Ian McEwan. Coe’s keen observations and literary flair capture the essence of the era, making this a compelling read about a pivotal moment in European history.
At eighteen, Paul Porterfield aspires to play the piano at the world's great concert halls. So far the closest he has come has been to turn pages of sheet music for his idol, the dashing, temperamental Richard Kennington, a former piano prodigy on the cusp of middle age. Months later, while on holiday with his mother in Italy, Paul encounters Richard a second time. Their earlier attraction develops into an intense affair. As the innocence of first love becomes entangled with the quest for a more enduring happiness, Paul comes to realise that he cannot be a page turner all his life and that he has to confront his ambitions. With artful storytelling, shrewd perception and arch humour, THE PAGE TURNER testifies to the bittersweet truths of strained relationships and the resiliency of the human heart.
How bad is it when your SatNav is your last best friend? - In his sparkling and hugely enjoyable new book Jonathan Coe reinvents the picaresque novel for our time.
Julia and Valentina Poole are identical twins who have no interest in college, jobs or anything outside their cosy suburban home. But everything changes when they receive notice that an aunt whom they didn't know existed has died and left them her flat in an apartment block overlooking Highgate Cemetery in London.
