The incomparable Alice Munro's bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises. In Munro's hands, the people she writes about—women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children—become as vivid as our own neighbours. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own.
Heidi Zerning Books
Often compared to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Naomi Alderman's The Power - Woman on the Edge of Time has been hailed as a classic of speculative science fiction. Disturbing and forward thinking, Marge Piercy's remarkable novel will speak to a new generation of readers.
Dimensions; Fiction; Wenlock Edge; Deep-Holes; Free radicals; Face; Some Women; Child's Play; Wood; Too Much Happiness
Breakfast at Tiffany's
- 76 pages
- 3 hours of reading
New York in the 1940s. In the expensive jewellery store, Tiffany's, Holly Golightly feels calm and safe. In her apartment every night is party night. Men come and go. But Holly is searching for her place in the world. Can any of these men offer her happiness?
A lost treasure only recently found, Truman Capote's Summer Crossing is a precocious, confident first novel from one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Set in New York just after World War II, the story follows a young carefree socialite, Grady McNeil, whose parents leave her alone in their Fifth Avenue penthouse for the summer. Left to her own devices, Grady turns up the heat on the secret affair she's been having with a Brooklyn-born Jewish war veteran who works as a parking lot attendant. As the season passes, the romance turns more serious and morally ambiguous, and Grady must eventually make a series of decisions that will forever affect her life and the lives of everyone around her.
Das persönlichste Buch von Alice Munro: Ihre Spurensuche in der eigenen Familiengeschichte und Erinnerung führt in die reizvolle Wirklichkeit von Dichtung und Wahrheit. In ihren Geschichten nimmt uns Alice Munro mit auf eine Reise, die im 17. Jahrhundert in Schottland beginnt und im Kanada von heute endet. Schon beim ersten Blick vom Edinburgh's Castle Rock übers Meer, dorthin, wo Amerika liegen muß, beginnt für den kleinen Andrew Laidlaw das große Lebensabenteuer und vollendet sich in der Reise, die er als Mann endlich antritt, in das gelobte Land seines Vaters. Gekürzte Lesung Spieldauer: 6 Stunden