Ein fesselnder Pageturner und eine nuancierte Familiengeschichte: Angie Kims neuer Roman »Happiness Falls«Von einer Wanderung in den Wäldern Virginias kehrt nur der 14-jährige Eugene zurück, sein Vater ist spurlos verschwunden. Eugene ist aufgrund einer Autismus-Spektrum-Störung stumm und kann nicht mitteilen, was geschehen ist, wodurch er schnell selbst ins Zentrum der Ermittlungen gerät. Seine 20-jährige Schwester Mia beginnt eigene Nachforschungen anzustellen - und kommt einer Reihe von Geheimnissen auf die Spur, die die bürgerliche Fassade der Familie bröckeln lassen.Ein mitreißender Pageturner voller überraschender Wendungen und ein sensibel erzählter Familienroman über die Frage, wie gut wir einander je kennen können.
A loner, Travis Bickle, takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds around him. His pent-up rage, fuelled by his doomed relationship with a political campaign worker, leads to an inevitable descent into psychosis and violence.
Zum 60. Geburtstag des Kabarettisten und Schauspielers. Als in Lockdown-Zeiten nichts mehr ging, die Schauspieler kein Theater, die Musiker keine Bühne und die Autoren kein Podium hatten, gründete Uwe Steimle einen Kanal, um fortan mit seinem Publikum verbunden zu bleiben. Er nannte ihn Aktuelle Kamera. Ein Schelm, der dabei Böses denkt. Ein Potpourrie daraus versammelt dieser Band: Gesammelte Irrtümer, verfluchter Zeitgeist, seltsame Butter auf hartem Brot. Geschichte besteht aus Geschichten, so das Motto. Steimle spürt dem Geist der Zeit und der noch immer zeitlosen Geistlosigkeit nach und hat Antworten parat: launig, verschmitzt und immer auch heiter. Und manchmal auch ganz schön böse.
Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. But Celeste has a secret. She has a singular sexual obsession - fourteen-year-old boys. It is a craving she pursues with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought. Within weeks of her first term at a new school, Celeste has lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web - car rides after dark, rendezvous at Jack's house while his single father works the late shift, and body-slamming encounters in Celeste's empty classroom between periods. It is bliss. Celeste must constantly confront the forces threatening their affair - the perpetual risk of exposure, Jack's father's own attraction to her, and the ticking clock as Jack leaves innocent boyhood behind. But the insatiable Celeste is remorseless. She deceives everyone, is close to no one and cares little for anything but her pleasure. With crackling, stampeding, rampantly sexualized prose, Tampa is a grand, satirical, serio-comic examination of desire and a scorching literary debut.
A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments" and "Two Cures for Love". Other collections include "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis" and the long narrative poem "The River Girl".
Why can't we think straight when hungry? What's the point of nightmares? Dean Burnett put his feelings under the microscope and takes us on an incredible journey of discovery, from the origins of life to the end of the universe to uncover how our emotions make us who we are.
Edited by J. C. C. Mays Murphy, Samuel Beckett''s first novel, was published in 1938. Its work-shy eponymous hero, adrift in London, realises that desire can never be satisfied and withdraws from life, in search of stupor. Murphy''s lovestruck fiancée Celia tries with tragic pathos to draw him back, but her attempts are doomed to failure. Murphy''s friends and familiars are simulacra of Murphy, fragmented and incomplete. But Beckett''s achievement lies in the brilliantly original language used to communicate this vision of isolation and misunderstanding. The combination of particularity and absurdity gives Murphy''s world its painful definition, but the sheer comic energy of Beckett''s prose releases characters and readers alike into exuberance.
Sparkling... funny, it is also cutting, a nearly forensic study of family conflict... both compulsively readable and thought-provoking.' New York Times The Oppenheimer triplets have been reared with every advantage: wealth, education, and the determined attention of at least one of their parents. But they have been desperate to escape each other ever since they were born. Now, on the verge of their departure for college and so close to their long-coveted freedom, the triplets are forced to contend with an unexpected complication: a fourth Oppenheimer sibling has just been born. What has possessed their parents to make such an unfathomable decision? The triplets can't begin to imagine the the power this little latecomer is about to exert - nor just how destructive she'll be to their plans . . . 'Korelitz draws us in again, this time with her ease, grace and wit, in a satisfying novel that spans generations, lives, and fates.' Meg Wolitzer FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDOING - NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES What readers are saying: 'Powerful, beautifully written, and well plotted.' 'Think Succession meets The Goldfinch...such captivating characters and plot with an excellent ending.' 'You don't want to skim over a single word of the exquisitely woven story.' 'This book will definitely stay with me for a long time. I loved it.