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The Grass is Singing / Doris Lessing
Titre : The Grass is Singing Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Doris Lessing, Auteur Editeur : London [Angleterre] : Fourth Estate Année de publication : 2011 Importance : 206 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-790365-8 Prix : 2.60 EUR Langues : Anglais Tags : realism Africa farmer colonialism novel rhodesia poverty Résumé : Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique.
Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses -- master and slave -- are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa.
The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 107450 EN LES Livre Forum Romans / Romanlar Disponible Boys don't cry / Fiona Scarlett
Titre : Boys don't cry Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Fiona Scarlett, Auteur Editeur : Faber and Faber Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 243 p, Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-571-36520-3 Langues : Anglais Tags : novel Dublin teenager artist Résumé : Joe is 17, a gifted artist and a brilliant older brother to 12-year-old Finn. They live with their Ma and Da in a Dublin tower block called Bojaxhiu or 'the Jax'. It's not an easy place to be a kid, especially when your father, Frank, is the muscle for the notorious gang leader Dessie 'The Badger' Murphy. But whether it's daytrips to the beach or drawing secret sketches, Joe works hard to show Finn life beyond the battered concrete yard below their flat.
Joe is determined not to become like his Da. But when Finn falls ill, Joe finds his convictions harder to cling to. With his father now in prison, his mother submerged in her grief, and his relationships with friends and classmates crumbling, Joe has to figure out how to survive without becoming what the world around him expects him to be.Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 107694 EN SCA Livre Forum Livres en anglais / English books Disponible Heartburn / Nora Ephron
Titre : Heartburn Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Nora Ephron, Auteur Editeur : New York [Etats-Unis] : Vintage Contemporaries Importance : 179 p. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-679-76795-4 Prix : 14 USD Langues : Américain Tags : novel betrayal revenge recipe pregnancy cookery writer Résumé : Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. The fact that this woman has a 'neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb' is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel is a cookery writer, and between trying to win Mark back and wishing him dead, she offers us some of her favourite recipes. Heartburn is a roller coaster of love, betrayal, loss and - most satisfyingly - revenge. Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 107449 EN EPH Livre Forum Romans / Romanlar Disponible