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Après Les hommes ont peur de la lumière et Et c'est ainsi que nous vivrons, Douglas Kennedy continue son exploration d'une Amérique plus désunie que jamais avec une œuvre palpitante, pleine de souffle et de panache, pour raconter la richesse et les contradictions de son pays.Lors d'un salon littéraire en France, alors qu'il déjeune avec quelques écrivains locaux, Douglas Kennedy est apostrophé par l'une des convives qui lui lance qu'elle le trouve " plutôt raffiné pour un Américain ".Piqué au vif par ce qui n'était en somme qu'une flatterie maladroite, Douglas s'interroge : être américain, c'est quoi ?Le début d'une quête sincère à la poursuite du grand mystère de l'âme américaine. Du New York d'après-guerre à une petite ville texane trumpiste, de souvenirs d'enfance en réflexions politiques, d'anecdotes hilarantes en citations littéraires, de notes de jazz en films inoubliables, un voyage étourdissant, passionnant, édifiant, drôle, émouvant, avec un guide de luxe : Douglas Kennedy himself...

Après le succès des Hommes ont peur de la lumière, Douglas Kennedy explore une Amérique plus divisée que jamais dans un roman glaçant de réalisme. En 2045, les États-Unis n'existent plus, redessinés par une nouvelle guerre de Sécession. Sur les côtes Est et Ouest, une république prône la liberté de mœurs, mais sous une surveillance constante. Au centre, une confédération impose des lois strictes, interdisant le divorce, l'avortement et le changement de sexe, avec des valeurs chrétiennes dominantes. Les deux blocs, méfiants, craignent l'infiltration de l'autre. Samantha Stengel, agent des services secrets de la République, se prépare à une mission périlleuse : infiltrer un des États confédérés les plus rigoristes pour traquer une cible dangereuse. Dans ce contexte de tensions extrêmes, elle devra puiser dans ses ressources pour échapper aux mouchards de son propre camp et faire face aux attaques de l'ennemi. Ce roman pose la question troublante de notre avenir et de la manière dont nous pourrions vivre dans un monde si fragmenté.

THE EXPLOSIVE NEW THRILLER FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, DOUGLAS KENNEDY __________________________ 'A pulse-racing thriller centred on hot-button debates' Daily Mail Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of sixty, he finds himself scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer to a man his age - driving for Uber. When one of his rides, a retired professor named Elise, asks to be dropped off outside an abortion clinic where she now volunteers, Brendan finds himself driving right into the virulent epicentre of one of the major issues of our time, engulfing his life in the process. A novel of high suspense and considerable moral complexity, Afraid of the Light is a tough, affecting social thriller that speaks volumes about the corrosive divisions of our troubled times. __________________________ 'Kennedy is skilled at zigzag plotting, blending domestic twists with turns created by global affairs' OBSERVER

Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradictions. Sam is instantly smitten but wary of the wedding ring on her finger. What begins as a regular arrangement in Isabelle's tiny Parisian apartment transforms into a true affair of the heart, and one which lasts for decades to come. Isabelle in the Afternoon is a novel that questions what we seek, what we find, what we settle for and shows how love, when not lived day in, day out, can become the passion of a lifetime.

'Accomplished...a strangely mesmerising effect...absolutely excellent'New StatesmanNew York, 1980sAlice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life.

De retour à New York après une tragique parenthèse irlandaise, la jeune étudiante américaine Alice Burns est une femme brisée. En rupture avec sa famille, elle tente de se reconstruire, de retrouver goût à la vie... Dans cette Amérique qu'elle ne reconnaît plus, la tâche ne sera pas aisée. Ce sont les années Reagan, les années sida. Celles de l'argent facile, de la consommation comme idole, et d'une concurrence acharnée de tous contre tous - jusque chez les siens... Hasard ou destin ?

Fresque à l'ampleur inédite, La Symphonie du hasard couvre vingt ans d'histoire américaine. Dans le bouillonnement social, culturel et politique des sixties-seventies, de New York à Dublin en passant par l'Amérique latine, un roman-fleuve porté par un souffle puissant. Pas évident d'échapper à sa famille, a fortiori quand cette dernière est en conflit permanent, avec une fâcheuse tendance à se mettre dans des situations compliquées. Alice Burns, elle, a choisi une solution radicale : mettre un océan entre elle et les siens et poursuivre ses études en Irlande. D'abord déstabilisée par l'accueil quelque peu revêche des Dublinois, elle se surprend à apprécier une existence simple, plus sereine. Et sa rencontre avec Ciaran pourrait même lui laisser entrevoir la possibilité d'une autre vie. Mais alors que résonnent les premiers échos des exactions de l'IRA, voici que resurgit une vieille connaissance, et avec elle un passé qu'Alice aurait préféré oublier à jamais...

Toutes les familles sont des sociétés secrètes. Des royaumes d'intrigues et de guerres intestines, gouvernés par leurs propres lois, leurs propres normes, leurs limites et leurs frontières, à l'extérieur desquelles toutes ces règles paraissent souvent insensées.À New York, dans un bureau, une éditrice lit un manuscrit. Une œuvre qui la trouble et qui va la replonger dans son passé et celui de sa famille.Sur le papier, une famille comme tant d'autres au pays de l'Oncle Sam, un bonheur propret, une vie plutôt confortable. Et pourtant...Aux années soixante insouciantes vont succéder les années soixante-dix tumultueuses. Et faire exploser au passage toutes ces familles qui croyaient encore au rêve américain...

Le bonheur n'est-il qu'un instant fugace? Sommes-nous les victimes ou bien les artisans de notre infortune? Pourquoi le pardon est-il (hélas!) l'unique solution? Ce sont là quelques-unes des grandes questions que pose Douglas Kennedy dans un livre témoignage, à mi-chemin entre confessions et essai littéraire, un véritable manuel d'art de vivre dans lequel il se dévoile comme jamais. Une lecture vivifiante d'une formidable érudition, touchante et drôle, fourmillante d'anecdotes, nourrie d'expériences personnelles tantôt dramatiques, tantôt comiques. Une oeuvre à part où l'on apprend que la tragédie serait le prix à payer pour être de ce monde et que, dans la vie comme dans le patin à glace, l'important est d'avancer ... Et qu'on a tous quelque chose en nous de Kennedy. [4e de couverture]

In the heady strangeness of Morocco, Paul is everything Robin wants him to be - passionate, talented, knowledgeable. Robin is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant. But when Paul disappears, and Robin finds herself under suspicion, everything changes. Suddenly she is on a roller-coaster journey into a heart of darkness that asks the question : What would you be capable of doing if your life depended on it ?

L'amour et la solitude, la possibilité de changer de vie, le hasard des rencontres, les choix qui s'offrent à nous, l'art de la fuite... et les femmes. Douglas Kennedy explore encore plus avant ses obsessions pour nous livrer une variation en douze mouvements. Dans l'Amérique des années soixante, en pleine crise de Cuba, un petit garçon attend le bus scolaire et n'a d'yeux que pour la fillette à côté de lui. Un long échange de regards et le garçon comprend que cet instant vient de marquer sa vie sentimentale future... Un homme rentre chez lui, complètement saoul et paniqué. La femme avec qui il vient de dîner l'appellera demain à 10h et il le sait, ce coup de fil pourrait bien chambouler toute sa vie... Erica pensait avoir géré son divorce comme elle gère sa carrière : rapidement, efficacement et avec détachement. Mais quand son ex lui propose de lui racheter la bague de fiançailles qu'il lui avait offerte, Erica n'a plus qu'une idée en tête, trouver la meilleure vengeance possible... La cinquantaine plan-plan, un brave père de famille se retrouve coincé à Vegas pour deux jours, l'occasion de tenter un très gros coup de poker... Une femme regarde son mari et se remémore le commentaire de sa mère au moment de l'annonce de leur fiançailles : "Ouais, fera l'affaire". Et c'était vrai. Alors pourquoi ce goût d'inachevé ?

Is it ever too late to find the life you always wanted? A modern day Brief Encounter or The Bridges of Madison County, this is a novel which poses the ultimate romantic dilemma, from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship, and The Moment. Is it ever too late to have the life you wanted? Or do we owe it to ourselves to pursue the promise of happiness? For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and mother. She's supported her husband through redundancy, she's worried about her son, she's encouraged her daughter. She has been constant, caring and selfless. She's stopped thinking about her own dreams, the places she'd like to go and the books she'd like to talk about. But a chance meeting with a man in a hotel lobby - and the five days that follow - remind Laura of the young woman she used to be, and the woman she could have become. How long does it take to fall in love and leave your life behind?

In Paris im Winter trifft der amerikanische Filmdozent Rick auf eine geheimnisvolle Fremde, was eine abgründige, obsessive Affäre auslöst. Doch bald hegt er den schrecklichen Verdacht, dass sie mit einer mysteriösen Mordserie in Verbindung steht, und gerät in den Bann einer düsteren Macht.

Travel writer Thomas Nesbitt, age 50, retreats into his house in Maine to wallow in memories of living in Germany 25 years earlier after the success of his first book. In West Berlin as a worker for Radio Liberty, Thomas meets his soul mate, Petra Dussmann, a translator with an iron curtain around her heart. Petra's mysterious melancholy proves irresistible, and as Thomas is drawn into a passionate affair, he also becomes entangled in spy games played by the Stasi and the CIA.

On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane comes to discover, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo. And then Jane falls pregnant. Motherhood turns out to be a great welcome surprise - but when a devastating turn of events tears her existence apart she has no choice but to flee all she knows and leave the world. Just when she has renounced life itself, the disappearance of a young girl pulls her back from the edge and into an obsessive search for some sort of personal redemption. Convinced that she knows more about the case than the police do, she is forced to make a decision - stay hidden or bring to light a shattering truth. Douglas Kennedy's exceptional new novel is a portrait of the way we live now, of the many routes we follow in the course of a single life, and of the arbitrary nature of destiny. Like his previous highly acclaimed novels it is also a compulsive read - and one which speaks volumes about the dilemmas we face in trying to navigate our way through all that fate throws in our path.

When Harry Ricks arrives in Paris on a bleak January morning he is a broken man. He is running away from a failed marriage and a dark scandal that ruined his career as a film lecturer in a small American university. With no money and nowhere to live, Harry swiftly falls in with the city’s underclass, barely scraping a living while trying to finish the book he’d always dreamed of writing. A chance meeting with a mysterious woman, Margit Kadar, with whom Harry falls in love, is his only hope of a brighter future. However, Margit isn’t all she seems to be and Harry increasingly feels that a dark force is at work in his life — as punishment begins to be meted out to anyone who has recently done him wrong. Before he knows it, he finds himself of increasing interest to the police, and waking up in a nightmare from which there is no easy escape.

Contents: -- Paradise house / Erica James -- A special relationship / Douglas Kennedy -- The children's hour / Marcia Willett.

L'actualité politique récente des États-Unis ne cesse de rappeler le poids considérable que joue la religion - en particulier, les fondamentalistes chrétiens - dans la vie publique de ce pays. Douglas Kennedy avait pressenti cette évolution. Poussé par le désir de comprendre, il est alors parti à la découverte des Etats du sud du pays - connus sous le nom de « Ceinture de la Bible » -, et de leurs habitants, ces hommes et ces femmes animés d'une foi inébranlable. Un ancien mafieux, de jeunes rockers, un prêtre faiseur de miracles, une femme d'affaires impitoyable sont quelques-uns des personnages insolites qu'il a rencontrés et qui composent sous sa plume incisive une galerie de portraits aussi fascinante qu'inquiétante.

On the face of it, Ben Bradford is a standard Wall Street hotshot - six-figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But with the WASP lifestyle comes the sting: Ben hates it. Whe he realizes that the state of his marriage has less to do with baby-induced sleeplessness and more to do with a wife who's playing outside the ground, a moment of madness provides Ben with the opportunity to redesign his life. But as the roller-coaster trajectory of his new existence takes hold, he begins to question the price of fulfilment. Because finding yourself means nothing when you're pretending to be someone else.

David Armitage - husband, father and failure - has lived the life of an unsuccessful screenwriter for eleven years. When an influential film director presents David with an offer, the opportunity of a lifetime - could this temptation be one that jeopardises everything David has worked for.

Sally Goochild, trentasette anni, affermata giornalista, è una donna tenace e sicura di ciò che vuole, almeno fino a quando la sua strada non si incrocia con quella del cronista Tony Hobbs inviato come lei in Somalia per un reportage. Nel giro di alcune settimane i piani a lungo termine di Sally vengono stravolti: abbandona il lavoro di corrispondente, si sposa, si trasferisce a Londra e scopre di aspettare un bambino. La vita, però, non è tutta rose e fiori.

Der amerikanische Journalist Nick Hawthorne reist durch Australien und nimmt die Anhalterin Angie mit. Nach einer Drogenverabreichung wacht er verheiratet und gefangen in ihrem abgelegenen Dorf auf. Kann er aus dieser Falle entkommen?

*An hilarious thriller about a holiday romance gone wrong.

America in the Sixties was an era of radical upheaval - of civil rights protests and anti-war marches; of sexual liberation and hallucinogenic drugs. More tellingly, it was a time when you weren't supposed to trust anyone over the age of thirty; when, if you were young, you rebelled against your parents and their conservative values. But not Hannah Buchan. Hannah is a great disappointment to her famous radical father and painter mother. Instead of mounting the barricades and embracing this age of profound social change, she wants nothing more than to marry her doctor boyfriend and raise a family in a small town. Hannah gets her wish. But once installed as the doctor's wife in a nowhere corner of Maine, boredom sets in ... until an unforeseen moment of personal rebellion changes everything. Especially as Hannah is forced into breaking the law. For decades, this one transgression in an otherwise faultless life remains buried. But then, in the charged atmosphere of America after 9/11, her secret comes out and her life goes into freefall.

Manhattan, Thanksgiving Eve 1945. War is over and Eric Smythe's party is swinging. Everyone is there, including his sister Sara. Then in walks the gatecrasher - Jack Malone, an army journalist fresh from a defeated Germany. This chance meeting between Sara and Jack will have profound consequences

This collection of essays is concerned with fatherhood. It includes disparate viewpoints—funny, poignant, and philisophical, and reflects on the first inklings of male broodiness, the nine months of pregnancy, and the moment of birth and beyond.

Douglas Kennedy's outstanding new novel, THE JOB, is a thrilling page-turner involving downsizing, blackmail and murder in the Manhattan business world. Ned Allen is young, smart, and upwardly mobile. Several years into his career as an ad salesman for a successful computer magazine, Ned's finally left his small-town roots behind, and is certain that the sophisticated Manhattan world he covets is his forever. His wife Lizzie is also a rising star of a prestigious PR firm. It seems that Ned's made it. But then what appeared to be a career break shows its true colours. Ned's forced to make some tough calls, among them a question of ethics and the small matter of whether to lie to his wife - and when the tough calls just keep getting tougher he finds himself on the brink of losing everything ... Cautionary tale, compelling thriller, portrait of a man on the edge, Douglas Kennedy's THE JOB is a ruthlessly entertaining exploration of the fragility of modern life and the depths we'll go to in our quest to preserve it.

Ben ha tutto dalla vita: due figli, una bella moglie ed è un avvocato di grido a New York. Eppure non è felice, perché da sempre il suo sogno è di dedicarsi alla fotografia. Un sogno che assume contorni beffardi quando scopre che la consorte lo tradisce... proprio con un fotografo. Disperato, lo affronta in un drammatico confronto, uccidendolo. Nei terribili momenti che seguono, Ben si rende conto che la sua vita è distrutta. Gli resta solo una via d'uscita. Ma è di quelle che non consentono di tornare indietro.

Travels through money-making areas of the world.

A chronicle of travels through modern Egypt; a landscape strewn with incongruities and peopled by a vivid cast of characters. Their stories form part of Kennedy's funny, yet ultimately serious portrait of Egypt today. Sidestepping the usual pyramids, he finds an alternative Egypt