Presents three stories connected into one narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. This work is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances.
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.
Die Geschichte folgt einer Frau, die im 19. Jahrhundert als Mann Karriere macht. Drei Männer ermöglichen ihr, als James Miranda Barry Medizin zu studieren. Sie führt ein abenteuerliches Leben, das die Gesellschaft der Zeit beleuchtet, während nur die Schauspielerin Alice Jones ihr Geheimnis kennt.
These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them. 'Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail' Sunday Times A wife and mother whose spirit has been crushed finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely of places. The young victim of a humiliating seduction finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze, and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
Quando «Colazione da Tiffany» venne pubblicato per la prima volta, nel 1958, il «Time» definì la sua eroina Holly Golightly: «la gattina più eccitante che la macchina per scrivere di Truman Capote abbia mai creato. È un incrocio tra una Lolita un po' cresciuta e una giovanissima Zia Mame… sola, ingenua e un po' impaurita». Di tutti i suoi personaggi, disse Capote più tardi, lei era la sua preferita, ed è facile capire perché. Holly è una cover-girl di New York, attrice cinematografica mancata, generosa di sé con tutti, consolatrice di carcerati, eterna bambina chiassosa e scanzonata. È un personaggio incantevole, dotato di una sorprendente grazia poetica. Intorno a lei ruotano tipi bizzarri come Sally Tomato, paterno gangster ospite del penitenziario di Sing Sing; O.J. Berman, il potente agente delle star di Hollywood; il «vecchio ragazzo» Rusty Trawler; Joe Bell, proprietario di bar e timido innamorato... «Holly Golightly», scrisse «The Atlantic», «è bizzarra, simpaticissima, commovente… e reale.»
Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sense something is going to happen. But the privileged society life of parties, debutantes and dresses leaves her wanting more than her parents and conventional sister Apple have in mind for her. Excitement comes in the form of the highly unsuitable Clyde, a Brooklyn-born, Jewish parking attendant. And when Grady's mother and father leave her alone for the first time in their New York penthouse one summer, their secret affair intensifies. As a heatwave envelops the city, Grady gets in deeper and deeper and cares less and less about the consequences. Soon, though, she will be forced to make decisions - choices that will forever affect her future once the long, sultry summer of 1945 comes to an end.