Qui de Sabine Meyer, Nadège Ravel ou Nadège Pédrono, ou encore Agnès, toutes amies de Sonia Sliwinski, celle que l’on surnommait los angeles « poupée de marbre », pourra aider Paul Kolmaski, journaliste d’investigation, à résoudre une curieuse énigme qui le mènera au pied d’un nid de hulotte, en forêt de Fontainebleau ?

Associant enlèvements, rebondissements, trahison, mystère, rébus, humour et fantastique atypique, personnages burlesques dont une cocasse gardienne d’immeuble, ce roman vous fera découvrir l’étonnant mystery de l. a. « déesse transcendantale », représentée en effigie sous l. a. forme d’une femme accoudée sur une comète, pour faire passer au-delà du défunt rideau de fer des informations sibyllines, et, qui sait, confidentielles...

The hotel of the Seventy-Seven Clocks combines secret and comedy, that includes a infamous underworld determine who writes tales for sons and daughters and a Jewish billionaire with designs on being Pope.

"Searing, attractive, and unusually humorous, Jillian Medoff’s This may possibly Hurt burns throughout the pages. not anyone is secure during this merciless yet compassionate tackle company the USA. I enjoyed it."—Marcy Dermansky, writer of The pink Car

A humorous and deeply felt novel that illuminates the pivotal function of labor in our lives—a riveting fusion of The Nest, Up within the Air, and Then We got here to the End that captures the emotional complexities of 5 HR colleagues attempting to stability ambition, wish, and worry as their small corporation is buffeted via fiscal forces that threaten to upend them.

Rosa Guerrero beat the chances as she rose to the head of the company global. an enticing lady of a undeniable age, the longtime leader of human assets at Ellery client learn remains to be an impressive presence, whether her most crucial days are at the back of her. a pace-setter who wields energy with grace and restraint, she has earned the devotion and loyalty of her employees. nobody admires Rosa greater than her doting lieutenant Leo Smalls, a advantages vp whose complete international is Ellery.

While Rosa is fed on with attempting to tackle the desires of her employees in the ever-constricting limits of the company’s base line, her affiliate director, Rob Hirsch, a middle-aged, fortunately married father of 2, unearths himself drawing towards his "work wife," Lucy Bender, an enterprising unmarried girl looking for something—a romance, a promotion—to fill the vacuum in her own lifestyles. For Kenny Verville, a senior supervisor with an MBA, Ellery is a brief stepping-stone to larger and higher places—that is, if his high-powered spouse has her way.

Compelling, mistaken, and heartbreakingly human, those women and men scheme, fall out and in of affection, and nurture desires enormous and small. As their person situations shift, something continues to be constant—Rosa, the solar round whom all of them orbit. whilst her global starts off to collapse, the results for everybody are profound, and Leo, Rob, Lucy, and Kenny locate themselves replaced in methods past their reckoning.

Jillian Medoff explores the interior workings of an American corporation in all its remarkable, insane, comforting, and terrifying glory. genuine, razor-sharp, and achingly humorous, This may perhaps Hurt is a unique approximately paintings, loneliness, love, and loyalty; approximately surprising reversals and unforeseen windfalls; a singular approximately life.

[A] heartbreaking novel in regards to the devastations of severed attachments.” —NPR

For Clay Blackall, a lifelong resident of windfall, Rhode Island, where has develop into an obsession. the following reside the one those who can clarify what occurred to his brother, Eli, whose suicide haunts this heartbreaking, hilarious novel-in-fragments.

A failed actor impersonates a former celeb; an ex-con takes care of a summer time domestic perched atop a rock within the bay; a broken-hearted salutatorian airs 13 years’ worthy of soiled laundry at his school’s graduation; an accessory struggles to make room for her homeless and self-absorbed mom whereas revisiting a scandalous highschool love affair; a up to date widower, with assistance from a smart youngster, schemes to rid his condo’s pond of Canada ducks. Clay compiles their tales, invasively offering context within the type of notes that lead regularly, someway, again to Eli. in the back of Clay’s potentially insane, certainly doomed, and more and more suspect job burns his wish to comprehend his brother’s loss of life, and the town that has outlined and ruined them both.

Full of brainy detours and irreverent asides, Exes is a strong research of grief, love, and our deeply held but ever-changing notions of home.

David Foster Wallace weet lezers moeiteloos mee te voeren naar plekken waar geen enkele andere schrijver ook maar in de buurt komt, zo ook in Korte gesprekken met afgrijselijke mannen. Deze uitbundig geprezen reeks verhalen is een opeenvolging van ingebeelde vraaggesprekken met mannen over hun relaties met vrouwen.

Wallace stelt onderwerpen als vervreemding en onconventionele seks met zwarte, droge humor in een nieuw daglicht. Hij toont mannen verstrikt in zelfrechtvaardiging, spraakzaam maar onwetend. Op schrijnende en hilarische wijze worden de kwellingen van hun seksuele relaties blootgelegd, waarbij duidelijk wordt hoe mannen echt denken over vrouwen.

De verhalen spreken zo tot de verbeelding dat er meerdere toneelbewerkingen van het boek zijn gemaakt, en het werd bovendien succesvol verfilmd.

De pers over Korte gesprekken met afgrijselijke mannen:

‘Het beste, meest toegankelijke boek van David Foster Wallace. Er is geen boek in de recente wereldliteratuur dat zo nauwgezet de wanhoop tot uitdrukking brengt van datende mannen op zoek naar een lief, en naar een consequent en waardevol leven.’ De Standaard

‘Hilarisch en zeer indrukwekkend.’ New York Observer

‘Net als Nabokov, de auteur met wie hij het meest gemeen heeft, beschikt Wallace over een onuitputtelijk arsenaal aan literaire spitsvondigheden.’ Chicago Tribune

‘Een zinderende satire op de intellectuele leegte en de egoïstische aard van de hedendaagse therapiecultuur.’ Seattle Times

Nathaniel Pike, a headstrong billionaire, is deciding to buy a section of federal land in New Hampshire’s White Mountains and turning it right into a large, inaccessible parking zone. Orbiting Pike and his aspirations is a forged of completely mistaken eccentrics: Marlene, who's shy and susceptible but in addition a budding exhibitionist; Stuart, Pike’s assistant, who's Marlene’s husband and a failed author; and Heath, who motion pictures Marlene’s public nudity and turns her into a web famous person. during this grand story of the folly of the fashionable international, Mike Heppner skewers the extravagance of wealth, and the category that grows up round that wealth, while he casts a humane examine the folks involved.

From the exchange Paperback edition.

Del Arte de Ser Mexicano

En un compendio de divertidas viñetas que reflejan l. a. idiosincrasia y el buen humor que caracteriza al mexicano, de Murguía regala al lector una serie de pequeñas historias que forman parte de l. a. crítica y el tejido social de nuestras vivencias. Basada en sus colaboraciones en diferentes medios de comunicación, el autor presenta un grupo de personajes cuyas divertidas experiencias son narradas con una prosa fácil de leer, grata y amena, que entretiene y cautiva con cada aventura.

En esta obra de irresponsabilidad creativa, de Murguía cuenta sus aventuras como escritor utilizando como recurso l. a. idiosincrasia, las tradiciones, los angeles cultura y las vivencias mexicanas, para darle vida a protagonistas como Espergencia del Nopal, famosa Tarotera y Adivinatríz extraordinaria que augura los destinos políticos del país, al igual que don Miroslavo Nelson, famoso siquiatra y profesor emérito de l. a. Universidad de Tanpendécuaro, quien conduce públicamente su terapia colectiva en un puesto de mariscos… todo bajo un paisaje lleno de humorismo y dramas que se convierten en comedias utilizando los angeles creatividad y los angeles narrativa amena como recurso de l. a. imaginación en el arte de ser mexicano.

La obra de Gilberto de Murguía incluye Gloria y Avaricia, En Busca del Sueño Americano, El Jardín de los Entierros, El Sexto Folio y Justicia a l. a. Americana, cuentos cortos e innumerables artículos de buen humor publicados en los medios impresos en México y en Estados Unidos. Su carrera literaria lo ha llevado a viajar extensamente y a vivir experiencias que ahora se vuelven otra vez realidad en sus obras. De Murguía vive en California donde actualmente trabaja en su próximo proyecto.

Der vierte Band der Werkausgabe von Klaus Merz versammelt eine repräsentative Auswahl seiner Feuilletons - Aufsätze, Kolumnen, Reden und Aperçus -, die seit den frühen 1970er Jahren für Zeitungen und Zeitschriften entstanden sind. Sieht guy von den „Achtzehn Begegnungen“ im Band Das Turnier der Bleistiftritter (2003) ab, liegen diese Texte erstmals in Buchform vor. Eine Vielzahl der Reden erscheint hier überhaupt zum ersten Mal in Buchform. Die vier Abteilungen bieten daher einen tiefen Einblick in das erweiterte Schaffen von Klaus Merz. Selbst da, wo der Schriftsteller scheinbar journalistische Gefäße bedient, bleibt er seiner literarischen Diktion treu. Gleichwohl zeigt sich Merz in den Feuilletons auch als ein Autor, der sich auf das aktuelle Zeitgeschehen einlässt und den Menschen und Ereignissen um sich herum nicht nur poetisch, sondern stets auch politisch und mit Witz begegnet.