Resultados para "New York" en Literatura de género

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

"Ho trentacinque anni, un buon lavoro, un bello stipendio, un appartamento al quarantesimo piano e vivo nella città più desiderata del mondo. Eppure sento che dentro questo quadro di luci e movimento non riesco più a trovare la mia dimensione. In realtà non so neanche bene quale sia stato il momento esatto in cui ho smesso di provare fiducia in New York, e in me stesso. Ma questa città è così: quando inizi a credere che tutto scorra senza motivo, lei ti sorprende e ti spiazza ancora una volta." Il protagonista di questa storia ha perso quell'indefinitezza ed entusiasmo adolescenziale.

On the same day Bells Walker learns that her IUD has failed, her husband Harry is denied tenure at his Manhattan university. So Bells, Harry, their two adolescent children, and her baby bump move to New York’s Hudson Valley, where Harry has landed a job at Dutchess College in the town of Pigkill. When the farm-to-table utopia Bells envisioned is anything but, she turns to the blogosphere. Under the pen name the County Dutchess, she anonymously dishes about life in Pigkill, detailing the activities of hypercompetitive parents and kombucha-drinking hipsters.

In the year AD 3000, Earth is a dystopian wasteland, plundered of its natural resources by alien conquerors known as Psychlos. Fewer than 35,000 humans survive in a handful of communities scattered across the face of a post-apocalyptic Earth. From the ashes of humanity rises a young hero, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. Setting off on an initial quest to discover a hidden evil, Jonnie unlocks the mystery of humanity’s demise and unearths a crucial weakness in their oppressors.

An unexpected love story from Marc Levy, international bestselling author of The Last of the Stanfields, and the most widely read French author in the world.

Bengtsson's hero, Red Orm-canny - courageous and above all lucky - is only a boy when he is abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings and made to take his place at the oars of their dragon-prowed ships. Orm is then captured by the Moors in Spain, where he fights for the Caliph of Cordova. Escaping from captivity, Orm washes up in Ireland, where he marvels at those epicene creatures, the Christian monks, and from which he then moves on to play an ever more important part in the intrigues of the various Scandinavian kings and clans and dependencies.

It’s been thirteen years since doctors declared Libby Ross-Velasquez a goner. Yet here she is - cancer-free. So why doesn’t she feel more alive? Sure, Libby’s husband, Shiloh, has been distant. One of their daughters has a serious health condition. And her father’s death hovers over Libby like a rain cloud. Still, this eternal optimist knows she’s the winner of the existential lottery. But when her forced cheer isn’t enough to keep her family from catching her blahs, she decides to fly them all to Vieques. The Puerto Rican island is where she and Shiloh fell in love.

Loiun abiatu eta JFK aireportura iristen den hegazkin-bidaia bat da, berez, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao eleberri hau. Baina, hegaldiarekin batera, hiru belaunaldiren historia kontatzen zaigu: aitona-amonei dagokien gerraurrekoa, gurasoen sasoiko frankismoarena, eta idazlearena berarena, XIX. mendean hasi eta XXI.eraino doan epopeia txiki baten moduan; batetik besterako lokarri, Aurelio Artetaren koadro bat, eta haren inguruko gorabeherak.

In una città stravolta e allucinata, in cui ogni cosa si confonde e chiunque è sostituibile, i protagonisti di queste storie conducono ciascuno un'inchiesta misteriosa e dall'esito imprevedibile. Tutto può cominciare con una telefonata nel cuore della notte, come nel caso di Daniel Quinn (Città di vetro), autore di romanzi polizieschi che accetta la sfida che gli si presenta e si cala nei panni di uno sconosciuto detective.

Per Ann Stilwell passare l'estate a lavorare per il Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York è un sogno che si avvera. Ma il destino scompagina i suoi piani quando per un disguido si vede assegnata a una sede distaccata del Met: il Cloisters, una serie labirintica di chiostri spagnoli ricostruiti lungo le rive dell'Hudson, rinomato per la sua collezione di arte medievale e per un giardino ricco di piante medicinali. La giovane studentessa trova ad accoglierla Patrick Roland, l'eccentrico direttore del museo, e Rachel Mondray, la sua magnetica e ricchissima assistente.

2019, New York. Leo Van Meegeren è appena uscito di prigione dopo aver scontato una pena di tre anni. È un pittore di talento, osserva il mondo attraverso i suoi occhi grigi chiarissimi ed è così abile da riuscire a riprodurre alla perfezione le opere dei grandi artisti del passato e spacciarle per vere. È proprio questa capacità che l'ha portato dietro le sbarre, e adesso le vittime delle sue truffe gli stanno addosso per saldare i conti.

Spanning four decades in the mid-19th century, the interconnected novellas of Old New York lay out in vivid detail the complex and inscrutable codes, customs, and taboos of New York society in classic Wharton style.

Joan Cooper is a 17-year-old genius who was traumatized by the death of her older sister and who tries to rebuild her shattered world by studying string theory and the efforts to unify the laws of physics. But as she tackles the complex equations, she falls prey to disturbing visions of a divine being who wants to help her unveil the universe’s mathematical design. Joan must enter the battle between science and religion, fighting for her sanity and a new understanding of the cosmos.

Ludovica e Lorenzo sono giovani e belli. Si sono sposati anche se non usa più. Lei ha convinto il padre a aprirle una libreria nel quartiere Trieste, zona storica della borghesia romana. Lui, dottorando poco convinto in filosofia della scienza, si considera un filmmaker da quando ha realizzato un cortometraggio pieno di citazioni di film di culto. Un corto dove Ludovica, vestita di un pigiama giallo che ammicca alla tuta di Urna Thurman in Kill Bill, interpreta "la Sposina".

Ten years ago, Jerry came to New York City to break into show business. Today, his career is stalled, his ex-fiancé is a TV star, and he survives by bartending in Manhattan’s high-end cocktail lounges. Stunned by loss and regret, he is sleepwalking through a hung-over life when he discovers Violet’s book about when they were young, hopeful servers at a Times Square restaurant. As he searches the words of his self-destructive soul-mate, can he reconcile his past and find the hope he lost along the way?

L'hai persa. Tua figlia. Una ragazza sbandata e legata a un fidanzato che abusa di lei. Ma ti ha spiegato chiaramente che non vuole essere salvata. Tu non ti dai pace e quando, per caso, la vedi a Central Park, mentre suona una chitarra non credi ai tuoi occhi. Quella che hai davanti, però, non è la ragazza che hai cresciuto, quella che è sempre presente nei tuoi ricordi. È una donna che cammina sul filo del rasoio, malconcia, spaventata, decisamente nei guai.

Olivia Hamilton is married to the love of her life, Dean, a charismatic pilot who flies private jets for the rich and famous. But when he vanishes over the Bermuda Triangle, Olivia’s idyllic existence unravels. After years of waiting, Olivia must eventually let go of the fragile hope that her beloved husband might still be alive.

Sleep deprived and overwhelmed, first-time mom Jenn is struggling to adapt to her new role. Frustrated with her loving but preoccupied husband and still grieving the death of her own mother, she feels isolated and depressed. It’s only when she joins a new-moms’ group that she starts to think she’s finally getting back on track. Until Isabel, the group’s leader, suddenly disappears.

Paul was reading a newspaper. Catherine was reading a novel. So begins Room on the Sea, André Aciman's scorching and elegiac love-story about a middle-aged man and woman who meet in the bullpen of jury selection and spend a sultry summer’s week trespassing ever further into each other's hearts. What begins as a flirtation quickly evolves into something deeper, something Paul and Catherine must carry on in secret - and with the understanding that anything more than a casual crush is out of the question.

Lucien has everything he needs: a loving mama, a library full of books, and House of Earth, a private school nestled safely in the woods of upstate New York. It’s where Lucien is taught the importance of living in harmony with nature and building a peaceful and sustainable future. But when his youthful curiosity draws him into town and to Gabrielle, a public-school student living a life wholly different from his own, Lucien’s inquisitiveness about life beyond the commune and questions regarding the events of 9/11 threaten to unbalance everything he thought he knew.