Jim agite doucement la main en refermant la porte derrière sa femme Annie qu'il a envoyée faire des courses. Il enroule alors soigneusement son pardessus dans le sens de la longueur et le pose au pied de cette même porte. À son retour, c'est un miracle si Annie ne fait pas sauter la maison entière e...
"Commençons, donc, par les coupelles de glace, qu'elle rapporta de la salle à manger à l'étroite cuisine un dimanche soir, alors que la famille, rassasiée, était encore assise autour de la table recouverte d'une nappe en dentelle et que la fumée de la cigarette de son père commençait tout juste à se...
Brooklyn, annes 30, quartier irlandais. Marie vit avec ses parents, immigrs avant sa naissance, et son grand frre Gabe dans un minuscule appartement bien astiqu. Son pre boit trop mais il aime sa fille tendrement. Sa mre a la rudesse des femmes qui tiennent le foyer. Tandis que Gabe se destine ds le...
On the cusp of fifteen, pretty Theresa is the town's most sought-after babysitter - cheerful, beloved, adored by children and animals, but also a solitary soul with an already complex understanding of human nature. She is Titania among her fairies, the one person to call on for help with a child in ...
On a wild, windy April day in Manhattan, when Mary first meets John Keane, she cannot know what lies ahead of her. A marriage, a fleeting season of romance, and the birth of four children will bring John and Mary to rest in the safe embrace of a traditional Catholic life in the suburbs. But neither ...
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On a wild, windy April day in Manhattan, when Mary first meets John Keane, she cannot know what lies ahead of her. A marriage, a fleeting season of romance, and the birth of four children will bring John and Mary to rest in the safe embrace of a traditional Catholic life in the suburbs. But neither ...
On a warm suburban night, the sound of lawn sprinklers is drowned out by the rumble of hot rods. Suddenly, a car careens onto a family's neat front yard, teenage boys spill out brandishing chains and leather, and a young man cries out for the girl he loves. Tonight, fathers will pick up snow shove...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2017 From the National Book Award-winning author comes a luminous, deeply humane novel about three generations of an Irish immigrant family in 1940s and 1950s Brooklyn - for fans of Anne Tyler, Anne Enright and Colm Tóib...