Jonathan Dee, " l'un des meilleurs décrypteurs de l'Amérique contemporaine ", livre un roman magistral sur la middle class et ses désillusions. Captivant et terriblement actuel. Howland, petite ville du Massachusetts, attire de nombreux riches vacanciers venus de New York. Mark, lui, fait partie de...
Jonathan Dee écrit pour leNew York Times Magazine, la revueHarper'set laParis Review. Il enseigne à l'université de Columbia.Les Privilègesest son quatrième roman, le premier publié en France. Richard Ford « Un délice à chaque page, une merveille de maîtrise, entre empathie et distance critiq...
Molly Howe ne s´attache à personne. Elle traverse l´existence telle une ombre, fuyante et insaisissable, son propre pouvoir de fascination lui échappe. Trop à l´étroit dans un monde étriqué, elle s´enfuit à Berkeley où elle rencontre John Wheelwright, étudiant en histoire de l´art, prêt à tout pour ...
Le nouveau roman de l'auteur des Privilèges, acclamé par la presse. Helen, Ben et Sara forment une famille. En apparence tout est parfait: maison proprette, mère attentive, épouse dévouée, pré-adolescente normalement dysfonctionnelle, mari associé dans un cabinet d'avocats. Plus pour longtemps.En...
In her small upstate New York town, Molly Howe is admired for her beauty, poise, and character, until one day a secret is exposed and she is cruelly ostracized. She escapes to Berkeley, where she finds solace in a young art student named John Wheelwright. They embark on an intense, all-consuming aff...
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Ben and Helen Armstead have reached breaking point and it takes one afternoon - and a single act of recklessness - for Ben to deal the final blow to their marriage, spectacularly demolishing everything they built together. Helen and her teenage daughter Sara leave for Manhattan where Helen takes a j...
Will luck be a lady tonight? Or must we play the hand we're dealt? There is no need to use tarot cards to learn what the future holds: a regular deck of playing cards will do the trick - as long as you know how to read them. Fortune Telling Using Playing Cards teaches readers how to translate the f...
A rural, working class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this urgent and inspired novel for our times. Mark Firth is a home builder in Howland, Massachusetts who, after being swindled by a financial advisor, feels opportunity passing him and his family by. Wha...
BONUS: This edition contains a The Privileges discussion guide. Smart and socially gifted, Adam and Cynthia Morey are perfect for each other. With Adams rising career in the world of private equity, a beautiful home in Manhattan, gorgeous children, and plenty of money, they are, by any reasonable ...
“Summons up a small American town at precisely the right moment in our history . . . a bold, vital, and view-expanding novel.”--George Saunders A rural working-class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this inspired novel for our times--fiction in the tradition...
Smart, socially gifted, and chronically impatient, Adam and Cynthia Morey are so perfect for each other that united they become a kind of fortress against the world. In their hurry to start a new life, they marry young and have two children before Cynthia reaches the age of twenty-five. Adam is a ri...
Gene Trowbridge, a successful advertising executive, fills the days before his retirement assessing his past and contemplating the future, increasingly aware of his own irrelevance in a field dominated by the very young. But a chance meeting with Albert Ferdinand, a reclusive neighbour who wins his ...
Ben and Helen Armstead have reached breaking point and it takes one afternoon - and a single act of recklessness - for Ben to deal the final blow to their marriage, spectacularly demolishing everything they built together. Helen and her teenage daughter Sara leave for Manhattan where Helen takes a j...
In her small upstate New York town, Molly Howe is admired for her beauty, poise, and character, until one day a secret is exposed and she is cruelly ostracized. She escapes to Berkeley, where she finds solace in a young art student named John Wheelwright. They embark on an intense, all-consuming aff...
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