Résultats pour "August" dans Passage à l'âge adulte

A boy coming of age in a part of the country that’s being left behind is at the heart of this dazzling novel—the first by an award-winning author of short stories that evoke the American West. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE “August reads like early Hemingway...

August Barton could never have mentally prepared himself for his freshman year of college: not only has his anxiety increased, but his parents are divorcing, his new roommate thinks Augie is the biggest nerd in existence, and his grandma, a retired prostitute named Gertie, has taken to running away from her nursing home. Augie just wants to hole up in his dorm room with his Star Wars collectables and textbooks, but Gertie is not about to let that happen.

In this enchanting first novel, an irrepressibly optimistic oddball orphan is thrust into the wilds of postwar New York City after an extraordinary childhood in a theater—Candide by way of John Irving, with a hint of Charles Dickens Abandoned as an infant by his actress mother in her theater...

Fifteen-year old Morganna runs away from an abusive home to search for her blood father, a man she’s never met. Fearful she’ll be recognized by locals, she disguises herself as a boy. Hitching a ride from a fisherman, Morganna crosses the Bristol Channel to Goldcliff, Wales, where she hopes to find her father. She is astounded when the fisherman divulges her father is a famous Welsh privateer, the fearsome Captain Henry Blackwell.

A 2025 Lamda Literary Award finalist Longlisted for The Center For Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize Named a Best Book of 2024 by Elle, Vogue, and Debutiful “This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled.” —Matt Berninger, The National...

Rico, 23 Jahre, 147 kg schwer, hochintelligent, soziophob, hat mit 15 Jahren die Schule abgebrochen und wohnt seitdem komplett zurückgezogen bei seiner Großmutter in tendenziell prekären Umständen. Parallel lebt er digital in einem aufregenden Computerspiel. Er verachtet die Menschen und was sie aus ihrer Welt gemacht haben. Zaire, 23 Jahre, lebensbejahend, sehr sozial, die neue Pflegerin seiner Oma, reißt Rico ins reale Leben hinein. Sie liebt die Menschen und glaubt an eine lebenswerte Zukunft.

“A delightful coming-of-age story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth.”—Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake “Poignant and emotional, with touches of both humor and sorrow. . . . This book makes you think about what it means to be a...

“Two parts Gone Girl, two parts Notes on a Scandal. . .will play with your expectations about who’s the villain and who’s the victim.” — Jennifer Weiner, USA Today Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize for Fiction The acclaimed, bestselling author of This Could Hurt...

Titus King sees the world in black and white, right and wrong. That is why as a teenager he left behind the only family he'd ever known to make a better life for himself. Now a police detective in one of the worst cities in the country, he can't deny his life has turned into a million different shades of gray.

La tensión de la adolescencia de Tomás llega a un punto de no retorno cuando viaja con su familia, como todos los años, al pequeño pueblo de veraneo en el que suelen pasar las vacaciones. Bajo la blanda inactividad veraniega todo empieza a suceder de pronto como en un encadenamiento inaplazable: el descubrimiento del sexo y de la violencia, la muerte, la trasgresión…