Résultats pour "David Park" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Alice et Gabriel n'ont aucun souvenir de la nuit dernière... pourtant, ils ne sont pas près de l'oublier. New York, huit heures du matin...

When George Allenby is put in charge of building a lake in the grounds of an imposing Irish manor house, he intends to do the job as swiftly as possible and return to Belfast. Allenby is still wrestling with his time as an officer during the First World War, burdened by the many things he could have done differently.

Returning to Guthrie, Oklahoma, for the funeral of his mysterious and beloved aunt, Sue, Adam Binder once again finds himself in the path of deadly magic when a dark druid begins to prey on members of Adam’s family. It all seems linked to the death of Adam’s father many years ago - a man who may have somehow survived as a warlock. Watched by the police, separated from the man who may be the love of his life, compelled to seek the truth about his connection to the druid, Adam learns more about his family and its troubled history than he ever bargained for.

A hundred years before the events in The House of Maine series, this unrelated tale brings you Lady Clarissa Maine, who turns to the open road to escape an unwanted marriage. Pursued by her father’s men and entangled with the Tallymen Syndicate, Clarissa turns to the dark underworld of crime. A woman in a man’s world where gentlemanly conduct no longer applies. Brain will spar with brawn as Clarissa falls from noble grace to a fight not only to survive but to remain free.

Winner of an Obie and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman, Yellow Face is as timely as ever, wrestling with issues of cultural appropriation, complicity, and artistic freedom. It’s brought to life in this audio-only revival by a stunning all-star cast (many playing themselves) led by Daniel Dae Kim.

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An ordinary lad from Teeside becomes an actor by pure chance, is given a fabricated name, experiences inexplicable success and uncertain recognition, only to suffer a lifetime of chronic imposter syndrome.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Billy Howle, known for his roles in Dunkirk, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and On Chesil Beach. This definitive recording includes an introduction by David Bradshaw. The Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been close friends...

These six stories are, for the most part taken from the writer's experience as a professional actor (A Different Money, You Cannot Be My Hands and The Reputation Preceding Jack Vitalis) but there are others which include an oneiric distraction featuring the brittle but precise discipline of the fictional Japanese terpsichorean art form Littledance, a curious tale of revenge upon the cruel attack of a titled aristocrat upon an otherwise genial and hard-working interior decorator (The Tradesman's Entrance).

Every spotlight casts a thousand shadows: five short stories from the darker recesses of a life in professional theatre.

Five short stories about bullying, school camaraderie, and about learning how to relate to others as an only child.

When an interest in surrealism becomes a fascination, and then a passion, and then an obsession which dominates your dreams, it's time to take a reality check.

They have escaped the necropolis that is now Jilrir. Rebecca, Petra, Rachael, Breanna, and Allannah are no longer locked within the gilded cage and face an uncertain future. Pursued by the dark forces of the God Commech, Rebecca begins the fight to restore The House of Maine only to find one man standing against her… their guardian, the Illyan priest Sebastian Roark.

Firmly established in the House of Maine, time is running out for the Preacher and his newly acquired young wards. Aware there is no chance to save the city of Jilrir in the coming battle, Sebastian finds himself thwarted at every turn by the baron's son. As his star rises within the family of Maine, it falls in the Church of lllya. Can he bend the knee to the young girl his goddess has chosen to lead her church?

Given the option of being assassinated by Russian FSB agents because his cartoons have offended the Russian President, or using his creative talents to start a revolution, artist, Lee Owens, decides to attack St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Sochi with a barrage of subversive art: graffiti, murals, pirated billboards, laser light shows, parade blimps, and sculptures.

It is December; Christmas is approaching and the magic of one of Europe’s most beautiful cities beckons. A father looks for himself in the past, struggling to deal with a recent divorce, his teenage son in tow. A single, selfless mother accompanies her only daughter and friends for a weekend-long bachelorette party. And a husband treats his wife to a birthday weekend away, somehow heightening her anxieties and insecurities about age, desire, and motherhood.

In this exquisite and sensitive new novel, David Park explores the complicated relationship between poet and spouse through three luminous characters: Catherine Blake, wife of William Blake, 19th-century poet, painter, and engraver; Nadezhda Mandelstam, whose husband, Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, died in a transit camp en route to Siberia during Stalin’s rule; and Lydia, the wife of a fictional contemporary Irish poet, who looks back on her husband’s life in the days just after his death.

In a future where humankind has spread across the solar system, twenty years of war have taken their toll on the United States of America as it steadily loses ground and stands on the brink of defeat. Jenna Plural, a genetically modified US Marine, has not aged a day since she turned 24. When Jenna learns of the United States' surrender, bringing an end to the war, she refuses to accept it. Jenna begins to rally the allied forces across the solar system to band together in a new guerrilla force to continue the fight…or die trying.

Once known as the great project, a united Earth began colonizing the red planet in international unity. Any country that could afford to settle on Mars did so. It became the largest melting pot of the solar system since the formation of the United States. Of course, it was not to last. When the Great War between the Pacific Alliance and the European Union began twenty years ago, the United Martian settlements had a dilemma as they made up nations from both sides. Cries for independence went unheeded, and slowly but surely, the peaceful world was dragged into the conflict.

Patriotic young Emma Dodgson struggled to make it into the United States Marines, but now she’s there, she’s going to make sure it counts. Convinced that the United States is on the road to victory in the Great War, Dodgson’s world is turned upside down when on her first mission, she learns the USA has surrendered to the enemy. From the ashes of defeat, a new leader rises. Jenna Plural is determined to unite the free forces from across the solar system. Hope is restored to Dodgson, and she devotes herself to Jenna’s cause.