Résultats pour "Invisible" dans Littérature et fiction

Globetrotting outlaw Dracula finds a powerful ally in an Egyptian crypt - Frankenstein’s monster himself. Can these fiends thwart the werewolf regime and take back the night?

For Ellen Homes, not only does she wish it - she actually lives it. She spends her days quietly observing but unobserved, watching and recording in her notebooks the lives of her neighbors, coworkers, and total strangers. Overweight, socially stunted, and utterly alone, one night Ellen saves a blind young woman from being mugged. Then everything changes.

Palahniuk’s fashion-model protagonist has it all - boyfriend, career, loyal best friend - until an accident destroys her face, her ability to speak, and her self-esteem. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a bona fide woman.

A sharp allegorical novel about a hidden human civilization, a crucial election, and a mysterious invisible force that must not be named, by one of our most imaginative comic novelists LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post When...

A mysterious stranger arrives in a small Sussex village, covered up from head to toes with a coat, gloves, bandages, goggles and hat. The stranger demands to be left alone, spending most of his time in his room working with chemicals and laboratory apparatus. He quickly becomes the talk of the village as he unnerves the locals. Eventually, though, after a burglary (in which the thief was unseen) the stranger's secret comes out.

She’s a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better. And that salvation hides in the last places you’ll ever want to look.

Con la mezcla de cotidianeidad y surrealismo que le ha convertido en un referente del humor contemporáneo en España, Guillermo Fesser hace en esta novela una versión 2.0 de La tesis de Nancy, la cara B de su best-seller A cien millas de Manhattan. Su protagonista, Ingelmo, es un autor en crisis, incapaz de enfrentarse al reto de escribir su segunda novela tras el moderado éxito de la primera. A su crisis creativa se le suma un tsunami vital y matrimonial que el personaje va desgranando en primera persona.

A mom in her early fifties, Clover knows she no longer turns heads the way she used to, and she’s only really missed when dinner isn’t on the table on time. Then Clover wakes up one morning to discover she’s invisible—truly invisible. She panics, but when her husband and son sit down to...

Un alto ejecutivo se queda en paro y decide rehacer su vida al margen de todo lo que le rodea, contando con su imaginación como única aliada. A partir de ahí, y desde el mayor de los sarcasmos, vivirá como una aventura fantástica cualquier hecho cotidiano. El protagonista crea un mundo propio, unas veces siendo él mismo, otras haciéndose pasar por otro. Otro que actúa con la insolencia y el respaldo de la locura más cuerda.

Don't look now, but a mad scientist has discovered the secret of (temporary) invisibility. He's not planning to sneak into the movies, either. He's mad, remember? He wants...revenge! It doesn't take a genius to see right through the faded fiend's transparent scheme: a festival of murder, destruction, and cheap practical jokes. But only one man can clean those unsightly stains on the fabric of society.... Kent Montana. He's the descendant of Scottish nobility, or so he claims.