Résultats pour "Jazz" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Gentleman cambrioleur, pro du corps à corps, mais surtout trompettiste surdoué, Jazz Maynard rentre, 10 ans après l'avoir quittée, dans son Espagne natale. Son envie : raccrocher les gants et s'éloigner de toutes ses occupations "moyennement légales"... Mais on ne quitte jamais vraiment "El Raval", surtout quand le parrain local est un ami d'enfance et qu'on a énervé un réseau mondial de prostitution avec son dernier coup d'éclat... Entrez dans ce polar audio à la Tarantino, entre narcotrafiquants, réseaux de prostitution, règlements de compte, mafieux crapuleux, vengeance et trahisons.

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life.

Im letzten Moment aktiviert Andy Tomlin das EVAC-Rettungssystem. Seinen verglühenden Jet vor Augen stürzt der Triebwerksmechaniker minutenlang durch die Atmosphäre des Planeten Amares. Mehr tot als lebendig landet er am Ende des Höllenritts in einer lebensfeindlichen Wüste. Ein gründlich fehlgeschlagener Testflug. Doch das Abenteuer hat gerade erst begonnen. Auf der Suche nach Wasser trifft Andy die amarianische Ureinwohnerin Ajuna Awa, die ihn zu einer menschlichen Siedlung führt. Noch am gleichen Tag werden die beiden in eine mörderische Auseinandersetzung verwickelt.

New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer - The Axeman - stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him. As Michael, Luca and Ida each draw closer to discovering the killer's identity, the Axeman himself will issue a challenge to the people of New Orleans: play jazz or risk becoming the next victim. And as the case builds to its crescendo, the sky will darken and a great storm will loom over the city.

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession based on the hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author. “As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the...

Brought to you by Penguin. A dark and witty work of hardboiled detective fiction set in the mean streets of New York, Chester Himes's A Rage in Harlem includes an introduction by Luc Sante in Penguin Modern Classics. Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for...

Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boomtown at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect, a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire. Klein's been hung out as bait, 'a bad cop to draw the heat', and the heat's coming from all sides.

After losing his job and his girlfriend, jazz fiddle player Alexander Roth faces a crossroads that will change everything. With Sue chasing her Hollywood dreams, Alexander decides to sell his belongings and hit the road to find her. But his journey quickly turns into a desperate scramble for survival when he finds himself stranded and hungry on the side of a lonely highway in California. As he thumbs for a ride, Alexander's world spins into a whirlwind of unexpected encounters, each person he meets holds a piece of the mystery that is his own life. From a quirky hitchhiker with a secret to a ...

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently — from the bestselling author of Golden Hill. In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper...

Bevor der Dichter Wolfgang Borchert 1947 starb, schrieb er als chronisch kranker Kriegsheimkehrer: "Jetzt ist unser Gesang der Jazz. Der erregte hektische Jazz ist unsere Musik... Denn unser Herz und unser Hirn haben denselben heißkalten Rhythmus: den erregten, verrückten und hektischen, den hemmungslosen... Und so sind die Nächte, die mädchenklirrenden Nächte: wie Jazz: heiß und hektisch. Erregt... Wer schreibt für uns eine neue Harmonielehre? Wir brauchen keine wohltemperierten Klaviere mehr.

This book is a compilation of three zines of poetry and prose, first self-published between 2001 and 2003 —Bebop Coffee Shop, The Fabulous Adventures of Yours Truly, & Spoken Jazz & the tingg * Machine. The idea is for it to stand alone as its own work while complementing the episodic audio musical of the same name, in which this book was written. The zines were created with an early fifties portable typewriter called the Remington tingg * Machine, original black & white photography, crude sketches, glue sticks, scissors, and innumerable hours at Kinko's.

Cuando Violet y Joe Trace, un matrimonio entrado en años, llegan a Nueva York huyendo de la intolerancia de su Virginia natal, creen que podrán vivir en libertad sin importar el color de su piel. Pero el Harlem de los años '20, foco de un vibrante renacimiento cultural, les depara apuros inesperados. Joe acabará cometiendo un horrendo crimen pasional, mientras que Violet se verá obligada a convivir con sus celos y las repercusiones del acto de su marido.

It's 1924, and Peter and Patricia have what looks to be a very modern marriage. Both drink. Both smoke. Both work, Patricia as a head copywriter at a major department store. When it comes to sex with other people, both believe in "the honesty policy." Until they don't. Or, at least, until Peter doesn't—and a shell-shocked, lovesick Patricia finds herself starting out all over again, but this time around as a different kind of single woman: the ex-wife.

David Jones always knew his family had secrets. He just never expected one of them to be a prison sentence for all of humanity. When he finds his grandfather’s WWII journal, he expects war stories —not a warning to “leave the planet as soon as you can.” The pages reveal an impossible truth: Earth isn’t a homeworld. It’s a half-million-year-old detention colony, monitored by fallen Elven guardians and a justice system that never stopped watching. And David’s bloodline sits right in the center of it.

Romel grew up in the shadow of a man who built his empire on fear, blood, and control. The streets made him ruthless, and family taught him not to trust too easily. But when Jermany stepped into his life, she didn't just test his heart, she became the one thing he couldn't control. Jermany...

In the greatest novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, listeners can be transported back to that world to experience both the highs and lows of the time. These novels incorporated Fitzgerald’s own life experiences to give listeners a firsthand view of what life truly was like for his generation.

1924. May Marshall is determined to spend the dog days of summer in self-imposed exile at her father’s farm in Keswick, Virginia. Following a naive dalliance that led to heartbreak and her expulsion from Mary Baldwin College, May returns home with a shameful secret only to find her father’s orchard is now the site of a lucrative moonshining enterprise. Despite warnings from the one man she trusts - her childhood friend Byrd - she joins her father’s illegal business. When authorities close in and her father, Henry, is arrested, May goes on the run.

Have you ever wondered why the relentless pursuit of the American Dream can lead to the destruction of the soul? Jay Gatsby has everything—wealth, power, and a name surrounded by mystery. Yet he lacks the one thing he wants most: the love of Daisy Buchanan, a woman who represents a past he cannot release. Set amid the glittering chaos of the Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece of ambition, obsession, class, and disillusionment.

Jazz band na sala da gente é a história romanceada do avô judeu de Alexandre, Eduardinho Staut, que nos anos 30 e 40, foi músico da pequena orquestra do interior de São Paulo "Pinhal Jazz", assim como dono da funerária da cidade de Pinhal. Texto de orelha de Ronaldo Cagiano: "A obra de estreia de Alexandre Staut, tem uma linearidade, tanto da temática da narrativa quanto da linguagem, essa fluente e diáfana.

Romel lives by the code of the streets: no love, no weakness, just survival. But Jermany changes the game. She's the one thing he never saw coming, the one thing that makes him want more. The problem is, his world doesn't let go easily. Every time he reaches for her, the streets pull him back...