« D'abord, je vais vous raconter le hold-up que nos parents ont commis. Ensuite les meurtres, qui se sont produits plus tard. »Great Falls, Montana, 1960. Dell Parsons a 15 ans lorsque ses parents braquent une banque, avec le fol espoir de rembourser un créancier menaçant. Le hold-up échoue, les par...
traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Josée Kamoun. En deux textes qui se répondent, Richard Ford retrace la vie de ses parents : celle de son père, représentant de commerce sur les routes une bonne partie du temps jusqu'à sa mort prématurée ; et celle de sa mère, qui, après une enfance sans histoi...
Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Josée Kamoun« Il est matériellement quasi impossible d'avoir plus de cinq vrais amis. C'est bien pourquoi j'ai limité mon temps-pour-autrui à du temps avec Sally, mes deux enfants (qui habitent des villes lointaines, Dieu merci) et mon ex-femme Ann, qui a élu do...
« Vous allez attendre avec impatience ce que Richard Ford va inventer ensuite. » SFXHavrefer était jadis un symbole de puissance, maintenant une paix fragile dans les États Libres. Mais le roi est parti en guerre et la ville pourrit de l´intérieur. Les pavés des rues se couvrent de sang. De sombres ...
« Violent, vicieux et teinté d'humour noir. La reine de Havrefer est devenue plus forte. Armée de l'épée de son père, elle s'apprête à défendre la cité contre le redoutable chef de guerre Amon Tugha, dont l'armée gigantesque campe aux portes de la cité. Une implacable bataille se prépare, ... ...
« Excitant et différent. » The British Fantasy Society À Havrefer, il est temps que les héros entrent en scène... Le roi Cael est mort et sa fille Janessa, seule et sans expérience, porte désormais la couronne de fer. Or la menace se profile : menée par le seigneur de guerre Amon Tugha, une formidab...
Featuring Frank Bascombe, this is the third novel following the bestselling "The Sportswriter" and "Independence Day". Here, Frank, fifty-five, settled in his realty business in Sea-Clift, New Jersey, has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. ...
Montana, 1960. Dell Parsons a 15 ans lorsque ses parents braquent une banque. Le hold-up échoue, son père et sa mère sont arrêtés. Pour ne pas finir dans un orphelinat, il traverse la frontière et trouve refuge dans un village du Saskatchewan, au Canada. Au coeur d'une nature sauvage, dans une commu...
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. "One of the country's best writers. . . . No one looks harder at contemporary American life, sees more, or expresses it with such hushed, deliberate care." --San Fr...
One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores, in this masterful collection of short stories, the grand theme of intimacy, love, and their failures.With remarkable insight and candor, Richard Ford examines liaisons in and out and to the sides of marriage. An illi...
Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and especially of his recent losses - his preferred career has ended, his wife has divorced him, and a tragic a...
The landscape of Women with Men ranges from the northern plains of Montana to the streets of Paris and the suburbs of Chicago. The tragedies that stalk the characters are unfolded with an indelible wit and clarity. So merciless is Ford's lingering gaze upon human, mostly male, weakness, so understan...
In each of these tales master storyteller Richard Ford is drawn to the themes of intimacy, love, and their failures. An illicit visit to the Grand Canyon reveals a vastness even more profound; an exacting career woman celebrates Christmas with her adamantly post-nuclear family; a couple weekending i...
Une mine d'or surgie de nulle part, une prison au petit matin, un chalet isolé au milieu de la forêt, un train qui fonce dans la nuit, un vol d'oies blanches au-dessus d'un lac : telles sont les images qui hantent la mémoire du narrateur de ces nouvelles, denses et précises comme des haïkus et toute...
Featuring Frank Bascombe, this is the third novel following the bestselling "The Sportswriter" and "Independence Day". Here, Frank, fifty-five, settled in his realty business in Sea-Clift, New Jersey, has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. ...
In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from jail and furthermore get him away from the suavely sadistic drug dealer who su...
Robard Hewes has driven across the country in search of a woman named Buena who, twelve years ago, infused him with a feeling that has now turned into obsession. Sam Newel has travelled from Chicago seeking the missing piece of himself. They both find themselves on an uncharted hunting island in the...
The setting is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies end and where, in 1960, the promise of good times seems as limitless as the sweep of the prairies beyond. This is where the Brinson family hopes to find a better life. Instead, sixteen-year-old Joe Brinson watches his parents discover the limits...
This trilogy of brilliant novels - The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land - that charts the life and times of one of the most beloved and enduring characters in modern fiction. When we meet Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter, his unguarded voice instantly wins us over and ...
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding of the heart, and the not-too-distant losses of a ca...
In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who s...
Ford's mesmerizing first novel is the story of two godless pilgrims. Robard Hewes has driven across the country in the service of a destructive passion. Sam Newell is seeking the missing piece of himself. When these men converge, on an uncharted island in ...
Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived - seemingly but not utterly - amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which lef...
Cette édition exclusive numérique contient les ouvrages suivants : Le Héraut de la tempête - Havrefer, tome 1 (2015) La Couronne brisée - Havrefer, tome 2 (2015) Le Seigneur des cendres - Havrefer, tome 3 (2016) « Les personnages sont tellement bons qu'ils volent la vedette à l'intrigue. » I...