Il volume e una raccolta di racconti che, come i capitoli di un romanzo, compongono un''unica, grande storia: quella della conquista di una maturita che per il giovane Isaac McCaslin si compie quando uccide la prima preda, o forse nell''istante in cui la preda lo riconosce abbastanza uomo e accetta di farsi uccidere da lui. Perche la foresta di Faulkner e luogo fisico e proiezione metafisica, e l''uomo, attraverso il rituale della caccia, vi giunge a comprendere se stesso e la propria identita in rapporto agli altri e soprattutto rispetto alla natura. Una natura selvaggia e nobile, potente e senza tempo, il cui simbolo e il grande orso zoppo, Old Ben, inseguito e braccato da cani e cacciatori anno dopo anno.
La bella Edith, ragazza di buona famiglia della ricca borghesia di Budapest, tranquillamente e forse un po' noiosamente fidanzata, viene importunata dal giovane tramviere Pal Jancso mentre ritorna a casa. Un fatto all'apparenza insignificante, eppure e la scintilla che sconvolge la vita dei due giovani. Edith, nauseata e insieme attratta morbosamente dalla carnalita degli apprezzamenti, riconsiderera in un solo istante le fragili sicurezze della sua breve vita ovattata; Pal, alle prese con i problemi di un'esistenza sempre ai limiti dell'indigenza, si trovera improvvisamente disoccupato a causa dello scandalo seguente alla denuncia del padre della ragazza.
Amanda, bella e giovane chiaroveggente dagli insoliti costumi morali (e materiali) e circondata da amici altrettanto bizzarri. Ben presto la troviamo sposata a John Paul Ziller, artista e mago le cui origini si perdono in qualche modo nella giungla e il cui autentico interesse nella vita e la luce. Salma e poi la vera protagonista: parliamo proprio della Salma di Gesu Cristo. Il suo ritrovamento apre interrogativi sul secondo Avvento e mette a repentaglio il futuro della civilta occidentale. Alle prese con questo mistero e anche Marx Marvellous, lo scienziato dal quale fa capolino lo stesso Robbins. Tutto si svolge in uno strano locale in cui gli automobilisti di passaggio possono ammirare gli ospiti del piccolo zoo.
Would you risk everything for love? Bestselling children''s book writer Angelica is amused and flattered at the attention of Jack, the owner of a vineyard in South Africa, whom she meets at a dinner party. With his easy charm and reputation as a ladies'' man, Jack makes her feel good about herself -- surely it can''t do any harm to indulge in a mild email flirtation? After all, she wouldn''t risk her stable marriage and the happiness of her children. But things don''t stop there, and when Angelica is sent to Cape Town for a book tour, the affair begins in earnest. On their last day together, Jack confesses that he has an incurable disease: being with Angelica has enabled him to forget his mortality. Shocked and heartbroken, she returns to London determined to save her marriage and put to good use all the emotional lessons she learnt during their brief time together.
When a Georgia senator's daughter is found dead and drained of blood, Eve enters the world of a twisted psychopath—a man whose name appears on Eve's shortlist of killers connected to her own missing daughter, Bonnie. Then Eve receives a terrifying trophy—and the games have begun. Soon she must enlist the help of those she loves and trusts the most—Joe Quinn and Jane MacGuire—even if it means putting them in the path of someone whose thirst for blood is only growing stronger. Eve believes this psychotic mind holds the answers to the questions that have tormented her for years. But like a spider hunting its prey, he is waiting for the perfect moment to strike—when Eve least expects it. And when she has the most to lose…
Kate Atkinson's three latest bestsellers, Case Histories, One Good Turn and When WIll There Be Good News?, also featured the former private detective Jackson Brodie. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year for her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and has been a critically acclaimed international bestselling author ever since. When Will There Be Good News? was no.1 on the Sunday Times bestsellers list for three consecutive weeks in paperback and is the bestselling paperback novel of 2009 Behind the Scenes at the Museum won the Whitbread Book of the Year.
In 1943 Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the Atlantic coast. They move into a house built for a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann and his wife but abandoned when their son drowned in a tragic accident. A haunting story about the mysterious and menacing Dr. Cain, who grants wishes and steals souls.
Seven-year-old Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf In any other era, he would be considered a boy In 2007, he is considered willful and deranged His home life is problematic His parents are divorced; his father, immature and romantic, lives in the city His mother has taken up with a younger man who steals quarters from the change bowl in the foyer...
John Harvey has been described as the master of British crime and in A Darker Shade of Blue he has collected together some of his very best writing. In 2007 John Harvey was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger. John Harvey is a Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback. John Harvey has sold over 1 million copies of his books to date. We are publishing a collector´s edition in Heinemann simultaneously with the paperback.
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