My Baby Blue Jays
- 30pages
- 2 heures de lecture
Author John Berendt chronicles the lives of baby blue jays after he notices a nest outside his office window and follows their lives from eggs to hatchlings to full grown birds.
John Berendt Ordre des livres (chronologique)
5 décembre 1939
John Berendt est célébré pour sa narration immersive, qui plonge les lecteurs dans des décors aux réalisations saisissantes avec un œil avisé pour l'inhabituel et l'intrigant. Son œuvre mêle avec maestria l'observation factuelle à la sensibilité d'un romancier, explorant les vies cachées et les excentricités qui se dissimulent sous la surface des lieux du quotidien. Berendt crée des récits captivants et stimulants, invitant les lecteurs à découvrir l'extraordinaire dans l'ordinaire. Sa voix distinctive rend le banal magique et le singulier profondément humain.
City of Falling Angels
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
A mystery, a comedy, and a riveting human drama rolled into one, from the bestselling author of MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL
Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a 'walking streak of sex'. These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed - and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired - in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is as bracing and intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.