Maribel de Juan Guyatt Ordre des livres (chronologique)

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story. "Remarkable.... A revelation of the human heart." —The Washington Post Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody's Fool, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous. Nobody’s Fool was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith. Look for Everybody’s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.

En 1955, Leonard Marnham, jeune technicien anglais, arrive dans le Berlin d'après-guerre pour participer à l'opération Gold, une vaste entreprise de services secrets anglo-américains visant à mettre sur écoutes les lignes téléphoniques des Soviétiques. Il rencontre une jeune Allemande, Maria, qui l'initie aux mystères de l'amour. Mais à mesure que Leonard s'enfonce dans la guerre froide, cet amour vibrant et sincère le plonge dans les bas-fonds de l'horreur absolue. Comment une passion, si forte soit-elle, peut-elle rester pure dans un monde d'apparences, de trahisons et de menaces ? Un grand roman d'espionnage qui bascule dans le cauchemar.

De toutes les qualités qui ont justifié le succès de la Trilogie new-yorkaise, l'art de la narration est sans doute la plus déterminante. C'est qu'il suffit de s'embarquer dans la première phrase d'un de ces trois romans pour être emporté dans les péripéties de l'action et étourdi jusqu'au vertige par les tribulations des personnages. Très vite pourtant, le thriller prend une allure de quête métaphysique et la ville, illimitée, insaisissable, devient un gigantesque échiquier où Auster dispose ses pions pour mieux nous parler de dépossession.

Voyage à travers l'Amérique insolite, voyage en soi-meme, tel est le double thème de ce roman beaucoup moins "noir" que le précédent. Aventures et personnages hors du commun illustrent la quête du héros à travers solitude et désespoir, mais visité par l'amour et l'amitié.

‘This is what I have done and this is what has been done to me…’ Thus begins the extraordinary, candid story of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899, who presents himself as one of the great self-appointed geniuses of the twentieth century. His life is marked by an astonishingly rich and diverse career, filled with remarkable successes and dramatic failures. Narrated in his own words from the perspective of not-so-serene old age and self-imposed exile, Todd reveals the secrets of his fraught and intriguing existence. Starting with his bizarre boyhood and schooldays in Scotland, we follow his incredible experiences during the First World War, his time in 1920s Berlin, and his journey through Mexico in 1939. The narrative continues through the Allied invasion of St. Tropez and the McCarthy era in Los Angeles. Todd is portrayed as charming yet exasperating, shrewd yet foolish, vain yet disarmingly straightforward. While we may question some of his accounts, he ultimately concludes, ‘I have done all that being-human business, all right.’ As we delve into Todd's astonishing life, we trace one individual's erratic path through the chaos of the century, discovering curious facts about Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the art of making the perfect dry martini along the way.