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Ira Levin

    27 août 1929 – 12 novembre 2007

    Ira Levin fut un maître du suspense et de l'horreur, dont les œuvres étaient réputées pour leur construction méticuleuse et leur atmosphère troublante. Souvent comparé à un 'horloger suisse', Levin tissait habilement des éléments de suspense, de terreur psychologique et de commentaire social dans des récits qui résonnaient avec les angoisses contemporaines. Sa capacité à exploiter les aspects les plus sombres de la nature humaine et de la société lui a valu la reconnaissance de la critique et un lectorat fidèle. Les histoires de Levin explorent fréquemment les limites de la moralité et la nature insidieuse du mal dans des contextes apparemment ordinaires.

    Ira Levin
    A Kiss Before Dying
    Veronica's Room
    Un bébé pour Rosemary
    Les femmes de Stepford
    Ces garçons qui venaient du Brésil. L'Esprit de famille. Dans le sillage des cygnes. Les écoliers du bout du monde
    Sliver
    • Sliver

      • 213pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      214pages. poche. Broché.

      Sliver
      3,3
    • Veronica's Room

      • 56pages
      • 2 heures de lecture

      This chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary's Baby explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder. Students Susan and Larry find themselves as guests enticed to the Brabissant mansion by it's dissolute caretakers the lonely Mackeys. Struck by Susan's strong resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, long- dead daughter of the family for whom they work, the older couple gradually induce her to impersonate Veronica briefly to solace the only living Brabissant, her addled sister who believes Veronica alive. Once dressed in Veronica's clothes, Susan finds herself locked in the role and locked in Veronica's room. Or is she Veronica, in 1935, pretending to be an imaginary Susan?

      Veronica's Room
      4,0
    • A Kiss Before Dying

      • 96pages
      • 4 heures de lecture

      KISS BEFORE DYING (HEINEMANN ELT GUIDED READERS) (map)

      A Kiss Before Dying
      4,1
    • The Boys from Brazil (Level 4 Reader)

      • 64pages
      • 3 heures de lecture

      It is 1974, but for Dr Mengele and his group of Nazis, World War II is not yet over. They have a terrible plan to conquer the world, but how does it involve a group of boys that come from different countries, yet all look exactly the same? Only one man can find out.

      The Boys from Brazil (Level 4 Reader)
      4,0
    • Rosemary's Baby

      • 248pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unaware that the elderly neighbors and their bizarre group of friends have taken a disturbing interest in them. But by the time Rosemary discovers the horrifying truth, it may be far too late!

      Rosemary's Baby
      4,1
    • Thriller New Revised Edition 2 male, 2 female Interior Set This chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary's Baby explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder. Students Susan and Larry find themselves as guests enticed to the Brabissant mansion by it's dissolute caretakers the lonely Mackeys. Struck by Susan's strong resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, long- dead daughter of the family for whom they work, the o

      Veronica's room : a thriller in two acts
      4,0
    • BlackBirds: The Boys from Brazil

      • 255pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project—the creation of the Fourth Reich. Barry Kohler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the project and informs famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman, but before he can relay the evidence, Kohler is killed. Thus Ira Levin opens one of the strangest and most masterful novels of his career. Why has Mengele marked a number of harmless aging men for murder? What is the hidden link that binds them? What interest can they possibly hold for their killers: six former SS men dispatched from South America by the most wanted Nazi still alive, the notorious "Angel of Death"? One man alone must answer these questions and stop the killings—Lieberman, himself aging and thought by some to be losing his grip on reality. At the heart of The Boys from Brazil lies a frightening contemporary nightmare, chilling and all too possible.

      BlackBirds: The Boys from Brazil
      3,7