Showing results for "Achilles" in Literature & Fiction

When Milan Patel visits his parents at their family-run motel in Montana, he's expecting the usual drama. But shortly after he arrives, his father mysteriously dies in the motel pool. Now everyone's a suspect. What was meant to be a quick trip becomes Milan's worst nightmare, as he races to solve his father's murder while confronting the past he tried to leave behind.

Hit Job follows Brynn Morris (Palmer), an aspiring artist desperate for a job to help her ailing grandmother.

Beth Briny (Gillian Jacobs), a grouchy restaurant courier working the Christmas Eve shift, is forced to learn the true "reason for the season" when she and Andy Pepper (Sam Richardson), a holiday-loving stranger, stumble upon a Christmas Carol-esque adventure - delivering to people from Beth’s past, present, and future.

Mörderischer Triathlon in Berlin - Wie jedes Jahr führt Peer Pedes seine Mutter ins Olympiastadion aus. Als Mama eine La-Ola-Welle ins Rollen bringt, ertönt plötzlich ein Schuss – in der Ehrentribüne fällt ein Mann reglos zu Boden. Geführt von seinem Rivalen Koslowski lautet das Ergebnis der ersten Ermittlungen: Tod durch Scharfschützen.

Registrazione live del recital d'autore che ha avuto luogo il 24 febbraio 2014 nel salotto letterario di Raffaella Battaglini a Roma, dove Piera Degli Esposti, con la sua carica di ironia e simpatia, ha letto alcuni dei più esilaranti racconti di Campanile. In bilico tra tragedia e leggerezza, farsa e filosofia, i racconti, a volte assolutamente surreali, manifestano sempre un'intelligenza luminosa e una caustica comicità.