Showing results for "Chris" in Contemporary Fiction

Ein Film über Sex. Rauh. Tabulos. In New York. Das ist die Aufgabe, die Jonas gestellt bekommt. Aber wie soll der überforderte Regiestudent ausgerechnet in der düstersten Ecke der Lower East Side und umgeben von gestrandeten Künstlerexistenzen einen Film drehen? Als er auf Nele trifft, eine eigensinnige, verrückte Sommerfrau, öffnet sich sein Blick für das wahre Ziel seiner Reise: eine Begegnung mit der eigenen ungeheuerlichen Familiengeschichte.

Ein denkwürdiger Moment auf seinem Rasentraktor macht Tillmann klar, dass er in einer ausgewachsenen Midlife-Crisis steckt. Ja, er hat eine fantastische Frau und großartige Kinder, aber wann genau sind seine ambitionierten Jugendträume bloß zu diesem Spießerleben mit Fertighaus und Gartenteich mutiert? Tillmann beschließt, sein altes Draufgänger-Ich aus dem sozialen Tiefschlaf zu holen und noch mal so richtig die Sau rauszulassen.

Jesko ist ein Freak, ein junger Modedesigner, der gerne Röcke trägt. Gesellschaftlichen Normen und Zwängen beugt er sich nicht - schließlich hat er Leukämie und nicht mehr lange zu leben. Unter einem Vorwand wird Jesko in die großbürgerliche Villa seiner Familie gelockt. Seine Mutter käme als Knochenmarkspenderin in Betracht. Doch Jesko verweigert sich ihrer Hilfe. Denn einst hat diese Frau ihm und seinem Bruder Furchtbares angetan.

This is an Irish novel set in Los Angeles and read by the author, the actor Chris Sullivan. It tells the story of Alfredo Hunter, a depressive Jewish/Irish playwright who is in Hollywood to make a killing in the film business. It also tells the story of the unknown narrator, who observes Alfredo's various fluctuations of mood and humor. Humor is to the fore in this novel of a building friendship between two Dubliners as they encounter the New World, with its new language and confusing mores.

Chris, en eksperimenterende filminstruktør på næsten 40, forelsker sig øjeblikkeligt og uopretteligt i sin 56-årige akademikermands yngre kollega Dick. Chris indvier manden Sylvère i sin voldsomme betagelse, og idéen om en slags kunstprojekt med Dick i centrum opstår. Fra hver sin position går parret sammen i gang med at skrive kærlighedsbreve til objektet Dick. Chris er i sin erotiske besættelse kreativt forløst som aldrig før, men pludselig befinder hun sig i spidsen af et altopslugende trekantsdrama.

In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married, failed independent filmmaker, turning forty, falls in love with a well-known theorist and endeavors to seduce him with the help of her husband.

Ventro Corporation watches over every second of every individual's life. Resistant, a group of revolutionaries, is organizing a rebellion right under Ventro's nose. Meanwhile, the 13-year-old narrator and his father have come into possession of a secret file that could help the rebels spell Ventro's end. Can he deliver the information to the rebels, despite Ventro tracking his every move?

Jules Verne was born in 1828 in France. His dream was to write a new kind of novel, which combined scientific fact with fiction. Verne eventually wrote 40 novels in his Voyages extraordinaires series. "What one man can imagine, another will someday be able to achieve." Is a quote from an article in the Encyclopedia Britannica that sums up Verne so well. In All Around the Moon three space travelers are conversing about science and mathematics. They decide to alter the course of their projectile, which leads to unanticipated results.

Der Geschmack von rotem Curry... Bis heute weiß die 39-jährige Priyanka nicht, weshalb ihre Mutter Asha als junge Frau aus Indien nach Berlin fliehen musste. Fast hat sie sich damit abgefunden, dass ihr Ashas Vergangenheit für immer verschlossen bleibt, bis sie von ihrem Mann eine Reise nach Delhi geschenkt bekommt. Priyanka reist allein, nur der kleinen Elefantengott, das einzige Andenken ihrer Mutter an die Heimat, begleitet sie.

The complete set of five novellas from Nick Earls. Gotham tells of the encounter between music journalist Jeff Foster and 'boy pharaoh' Na$ti Boi. Venice is about love and the tensions that pull us apart. Vancouver is the story Paul would tell if he were living in plague times - a story that comforts, a story that wards off evil. Juneau captures an acutely observed moment in which we see the universe. NoHo is about living in the shadows of the famous.

Linda Smith lives in her East London home, where her daily routine involves dozing through Thought for the Day, filing and cross-referencing the pizza leaflets that come through her door, and updating her limited edition 'Songbirds of Great Britain' porcelain collection. That is, when she's not managing the chaos caused by her flamboyant, sugar-loving live-in builder Chris; dealing with the demands of her morbid, crumbly boned Welsh neighbour Betty; or taking regular jaunts chauffeured by Worra, the philosophical Nigerian cabby.

It is 1979, and a man is recalling the events of his 12th summer, when he bought bullets for his gun instead of a hamburger. Through the eyes, ears, and voice of Brautigan's youthful protagonist, the listener is gently led into a small-town tale where the narrator accidentally shoots and kills his best friend. The novel deals with the repercussions of this tragedy and its recurring theme of "what if", which fuels anguish, regret, and self-blame, as well as some darkly comic passages of bittersweet romance and despair.

It was in the early days in Fiji, when John Starhurst arose in the mission house at Rewa Village and announced his intention of carrying the gospel throughout all Viti Levu. Now Viti Levu means the "Great Land," it being the largest island in a group composed of many large islands, to say nothing of hundreds of small ones. Here and there on the coasts, living by most precarious tenure, was a sprinkling of missionaries, traders, beche-de-mer fishers, and whaleship deserters.

Puzwuk the orphan boy tries to save his village from famine, one fish at a time.

The treefolk have always been an enigma to Elodi and her father - that is, until they have a rare chance to save a fallen fairy. Not far away, Germain is coming to terms with having lost his love, Celeste, to the Undereaves.