Showing results for "Colette" in Literary Fiction

These glimpses "on tour" of the behind-the-curtain lives of members of the theatrical community are told with a deft hand. Selections include: "The Halt", "A Bad Morning", "The Circus House", "The Workroom", "Matinee", "The Starveling", "Love", "The Hard Worker", "After Midnight", "Lola", "Moments of Stress", "Journey's End", "The Accompanist", "The Cashier", "Nostalgia", "Clever Dogs", "La Fenice" and "The Master".

Olivia had everything - a loving husband, a thoughtful and intelligent son and a beautiful home in the Somerset countryside. But all that changed. Now penniless and homeless, Geoffrey is living with his recently widowed mother while Olivia works as a housemistress at her son's boarding school. With their marriage under intolerable strain, Geoffrey makes a mistake - one that has devastating consequences for the guilty and innocent alike.

Dans Sido, publié pour la première fois en 1930, Colette évoque le souvenir de sa mère tant aimée, puis son père, l’amour qui unissait ses parents et raconte son enfance heureuse au sein d’une campagne bourguignonne idyllique. Cette éducation harmonieuse a profondément marqué sa manière de vivre. Sous le personnage de l’écrivaine parisienne affleure la jeune fille qui apprit à vivre au rythme des saisons et à goûter la sensualité de la vie.

C'est presque sans hésiter que l'on peut transposer dans cette lecture l'expérience des milieux du théâtre comme du Music Hall de Colette. Toby-Chien passerait pour un de ces personnages qui hantent les coulisses toujours en quête d'une émotion, d'un regard, et Kiki-la-Doucette, en vedette incontestée, fait souffrir de son mieux son admirateur le plus fervent, quitte à le perdre...

Kathy is a sixteen-year-old girl in the 1950s, who has been sexually abused by her uncle and eventually becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby boy. To avoid the disgrace of an illegitimate child, the family claimed the baby was stillborn, although Kathy is convinced that he was born alive.

Neuf parfaits étrangers en quête de sérénité. Une station thermale de rêve. Dix jours de cure pour tout changer... Neuf citadins stressés, prêts pour un break dans une sublime station thermale. Le Tranquillum House leur propose, grâce à une approche révolutionnaire, de renouer avec l'énergie positive pour prendre un nouveau départ. Coupés du monde extérieur, délestés de leurs portables, tous s'attendent avec impatience à une transformation totale.

Philomena Webster, a quiet woman in her late forties, is seen as a dry old hag by most people in her village. She forms a friendship with a father and his son in the same village, but otherwise keeps to herself. Yet, there is much more to Philomena than meets the eye. She has had love affairs, is knowledgeable about music and literature and has written a series of best-selling novels under a pen-name, which gives her financial independence.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A searing debut about the transcendent power of love in wartime, hailed as “an absolute masterpiece” (Sarah Jessica Parker, Entertainment Weekly)—from the renowned author of Mercury Pictures Presents ...

This is the story of Ben the useless Border Collie! Well, that's what his first owner Gwyn Thomas thought. The sheep farmer had suffered a mental breakdown at the time. He had lost his wife in a terrible accident, causing him to almost lose his mind! His daughter Belle had also been involved in the tragedy, having her arm so badly injured it had to be removed.

Joe Summers is quite a mixed-up young boy. Born during the Second World War, the boy knows all about going without many things. Joe's father, Mark, who he once adored, has an accident that leaves him badly injured and much changed and becomes a no-good drunkard. Unfortunately, Joe also gets mixed up with an older boy who comes from a bad family.