Showing results for "Harold" in Literary Fiction

Da Harold Fry, pensionist og gift med Maureen, modtager et brev fra en tidligere og nu døende kollega Queenie, ved han ikke, at han har taget hul på sit livs rejse: En 800 km lang vandring til fods fra Devon i Sydengland til det sydlige til Berwick-upon-Tweed i nord. Hans fravær får Maureen til at tænke over deres samliv, glæder og sorger, og gamle følelser vækkes til live igen. På sin vej op gennem England har Harold også tid til at reflektere over sit liv med Maureen. Harold deler sin historie om brevet til Queenie med de mennesker, han møder undervejs.

What happens when a thirty-something, newly divorced man discovers courage and adventure, thanks to a karaoke contest? In Adventures of the Karaoke King, Harold Taw introduces us to Guy Watanabe, a man marginally aware of his Asian background and decidedly unaware of how poorly he has planned for his future. In this riotous, often thoughtful, and always entertaining novel, readers are taken on a memorable journey that crosses America, Asia, and back, with the last leg spent in a shipping container.

After losing her husband, Harold, and her beloved grandson, Cody, within the past year, Louisa has two choices. She can fade away on her Indiana family farm, where her companionship comes courtesy of her aging chickens and an argumentative cat. Or, she can concoct a plan. Louisa, a retired schoolteacher who's as smart, sassy, and irreverent as ever, isn't the fading away type.

À cette heure précise où les buses s'installent autour de la piscine, les parachutistes français, dans leurs transats de résine, se donnent des airs de Rambo, des coopérants québécois rivalisent de rires bruyants avec des coopérants belges.