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After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killed—or killing someone else—or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer.

Com os passos guiados por uma paixão narcótica, um homem entra na casa de uma mulher que diz ler o futuro. Uma carteira na calçada guarda segredos que podem destruir uma grande amizade. Um jovem conversa e se fascina por uma mulher, madrugada adentro, até a hora da missa. Um rato incinerado revela cantos profundos da alma de um homem. Uma balsa em direção a Niterói separa a vida e a morte.

Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband - and Russian high society - would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Anna and Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman Konstantine Levin unfolds. In doubt about the meaning of life - a mirror of Tolstoy’s own spiritual crisis - Konstantine is haunted by thoughts of suicide.