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"The Emperor of Gladness is a poetic, dramatic and vivid story. Epic in its sweep, the novel also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality.

Trois femmes, trois vies brisées, se retrouvent par hasard dans une maison isolée au cœur de l’Islande, loin de tout ce qu’elles ont connu.

Lark Summerville’s life has few surprises—and that’s just how she likes it.

Dans un château encerclé de neige, une famille excentrique reste prisonnière jusqu'au printemps, en compagnie d’un invité surprise.

Théâtre, paru en 1966. Henry-James et Felicity Chesterfield sont présentés à leur futur gendre, Hubert. Cette situation fait ressortir tous les travers familiaux.

Leroy Dearman is twelve, and he lives on a llama farm in Mississippi. Life is perfect.

Having given voice in previous novels to the extraordinary Kate Vaiden, Blue Calhoun, and Roxanna Slade, Reynolds Price — one of America's most respected men of letters — adds Noble Norfleet t

I try to see him among a migrating flock—he will take the loneliness of my room on his long journey; each whistling note he makes will be a little of my sadness falling over the ocean, to be swallo

An eccentric old man is dying of cancer, and his painfully proud daughter must ask an embittered doctor for help.

Au lieu d’aménager la maison qu’il vient juste de faire construire, le narrateur de Pas d’inquiétude va être contraint de prendre un long congé pour rester près de son fils malade et s’installe ave

A decade after being cast off to live with strangers, Tabby Saint returns to Solace River, Nova Scotia, to find her childhood home deserted.

To the shock of his family and community, George Woodbury, an affable teacher and beloved husband and father, is arrested for sexual assault at a prestigious prep school in Connecticut.

Angelic Cheska Marchmont has been a successful and pampered star since the age of four.

Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach – and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family – The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic.

A story that intertwines the lives of two very different couples during World War I follows army soldier Riley as he fights for the love of Nadine despite a terrible injury, and Riley's comman