Category: Coming Of Age Fiction

Bookish eight-year-old Imogene Murakami, nicknamed “Egg,” lives along with her mom and dad and her teenaged sister, Kathy, on an ostrich farm in Bittercreek, Alberta. Egg's older brother Albert has died in an coincidence, her father has moved to the barn, and her mom beverages to submerge her overwhelming grief. Egg has in basic terms Kathy to seem after and out for her — and Kathy takes the accountability heavily, going after bullies who torment Egg in school, telling her tales whose endings she modifies (she has Anne Frank escaping to the United States and dealing as an actress on Broadway). Kathy goals of break out from the tiny city and the smothering ache of her mom and dad' grief, and it sort of feels as though she may make it, with the aid of a basketball scholarship. Her ally Stacey makes break out sound like a undertaking they could adopt jointly. Kathy and Stacey turn into fans, but if it turns into transparent that Kathy feels she can't depart Egg, Stacey comes to a decision to modify her allegiance, to show her again on her pal. She begins courting a boy, and he and his buddies torment Kathy, sensing that she isn't whatever they could categorize. The sisters' dating is threatened whilst Egg's instructor reads aloud from Charlotte's net and Egg herself reads the top — the particular finish — of The Diary of Anne Frank. How can Egg belief an individual who has lied to her approximately every little thing? within the palms of Tamai Kobayashi, Prairie Ostrich is a hot and compelling drama of infrequent perception and virtuoso verve. Kobayashi introduces a clean standpoint to Canadian literature, mixing actual, cultural, ancestral, and sexual isolation into an account of 1 girl's try and locate her position opposed to schoolyard battles and the mysteries of the grownup global. As Kathy's final yr in highschool counts right down to an unknown destiny, Egg sits a quiet witness opposed to an enormous prairie canvas. As she watches her kinfolk get to the bottom of, she slowly starts off to achieve that now not each tale may have a contented ending.

It used to be 1981 and Chris MacCauley used to be nursing a damaged center, a bruised ego and his personal post-adolescent resistance to his ceremony of passage into grownup maturity.

This satiric novel grapples with the social and sexual matters that confront the lives of a gaggle of younger New Yorkers who percentage a seashore apartment within the Hamptons from Memorial to exertions Day. it really is in the course of that summer time while The Hamptons simply started to develop in recognition ahead of changing into the unique enclave it really is at the present time. The narrator and important personality, in a voice comparable to the 1st individual “J.D. Salinger narrative style,” is wounded from a disastrous love affair together with his ex-girlfriend, Laura. He makes a decision that spending a summer season within the Hamptons could be the top emotional treatment he may adopt.

As the radical unfolds we find out about the opposite percentage individuals via Chris’ interactions with them. we find their restlessness and passions as they cross approximately trying to find a “significant other.” All their passionate and, occasionally, funny dramas are staged at the seashores, on the events, and on the “hot spots” of the Hamptons.

Through his nostalgic voice Chris’ international unfolds in an pleasing sequence of flashbacks, entire with male vulnerabilities, insecurities and the position ego performs in moments of self-clarity: “Most males get older yet now not all mature.” He additionally bargains glimpses of his existence with the materialistic Laura and his lack of ability to enable move. He realizes that studying the way to enable move will be the place the maturing strategy will start for him.

With wit, emotion, laughter and tears, in the course of the process the summer season, Chris reviews much more than he bargained for.

Who, on the earth, is that this person?

Born to the wail of a small-town educate with a unmarried tiny tear in her new-baby eyes, a down-home lady embarks early. She’s on a lifetime of quests that variety a ways afield yet consistently lead to a similar position: again domestic and assured within the wisdom that God is a carnival broker who is aware the playing cards in basic terms whilst they’re face down.

“I’m Peaches.”

Don’t enable her gentle, candy identify mislead you. status taller than the towers of the Capital of affection and Hate, she will additionally bend low to slide out of her grandmother’s outdated Atlanta mansion - catching a tram, leaping a educate, taking a airplane to wherever, then returning with an international of mysteries, wrapped and unwrapped.

“Is that you just, Peaches?”

Who will rid the evening of silence? Brighten its grim, grey partitions? Amaze the idiot out of friends and family? Even baffle police and newsmen 3 to 5 occasions her age? Why, it’s the loving daughter of the outdated South and presiding sprite of the hot, now sketching out the newest bankruptcy within the dwelling ebook of lady at the dangdest surfaces.

“G’Lord, Peaches, it’s you.”

A first-generation American male breaks throughout the traditional development for immigrant households within the first half the 20th century—simply desirous to do greater than his father. He strikes intellectually to a broader standpoint, right into a higher, extra attention-grabbing international, and to monetary and social luck. As his kin, specifically his spouse, turns into much more absorbed in American tradition, he perceives them to be relocating clear of him.

Is American social (as wonderful from monetary) liberalism a pretend? Are liberals in simple terms so while you will be one, whilst it doesn’t influence in your own existence? will we desire radical roots so as to stay even reasonably liberal?

Ultimately Bosco embarks on his own odyssey, a look for internal peace and serenity.

l. a. storia di un ragazzo diventato uomo che un giorno ebbe l. a. cattiva proposal di voltarsi indietro e di scoprire quanto aveva perso e quanto aveva guadagnato dalla vita stessa. Un viaggio inquieto a suon di Grunge...tra viaggi, amici, conoscenze, avventure in giro in line with il mondo.

There he stood, at the threshold of greatness, approximately 50 seconds from music and box immortality. yet Tony Ballino doubted himself for a fragment of a moment, and by the point he learned what had occurred, he stumbled on himself in the middle of an out-of-control, downward spiral. simply how some distance will this highschool senior sink prior to it’s too past due? Will he become aware of the single one that is status in his manner and the person that can healing him are an analogous – himself? and should he recuperate in time – to run back, to beat back the demons that devour away at his self-confidence? Or will one hurdle after one other proceed to dam him? it is a tale of loss, achieve, and overcoming the stumbling blocks that stand within the manner of real self-identification.

Als der bekannte deutsche Schauspieler Bob Bodenbauer aus dem Koma erwacht, erinnert er sich an nichts. Doch eine wunderschöne Krankenschwester beugt sich über ihn und heißt ihn lächelnd in unserer Wachwelt willkommen. Kurz darauf klingelt das Telefon. Er hebt ab; eine heisere Stimme flüstert:
- "Hallo Bob, schön, dass du wieder bei uns bist. Hab gehört, sie werden dir eine Rolle anbieten, Telenovela!"
- "Was ist das, Telenovela?", fragt Bob vorsichtig.
- "Hey, so'n Emotionsporno, Mann, die Schlampe aus Kreuzberg, used to be Mexikanisches halt, 'ne Seifenblase!"
Bodenbauer bekommt tatsächlich die Rolle, und die Suche nach seiner verlorenen Identität beginnt. Professor Piano, sein behandelnder Arzt, Chef der Psychiatrie und Komatologie an der Charité, sowie Barbarella, die wunderschöne Krankenschwester, helfen ihm dabei. Nun ja, helfen wird der Professor schon, aber nicht ganz uneigennützig: Er benutzt seinen neuen Patienten dazu, um ganz andere, teuflische Pläne zu verwirklichen.

Mathieu Carrière hat - nach langer Selbsterfahrung als movie- und Fernsehschauspieler - einen rasanten Schundroman geschrieben, der dem Leser auf vergnügliche Weise und mit einer gehörigen element Ironie den ganzen Irrwitz heutiger Fernsehproduktionen beschreibt. Im Innern der Seifenblase erzählt die tragikomische Odyssee von Schauspielerseelen, die in den Fleischwolf des modernen, industriellen Herstellungsprozesses einer Telenovela geraten, und dabei ständig am Rande des Nervenzusammenbruchs agieren.

"Wolf’s Run" is a mystery-laced love tale set opposed to the violent backdrop of the Sixties Civil Rights period in Mississippi.

Holly Lee Carter is a tender, appealing photo-journalist left paralyzed whereas protecting the Vietnam conflict. while Holly inherits her family members newspaper, she reluctantly leaves her followed domestic in la and returns to the kin domestic in Mississippi -- Wolf’s Run.

With segregated Cattahatchie County ultimate, “the final of its style, even in Mississippi,” Holly fights to maintain the newspaper out of financial ruin and the palms of the Ku Klux Klan, and springs to think that her father’s dying used to be no accident.

Returning domestic in a wheelchair, Holly needs to care for her personal fears, insecurities, frustrations and the reawakening of strong, long-dormant wants. Her genuinely-earned Christian religion strengthens her, yet will it's enough?

Along the way in which, Holly develops a stunning friendship with Cutter Carlucci, an 18-year-old highschool soccer big name with a vicious Klansman father and a chip on his shoulder approximately “cripples.”

Living on his personal, with all his property stowed in his outdated Jeep, Cutter has a adulthood and effect past his years.

As the summer time heats up, the county is able to explode – and does! – whilst the Klan’s such a lot fearsome, lethal and unstoppable bomb-maker arrives in town.

The judgements Holly and Cutter make will switch the county’s destiny… and maybe fee them their lives.

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È l’estate del 1937 e l. a. famiglia Cazalet si appresta a riunirsi nella dimora di campagna consistent with trascorrervi le vacanze. È un mondo dalle atmosfere d’altri tempi, quello dei Cazalet, dove tutto avviene secondo rituali precisi e codici che il pace ha reso immutabili, dove i domestici servono il tè a letto al mattino, e a cena si va in abito da sera. Ma sotto l. a. rigida morale vittoriana, incarnata appieno dai due capostipiti affettuosamente soprannominati il Generale e los angeles Duchessa, si avverte che qualcosa sta cominciando a cambiare.

Ed ecco svelata, come attraverso un microscopio, los angeles verità sulle dinamiche di coppia fra i figli e le relative consorti. L’affascinante Edward si concede svariate amanti mentre l. a. moglie Villy si lacera nel sospetto e nella noia; Hugh, che porta ancora i segni della grande guerra, forma con l. a. moglie Sybil una coppia perfetta, salvo il fatto che non abbiano notion l’uno dei desideri dell’altra; Rupert, pittore mancato e vedovo, si è risposato con Zoë, un’attrice bellissima e frivola che fatica a calarsi nei panni della madre di famiglia; infine Rachel, devota alla cura dei genitori, che non si è mai sposata in keeping with un motivo ben preciso. E poi ci sono i nipoti, descritti mirabilmente nei loro giochi, nelle loro gelosie e nei loro sogni, in modo sottile e mai condiscendente, dalle ingenuità infantili alle inquietudini adolescenziali.
Ma c’è anche il mondo fuori, e l. a. vita domestica dei Cazalet s’intreccia inevitabilmente con los angeles vita di un paese sull’orlo di una crisi epocale. Mentre le vicissitudini deepest dei personaggi vengono messe a nudo e vicende grandi e piccole intervengono a ingarbugliare le loro esistenze, si comincia a mormorare di una minaccia che viene dal continente, e che imagine sempre più spessore nelle consapevolezze dei protagonisti, fino a diventare tangibile: l. a. seconda guerra mondiale è alle porte.

La prosa sapiente di Elizabeth Jane Howard, il suo sguardo acuto e l. a. sua ironia affilata ci accompagnano in queste pagine mano nella mano, fino alla tremendous del primo libro della saga dei Cazalet, lasciandoci con los angeles voglia di andare avanti.