Resultados para "Lifer" en Ficción contemporánea

Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J R R Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the curse that has haunted his family for generations.

After receiving an anonymous death threatening note, the aged owner of a Scottish whiskey distillery reaches out to Holmes and Watson. Both of them travel to the Highlands to get to the bottom of the matter and stop the perpetrator.

The Life of Houses explores, with a poet's eye for detail, the hidden tensions in one of Australia's establishment families. These tensions come to the surface during a week in summer when Kit's recently divorced mother sends her away to stay with her estranged grandparents, and her unmarried aunt who cares for them, in their old and decaying house by the sea.

Luke Livingstone is a respected solicitor, a father and grandfather, a pillar of the community. Yet Luke is struggling with an unbearable secret, and it's threatening to destroy him. All his life, Luke has hidden the truth about himself and his identity. It's a truth so fundamental that it will shatter his family and leave him outcast. But to continue living, he must become the person - the woman - he knows himself to be, whatever the cost.

When Thomas "Skinner" Galt leaves Greenwich Village to volunteer as an ambulance driver with the British Army, he anticipates the adventure of a lifetime. What he fails to understand is that no matter where he comes from or how many books he has read, once he dons a military uniform, his life will cease to be his own.

小説家の槙村朗がパーソナリティーを務めるラジオ番組「A DAY IN YOUR LIFE」は、読者から募集した「何でもない一日、奇跡を感じた一瞬、幸せだった日々、不思議なことがあった日」などの〈あなたの一日〉を読みやすい物語に仕立てて、送っている。じつは、彼は不思議な能力を持っていて、人が書いた文字を見ると、事実か事実でないかがわかるのだ。

Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide hole appears outside his living room window, threatening the foundations of his house.

Strange things are happening in Tel Ilan, a century-old pioneer village. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging at night. Could it be their tenant, that young Arab? But then the young Arab hears the digging sounds, too. Where has the mayor's wife gone, vanished without a trace, her note saying "don't worry about me"?

Cookies had a normal, happy childhood until the truth about her mother comes out, sending her life spiraling out of control, leading to her untimely death.

What does a bunch of 20-somethings have in common? 1. A plan for how their lives will shape up in regards their careers, passions, dreams, love or sex. 2. A plan for completing the above plan. Not if you are Vik or belong to his friend circle. Life here is anything but a plan. Here ideas for life are scoffed at, dreams never appear in their long slumber and having fun and being laidback is considered to be an 'in' thing.

Keyon has been through more than enough drama in her young life. She tries to put as much distance between her and the past in Louisiana, taking the opportunity to move to Memphis with her longtime boyfriend, Casimere. Adjusting to their new home, Keyon thinks she’s finally getting the life that she deserves. But is she? Has she truly left behind all the things that caused her pain?

Have you ever had a moment when you didn't know exactly how you ended up where you were in your life? Have you taken a look back and wondered where you went wrong? Do you see it and find yourself confused? I don't have this problem. I look back on my life, and I know exactly when it changed. I know exactly when everything flipped for me. It was the day that my husband told me that he was leaving. Actually it was the day that he left.

What would you do if the perfect life you have is torn asunder? Set across two cities in India in the early '80s, Life Is What You Make It is a gripping account of the years that change young Ankita Sharma's life. Pretty and intelligent, Ankita has everything she wants: friends, boys in hot pursuit, and admission into a premier management school for her MBA. But six months later, she finds herself a patient in a mental health hospital. How did she get here, and will she ever get back her life again?

À peine arrivée en Floride, Corinne va de surprise en surprise. Qui était réellement Frannie, sa grand-mère flamboyante et exubérante qui vivait selon ses propres règles ? Comment pouvait-elle posséder cette grande maison transformée en caverne d’Ali Baba et cette décapotable bleu poudre ?

第127回（2002年）芥川龍之介賞受賞作

昼間の公園のベンチにひとりで座っていると、あなたは何が見えますか？　スターバックスのコーヒーを片手に、春風に乱れる髪を押さえていたのは、地下鉄でぼくが話しかけてしまった女だった。なんとなく見えていた景色がせつないほどリアルに動きはじめる。『東京湾景』の吉田修一が、日比谷公園を舞台に男と女の微妙な距離感を描き、芥川賞を受賞した傑作小説。役者をめざす妻と上京し働き始めた僕が、職場で出会った奇妙な魅力をもつ男を描く「flowers」も収録。

"Life of Ma Parker" is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Nation and Atheneum on 26 February 1921: The gentleman opens his door to his charwoman, who tells him that her grandson has died. Through an analepsis, the grandson asks his grandmother for money, which she says she does not have.

Billy's mother is dead. He knows-because he reads about it in magazines-that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother's death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragic and stupid thing that could possibly have happened to them.

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Crusoe set sail from Kingston upon Hull on a sea voyage in August 1651, against the wishes of his parents, who wanted him to pursue a career in law.

Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact - simply a tall, not terribly attractive woman living a quiet life as a wife and mother in a respectable suburb. But when she discovers that her husband is having a passionate affair with the lovely romantic novelist Mary Fisher, she is so seized by envy that she becomes truly diabolic. Within weeks she has burnt down the family home, collected the insurance, made love to the local drunk and embarked on a course of destruction and revenge.

Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow Country. With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters—born to the...