Resultados para "Lydia" en Coming of age

A gripping and deftly plotted narrative of family and belonging, Lights All Night Long is a dazzling debut novel from an acclaimed young writer "A luminous debut. . . . It's hard not to read the book in a single sitting."--The Los Angeles Times "Lights All Night Long is utterly brilliant and...

A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden State. The year is 1998, the End of History. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is an American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through...

It is the end of the decade and the end of a dream. Natalia has bounced back from her ordeal to become a member of a very famous band. But what goes up must come down and she finds herself nearing the end of a dream. Mark Standish is determined to destroy Natalia. He blames her for his going to Vietnam and wants to get payback. But what a person wants is rarely what they get. When He finally collides with her world, not everyone will make it out alive to see the sixties. But who will make the grade? Who will die? And how will it all end?

A new adaptation of L. P. Hartley's story of a boy who is betrayed by a sophisticated young rich woman and her farmer lover who use him to ferry letters back and forth in the blazing summer of 1900 - with Richard Griffiths and Harriet Walter. It's best known from the 1970 film, which focused on the main plot line. But on re-reading the book, adaptor Frances Byrnes found within it another drama perfect for audio in which an old man finds a boyhood diary and is forced to unlock the trauma inside.