Resultados para "hell" en Narrativa literaria

Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered. Sam believed it was God who sent Ernie Cantwell, the only African American kid in his class, to be the friend he so desperately needed. And that it was God’s idea for Mickie Kennedy to storm into Our Lady of Mercy like a tornado, uprooting every rule Sam had been taught about boys and girls. Forty years later, Sam, a small-town eye doctor, is no longer certain anything was by design.

"Eve looked out the window. She wondered, why did she continue to come here? All the while her doctor drolled on and on about her goals for the week. Her depression lingered over her entire life, like a swarm of flies. Constantly ticking and buzzing in her ears, crawling over her skin, biting her where she couldn’t reach. She thought once she stopped taking chemical medication and moved on to talk therapy things would improve, so far they remained about the same. She just had more homework assignments"...

Hell - part mystery, part domestic meditation, part horror story - is a brilliantly eerie novel in which three households coexist in a single restless vision: a dollhouse; a dysfunctional family in 1950s Philadelphia; and the cottage home of Edwina Moss, a 19th-century expert on domestic management. While the inhabitants of the dollhouse are powerless to shape their destiny, the four members of the Philadelphia family dedicate themselves to mutual vigilance. Edwina Moss concedes domestic control to the imagination and, finally, to the spirit of Antonin Careme.

Sicily, 1993. Fear rules the streets of Palermo. Teenage boys patrol the narrow streets armed with AK-47’s, marking out the territory of their mafia bosses. This is what hell is. Federico, a privileged local boy, is asked by his teacher, Don Pino, to help out at the youth club he runs in one of the most destitute areas of the city. A tangle of alleys controlled by men with nicknames like the Hunter, it is also where kids like Francesco, Lucia, and Totò never give up hope for a different life.

A year after the death of his wife, Christine, Dan is barely holding on. But one thing gets him through the long, lonely nights and that is his cherished dog, Anni. When she is stolen from his front yard, Dan and his daughter, Lindsay, are devastated. Meanwhile in another part of town, Andrea Keller is recovering from the heartbreak of a messy divorce. After she rescues a defenseless dog from an abusive tenant, her life changes in ways she never could have anticipated.

As an armed guard for the Denver-bound Treasure Express, could Britt Burnett lend his skill with firearms and his good right arm to a desperate gang of bullion robbers who wanted the gold for themselves? The price they were offering was more money than Britt Burnett was ever likely to see, if he didn't do it.

Hatcher McCord is an evening news presenter who has found himself in Hell and is struggling to explain his bad fortune. He's not the only one to suffer this fate - in fact, hes surrounded by an outrageous cast of characters, including Humphrey Bogart, William Shakespeare, and almost all of the popes and most of the U.S. presidents. The question may be not who is in Hell but who isn't.

Lucinda's boyfriend Dracula claims to be the Dracula - he sleeps in a coffin, hunts pigeons for blood, and only goes out at night. But is he really? Unsettlingly, there has been a spate of recent disappearances and Dracula may be connected. Lucinda doesn't know for sure or which is more dangerous: dating an immortal vampire or a UPS driver with a night shift who thinks he's one?

Nannas familie er samlet om hendes velhavende stedfar, der ligger meget syg og ikke har lang tid igen. I løbet af natten overnatter familien i huset omkring ham, men i nattens mulm og mørke sker der uhyggelige ting, og om morgenen finder de stedfaren myrdet. Pludselig er der ingen, der kan vide sig sikre, og alle mistænker hinanden- alt imens Nanna forsøger at finde svar på den uhyggelige mordgåde. Helle Stangerup (1939-2015) var en dansk forfatter, der særligt var kendt og hædret for sine romaner og noveller. Stangerup blev cand.jur.

Being the younger sister of a Wind Dragons MC member isn't as great as you'd think it would be. I can't escape the details of my brother's exploits. No one tells me anything. Men who know who I am tend to stay away from me. And worst of all: The members of the MC are off-limits. When Arrow catches my eye, I make it my mission to make him happy again. When I fall head over heels in love with him, I just hope he will be there to catch me. And that my brother doesn't kill him....

When Filthy White Guy buys about a hundred burritos and blows up the microwave of the convenience store where Paris Scott has been working for 30 long nights, Paris decides his life couldn't be more of a mess. But when he gives Filthy White Guy a ride home to a Bel Air mansion, things really start to explode.

Gedske er ikke meget anderledes end de fleste andre danske kvinder i 30’erne. Hun lever et stille og almindeligt liv med mand og to børn, men hendes død bliver hverken stille eller almindelig. Hun bliver kørt ned, og i det et splitsekund passerer hendes liv revy. Hun ser tilbage på pubertetens pinsler og på forholdet til sin mor, der blev en sørgelig gentagelse af forholdet mellem moren og mormoren. Hvad venter der Gedske på den anden side? Himmel eller helvede? Det spørger hun sig selv om, men hun ender i stedet et helt andet sted.

Frank Dixon’s first novel, Plague Boy, is sinking into oblivion on Amazon and neither his nor anyone else’s literary agent will return his calls. Then Frank discovers online poker, and is soon addicted to the rush he feels as the successful, popular “Chip Zero”. But as he wins thousands of dollars, it soon becomes clear that his Internet success is not the solution to his problems. And when the virtual world comes crashing in on Frank’s real life, it can only mean trouble.

Marie vokser op på Langeland 1930’erne i et hjem, hvor børnene er mange, pengene få og vold hverdag - også før krigen kommer og gør et fattigt samfund endnu fattigere. Lyset melder sig i form af Otto, en elektrikerlærling med klare blå øjne. Sammen undslipper de Langelands fattigdom og rejser til hovedstaden for at skabe sig en ny og bedre fremtid. Men Langeland flytter med på godt og ondt. "Folkets Skønhed" er Merete Pryds Helles slægtskrønike baseret på hendes egen familiehistorie.

På en villavej i Værløse i 1971 ligger Merle i sin seng og læser den ene De 5-bog efter den anden. Hun kan høre forældrene gennem væggen. Det er en af morens gode dage, hvor sygdommen ikke har fat. Det er en af de gode dage, hvor faren er hjemme og er ædru. Vi kunne alt tegner et tidsbillede af den sorgmuntre optimisme, der prægede de tidlige 70‘ere, hvor børnene fik at vide, at fremtiden var deres, og at de faktisk kunne alt. En roman om kærlighed på trods, om skyld og skam og om voksne, som ikke magter at være voksne.

"Højt oppe på et klippeforbjerg sad en elektrisk munk på en hest, der kedede sig. Munken stirrede ud under sin groft vævede kutte og ned i en anden dal, som den havde lidt problemer med... Uheldigvis havde denne elektriske munk fået en fejl, så den var begyndt at tro på alt muligt, mere eller mindre vilkårligt. Den var sågar begyndt at tro på ting, som de selv i Salt Lake City ville have svært ved at tro på." Der sker mærkelige ting på Jorden, efter et rumskib er forlist der, og dets eneste overlevende har begivet sig ud på vandring.

Nora har alltid blivit behandlad som ett barn. Först av fadern, sedan av maken. Men parallellt med känslan av understimulans och särbehandling, har hon genom kvinnor i sin närhet utmanats såväl intellektuellt som sexuellt och på så sätt levt en form av dubbelliv. Hon känner dock stark kärlek för sin man. Så till sin grad att hon till och med förfalskar sin fars underskrift för att kunna ta ett lån som kan bekosta hennes mans sjukvårdsresa till Italien.

Vitus Adamson is falling apart. As a pre-deceased private investigator, he takes the prescription Atroxipine hourly to keep his undead body upright and functioning. Whenever he is injured, he seeks Niko, a bombshell mortician with bedroom eyes and a way with corpses, to piece him back together. Decomposition, however, is the least of his worries when two clients posing his most dangerous job yet appear at his door looking for their lost son.

Merete Pryds Helle reinterpreta de forma conmovedora y sensual la vida de Nora Helmer, personaje de la obra ‘Casa de Muñecas’ de Ibsen.

La señora Nora Helmer es una de las figuras femeninas más famosas en la historia del teatro. En esta novela, Merete Pryds Helle alumbra de forma magistral los recovecos de su existencia. ‘Nora’ narra la evolución de este personaje: de una persona frágil y manipulable a una mujer libre, fuerte y tenaz...

Harry Bannerman drinks his nightly bourbon on the train from New York City to Putnam's Landing, Connecticut. A typical commuter, he has a bald spot, a house, two mortgages, three children, and a wife who is a committed soccer mom and pillar of the community. Second Lt. Guido di Maggio loves baseball less than his last name implies and his fiancee, Maggie Larkin, more than the army allows. College sweethearts, the couple has their future all mapped out: Guido will complete his military service in Maryland while Maggie starts her teaching career in Putnam's Landing.