Michael Cunningham Ordre des livres (chronologique)

As the world evolves, a family navigates the complexities of growing up, aging, love, loss, and resilience. In a Brooklyn brownstone, Dan and Isabel's seemingly perfect life begins to unravel. Both harbor feelings for Isabel's younger brother, Robbie, a free spirit living in the attic. As Robbie grapples with a recent breakup and prepares to leave home, tensions rise, threatening the family's cohesion. Meanwhile, ten-year-old Nathan seeks independence, while five-year-old Violet remains blissfully unaware of her parents' growing divide. As the pandemic lockdown begins, the brownstone transforms into a confining space. Violet becomes fixated on safety, while Nathan rebels against her rules. Isabel and Dan communicate through thinly veiled frustrations, and Robbie finds himself isolated in a mountain cabin in Iceland, wrestling with his thoughts and a curated online persona. As the family emerges from the crisis, they confront a changed reality, reflecting on their experiences, losses, and the path forward. This poignant narrative, crafted by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, delves into the intricacies of love, loss, and the challenges of family life—exploring how to coexist while navigating personal struggles.

The story revolves around the special bond between Tehya and her father as they spend quality time together. Their adventures highlight the joy of their relationship, showcasing moments of fun, learning, and connection. Through their interactions, the narrative emphasizes the importance of family and the simple pleasures of life.

Get ready for the online adventures of one man who just wants to make friends. And one very annoyed world. Based on the ingenious Sir Michael Twitter account, How to (Almost) Make Friends on the Internet is the funniest book you'll read this year. Whether it's offering his services as a Karate Lawyer or Funeral DJ, devising the world's worst plan to get a free haircut, or trying to buy a blue bucket that may or may not be for sale, Michael just wants to connect with people. The only problem is that people are slightly less enthusiastic about connecting with him, and the results are utterly hilarious. Warning: you'll never think about adding someone called Michael to a group chat the same way ever again.

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.

In November 2004, Barrett Meeks, reeling from another lost love, finds himself in Central Park, where he is inexplicably drawn to a pale, translucent light in the sky that seems to regard him with a godlike presence. Despite his skepticism towards visions and faith, he cannot ignore this experience. Meanwhile, in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Beth, engaged to Barrett's older brother Tyler, is battling colon cancer. Together, they navigate a fragile yet happy existence. Tyler, a struggling musician with a drug addiction, is desperately trying to compose a wedding song that transcends mere sentimentality to embody eternal love. As Barrett grapples with the significance of the light, he unexpectedly turns to religion, while Tyler increasingly believes that drugs are the key to unlocking his creative potential. Beth confronts her mortality with courage and stoicism. The narrative follows the divergent paths of the Meeks brothers in their quests for transcendence. With subtle, lucid prose, the author captures the complexities of his characters and delves into the depths of the human soul, blending beauty and heartbreak, comedy and tragedy, affirming his status as a significant voice in contemporary literature.

From the Pultizer Prize-winning author of new novel 'The Snow Queen', comes the story of a marriage thrown off course by a moment of mistaken identity.

La fascination mortelle que peut exercer la beauté, tel est le sujet de La mort à Venise, ce chef-d'œuvre d'inspiration très romantique où l'on retrouve l'essentiel de la pensée de Thomas Mann. Gustav Aschenbach, romancier célèbre et taciturne, voit sa vie bouleversée par la beauté divine et la grâce d'un adolescent. Sous le regard interrogateur du jeune Tadzio, la descente aux abîmes de ce veuf respectable, dans une Venise au charme maléfique rongée par le choléra, est un des récits les plus troublants de cet immense écrivain. La mort à Venise est suivi de Tristan, dont l'univers glacé de la montagne et la gaieté factice du sanatorium composent une sorte de prélude à La montagne magique, un des grands romans de Thomas Mann. Un bref récit, Le chemin du cimetière, clôt ce recueil de façon poignante.

Après l'immense succès des Heures , un roman envoûtant. Grâce de l'écriture, fulgurance des mots et incroyable maîtrise narrative, Michael Cunningham nous revient avec une oeuvre dense et intensément poétique. Trois époques. Trois histoires reliées par une série d'indices. Un monde hanté par l'ombre de Walt Whitman. Un lieu : Manhattan.

Imagine what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current dictionaries are a distant memory. Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have lined up an incredible array of writers to bring you that futuristic dictionary and a vision of the world as it might be. Think of it as a dictionary of language for describing what the future could look like a dictionary that is both useful and romantic, hopeful and necessary, pragmatic and idealistic, and frequently funny. This is science fiction but with a difference.

Provincetown, physically remote, and heartbreakingly beautiful, has been amenable and intriguing to outsiders for as long as it has existed. Written by the author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours, this work brings us Provincetown, one of the extraordinary towns in the US, perched on the sandy tip at the end of Cape Cod.

C'est à New York, à la fin du XXe siècle. C'est à Londres, en 1923. C'est à Los Angeles, en 1949. Clarissa est éditrice, Virginia, écrivain, Laura, mère au foyer. Trois femmes, trois histoires reliées par un subtil jeu de correspondances, dont l'émouvante cohésion ne sera révélée que dans les dernières pages...

Constantin Stassos, un immigrant grec, n'a pas grand-chose en commun avec Mary, une belle Américaine d'origine italienne épousée durant la grande utopie des années cinquante. Promoteur immobilier installé à Newark, dans le New jersey, il va bâtir sa réussite sur le dos de plus infortunés que lui et se révéler un homme violent. Mary est une femme frustrée, qui accepte mal l'étroitesse du quotidien. Trois enfants naissent : Susan, l'aînée, a avec son père une relation qui frôle l'inceste. Billy, un garçon émotif, vulnérable, est incompris de son père, particulièrement lorsque celui-ci découvre son homosexualité. Zoé, la cadette, ira vivre à Manhattan où elle s'adonne à la drogue puis, enceinte d'un amant de passage, un Noir, est adoptée par un travesti, Cassandra, qui va l'aider à élever son fils. Sous la façade respectable, le scandale est absolu.

Jonathan et Bobby ont grandi ensemble au rythme des musiques seventies et dans les fumées de marijuana. Approchant de la trentaine, ils se retrouvent à New York où ils essaient en compagnie de Claire, tout à la fois l'amie, l'amante et la mère, d'inventer la famille des années 1980 écartelée entre la fin du rêve hippie, le solde de la révolution sexuelle et les débuts tragiques de l'épidémie du sida. Au gré de leurs errances, La Maison du bout du monde dépeint les espoirs et les angoisses de toute une génération.