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*A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist. číst celé

The hero-narrator is a sixteen-year-old native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. He leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and spends three days underground in New York City. Holden is both simple and complex, making it difficult to draw definitive conclusions about him or his story. He is captivated by beauty, almost to the point of being overwhelmed by it. The novel features various voices—children's, adults', and underground—but Holden's voice stands out as the most eloquent. He expresses a poignant blend of pain and pleasure, transcending his vernacular while remaining true to it. Most of his pain is kept to himself, while he shares the pleasure with the reader who can appreciate it. J.D. Salinger's classic tale of teenage angst and rebellion was published in 1951 and has been recognized as one of the best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has faced challenges for its use of profanity and depiction of sexuality, becoming a must-read for teenage boys in the 1950s and 60s.

With music pulsing on every page, "A Visit from the Goon Squad" is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.

Victor Mancini est figurant dans un " musée vivant " où le moindre anachronisme est puni par la mise au pilori avec suspension de salaire. Il est sexoolique, drogué du sexe en thérapie verbale, incapable d'aimer. Son meilleur ami se promène avec des cailloux enroulés dans des couvertures et sa mère, folle à lier, le ruine sans jamais reconnaître en lui le fils dont elle a ravagé l'enfance... Pour quelles raisons ? Où se niche véritablement la folie ? Pourquoi Victor continue-t-il de se faire vomir publiquement dans des restaurants chics et qui saura lui révéler l'incroyable secret de sa naissance ? Un livre de Palahniuk ne se résume pas, c'est déjanté, subversif et incroyablement lucide.

A collection of short stories that twist and inspire the imagination.

Takes the form of a 'coma diary' kept by one Misty Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in hospital after a suicide attempt. Once, she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at art school and being brought back to Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid.

Al Franken, one of America's savviest satirists has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of 'slander', 'bias' and even 'treason'. He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the world. He's even watched Fox News. A lot. And in this fair and balanced report, Al bravely exposes them all for what they are: liars. Lying, lying, liars.

Vingt-trois apprentis écrivains sont rassemblés par l’énigmatique M. Whittier pour accoucher de leur chef-d’œuvre. Mais ce qui était censé être un havre de sérénité se révèle un implacable piège. À la fin de leur séjour ils auront tous une histoire à raconter mais certainement pas celle qu’ils imaginaient…

As thirteen-year-old Madison tries to figure out how she died and ended up in Hell, she learns how to manipulate the corrupt system of demons and bodily fluids.

As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there--longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart--half tavern, half temple--stands Brokeland. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complications to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.

Le Bandit-en-chef George W. Bush, dit " George II ", et son gang, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld & Co, gouvernent l'Amérique. Ultraconservateurs et richissimes (leur fortune est liée au big business du pétrole, de l'informatique ou des biotechnologies), ils ont fait main basse sur le pays, et partent maintenant en guerre contre l' " Axe du Mal ". Provocateur, corrosif, inquiétant, narcissique, subversif, Mike l'Agitateur-en-chef refuse de leur abandonner le pays et supplie le secrétaire général de l'ONU de déployer ses casques bleus et de rétablir la démocratie! Le temps est venu, explique-t-il, de lancer la contre-attaque en dénonçant les maux cachés de l'Amérique: l'illettrisme et l'alcoolisme (le président connaît bien les deux problèmes), le racisme (Mike propose aux Noirs un kit de survie !), la libre circulation des armes, la peine de mort, la pauvreté massive, mais aussi l'arrogance et l'irresponsabilité de la politique étrangère de son pays. Pas de doute, Mike est de retour Et le moins que l'on puisse dire, c'est que son humour ravageur détonne dans le consensus patriotique qui domine aux États-Unis depuis les attentats du 11 septembre 2001.

Cassie Wright, star du porno sur le retour, a décidé de terminer sa carrière sur un coup d'éclat : se faire prendre devant les caméras par six cents hommes au cours d'une seule nuit. Dans les coulisses, les heureux élus attendent patiemment leur tour. Parmi eux les numéros 72, 137 et 600 font part de leurs impressions. Mais entre fausses identités, désirs de vengeance et pulsions homicides, la nuit ne va pas du tout se dérouler comme prévu.

Agent number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his small stature, arrives in the U.S. as an "exchange student" from a totalitarian regime reminiscent of North Korea, Cuba, Communist China, and Nazi Germany. His mission, codenamed Operation Havoc, is critical for success. Upon arrival at a Midwestern airport, he notes that fellow operatives Tibor, Magda, and Ling have already infiltrated American society, embedding themselves within middle-income families across the city. Pygmy is welcomed by his host family: a father working in the biological weapons industry, a mother with peculiar traits, a brother with a dog-like demeanor, and a self-assured cat sister. As he navigates the absurdities of postmodern American life, he views it all with disdain. Indoctrinated into the totalitarian mindset, Pygmy and his fellow operatives are plotting something catastrophic that aims to bring this complacent nation to its knees. The strategy involves a web of operatives, each positioned within their respective homes, schools, and neighborhoods, ready to execute their plan and expose the vulnerabilities of their unsuspecting hosts.