Janet Fitch a découvert sa passion pour l'écriture de fiction alors qu'elle étudiait en Angleterre, initialement attirée par les récits puissants et les grands thèmes de l'histoire. Son œuvre explore souvent des thèmes complexes et les parcours de vie de ses personnages, s'inspirant de l'ampleur des événements et des personnalités colossales qu'elle étudiait autrefois. Fitch est reconnue pour son style captivant et la profondeur avec laquelle elle donne vie à ses mondes fictifs et à leurs habitants pour le lecteur.
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White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way. It is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, their ambiguous alliances, their selfish love and cruel behaviour, and the search for love and identity.Astrid has been raised by her mother, a beautiful, headstrong poet. Astrid forgives her everything as her world revolves around this beautiful creature until Ingrid murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life. Astrid's fierce determination to survive and be loved makes her an unforgettable figure. 'LIQUID POETRY' - Oprah Winfrey 'Tangled, Complex and extraordinarily moving' - Observer
From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young woman
Josie Tyrell, art model, teen runaway, and denizen of LA's 1980 punk rock scene, finds a chance at real love with art student Michael Faraday. A Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist, Michael introduces her to a world of sophistication, and to his spiritual quest for the beauty that shines through everyday experience. But when she receives a call from the Los Angeles County Coroner asking her to identify her lover's dead body, her bright dreams fade to black. 'What happens to a dream when the dreamer is gone?' Josie finds herself drawn into a twisted relationship with Michael's pianist mother, Meredith, that reflects equal parts distrust and blind need. Passionate, wounded, fiercely alive, Josie Tyrell walks the brink of her own destruction as she fights to discover what is left of the brilliant vision of the future she and Michael once nurtured together. With the luxurious prose and fever pitch intensity that are her hallmarks, Janet Fitch has written a spellbinding new novel about love and betrayal.
In Los Angeles 1980 kämpft die junge Josie mit dem Tod ihres Freundes Michael und gerät in den Bann seiner gefährlichen Mutter, die nach der Maxime lebt: Man tötet, was man liebt.