Julia Pierpont Livres

Dans la famille Shanley : Jack, charmeur impénitent, est un artiste reconnu ; Deb a renoncé quant à elle, avec une certaine allégresse, à une carrière de danseuse de ballet pour élever leurs deux enfants. Un appartement à Manhattan, une famille presque heureuse tant Deb s'applique à fermer les yeux sur les infidélités de son mari. Jusqu'au jour où un paquet anonyme ébranle le foyer : une simple boîte en carton, remplie d'emails chroniquant sans pudeur la vie secrète de Jack. Le paquet, adressé à Deb, tombe malencontreusement entre les mains des enfants. Rien ne sera plus comme avant... Roman d'une famille en déconstruction, Parmi les dix milliers de choses est une comédie humaine à quatre voix, saisissante d'audace et de justesse.

"This inspiring, beautifully illustrated collection honours one hundred exceptional women throughout history and around the world. In this luminous volume, New York Times bestselling writer Julia Pierpont and artist Manjit Thapp match short, vibrant and surprising biographies with stunning full-colour portraits of secular female 'saints': champions of strength and progress. These women broke ground, broke ceilings and broke moulds."--Publisher's description.

For fans of Jenny Offill, Jonathan Franzen, A.M. Homes, and Lorrie Moore, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel. Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn't mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife, Deb, gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack's secret life. The package is addressed to Deb, but it's delivered into the wrong hands: her children's. With this vertiginous opening begins a debut that is by turns funny, wise, and indescribably moving. As the Shanleys spin apart into separate orbits, leaving New York in an attempt to regain their bearings, fifteen-year-old Simon feels the allure of adult freedoms for the first time, while eleven-year-old Kay wanders precariously into a grown-up world she can't possibly understand. Writing with extraordinary precision, humour, and beauty, Julia Pierpont has crafted a timeless, hugely enjoyable novel about the bonds of family life their brittleness, and their resilience