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Victor LaValle

    3 février 1972

    Victor LaValle est un maître des hybridations de genres, plongeant dans les profondeurs obscures de la psyché humaine et les inégalités sociales. Ses récits se caractérisent par une honnêteté brute et un examen pénétrant de thèmes tels que la race, la classe et la vulnérabilité, souvent ancrés dans des décors troublants et surnaturels. Le style de LaValle est à la fois intense et accessible, entraînant les lecteurs dans des histoires aussi émotionnellement résonnantes que stimulantes. Son œuvre explore ce que signifie être humain dans un monde imprégné de peur et d'incertitude.

    Victor LaValle
    The Devil in Silver
    The Changeling
    The sundial
    The Ballad of Black Tom
    Eve
    Victor LaValle's Destroyer
    • Victor LaValle's Destroyer

      • 160pages
      • 6 heures de lecture
      3,9(1638)Évaluer

      Originally published in single magazine form as VICTOR LaVALLE'S DESTROYER No. 1-6.--Indicia.

      Victor LaValle's Destroyer
    • Eve

      • 132pages
      • 5 heures de lecture
      3,9(607)Évaluer

      A young girl, Eve, raised in a virtual reality embarks on a deadly cross- country quest to save her father... and our dying planet.

      Eve
    • In New York, Charles Thomas Tester hustles to support his family while navigating a world of magic and danger. After delivering an occult book to a sorceress, he unwittingly awakens dark forces threatening the city. This novella blends sorcery and social issues, showcasing LaValle's innovative approach to genre and ethnicity.

      The Ballad of Black Tom
    • The sundial

      • 240pages
      • 9 heures de lecture
      3,8(708)Évaluer

      'From the sky and from the ground and from the sea there is danger; tell them in the house . . . ' Mrs Halloran has inherited the great Halloran house on the death of her son, much to the disgust of her daughter-in-law, the delight of her wicked granddaughter and the confusion of the rest of the household. But when the original owner - long dead - arrives to announce the world is ending and only the house and its occupants will be saved, they find themselves in a nightmare of strange marble statues, mysterious guests and the beautiful, unsettling Halloran sundial which seems to be at the centre of it all. Shirley Jackson blends sinister family politics and apocalyptic terror in a masterpiece of the macabre. 'A novel of gothic horror and shuddering suspense.' The New York Times With a Foreword by Victor LaValle

      The sundial
    • The Changeling

      • 448pages
      • 16 heures de lecture
      3,8(19471)Évaluer

      "The wildly imaginative story of one man's thrilling odyssey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after having seemingly committed an unforgivable act of violence, from the award-winning author of The devil in silver and Big machine"-- Provided by publisher

      The Changeling
    • The Devil in Silver

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture
      3,7(334)Évaluer

      New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. “A dizzying high-wire act.”—The Washington Post “Fantastical, hellish, and hilarious.”—Los Angeles Times “By turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic.”—The Boston Globe ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly Pepper is the surprised inmate of a mental institution in Queens, New York. In the darkness of his room, on his first night, a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the Devil die? The Devil in Silver is a thrillingly suspenseful literary work about friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons.

      The Devil in Silver
    • The long-awaited return of the Afrofuturist, coming-of-age adventure, perfect for first-time fans!

      Eve: Children of the Moon
    • The island nation of Krakoa has ushered in a bright new era for mutantkind -- paradise after years of persecution. But even mutants must deal with monsters in their midst, and Victor Creed is perhaps the worst. One of the first acts of the Krakoan Quiet Council was to exile the savage Sabretooth to the pit beneath Krakoa, locked away in an endless darkness for his countless crimes against both mutants and humans. Now, you're about to find out what Sabretooth has been up to since he was banished...and it's not what you expect!

      Sabretooth: The Adversary
    • Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and an “absorbing, powerful” (BuzzFeed) new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling .Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It’s locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear.The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land for those who can tame it—except that Adelaide isn’t alone. And the secret she’s tried so desperately to lock away might be the only thing that will help her survive the harsh territory.Crafted by a modern master of magical suspense, Lone Women blends shimmering prose, an unforgettable cast of adventurers who find horror and sisterhood in a brutal landscape, and a portrait of early-twentieth-century America like you’ve never seen. And at its heart is the gripping story of a woman desperate to bury her past—or redeem it.

      Lone Women