Ergebnis für "Five o'clock" in Literatur & Belletristik

„Five o'clock“ ist eine Novelle von Gabriele Reuter: Den stumpfen, dumpfen Krepp der tiefen Trauer hatte Frau von Necker abgelegt. Sobald sie sich bewegte, wenn sie sich zum Kamin beugte und mit poliertem Stahl zwischen dem Koks wühlte, dass die Glut aufflammte, dann glitzerte es aus allen Rüschen und Falten ihres schwarzen Kleides von winzigen Jett-Pailletten, ihre dünne, feine Gestalt schien plötzlich hunderte von blauen und gelben Lichtfünkchen auszustrahlen.

At seven o'clock one Tuesday evening, in a perfectly ordinary tower block near Westminster, four strangers meet for the first time. They each have three things in common: all suffered a traumatic experience six months earlier; all exhibit a dogged inability to put it behind them; and all accepted an invitation to attend tonight's counselling session with the unconventional Genevieve - a determined woman with an unusual theory to test.

Lori Boone has always been unapologetically and shamelessly himself. Petite, with soft curls and plump lips, he's often underestimated. Until he parts those lips and the sassiness comes out. He thrives in uncomfortable situations and plots petty revenge in his free time. Facts that don't change even when he starts working for a prestigious law firm and under Gabriel Reed, his best friend's brother-in-law.

Antonio is 18 years old and on the cusp of adulthood. His father, a brilliant mathematician, hasn’t played a large part in his life since divorcing Antonio’s mother, but when Antonio is diagnosed with epilepsy, they travel to Marseille to visit a doctor who may hold the hope for an effective treatment. It is there, in a foreign city, under strained circumstances, that they will get to know each other and connect for the first time.