Ergebnis für "Frank Wedekind" in Belletristik

Wer glaubte, Frank Bascombe hätte die literarische Bühne verlassen, hat sich glücklicherweise geirrt. Da ist er wieder, dieser unvollkommene, wandlungsfähige und in seinem Witz und Gerechtigkeitssinn sich selbst doch immer treu bleibende literarische Chronist des modernen Amerika. Es sind die Tage nach den Verwüstungen durch Hurrikan Sandy. Der Anruf eines Freundes, dem er vor Jahren sein Haus an der Küste New Jerseys verkauft hat, zwingt den inzwischen 68-jährigen Bascombe dazu, sich vor Ort mit der Katastrophe auseinanderzusetzen.

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love - against their better judgement - with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead...but waiting to return to life.

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock society....