Ergebnis für "Kurt" in Coming of Age

Es ist Sommer, die Schule ist vorbei. Marko hat das beste Abi der Stufe, trotzdem reicht es nicht für seinen Traum vom Medizinstudium. Auch die Beziehung mit Claire geht zu Ende. Sie will nur noch raus aus der Kleinstadt, rein ins richtige Leben. Marko hingegen versackt zwischen TikTok und Zukunftsangst im tristen Wohnblock. Bis sein Vater einen Ausweg findet: ein Studium in Ungarn. Doch statt gemeinsam loszugehen, rennen Marko und Claire in entgegengesetzte Richtungen. Und je weiter sie sich voneinander entfernen, desto mehr verlieren sie die Kontrolle.

Sommer 2011. Klapper ist sechzehn und hat die Sommerferien alleine vor seinem Computer verbracht. Am ersten Schultag kommt plötzlich Bär in seine Klasse – und setzt sich neben ihn. Groß, stark und absolut unbeeindruckt von sozialen Normen, ist sie die Einzige, die Klapper, den blassen Nerd mit langen Haaren und knackenden Gelenken, nicht wie einen Außenseiter behandelt. Und genau wie er liebt sie das Zocken. Klapper merkt immer mehr, dass er sich in Bärs Gegenwart unverwundbar fühlt.

Called “our finest black-humorist” by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post San Francisco Chronicle In True Believers, Kurt Andersen—the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century—delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit...

John grew up in an incredibly narcissistic, dysfunctional family on a farm in southeastern North Carolina during the repressive 1960s. This was the model family to the broader community. His parents were considered pillars of society. Yet, this family held many deep, dark secrets governed by family honor, vanity, and pride. The parents' standing in the community was paramount to everything else. No one–no family member, circumstance, event, or situation–was to shame and embarrass them and get in the way of how they ranked and viewed themselves.

Two young women attending college decide to have a summer adventure canoeing the rapids-strewn Thelon River that runs 450 miles through the uninhabited Barren Lands of subarctic Canada. Holly made the trip once before with a group of skilled paddlers she trained with at camp, and she wants to share that experience with her friend and lover, Lee, believing it will draw them closer. But a week in, Holly, the risk-taker, falls while taking a selfie near the edge of a cliff. She is left injured and comatose, and soon dies.

I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone. He came home with the ashes of it and died 20 years later, poor and, as it happened, drunk.

Secretly, a man welds steel to a bulldozer. Later, another watches a ghost walk along his dry-walled hallways. A woman raises her teenage son in a homeless encampment where the boy has to fight to survive with the help of a strange, lonely cop. In Mililani Mauka, the lives of two families, the Motts and the Krills, come together as they try to keep afloat in a changing Honolulu, a city with growing suburbs and homeless camps.

David has been brightening up his gray Surrey, England days with the porn collection hidden in the shed but when he finds that their American foreign exchange student, Dawn, has discovered his magazines, things really begin to heat up. David's is supposed to be looking for a job, but Dawn has the week off and is determined to work on her tan.