Ergebnis für "Look Back in Anger" in Belletristik

Look Back in Anger focuses on the relationship between an educated but disaffected working-class young man, Jimmy Porter, and his equally intelligent but dispassionate wife, Alison, who comes from an upper-middle class military family. Having pushed back against her family so they could be together, Jimmy is now disillusioned by the class divide between them and constantly belittles her. Keeping the peace is their friendly Welsh lodger, Cliff. However, the arrival of Alison's friend Helena pushes the couple to breaking point. Can Alison and Jimmy ever reconcile?

I was an out-of-work rugby coach who was soon to be divorced. My old dear was sliding away in a nursing home in a certain suburb of West Dublin. And my old man had brought the country to the verge of, like, nuclear annihilation. And if that wasn’t bad enough, my teenage daughter was in love again. My sister-in-law was about to give birth to a baby that was possibly mine. And Castlerock College was about to go – I can’t even say the word – co-ed.

Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed – no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People certainly recognise him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable, the inevitable happens, and the ranting Hitler goes viral, becomes a YouTube star, gets his own T.V. show, and people begin to listen.

"Das Leben ist endlich. Manche gehen früher und manche später." Nach dem Tod seiner großen Liebe schwor sich Mick, nie wieder eine Frau in sein Leben zu lassen. Die einzige Ausnahme ist Stella, ein Labrador und das letzte Geschenk seiner verstorbenen Liebe. Seine Devise: Freundschaft oder Sex. Beziehungen sind ein No Go. Selbst, als er Sasha auf dem Hundeplatz begegnet, einer Frau, die ihn sofort in ihren Bann zieht, hält er an diesem Plan fest.