Ergebnis für "Lumpen" in Belletristik

Cat's career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. When she finds out, all within a few days, that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably repulsive, she responds by running away from her marriage and her life—a life that, on the outside, looks like middle-class success.

“An exemplary literary rebel.” —Sarah Kerr, The New York Review of Books “[Bolaño] demonstrates . . . what is possible in fiction—which is to say, anything.” —William Deresiewicz, The New Republic Now I’m a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime. So...

Lumpers is a family story, or rather, it’s a story about what constitutes a family, a lot like what constitutes a rock-and-roll band: If it works, it’s worth it, all other expectations be damned. The principal lumpers, Steph Abrams and Tony Zimbarco, chance to meet in Tripoli, Pennsylvania, in 1979, and commence assembling their ad hoc family piece by piece. Before long they are a full fledged unit, with a matriarch, of sorts, a patriarch, certainly, a designated pet, habits, rituals, even their own holiday. But it is in no way a textbook family, would never be sanctioned.

Det är 1899. Elvaåriga Elin Andersson och hennes familj har det inte lätt. De riskerar att förlora sitt torp om inte styvfadern har råd att behålla det, och då måste familjen emigrera till Amerika. Det skulle innebära att Elin aldrig får träffa sin bästa vän igen, och det kan hon inte låta hända. Elin lägger därför upp en plan. En plan som kanske kan rädda familjen, och deras hem. Hon tänker ge sig av i smyg och sedan tillbringa sommaren med att samla in tillräckligt med pengar för att kunna behålla familjetorpet.