Ergebnis für "The Cinema" in Coming of Age

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey.

This tender, exuberant novel about a young man navigating coming of age in ’90s San Francisco is for readers of Garth Greenwell and André Aciman. Walter Simmering is searching for love and purpose in a city he doesn’t realize is fading away—San Francisco in 1993, at the height of the AIDS...

Giovanni Diotallevi ha sedici anni quando suo padre gli comunica la grande notizia. Ha ottenuto per lui un colloquio con un gerarca, una persona importante. Se saprà fargli una buona impressione, per Giovanni si apriranno le porte del meraviglioso luogo che il Duce ha voluto costruire in fondo alla Tuscolana, una piccola metropoli destinata a creare pellicole che incanteranno il mondo intero.

L'année du Bac, la meilleure période de notre vie en même temps que la pire. "Je m’étais façonné un faux moi intégralement taillé pour lui plaire. Elle avait adoré Le cercle des poètes disparus ? C’est dingue, c’était mon film culte. Elle aimait Sting et surtout son dernier album en date … Nothing Like the Sun ? Je vénérais cet album, de manière inconditionnelle. Elle admirait le chanteur pour son implication dans la défense de la forêt amazonienne aux côtés du chef Raoni ? J’étais à deux doigts de venir au lycée le lendemain avec un plateau de terre cuite coincé dans la lèvre inférieure…"

Brought to you by Penguin. From the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England. In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for...

“An ambitious and warmhearted first novel” (Entertainment Weekly) from Owen King—the epic tale of a young man coming to terms with his life in the aftermath of the spectacularly bizarre failure of his first film. SAM DOLAN is a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and...