Ergebnis für "The Farewell" in Coming of Age

The master of American fiction returns to the territory of his beloved classic, Dandelion Wine—a sequel 50 years in the making Some summers refuse to end . . . October 1st, the end of summer. The air is still warm, but fall is in the air. Thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding, his younger...

Josie Sullivan adores her Cedar Key home. It's been the ideal place to raise her daughter, Orli, who's just turning 16. Now that Josie has realized her dream of becoming a registered nurse, she's been offered the perfect job too - helping Dr. Simon Mancini run his new practice. Until the clinic opens, Josie is filling in at Yarning Together, where she launches a series of knitting classes for men. Yet for all the vibrant changes, there are some tangled threads.

A young woman runs away from home and finds love in the most unexpected place In Meg Rosoff's fourth novel, a young woman in 1850s rural England runs away from home on horseback the day she's to marry her childhood sweetheart. Pell is from a poor preacher's family and she's watched her mother...

Before Mark's senior year at a prestigious private high school, his family moves to a small town in rural South Carolina. Haunted by a history of sporadic "behavior disorder," Mark's future hangs by a thread. In Jonesville, Mark must choose between trying to fit into a culture he despises or befriending another outsider- an Indian teacher who left Connecticut to remedy his wife's chronic illness. What unfolds is a series of discussions, reflections, and romances that force him to forsake sarcasm for sincerity.

Ésta es la lección o el recordatorio de Carolina y otras despedidas. Aquí no hay grandes amores tormentosos, viajes de descubrimiento a tierras exóticas, ni oscuros crímenes por resolver, sino sentimientos de los que no hablamos. Lo que el lector encontrará en cada uno de estos relatos es una ventana a un mundo privado: tan ordinario y excéntrico como es cada una de nuestras vidas.