Ergebnis für "The Look" in Literatur & Belletristik

“Relentlessly fun to read.”—Dave Eggers A collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut...

Jimmy Porter barely ekes out a living running a candy stall by day and playing jazz trumpet by night. Although he usually takes his frustrations out on his emotionless wife, Jimmy's scathing tongue and self-loathing seem destined to destroy everything. Set in the UK at the dawn of the '60s social unrest, this savage morality tale spawned the phrase “angry young man".

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Pictures and The Last One at the Wedding comes a new supernatural thriller about a young woman pet-sitting a cat with a mysterious secret. This program is read by award-winning narrator Stephanie Németh-Parker. Meet Penny Padgett, a...

When Lady Olivia Gosling finds the Book of Love in a musty bookshop, she is most eager to try out its love "recipes" on someone safe. Did she say safe? Well, Beast isn't really safe, but with her odious guardian about to marry her off to one of his unsavory friends, Olivia needs her childhood friend to fall in love with her...fast. If Beast can love her, then any man she chooses will surely do the same. Alexander Beastling, Duke of Hartford, is known as Beast among the ton. He is big and muscled, and there is a dark aura of mystery about him that he makes no effort to dispel.

From beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune comes The Stars Look Like Home, a funny and moving adventure novel about finding one’s place in the universe from the perspective of a dog. A promise: The dog does not die in this. As a puppy, Burke’s mother told him that dogs' lives...

Dazzlingly rich, lyrical and elegiac, Thomas Wolfe’s vibrant autobiographical first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, follows the story of Eugene Gant, the ninth and last child born to alcoholic Oliver and go-getting Eliza in the fictional town of Altemont, based on Wolfe’s hometown of Asheville, North Carolina. The novel recounts Eugene’s early life, up to his departure from home at the age of 19.

Forbidden Love in einem wunderschönen italienischen Ort – ein neues Romeo und Julia. Magdalen und Theo haben für ihr Studium das malerische Chivasso, in dem sie zusammen aufgewachsen sind, verlassen. Jahrelang haben sie sich nicht mehr gesehen, erst eine Hochzeitseinladung bringt die beiden zurück – dorthin, wo ihnen alles so vertraut ist und sich gleichzeitig alles verändert hat. Sie versuchen sich voneinander fernzuhalten, denn Magdalen ist die beste Freundin von Theos kleiner Schwester und sie dürfen sich nicht verlieben.

Ich hatte das Ziel klar vor Augen. Eirene Jensen – bildhübsch, rothaarig und furchtlos. Genau meine Kragenweite. Doch durch einen dummen Zufall habe ich in der Dunkelheit ihrer Freundin Audrey aufgelauert und als ich meinen Fehler bemerkt habe, war es bereits zu spät. Jetzt muss ich entscheiden, was ich mit Audrey machen soll. Bei meinem Job ist es nicht üblich, die Zeugen am Leben zu lassen, und um ehrlich zu sein, ist Audrey auch nicht mein Typ. Sie ist zwar ebenso attraktiv wie Eirene, aber viel verängstigter und beginnt zu zittern, sobald ich den Raum betrete.

Beim nächsten Mal sollte ich mein Opfer nicht mitten in der Nacht aus einer schlecht beleuchteten Gasse entführen, dann sinkt nämlich die Wahrscheinlichkeit, die falsche Frau mitzunehmen. Ich wollte Audrey. Meine Audrey. Stattdessen habe ich jetzt Eirene am Hals, meinen ganz persönlichen Sargnagel. Sie ist widerspenstig, hat ein loses Mundwerk und keinerlei Hemmungen, mir ihre Meinung zu sagen. Ich könnte Eirene gegen Audrey eintauschen, aber irgendwie will ich die kleine Kratzbürste nicht mehr hergeben.

A propulsive tale of intergenerational tension and revenge from the Booker Prize nominee. "Every successful marriage has its own private language." So it is for baby boomer Kate and her beloved architect husband Jack, thirty years into their seemingly idyllic metropolitan North London life. And...

From the Booker Prize longlisted author of The Wall, comes his first novel in eight years. What if the year's most talked about TV show was all about your marriage? Kate, thirty years into her marriage, has a seemingly idyllic metropolitan, North London life. Phoebe, a young screenwriter, is the...

In a near future, the air pollution is so bad that everyone wears gas masks. The infant mortality rate is soaring, and birth defects, new diseases, and physical ailments of all kinds abound. The water is undrinkable - unless you're poor and have no choice. Large corporations fighting over profits from gas masks, drinking water, and clean food tower over an ineffectual, corrupt government.

A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea—a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation—this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway. Told...

The night after her father's funeral, Claire meets Lucas in a bar. Lucas doesn't know it, but it's not a chance meeting. One thoughtless mistyped email has put him in the crosshairs of an extremely put-out serial killer. But before they make eye contact, before Claire lets him buy her a drink, even before she takes him home and carves him up into little pieces, something about that night is very wrong. Because someone is watching Claire. Someone who is about to discover her murderous little hobby.

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.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful and Dear Edward, a novel set in Flannery O'Connor's hometown of Milledgeville, and a tragedy that forever alters the town and the author herself "A wholly believable world shaped by duty, small pleasures, and fateful choices."—O...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts to rest they become caught up in a train of...

In Summit Falls, silence isn’t just a habit. It’s survival. When a young woman’s death is quietly closed as an accident, most of the town accepts the explanation without question. They always do. The sheriff signs the report. The town doctor confirms the cause. Life moves on. But reporter Elle Jensen sees something others refuse to see. A detail that doesn’t fit. A wound no one wants to explain. A story buried beneath years of carefully protected secrets. As Elle begins asking questions, the walls around her begin to close in. Doors stop opening. Phone calls go unanswered.

'Increasingly terrifying comic strips and haunting woodcut illustrations accentuate the tale's sinister undertones... by turns cozy, creepy, and comedic' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY A simple cat-sitting job becomes a living nightmare in the new illustrated horror novel by the New York Times bestselling...

Thomas Wolfe’s first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is at once a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story and a dark novel depicting a cynical post-war world view. The book follows the life of Eugene Gant, a young man driven by passion, intellect, and a search for something greater than himself. His earliest years in rural North Carolina include a wonderful education in poetry and literature against the backdrop of a loving, but tumultuous family life.