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By François Rioux. 2014
" Tu vis à une époque intéressante, quelle malédiction, ça grouille, ça bruit, tu t'étourdis dans le mauvais film, une…
rose de papier à la boutonnière. Tout le monde veut te souffler sa petite idée, tu as l'écoute un rien complaisante, tu traînes du papier à musique, au cas où; on fait ce qu'on peut avec ce qu'on a, et tout ce qu'on a c'est le bruit, c'est bien ça? Parle dans la tempête, voir. Une toune dans la tête, si tu la chantes, va-t-elle s'en aller? L'air est plus clair en hiver, alors les sons voyagent mieux, non? Il y aura des questions, tu prendras le métro, faut quand même vivre aussi, tu penses à un sous-marin, le son se diffuse autrement dans l'eau - un jour tu te feras pousser des ailes, tu planeras sur les ondes grises, les ondes bleues. " -- 4e de couv.By Roger Des Roches. 2013
" Ce lieu touffu dans lequel nous entrons, vaste, furieux, peuplé d'êtres et d'idées et d'images, une cathédrale de mots,…
cette Cathédrale de tout, là où ça s'affronte et se bouscule sur la route vers le sens. L'histoire, des histoires, une et mille et mille, comme une collection de mondes aux personnages étonnés. Des tableaux habités, hantés, foisonnants, furieux. La vie dans des souffles. " -- 4e de couv.By Laurent Theillet. 2015
Les poèmes ne me font pas peur est le récit atypique d'une adolescente mordue de poésie. Accessible et captivant, il…
brise d'un coup les idées préconçues que les adolescents peuvent se faire du genre poétique. Écrit dans une langue belle et imagée, ce récit fulgurant n'a rien de rébarbatif. Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. 2015.By Johanne Gagné, Jean Morin. 2008
"La forêt... un univers d'une grande richesse, malheureusement menacé. D'où l'importance de le faire connaître et apprécier des petits comme…
des grands, qui prendront un plaisir toujours renouvelé à trouver les réponses à ces devinettes, à réciter ces poèmes, à sourire à ces clins d'oeil d'humour, à admirer ces images pleines de vie, de joie et du mouvement des feuilles d'automne !" -- 4e de couv.By Edward Lear, Stéphane Jorisch, Lucie Papineau. 2008
Sire Hibou et dame Chat, un grand poème de la littérature anglaise (The Owl and the Pussycat, d'Edward Lear), met…
en scène l'histoire d'amour incongrue entre deux êtres mal assortis. Sur fond de tolérance, cette folle romance est brillamment illustrée par le talentueux Stéphane Jorisch et devient un véritable régal pour les yeux et pour l'âme. -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The owl and the pussycat.By Margaret Atwood. 2005
Penelope is in Hades recalling the events of her life in this contemporary retelling of the ancient Greek tale of…
the faithful wife of Odysseus and her twelve hanged maids. 2005.By Corky Deir Rawson. 1992
By Jacques Boulerice. 1972
By Edgar Allan Poe. 1963
By Aline Martinet. 1972
By Louis-Gilles Molyneux. 1991
By Véronique Grenier. 2020
Dans Colle-moi, on suit les réflexions d'un jeune garçon dont les parents se sont séparés. Désespérément à la recherche du…
lien familial perdu, l'enfant partage des états d'âme nuancés, riches. On y reconnaitra l'écriture franche et sensible de Véronique Grenier (Hiroshimoi, Chenous, Carnet de parc) qui n'hésite pas à décortiquer les émotions au moyen d'images étonnantes et toutes simples.By Neal Shusterman. 2011
Award-winning author Shusterman delivers a suspenseful and chilling psychological thriller about friendship, family, and the sacrifices we make for the…
people we love. Some violence. For high school and adult readersBy Gilles Lacombe. 2022
Circé des hirondelles est centré sur les rapports entre deux personnages : un « on » ou « nous »,…
celui qui tient le discours dans le texte et un « elle », le personnage du titre. Les rapports multiples des 2 personnages commencent à la première strophe du premier poème et aboutissent peut-être au poème 47 qui exprime une fusion des 2 personnages.By Thomas Heise. 2013
"A deeply melancholic and moving work of art."-Carole MasoEvery writer is a man or woman resuscitated, brought back for a…
little while before being dismissed. While I was hovering in bed barely asleep, my father would sneak in to check on me. Sometimes he came in the shape of a stranger, but his black eyes with a mark of sorrow never changed. When I was younger I could run so fast my shadow would fly off me. I would leave it behind in the city where I was born. There was no city, only my mother's arms. Dear grief, hermetic as a goat's skull. The future where you are, but how to get there except waiting another year.The narrator in Thomas Heise's adventurous novel tries to fuse together his present and past, abandonment by his parents, childhood in an orphanage, and a strong sense of disconnection from his adult life. The story is written in columnar, densely lyrical sections, looping and vertiginously dropping into the speaker's past, across several cities in Europe. W.G. Sebald, Samuel Beckett, and Michelangelo Antonioni's films come to mind, especially L'Avventura and Red Desert. Heise's language is precise (dirigibles "no larger than a fennel seed") and his lush, unfolding sentences offer a great, gorgeous pleasure. Moth is a haunting, one-of-a-kind novel that will stay with the reader for a long, long time.Thomas Heise is the author of Horror Vacui: Poems and Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture. He teaches at McGill University.By Robin Robertson. 2018
A stunning modern epic that innovatively combines noir narrative and lyrical poetry, The Long Take follows Walker, a survivor of…
D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.Walker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can’t return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for freedom, anonymity, and repair. As he finds his way from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco, we witness a crucial period of fracture in American history, one that also allowed film noir to flourish. The Dream had gone sour but — as those dark, classic movies made clear — the country needed outsiders to study and dramatize its new anxieties. Both an outsider and, gradually, an insider, Walker finds work as a journalist, and tries to piece his life together as America is beginning to come apart: riven by social and racial divisions, spiraling corruption, and the collapse of the inner cities.An epic for the modern world, it is a tale of damaged people trying to find kindness in the world, of cynicism and paranoia, and of redemption. Robin Robertson's fluid verse pans with filmic immediacy across the postwar urban scene — and into the heart of an unforgettable character. The Long Take is a genre-crossing work of stunning originality, beauty, and immediacy.By Alex Michaelides. 2020
We all keep secrets. Even from ourselves. 'A thrilling, heart-in-throat ride' STEPHEN FRY 'An absolute jaw-dropper' LUCY FOLEY 'Elegant, sinister,…
stylish' CHRIS WHITAKER 'Grips from start to finish' HARRIET TYCE * * * * * From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together Greek mythology, murder, and obsession...Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike - particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens.Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana's niece Zoe, is found murdered in Cambridge.Mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, quickly suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets, and beneath the ancient traditions, lies something sinister. And she becomes convinced that, despite his alibi, Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder. But why would the professor target one of his students? And why does he keep returning to the rites of Persephone, the maiden, and her journey to the underworld?When another body is found, Mariana's obsession with proving Fosca's guilt spirals out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her closest relationships. But Mariana is determined to stop this killer, even if it costs her everything - including her own life. * * * * *'There's definitely a flavour of The Secret History to Alex Michaelides's second novel ... The Maidens is a compelling read, and delivers its Hellenic thrills in style.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'A book which screams 'make me into a TV series' ... his writing, especially his characterisation, possesses a unique sparkle and more promise than most other writers.' DAILY MAIL 'Nothing short of genius.' WOMAN & HOME 'Elegant, sinister, stylish and thrilling, The Maidens answers the weighty question, how do you go about following one of the biggest thrillers of the past decade? You write something even better.' CHRIS WHITAKER, bestselling author of WE BEGIN AT THE END 'Grips from intriguing start to horrifying finish ... A brilliant achievement.' HARRIET TYCE 'A page-turner of the first order' DAVID BALDACCI 'The greatest campus novel since The Secret History by Donna Tartt ... with a climatic twist that you will NEVER see coming.' TONY PARSONS 'A stunning psychological thriller ... Michaelides is on a roll.' PUBLISHERS WEEKLYBy Alex Michaelides. 2020
We all keep secrets. Even from ourselves.'A thrilling, heart-in-throat ride' STEPHEN FRY'An absolute jaw-dropper' LUCY FOLEY'Elegant, sinister, stylish' CHRIS WHITAKER'Grips…
from start to finish' HARRIET TYCE* * * * *YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN THE MAIDENS.The Maidens are Cambridge University's most exclusive society, whose members are selected by the charismatic professor of Greek tragedy, Edward Fosca.A SECRETIVE SET OF THE BRIGHTEST, MOST CAPTIVATING STUDENTS.When one of the Maidens is murdered, grieving young therapist Mariana Andros is drawn back to the idyllic campus where she was once herself a student.THE GROUP FROM WHICH EACH VICTIM WILL BE CHOSEN.Because beneath the university's ancient traditions and beauty is a web of secrets, jealousy and lies. And when the killer threatens the person she loves most, Mariana will give anything to stop them - even her own life... From the #1 global bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together Greek mythology, murder, and obsession...* * * * *'There's definitely a flavour of The Secret History to Alex Michaelides's second novel ... The Maidens is a compelling read, and delivers its Hellenic thrills in style.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'A book which screams 'make me into a TV series' ... his writing, especially his characterisation, possesses a unique sparkle and more promise than most other writers.' DAILY MAIL'Nothing short of genius.' WOMAN & HOME'How do you go about following one of the biggest thrillers of the past decade? You write something even better.' CHRIS WHITAKER, bestselling author of WE BEGIN AT THE END'Grips from intriguing start to horrifying finish ... A brilliant achievement.'HARRIET TYCE'A page-turner of the first order'DAVID BALDACCI'The greatest campus novel since The Secret History by Donna Tartt ... with a climatic twist that you will NEVER see coming.'TONY PARSONS'A stunning psychological thriller ... Michaelides is on a roll.'PUBLISHERS WEEKLY