Voici un livre qui était attendu au tournant. Pas vraiment pour ses qualités littéraires, mais plutôt parce que Frédéric Beigbeder demeure un phénomène médiatique. Animateur de télévision, éditeur, chroniqueur qui ferait et déferait les réputations. Un phénomène qui avait annoncé son projet : puiser dans l'attentat du 11 septembr...more
The best-selling relationship book of all time- over seven million copies sold world wide to date- in a freshly designed new format. Learn how to create understanding and communication between the sexes from this classic and authoritative guide. First published in 1993, this book has become an international publishing phenomenon and is one of the ...more
Terry Zwigoff's movie of Daniel Clowes' extraordinary graphic novel "Ghost World" has brought Clowes hordes of new readers. Every one of them will be eagerly awaiting the adventures of Clowes' new hero: David Boring, a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things b...more
Dan Clowes described the story in Ghost World as the examination of "the lives of two recent high school graduates from the advantaged perch of a constant and (mostly) undetectable eavesdropper, with the shaky detachment of a scientist who has grown fond of the prize microbes in his petri dish". From this perch comes a revelation about adolescence ...more
Calvino shows that the novel, far from being a dead form, is capable of endless mutations. If on a winter’s night a traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book