Huit vies. Huit noms, à peine écrits en titre des chapitres, déjà tombés en désuétude. Pierre Michon pénètre les vies de ses ancêtres, anodines, infimes, parcellaires : minuscules. Malgré ou à cause de l'insuffisance des existences, l'écrivain défriche, le temps de l'écriture, ces vains terrains vagues qu'envahissent à nouveau les ...more
Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" scandalised French bourgeois society of the time with its shocking depiction of an adulteress, Emma Bovary, and her lascivious liaisons. The 19th-century press denounced both the book and its author as corrupting influences. History has exonerated Flaubert and exposed the hypocrisy of a society that would deny the existen...more
Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor of the 32nd century. And since Illyrion is the element most needed for space travel, Lorq von Ray is plenty willing to fly through the core of a recently imploded sun in order to obtain se...more
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards"One of the masters of modern science fiction."--The Washington Post Book World Eight-year-old Horty Bluett has never known love. His adoptive parents are violent; his classmates are cruel. So he runs away from home and joins a carnival. Performing alongside the fireaters, sna...more
Albert Einstein's groundbreaking scientific discoveries made possible the creation of the most terrible weapon the world had ever known. But he made another discovery that he chose to reveal to no one—to keep from human hands a power that dwarfed the atomic bomb. When twelve-year-old Daphne Marrity takes a videotape labeled Pee-wee's Big Adven...more
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