'Ah, the taste and feel of blood when all passion and greed is sharpened in that one desire!' Lestat: a vampire - but very much not the conventional undead, for Lestat is the truly alive. Lestat is vivid, ecstatic, stagestruck, and in his extravagant story he plunges from the lasciviousness of eighteenth-century Paris to the demonic Egypt of prehis...more
Christian Kracht reagiert angeblich allergisch auf das Wort "Pop". Komisch, denn immerhin hat er mit seinem Deutschlandreise-Roman Faserland vor sechs Jahren einen regelrechten Boom junger deutscher Popliteratur losgetreten. Inzwischen ist die Welle abgeflaut -- und es sieht so aus, als wolle nun niemand dabei gewesen sein. Sein Co-Modell Stuckrad-...more
Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father—a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye—for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress, Elsa. Cécil...more
This novel plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic and the real and the imagined dissolve into one another. One man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow world of lies, illusions and unexpected love.
This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman?s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway?s preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to reveal much more. For it is the feeling behind these daily events that gives Mrs. Dalloway its te...more
Mann's first novel was unusual for its time (1901) because, instead of focusing on a single character (as in the popular Bildüngsroman), it was a family saga, a chronicle of the Buddenbrook family over four generations. This large and multi-faceted family, its business successes combined with an intense interest in music and the arts, is shown at ...more
"Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love." The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she choose No...more
No Messages
Buy from Amazon
