Michel Lederer Libros

Udalls turbulente Geschichten sind im kargen Südwesten der USA angesiedelt. Sie zeigen das Leben der Menschen dort, wo Touristenmassen durch Indianerreservate und Westernstädte geschleust werden. Udall erzählt mit Humor und einem feinen Gespür für die Besonderheit der Menschen dort. Udalls Figuren sind allesamt Antihelden, vom Leben nicht gerade begünstigt, deren Lebensstil und Sprache sich kaum von ihrer unwirtlichen Umgebung unterscheiden. Sie schuften und trinken, fluchen und pflegen Freundschaften zu Truthahngeiern und anderen Kreaturen. Es sind einfache, skurrile Typen, die oft bissig von den Abgründen ihres Lebens im tiefen Westen berichten. Die Geschichten bilden auf ganz eigene Art das Leben fernab der schillernden Metropolen des American Way of Life ab. Dieser Band versammelt elf der schönsten und besten Erzählungen, die in Amerika in verschiedenen Zeitschriften erschienen und mit Begeisterung aufgenommen wurden.

Connor Ford es un paracaidista de fuego. Un día, mientras interviene en las montañas de Montana, devastadas por un monstruoso incendio, fotografía a un espléndido alce cuyos cuernos arden como un árbol. Al revelar la imagen, se da cuenta de que el animal lo observa de manera extraña. Connor interpreta esto como un terrible presagio: el accidente que pronto dejará ciego a Ed Tullis, su amigo de toda la vida. Pero lo peor está por venir. Desde que se confirma la ceguera de Ed, el corazón de Connor está hecho cenizas, dividido entre su amor imposible por Julia, la prometida de Ed, y su leal amistad. Connor decide huir. La bestia en llamas ha sellado para siempre el destino de estos tres seres; lo perseguirá, incluso al fin del mundo.

From the award-winning author of the Native American classic Fools Crow , a richly crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of storytelling and the historical imagination. Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and journeys from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the back streets of nineteenth-century Marseille. Left behind in a Marseille hospital after a serious injury while the show travels on, he is forced to remake his life alone in a strange land. He struggles to adapt as well as he can, while holding on to the memories and traditions of life on the Plains and eventually falling in love. But none of the worlds the Indian has known can prepare him for the betrayal that follows. This is a story of the American Indian that we have seldom seen: a stranger in a strange land, often an invisible man, loving, violent, trusting, wary, protective, and defenseless against a society that excludes him but judges him by its rules. At once epic and intimate, The Heartsong of Charging Elk echoes across time, geography, and cultures.

Britt Anderson, productrice de télévision à Boston, apprend le décès de sa soeur Greta dans un incendie. Les deux femmes ne s'étaient pas revues depuis la mort de leur père et une rupture orageuse il y a onze ans. L'enquête conclut à un crime, les soupçons se portent sur Alec, le mari de Greta, qui est finalement arrêté. Mais face à l'incompétence de la police, Britt se lance dans l'enquête...

A New York Times bestseller: from a luminous storyteller, a highly anticipated new novel about the American family writ large. “Udall masterfully portrays the hapless foibles and tragic yearnings of our fellow humans.”—San Francisco Chronicle Golden Richards, husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is having the mother of all midlife crises. His construction business is failing, his family has grown into an overpopulated mini-dukedom beset with insurrection and rivalry, and he is done in with grief: due to the accidental death of a daughter and the stillbirth of a son, he has come to doubt the capacity of his own heart. Brady Udall, one of our finest American fiction writers, tells a tragicomic story of a deeply faithful man who, crippled by grief and the demands of work and family, becomes entangled in an affair that threatens to destroy his family’s future. Like John Irving and Richard Yates, Udall creates characters that engage us to the fullest as they grapple with the nature of need, love, and belonging. Beautifully written, keenly observed, and ultimately redemptive, The Lonely Polygamist is an unforgettable story of an American family—with its inevitable dysfunctionality, heartbreak, and comedy—pushed to its outer limits.