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« Elle sort de la forêt seule sur son cheval. Âgée de dix-sept ans, dans la froide bruine de mars, Marie, qui vient de France ».
Que disent les livres d'histoire sur Marie de France ? Qu'elle est la première femme de lettres à écrire en français. Pourtant, sa vie reste un mystère. Matrix lève le voile sur ce destin hors du commun.
Expulsée de la cour par Aliénor d'Aquitaine, la « bâtarde au sang royal » est contrainte à l'exil dans une abbaye d'Angleterre. Loin de la détruire, cette mise à l'écart suscite chez elle une révélation : elle se vouera dès lors à la poursuite de ses idéaux, à sa passion du texte et des mots. Dans un monde abîmé par la violence, elle incarne la pureté, transcendant les obstacles grâce à la sororité.
Moderne, frondeuse et habitée par une grande puissance créative, Marie de France devient l'héroïne absolue, le symbole des luttes d'émancipation bien avant que le mot « féminisme » existe. -
Lotto et Mathilde sont beaux, séduisants, follement amoureux. Promis à un avenir radieux, ils se marient très vite. Dix ans plus tard, Lotto est devenu un dramaturge au succès planétaire ; Mathilde, dans l'ombre, l'a toujours soutenu. Leur couple est l'image type d'un partenariat réussi. Mais les histoires d'amour parfaites cachent souvent des secrets qu'il vaudrait mieux taire...
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Arcadia est une communauté hippie des années 1960 qui se veut une famille élargie, accueillante et libertaire. Mais l'utopie cache une face plus sombre : les parents négligent les enfants, la drogue domine les esprits. Il ne reste plus rien des idéaux des premiers jours.
Ridley grandit au sein de ce monde fermé sur lui-même, et il y reste jusqu'à l'implosion de la communauté. Comment se construire hors d'Arcadia ? Comment supporter les immeubles new-yorkais, gagner sa vie, devenir père et accepter le réel ? Dans ce roman initiatique, Lauren Groff retrace le destin d'un jeune homme qui doit se défaire de ses illusions, sans oublier de poursuivre inlassablement le bonheur. -
De retour à Templeton, Willie va de découverte en découverte. Tandis que le village est chamboulé par l'apparition d'un monstre dans le lac de Glimmerglass, sa mère lui révèle un terrible secret. La jeune femme poursuit alors la fabuleuse histoire de ses ancêtres et plonge dans un passé tumultueux au rythme des légendes et des souvenirs familiaux. Les monstres ne sont pas toujours ceux que l'on croit...
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Une panthère rôde, un ouragan se déclare, deux petites filles sont abandonnées sur une île... derrière le paysage de carte postale, la faune et la flore parfois hostiles de la Floride influent sur le destin des personnages de ce recueil. Mais Lauren Groff semble vouloir nous dire autre chose : les menaces les plus dangereuses, et les perturbations les plus puissantes viennent moins de l'extérieur que des recoins les plus isolés de notre intimité.
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A really powerful novel' President Obama AMAZON.COM's 2015 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR A FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Every story has two sides.
Every relationship has two perspectives.
And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets.
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Florida is a magnificent collection, executed with tremendous depth and precision, unsettling in the best possible way. Lauren Groff is a virtuoso.' Emily St John Mandel, author of Station Eleven In her vigorous and moving new book, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which storms, snakes and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats and mysteries are of a human, emotional and psychological nature. Among those navigating it all are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple; a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character a steely and conflicted wife and mother.
The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida - its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind - becomes its gravitational centre: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury - the moments that make us alive. Startling, precise and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement.
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New York Times bestseller Lauren Groff returns with an electric collection of stories as propulsive and consuming as her novel Fates and Furies . Lauren Groff is one of the most important authors writing today, and Florida -- her first new book since her "clear the ground triumph"* Fates and Furies -- is an electrifying, expanding read. Over a decade ago, Groff moved to her adopted home state of Florida. The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida -- its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind -- becomes its gravitational center. Storms, snakes, and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats and mysteries are of a human, emotional, and psychological nature. In " The Midnight Zone ," a woman finds herself injured and isolated in a confined space with her children, danger literally prowling outside the door, and must confront what it is she is really afraid of. " Above and Below " follows a young homeless woman as she moves from one Florida beach town to another, finding increasingly precarious ways to survive. And " Yport " brilliantly explores the alternating fulfillment and anxiety of modern marriage and motherhood, all the more apparent when removed from routine American life. Groff's evocative storytelling and knife-sharp intelligence first transport the reader, then jolt us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, Groff pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury -- the moments that make us alive. Vigorous, startling, precise, and moving, Florida is a magnificent achievement. (* Washington Post )
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Dans l'ombre de ses héroïnes, la conteuse veille à nous prendre au piège, au hasard des époques et des lieux.
Accident, perte de l'être aimé, rencontres fortuites : du New York des années 20 à la France de l'Occupation, ce sont des vies entières qui traversent ces neuf portraits de femmes fortes ou vulnérables, mais toujours envoûtantes.
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Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of four novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies and Matrix, and two short story collections, Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in the New Yorker, the Atlantic and elsewhere, and she was named one of Granta''s 2017 Best Young American Novelists.>
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Willie Cooper arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York in the wake of a disastrous affair with her much older, married archaeology professor. That same day, the discovery of a prehistoric monster in the lake brings a media frenzy to the quiet, picture-perfect town her ancestors founded.
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THE BEST SHORT STORIES 2023 - THE O. HENRY PRIZE WINNERS
Lauren Groff, Jenny Minton Quigley
- Anchor books usa
- 12 Septembre 2023
- 9780593470596
The prestigious annual story anthology, now in its third year with a new guest editor format and with a new track record as a national bestseller Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year''s edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Lauren Groff;has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Groff, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction.;AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL.
