Ergebnis für "Das kleine Haus am Sonnenhang" in Literatur & Belletristik

Eine Geschichte über die Verbindung von Lebenskunst und schöpferischer Kraft, eine kleine Philosophie der Gelassenheit und des stillen Glücks Eine kleine Philosophie der Gelassenheit und des stillen Glücks: Alex Capus erzählt eine persönliche Geschichte über die Liebe zur Literatur und ein Leben im Einklang mit sich selbst. – Es sind die neunziger Jahre in Italien. In den Kneipen wird geraucht, an den Tankstellen wird man bedient. Alex Capus bezieht ein einsam stehendes Steinhaus am Sonnenhang eines Weinbergs.

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I.

In her best-selling debut, Commencement, J. Courtney Sullivan explored the complicated and contradictory landscape of female friendship. Now, in her highly anticipated second novel, Sullivan takes us into even richer territory. For the Kellehers, Maine is a place where children run in packs, showers are taken outdoors, and old Irish songs are sung around a piano. By turns wickedly funny and achingly sad, Maine unveils the sibling rivalry, alcoholism, social climbing, and Catholic guilt at the center of one family, along with the abiding, often irrational love that keeps them coming back....