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Strike A Light, The Bushranger, And Other Australian Tales / Marcie Muir
Titre : Strike A Light, The Bushranger, And Other Australian Tales Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Marcie Muir, Auteur Editeur : London : Hamish Hamilton Année de publication : 1972 Importance : 149 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 024102241x Langues : Anglais Langues originales : Anglais Nature du document : Conte, fable, mythes et légendes Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité Date d'acquisition SEV00005092 C MUI Livre de fiction Biblioteca della scuola secondaria English Disponible 15/11/2013 The old man dies / Georges Simenon
Titre : The old man dies Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Georges Simenon, Auteur ; Bernard Frechtman, Traducteur Editeur : London : Hamish Hamilton Année de publication : 1967 Importance : 144 p Langues : Anglais Langues originales : Français Résumé : This is a story of Les Halles in Paris, the old marketplace torn down in 1970. It is the story of Auguste Mature who comes to Paris and opens a restaurant called Chez l’Auvergnat and prospers. With supreme economy Simenon creates what is virtually a two generation family saga in his usual scope of 120 pages. Auguste grows old, still vain of his virility, mustache and muscles. He stays in close touch with other shopkeepers from his district of the Auvergne. His health is poor now, and he is on a strict regime set by his doctor which he rebels against when he can. His wife Eugénie, whom he married when she was sixteen, has grown old too, and has lost her reason, spending her time in a dream world where no one can contact her. Auguste has three sons. The eldest, Ferdinand, has become a magistrate, though he and his wife and children have to struggle on a low salary to survive. The second son, Antoine, works with his father in the restaurant, and has become his partner. The youngest, Bernard, is a wastrel living on borrowed money.
Both Ferdinand and Bernard have grown apart from their family: involved with their own affairs, they seldom have time to visit. With loving detail, Simenon gives the daily routine of Antoine and his wife Fernande. They rise at five, Antoine does the shopping then sets the menu. He is as well known and liked in the area as his father was before him. The routine of preparing food, greeting customers, ordering supplies, dealing with staff, give an extremely realistic flavour to the story. The other brothers are treated with as much detail. We understand their life and their values and concerns. Then, quite suddenly, Auguste has a stroke and dies.
The brothers and their families gather to plan the funeral. Ferdinand and Bernard realise for the first time that the restaurant is a prosperous business, and that their father has been putting substantial sums of money away for years, and that therefore there is an inheritance for them. Both are needy men, and the realisation slowly affects their judgment till they turn against their brother Antoine, suspicious he is trying to defraud them.
Nature du document : Roman Genre : Récit de vie/Sentimental Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité Date d'acquisition SEV00005850 R SIM Livre de fiction Biblioteca della scuola secondaria English Disponible 31/01/2014 White teeth / Zadie Smith
Titre : White teeth Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Zadie Smith, Auteur Editeur : London : Hamish Hamilton Année de publication : 2011 Importance : 542 p Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-241-95457-7 Note générale : Originally published: 2000. Langues : Anglais Langues originales : Anglais Résumé : At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England's irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn't quite match her name (Jamaican for "no problem"). Samad's late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal's every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith. Set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence Nature du document : Roman Genre : Fait de société/Psychologique/Récit de vie Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité Date d'acquisition SEV00005860 R SMI Livre de fiction Biblioteca della scuola secondaria English Disponible 31/01/2014