Title : The Last Day of a Condemned Man - Victor Hugo - Book Summary : Edition enriched by Roger Borderie including a preface and a file on the novel. Victor Hugo was twenty-six years old when he wrote, in two and a half months, The Last Day of a Condemned Man, a novel that undoubtedly constitutes the most vehement indictment ever made against the death penalty. We will not know who the Condemned Man is, we will know nothing of the crime he committed. For the author's purpose is not to enter into a debate but to expose the horror and absurdity of the situation in which any man finds himself whose neck is going to be slit in a few hours. This novel - with its often strangely modern overtones - has such a power of suggestion that the reader ends up identifying with the narrator, whose anguish and vain hopes he shares in turn. Until the very last lines of the book, Victor Hugo's genius makes us participate in a frightened anticipation: that of the grating sound of the blade rushing into the rails of the guillotine. Anyone who has read this book will never forget this striking lesson in writing and humanity. EAN: 9782070413102 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Billy Straight - Jonathan Kellerman - Book Summary : Billy, a 13-year-old boy who preferred the streets of Los Angeles to the beatings he received at home, saw, at 1 a.m., a young woman stabbed in Griffith Park by a man who then fled in a car with the license plate PLYR 1. The anonymity in which the child found his safety no longer existed because the murderer saw him. Quickly alerted by the park rangers, Detective Petra Connor discovers the identity of the victim, Lisa Ramsey, the ex-wife of a famous television actor. Petra immediately suspects the latter and, more seriously for Billy, realizes that someone saw the crime. Shortly after, in a villa that is falling into ruin, an old lady begins to read the newspaper with an assiduity that greatly surprises her companion... EAN: 9782020486262 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Night Terrors - Jonathan Kellerman - Book Summary : In Los Angeles, the capital of neurosis and violence, the worlds of Dr. Freud and Raymond Chandler have always gone hand in hand. Alex Delaware, Hollywood's most perceptive shrink, knows all about it. It's been ten years since he last saw Melissa Dickinson, the rich little girl who came to confide in him about her childhood terrors and the ordeal of her mother, Gina, who was attacked by a jealous lover and has since suffered from extreme agoraphobia. But these are no longer nightmares: the criminal is out of prison, and Melissa is scared to death once again. To protect her from a horrific plot, Alex reverts to his inner private eye. What the shrink can't solve, the detective might be able to. EAN: 9782266072151 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : After the War - Herve Le Corre - Book Summary : Bordeaux in the 1950s. The Second World War is still fresh in everyone's memory, yet a new, unnamed conflict has already begun: young conscripts are leaving for Algeria. It is in this context that a series of violent events unfold. Commissioner Darlac, who compromised himself during the Occupation, is himself soon caught up in this spiral of violence... EAN: 9782743631550 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sad Tropics - Claude Lévi-Strauss - Book Summary : The founding book of contemporary ethnology that revolutionized 20th-century thinking. Why and how does one become an ethnologist? How do the adventures of the explorer and the research of the scholar integrate and form the experience specific to the ethnologist? These are the questions that the author, a philosopher and moralist as much as an ethnographer, has tried to answer by comparing his sometimes ancient memories, and relating to both Asia and America. Claude Lévi-Strauss thus wishes to reconnect with the tradition of the philosophical journey illustrated by literature from the 16th century to the middle of the 19th century, that is to say before a poorly understood scientific austerity on the one hand, and the shameless taste for the sensational on the other, made us forget that we travel the world, first and foremost, in search of ourselves. EAN: 9782266026123 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Rose of Jericho - Slaughter - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Novel of Sophie Trébuchet - Geneviève Dormann - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724216865 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724209702 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Blue Bicycle - Régine DEFORGES - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724216733 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Kuragin House - Contance Heaven - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nights of Time - Norman Mailer - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724220919 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lost Childhood. Followed by Olivier's Diary - Marie-Paul Armand - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2744134554 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Operation Outbreak - FG Slaughter - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Medici Saga - Volume 1 Contessina - Sarah Frydman - Book Summary : Corruption, assassination, power, passion. These are the key words that have shaped the legendary story of one man, Cosimo de' Medici, and that of his descendants. It is also the story of the Republic of Florence, of its artistic, political, industrial and commercial evolution. A Republic that dominated all of Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. But beyond the intrigues, alliances with the declining aristocracy, political manipulations, Contessina is also and above all a love story, that of Cosimo de Medici and Contessina de Bardi, the first of these extraordinary women who played an essential role in the destiny of the Medici. Passionate about history and music, Sarah Frydman, after studying music, gave up a career as a singer to write. She has already published The Symphony of Destiny and The Lions' Den . EAN: 9782226031303 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Wagon - Chaigneau Jean-François - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724212959 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Conversations and Interviews - Primo Levi - Book Summary : "It is up to the reader to gather, behind the words of these transcriptions, the truth that vibrates in Levi's words and which manifests itself in the double aspect of an unexpected optimism and a lucid pessimism." Marco Belpoliti. When If it is a man it seems , in 1947, he went unnoticed. It would take more than ten years before a new edition revealed Primo Levi not only as a major witness to the Nazi concentration camp universe, but also as a great writer. Primo Levi, who said he owed his literary vocation to Auschwitz, constantly returned to what he had written in his masterpiece. He became a guardian of memory, an interlocutor always ready to illuminate our vision of the camps, of Nazism and anti-Semitism, and to warn against the return of this evil in the same form or in others. In this collection of interviews broadcast on the radio or published in the written press, he delves further into – with his genius for precision, his irony and his lofty perspective – these questions that are at the heart of his work. An opportunity to hear again, one hundred years after his birth, the voice of an author for whom speech was an extension of writing. EAN: 9782221086339 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Moonlight Mile - Dennis Lehane - Book Summary : Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are no longer private investigators. Patrick works for a large surveillance company that refuses to hire him permanently because he's not smooth enough for his boss. He's still consumed by anger at injustices, and perhaps it's this—along with guilt—that drives him to grant the request of Amanda McCready's aunt, Beatrice. Twelve years earlier, he and Angie had investigated the disappearance of little Amanda, but finding the child had ended in a human fiasco... Like Gone, Baby, Gone, Moonlight Mile is a thoroughly contemporary novel that depicts an America in the throes of a serious moral and social crisis. The author of Mystic River and Shutter Island has lost none of his art of metaphor, EAN: 9782743622275 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Midnight on the San Boldo Canal - Donna Leon - Book Summary : In the dead of night in Venice, a teenage girl falls from the San Boldo Bridge into a canal. Unable to swim, Manuela is about to drown when a passerby saves her. But she doesn't escape unscathed, suffering irreversible brain damage that condemns her to forever retain the mind of a child. Fifteen years later, at a charity gala, Brunetti meets Countess Lando-Continui, a wealthy patron of the arts, who turns out to be Manuela's grandmother and asks him to investigate the tragedy. She is convinced that it was not a simple accident. The commissioner hesitates because if it were a crime, the statute of limitations has expired. Guided by curiosity, compassion, and the desire to help an elderly woman wracked with guilt, and incidentally, his mother-in-law's best friend, Brunetti ends up accepting the case. A case that quickly proves to be most disturbing... EAN: 9782702160572 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Dutch Wife - Eric McCormack - Book Summary : Life: A User's Guide “I’ve been wrestling with my bare hands most of my life. […] I’m an ambitious writer. I’ve been trying to escape the idea that women always write about “experience”—within the bounds of what they know—unlike men, who write about the big and bold. Why should a woman be restricted to anything by anyone?” In Why be happy when you can be normal? released in England a few months ago, the character is no longer one. It's the author, Jeanette Winterson. She writes without embellishment the "true novel" of a life: the mystical rigor of a narrow-minded adoptive mother, England in the 1960s, the demons of depression. How does one become a writer when one was destined to enter the clergy? Winterson tells us about her extraordinary journey. In a house forbidden to books, she nevertheless knew how to nourish and preserve the omnipotence of the imagination. This exceptional text is above all the story of a quest for identity, that of Jeanette and, through her, of all the women engaged in the battle for their freedom. Mothers, lovers, friends, writers, role models, adored or hated, Winterson pays homage to them in this memoir of a young girl from the Manchester working class. EAN: 9782757838761 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Why be happy when you can be normal? - Jeanette Winterson - Book Summary : Life: A User's Guide “I’ve been wrestling with my bare hands most of my life. […] I’m an ambitious writer. I’ve been trying to escape the idea that women always write about “experience”—within the bounds of what they know—unlike men, who write about the big and bold. Why should a woman be restricted to anything by anyone?” In Why be happy when you can be normal? released in England a few months ago, the character is no longer one. It's the author, Jeanette Winterson. She writes without embellishment the "true novel" of a life: the mystical rigor of a narrow-minded adoptive mother, England in the 1960s, the demons of depression. How does one become a writer when one was destined to enter the clergy? Winterson tells us about her extraordinary journey. In a house forbidden to books, she nevertheless knew how to nourish and preserve the omnipotence of the imagination. This exceptional text is above all the story of a quest for identity, that of Jeanette and, through her, of all the women engaged in the battle for their freedom. Mothers, lovers, friends, writers, role models, adored or hated, Winterson pays homage to them in this memoir of a young girl from the Manchester working class. EAN: 9782879298702 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Furies - Lauren Groff - Book Summary : Translated from English (United States) by Carine Chichereau. “Marriage is a web of lies. Kind ones, mostly. Of omissions. If you were to express what you think about your spouse on a daily basis, you would tear everything to pieces. She never lied. She just didn't talk about it.” They met at university. They married very quickly. It was 1991. At twenty-two years old, Lotto and Mathilde are beautiful, attractive, madly in love, and seem destined for a bright future. Ten years later, Lotto has become a globally successful playwright, and Mathilde, from the shadows, has always supported him. The couple they form is the epitome of a successful partnership. But perfect love stories often hide secrets that are better left untold. At the end of this novel, the true reason for this seamless couple's existence holds many surprises. EAN: 9782823609455 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Falling Man - Don Delillo - Book Summary : On the morning of September 11, 2001, in Keith's hand, masked in ashes, riddled with shards of glass and back from the dead in his ex-wife Lianne's apartment, lies a briefcase that doesn't belong to him and that his survivor's hand grips, mechanically, with all his strength. While Keith moves closer and further away from another woman he met in the hell of the towers, before deciding to end his life sitting at a gaming table in the Las Vegas desert, Lianne drifts between the worry caused by her own son's fierce and reticent attitude, the writing workshop for Alzheimer's patients she is responsible for, the Falling Man, the performer the police are hunting, the health of her mother who has been living for years an incomprehensible affair with a mysterious European, an art dealer always between two planes, between two worlds... Confronting, with only the weapons of his art, a world in pieces whose representation was lost with the attacks of September 11, Don DeLillo reveals the broken springs of the beautiful human machine - psyche, language and powerless body combined. A journey to the heart of the DNA of our common history, a masterful exploration of the effects and causes of a catastrophe, this novel paves the way to a catharsis that allows us to face Evil in all its inevitable and dazzling advents. EAN: 9782742774296 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Last Night at Twisted River - John Irving - Book Summary : North of the North, in the land of lumberjacks and timber floaters - the log drivers -, once upon a time there was a little lame cook and his twelve-year-old son, an impressionable kid with an imagination populated by indiscreet bears. Their bodyguard was Ketchum, the anarchist ogre, drunkard, cunning, noisy, fake illiterate with incisive intelligence. Like the torrential Twisted River, this tale of merciless revenge takes its reader from ethnic groups to states over three generations, an explosive encounter between East and West, a comedy of culinary manners, a tragedy of badly closed doors between the splendor of a murderous nature and the reckless tranquility of home. A heroic dog, a phantom blue Mustang, an angel landed in the mud: Chef Irving has all the surprises of his consummate art in store for us in a novel that is devoured and savored until the last page. Ice cream bomb for everyone for dessert! EAN: 9782021012835 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Two Widows for a Will - Donna Leon - Book Summary : After leaving her boyfriend during a failed vacation, Anna Maria Giusti returns home. When she picks up her mail from her neighbor Constanza Altavilla, she finds her lying on the floor, her head in a pool of blood. For the coroner, there's no doubt about it: the old woman suffered a heart attack and, in her fall, hit her head on the radiator in her room. Dispatched to the scene, Commissioner Brunetti finds no clear evidence to contradict this hypothesis. Yet he can't accept it. Something else has happened, he has a feeling, but what? To get to the bottom of it, Brunetti delves into Signora Altavilla's life. First, her family, the retirement home where she spent her days, the battered women she took into her home... A complex personality emerges as his unofficial investigation unfolds, rich in secrets. Moreover, each witness seems multiple to him, becoming in turn hero or bandit, victim or executioner. There is no evidence, no straight lines here, everything is tortuous like the alleys of Venice that Brunetti walks to - perhaps - find the truth. EAN: 9782702143742 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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