Resultaten voor 'j torres'

1. Justin Torres

Blackouts

1. Justin Torres

We the Animals American Classics Edition

1. Jen Torres

Colors of Courage

1. Justin , Torres

Blackout. Ediz. italiana

Vincitore del National Book Award. Nel deserto, in un luogo decadente chiamato Il Palazzo, un giovane americano di origini portoricane si presenta al capezzale di un vecchio amico, Juan, per accompagnarlo nei suoi ultimi giorni. I due, una notte dopo l'altra, ripercorrono le loro esistenze condividendo la vergogna di essere cresciuti omosessuali in famiglie in cui non era tollerato. E, parallelamente, discutono di un progetto che Juan vorrebbe lasciare ai posteri: un'opera poderosa, visionaria, che contiene decine di resoconti, voci, storie queer. Così, mentre Juan attende la fine, lui e il narratore rivivono momenti di gioia e di dolore, di paura ed esaltazione, e nel farlo resuscitano amori, sofferenze, paure, ricordi, madri, padri ed eroi minori.

1. Justin , Torres

We the Animals

Three brothers tear their way through childhood - smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from rubbish, hiding when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn - he's Puerto Rican, she's white. Barely out of childhood themselves, their love is a serious, dangerous thing. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to forge his own way in the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and incredibly powerful.

1. Jim Grimsley

Dream Boy

Jim Grimsley was born in rural eastern North Carolina and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jim’s first novel, Winter Birds, won the Sue Kaufman Prize for best first novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. He has published other novels, including Dream Boy, Kirith Kirin, and My Drowning. His books are available in Hebrew, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese. He has also published a collection of plays and most recently a memoir, How I Shed My Skin. His body of work as a prose writer and playwright was awarded the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005. For twenty years he taught writing at Emory University in Atlanta.