Rossella Bernascone Książki

Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning, bestselling trio of novels chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys of the old school, are poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Their journeys across the border into Mexico, each an adventure fraught with fear and pain, mark a passage into adulthood, and eventual salvation. In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed by the sale of his family’s Texas ranch, heads across the border in search of the cowboy life, where he finds a job breaking horses, and a dangerously ill-fated romance. In The Crossing, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch and, instead of killing it, decides to take it on a perilous journey home to the mountains of Mexico.These two drifters come together years later in Cities of the Plain, a magnificent tale of friendship and passion. In the vanishing world of the Old West, blood and violence are conditions of life. Beautiful and brutal, filled with sorrow and humour, The Border Trilogy is both an epic love story and a fierce elegy for the American frontier.

In The Deep End, book 15 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley and his family hit the road for a cross-country camping trip, ready for the adventure of a lifetime. But things take an unexpected turn, and they find themselves stranded at a campsite that's not exactly a summertime paradise. When the skies open up and the water starts to rise, the Heffleys wonder if they can save their vacation - or if they're already in too deep. And don't miss Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure, an all-new fantasy from Greg's best friend - the follow-up to the instant #1 bestseller Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal.

Kolejny tom bestsellerowej serii! Gregowi Heffleyowi zawsze okropnie się spieszyło do tego całego dojrzewania. Dobra, ale czy dojrzałość naprawdę ma jakiś sens? Raz że dziewczyny robią się nie do zniesienia, a dwa że Rowley, najlepszy kumpel Grega, jak zwykle kompletnie nie jest w temacie. Co gorsza, on chyba nigdy nie zrozumie, o co chodzi w byciu nastolatkiem. No i taka jest właśnie przykra prawda. To książka dla twoich dzieci, jeżeli lubią czytać... a zwłaszcza jeżeli nie lubią.

DRUGA CZĘŚĆ TRYLOGII POGRANICZA Południowy zachód Stanów Zjednoczonych. Lata II wojny światowej. Billy Parham, nastoletni kowboj, trzykrotnie przeprawia się do Meksyku. Za każdym razem cel jest inny: polowanie na wilczycę, pościg za koniokradami, poszukiwanie zaginionego brata. Przeprawa to jednak nie tylko przekroczenie granicy między dwoma krajami. To także duchowa transgresja, wkroczenie w dorosłość, przekroczenie granicy życia i śmierci. Ta przepiękna westernowa opowieść jest zarazem przesyconą melancholią powieścią o dojrzewaniu, utracie niewinności,zdobyciu mądrości i odwagi. Cormac McCarthy, amerykański pisarz, dramaturg, ur. 1933. Uważany za jednego z najwybitniejszych współczesnych pisarzy amerykańskich (obok Thomasa Pynchona, Dona DeLillo i Philipa Rotha), porównywany także z Faulknerem i Melvillem.� Podobnie jak T. Pynchon strzeże swojej prywatności, prawie w ogóle nie udziela wywiadów, nie kontaktuje się z czytelnikami, postać bardzo tajemnicza, a przez to – wyjątkowa.

Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past. Elegiac, hypnotic, by turns joyful and sad, No Great Mischief is a spellbinding story of family, loyalty, exile, and of the blood ties that bind us, generations later, to the land from which our ancestors came.

Get ready for a whole new look into Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid! Introducing the newest Wimpy Kid author--Rowley Jefferson! Rowley's best friend Greg Heffley has been chronicling his middle-school years in thirteen Diary of a Wimpy Kid journals . . . and counting. But it's finally time for readers to hear directly from Rowley in a journal of his own. In Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid, Rowley writes about his experiences and agrees to play the role of biographer for Greg along the way. (After all, one day Greg will be rich and famous, and everyone will want to know his life's story.) But Rowley is a poor choice for the job, and his "biography" of Greg is a hilarious mess. Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal offers readers a new way to look at the Wimpy world--one fans won't want to miss!

Capolavoro della letteratura anglosassone, frutto di una straordinaria maturazione creativa, Cuore di tenebra affianca alla dimensione concreta di testimonianza autobiografica la denuncia sociale e una cupa meditazione metafisica. Attraverso la voce recitante di Marlow, Conrad ci conduce nel cuore dell'Africa nera: l'incontro con la terribile realtà dello sfruttamento del Congo Belga di Leopoldo II si dilata fino a trasformarsi in riflessione generale sull'esperienza del colonialismo nella sua totalità, destinata a scuotere le certezze di un ottimismo evoluzionistico ed eurocentrico, in un inquietante confronto con il diverso e il primitivo. Al Libro è ispirato il film Apocalypse now di Francis F. Coppola. Testo originale a fronte