Russell Hoban

Dans un futur lointain, après que les feux nucléaires ont ravagé le monde – « le grand boum » –, ce qui reste des hommes est retombé à l'âge de fer, leur survie sans cesse mise en péril par les chiens sauvages et les autres clans. L'ignorance, la... Lire la suite

Dans un futur lointain, après que les feux nucléaires aient ravagé le monde - le Grand Boum -, ce qui reste des hommes est retombé à l'âge de fer, leur survie sans cesse mise en péril par les chiens mangeurs d'hommes et les autres clans. L'ignorance... Lire la suite

"Like the fantasies of Tolkien, Thurber, E. B. White, The Mouse and His Child is filled with symbolism and satire, violence and vengeance, tears and laughter." -- The New York Times The images stay with you long after the book is done: the toy mouse... Lire la suite

Un soir de Noël, deux souris mécaniques, un père et son fils, sont jetés dans une décharge. Elles doivent alors parcourir le monde pour échapper au cruel rat Manny et trouver une famille et une maison. Mais l'existence des automates est fragile, car... Lire la suite

Un classique de l'enfance, illustré par le génial Quentin Blake, tout en grâce et humour...
Tom, qui vit avec sa tante, aime par-dessus tout bricoler, flâner, rêver, en un mot : batifoler. Mais celle-ci ne l'entend pas de cette oreille !

Re-issued to coincide with the centenary of Messiaen's birth, The Messiaen Companion was the first major study to appear after the composer's death in April 1992. It was the first book to offer both a complete survey of Messiaen's extraordinary... Lire la suite

The first time Peter Diggs saw Amaryllis she was at a bus stop where the street sign said "Balsamic" although there was nothing vinegary about the place. The bus was unthinkably tall, made of yellow, orange and pink rice paper. That was a dream, but... Lire la suite

'This is it ... this is my destiny woman,' Max blurted out when he first met Lola at the Coliseum shop. Not only was she aristocratic and wild at heart, but the two discovered an uncanny convergence of musical tastes. Soon they were converging at... Lire la suite

Since the age of thirteen, Christabel Alderton has been troubled by a sort of second sight that works sometimes, but not always. Death is much on her mind because the men in her life tend to die before their time and she's come to think she's bad... Lire la suite

Recently widowed and increasingly lonely, Roswell Clark's life had arrived at the point when he felt he needed a tattoo. His ideal image was that of a bat featured on an eighteenth-century bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum, but strangely, on a... Lire la suite

After Pilgermann, a German Jew in the year 1096, ravishes the tax collector's wife, an angry Christian mob retaliates by brutally castrating him. Bleeding and left for dead, Pilgermann experiences a vision of Jesus Christ and resolves to set out on... Lire la suite