Herbert Gold

Le critique Edmund Wilson, grand découvreur de textes modernes - c'est lui qui fit connaître Kafka, Joyce et Proust aux lecteurs américains - considérait le roman criminel dénué de toute valeur littéraire. Pour lui, Le Faucon maltais ne s'élevait... Lire la suite

In his first book of non-fiction, originally published in 1962, Herbert Gold explores some not-so-happy problems confronting people in an age of "mass destruction, mass inertia, mass everything." While acknowledging that we live in a time of utmost... Lire la suite

Histoire parue dans Spirou en 1962 "Au pays des incas avant la conquête espagnole" Lire la suite

Le Voyage de Grack est le second roman publié en français de Herbert Gold, auteur de Salt, Le Sel, qui occupe une place prépondérante dans les Lettres américaines. Position en flèche qui lui a valu une presse exceptionnelle et des témoignages... Lire la suite

The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal, including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of... Lire la suite

"In the course of an impressive career as a writer, Herbert Gold has demonstrated many gifts, among them his talent for mak-ing high drama of ordinary events, ordinary people." -Chicago Tribune Book World "Gold...has a sharp eye for detail."-The... Lire la suite

An upbeat memoir to savor and admire, Still Alive! proves that in your later years you can still be going strong . . . and having fun! Old age is a shipwreck,” Charles de Gaulle once observed. Not so, says Herb Gold in this lively, often hilarious... Lire la suite

As a priest and a physician, Richard Frechette has known the body, heart, and soul of people in the most anguishing of circumstances. He has carried out his double ministry over the past twenty-five years in settings of extreme poverty, violence,... Lire la suite

Five decades ago, award-winning author Herbert Gold traveled to Haiti on a Caribbean version of the Fulbright Scholarship. The journey proved to be a turning point in his life. Fifty years later, his attachment to the tiny Caribbean nation-his... Lire la suite

On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite... Lire la suite

Dan Shaper, bachelor, translator for the San Francisco courts, is a man who has worn the same raincoat for fifteen years, eats the same breakfast in the same coffeeshop every morning, occasionally sees a few long-time men friends and vaguely regrets... Lire la suite

The Man Who Was Not With It is the story of young Bud Williams and his safari southward to Florida. On the way, he is abruptly confronted with the con men, addicts, and freaks, and the bruised innocence, of carnival and nightclub life. Lire la suite

Tracker of lost memories and lost souls, the veteran San Francisco private eye Dan Kasdan manages, along his way from the 1960s to the 1990s, to find Priscilla, the love of his life, only to lose her. Kasdan, urged on by Priscilla, also finds... Lire la suite