Huston, Nancy 1953-Overview
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Fault lines
by Nancy Huston
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53 editions published between 2005 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 2,123 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Fault Lines begins with Sol, a gifted, terrifying child whose mother believes he is destined for greatness partly because he has a birthmark like his dad, his grandmother, and his great-grandmother. When Sol's family makes an unexpected trip to Germany, secrets begin to emerge about their history during World War II. It seems birthmarks are not all that's been passed down through the bloodlines. Closely observed, lyrically told, and epic in scope, Fault Lines is a touching, fearless, and unusual novel about four generations of children and their parents. The story moves from the West Coast of the United States to the East, from Haifa to Toronto to Munich, as secrets unwind back through time until a devastating truth about the family's origins is reached
The mark of the angel
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55 editions published between 1998 and 2008 in French and English and held by 1,356 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Saffie, having moved from Germany in 1957 to take a job as a housekeeper in Paris, attracts the attention of her employer who she soon marries, but her life becomes a struggle when she meets Andras, an instrument maker, and knows she has found true love
Dolce agonia : a novel
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32 editions published between 2001 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 787 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A group of cosmopolitan friends in midlife gather in New England for a Thanksgiving dinner. When it begins to snow they become trapped. With the exception of an enigmatic outsider, they all know too much about each other, their weak points and failures
Infrared
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12 editions published between 2011 and 2013 in English and held by 640 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "After a troubled childhood and two failed marriages, Rena Greenblatt has achieved success as a photographer. She specializes in infrared techniques that expose her pictures' hidden landscapes and capture deeply private moments in the lives of her subjects. Away from her lover and stuck in Florence, Italy, with her infuriating stepmother and her aging father, Rena encounters both the masterpieces of the Renaissance and the banal inconveniences of a family holiday. At the same time, she finds herself traveling into memories that will lead to disturbing revelations"--P. [4] of cover
Instruments des ténèbres : roman
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47 editions published between 1996 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 388 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Un écrivain raconte au présent un tragique fait-divers ancien et relate au passé la brisure de sa vie présente. Un roman sur la création et... son double : l'inspiration. Goncourt des lycéens 1996
Slow emergencies
by Nancy Huston
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10 editions published between 2000 and 2002 in English and held by 353 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The author of "The Mark of the Angel" crafts a brilliant exploration of the conflicts between love and life, family and self, art and the everyday. As dance draws Lin as a passion and profession, she must finally choose between family life and a career on the stage
Une adoration : roman
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23 editions published between 2003 and 2010 in French and English and held by 297 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In a legal hearing concerning the death of a man named Cosmo, many strange witnesses, including dead people and inanimate objects, give testimonies. Cosmo is revealed to be very empathetic, so gifted at mirroring others that he loses sight of himself
Plainsong
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16 editions published between 1993 and 2002 in English and held by 293 WorldCat member libraries worldwide When Paula inherits the fragments of her grandfather Paddon's journal, she embarks on an imaginative and obsessive journey to recreate the troubled history of her ancestors. From the hardships of the early frontier, through the Great War and Depression, and into the boom times of the fifties, Plainsong brilliantly captures the story of four generations of a family and a prairie town shaped by the sweeping forces of change
Cantique des plaines : roman
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28 editions published between 1993 and 2010 in French and held by 237 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of Omaya
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18 editions published between 1985 and 2006 in French and English and held by 183 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La virevolte : roman
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29 editions published between 1994 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 182 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Dire et interdire : éléments de jurologie
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13 editions published between 1980 and 2002 in French and held by 176 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Blasphèmes, injures sexuelles, gros mots : quels liens y a-t-il entre ces différentes formes de transgression langagière ? Que sont devenus les jurons religieux d'autrefois ? Pourquoi les euphémismes sexuels passent-ils si vite de mode ? D'où vient le pouvoir cathartique attribué aux interjections et aux injures ? Avec humour et érudition, N. Huston explore ces questions
Prodige : polyphonie
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18 editions published between 1999 and 2008 in French and held by 168 WorldCat member libraries worldwide L'auteur considère ce texte non comme un roman mais comme un canevas, c'est-à-dire une toile sur laquelle d'autres, s'ils le souhaitent, peuvent broder et construire
Fault lines
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8 editions published between 2007 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 166 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Sol is a highly gifted six-year-old; his adoring mother believes he is destined for greatness. Yet he is also unsettling, chillingly un-childlike. He bears the same birthmark as his father, grandmoth- er and great-grandmother had before him. When Sol and his family make an unexpected trip to Germany, terrible secrets start to emerge. Narrated by children in each generation of the family, "Fault Lines" traces their history back through the years, from California to New York, from Haifa to Toronto and Munich. As dormant family secrets are awakened, shock waves reverberate from a hidden past into a fragile present. Domestic in focus and epic in scope, "Fault Lines" is a vibrant, richly drawn and captivating piece of storytelling. It shows what can happen when past and present collide. Birthmarks are not all that can be passed down through a family line
Professeurs de désespoir
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11 editions published between 2004 and 2006 in French and held by 164 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Dans cette étude, l'écrivaine parle d'auteurs qu'elle considère "négativistes". Ils se divisent en trois générations. Adultes pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale: Samuel Beckett, Emil Cioran - Enfants/adolescents pendant la guerre: Imre Kertész, Thomas Bernhard, Milan Kundera - Nées après la guerre: Elfriede Jelinek, Michel Houellebecq, Sarah Kane, Christine Angot, Linda Lê. [SDM]
Jocaste reine : théâtre
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4 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in French and English and held by 152 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Pièce créée en 2009 par le Théâtre des Osses à Fribourg
Infrarouge : roman
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9 editions published between 2010 and 2012 in French and held by 148 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Artiste et reporter-photographe, Rena Greenblatt rejoint à Florence son père Simon et sa belle-mère Ingrid pour une semaine de promenades parmi les splendeurs de la Renaissance. Mais l'idylle n'est pas au rendez-vous. Naguère scientifique brillant, Simon est désormais un homme fatigué à l'élocution hésitante, et sa femme -- solide nature batave -- semble peu réceptive aux chefs-d'œuvre toscans. Le couple parental traîne la patte. Et Rena, toute au regret de Paris et de son jeune amant Aziz, s'impatiente. Alors lui viennent quantité de souvenirs, fantasmes et pensées secrètes qu'elle ne petit partager qu'avec Subra, son "amie spéciale", son double, son invisible confidente. Seule Subra sait à quels infrarouges réagit Rena : désir et déchirements de la maternité, beauté et liberté du sexe, émotion devant les corps masculins débarrassés de leurs oripeaux machistes, et que Rena adore photographier dans l'abandon de la jouissance ... Des chapitres vifs et brefs mêlent présent et passé, révoltes en banlieue parisienne (on est en octobre 2005) et insurrection intime, retours du refoulé -- l'enfance émerveillée et endolorie, l'adolescence saccagée -- et mirages de la clairvoyance. Ainsi, infrarouge raconte deux voyages : celui, désopilant, de vacances ratées, et celui, plus sombre et passionné, qui explore les liens et les conflits familiaux, les codes féminin et masculin, les archétypes trompeurs et les vérités inavouées. -- Back cover
Tombeau de Romain Gary
by Nancy Huston
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18 editions published between 1995 and 2007 in French and Undetermined and held by 141 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Un petit essai biographique, en forme de "rencontre imaginaire" dans lequel Nancy Huston tutoie son modèle - "véritable tissu de contradictions, être protéiforme à la limite, parfois de l'incohérence" - pour mieux s'en approcher, le comprendre et parfois le critiquer. Un mélange décapant au ton très direct, et même familier, d'admiration sincère et "d'intelligente sévérité" (##Notes bibliographiques##)
Les variations Goldberg : romance
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19 editions published between 1981 and 2008 in French and Undetermined and held by 135 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Si tu invitais trente personnes chez toi, des êtres que tu as aimés et que tu aimes, pour t'écouter jouer au clavecin, pendant une heure et demie, les "variations Goldberg" de Bach, et si ce concert se déroulait comme un songe d'une nuit d'été, Peut-être alors tous les fragments de musique s'animeraient-ils enfin dans une même coulée, et cela s'appellerait "les Variations Goldberg", romance"
The mark of the angel
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8 editions published between 1999 and 2013 in English and held by 134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In Paris, a married German woman enters into an affair with a Hungarian Jew who repairs musical instruments. They are united by their World War II past, he a survivor of the Holocaust, she of Russian rapists more
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Algeria Algerians Americans Authors, French-Canadian Birthmarks California Canadian fiction Dancers Domestic fiction Empathy Euphemism Exiles Families Family secrets Fathers and daughters Fiction--Psychological aspects France France--Paris France--Paris--Marais French-Canadian fiction French-Canadians French fiction Friendship Germans Germany Huston, Nancy, Hypocrisy in literature Identity (Psychology) Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Italy--Florence Jews Jocasta (Greek mythology) Literature Man-woman relationships Mothers and daughters Mothers--Employment--Social aspects New England Other (Philosophy) Psychological fiction Revolution (Algeria : 1954-1962) Sebbar, Leïla Secrecy Self Sisters Thanksgiving Day United States Women Women--Identity Women photographers World War (1939-1945)
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Beausire, Louise.
Beausire, Louise, 1953-
Houston, Nancy, 1953-
Huston, Nancy
ヒューストン, ナンシー
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