Récits initiatiques

A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition....

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl....

They were a perfect and beautiful family - until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed....

Monday Rent Boy begins in Somerset, England, in the mid-1980s, with the winning and heart-warming story of two 13-year-old friends and fellow altar boys, Arthur Barnes and Ernie Castlefrank....

Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries....

When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city....

Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism....

Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon....

In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording.

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern Black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything....

Fraîchement diplômé en Lettres, Jérôme Lupien choisit de prendre une année sabbatique avant de se lancer sur le marché du travail. Issu d’une famille aimante et à l’aise, il semble promis à un bel avenir. Mais le sort en décidera peut-être autrement. Coup sur coup, le voilà victime de deux arnaques. Elles ébranleront sa confiance en lui, en même temps que ses principes. À quoi bon la vertu dans un système qui sourit d’abord et avant tout aux escrocs ? Peut-on vraiment se payer le luxe d’être honnête ?

"Je me rendais bien compte que, cet été, quelque chose en moi ne tournait pas rond." Lauréate d’un concours de poésie, Esther Greenwood découvre New York l’été de ses dix-neuf ans. Étourdie par les cocktails, la mode, les flirts et les amitiés fugaces, elle découvre la vie mondaine. Censée s’amuser comme jamais, elle s’ennuie et se trouve progressivement assaillie par des pensées morbides. De retour chez elle, tiraillée entre ses aspirations littéraires et son avenir tout tracé de femme au foyer, elle sombre dans une brutale dépression et se fait interner.