Risultati Editore "Audible Studios" in Romanzo di formazione

Greta ha poco più di vent’anni e un buco nero nel proprio passato. Da piccola è apparsa dal niente sulla spiaggia di un paese della riviera spezzina e nessuno ha mai capito di chi fosse figlia. L’hanno trovata zuppa e arrabbiata che urlava al mare, poi niente, nessuno l’ha reclamata. Dopo qualche passo falso, ad adottarla e crescerla lontano nell’hinterland milanese è una famiglia con due genitori che sembrano quasi fratelli. Ha studiato, mollato gli studi, si è impiegata e ripiegata sui soliti lavori di chi una strada vera e propria non è riuscito a trovarla.

Giulia, maestra di sostegno nella scuola elementare di Guggiano, si è molto affezionata a Fabio, un ragazzino con gravi problemi di integrazione, che in classe viene spesso preso di mira dal bullo Ascanio Lombardi - detto il Maiale - invidioso della sua timida amicizia con la compagna Valeria. Fabio vive con la sorella Valentina, la giovane madre gravemente malata e il padre Giuseppe, un uomo violento che ama i propri figli ma non riesce a essere un genitore affidabile.

A diciassette anni, Allegra si sente invisibile: i genitori la trascurano, le compagne della nuova scuola non socializzano e Gabriele la tratta come una sorellina. Lei, Gabriele se lo sogna di notte. Invece Luisa, che ha trentacinque anni, si sente soffocare. È single, è tormentata da un mutuo trentennale e divide il suo affetto tra le due uniche amiche e l'amante. Part-time, perché ovviamente è sposato. Allegra e Luisa non si conoscono, finché un incidente le fa incontrare.

In a dorm room at her safety school, surrounded by corn-fed boys and contemptuous girls, Alice is losing her mind. Her first semester is spent clinging to middling grades between drunken hookups and roommate fights. The next brings sleepless nights, extreme weight loss, and effortless, compulsive energy, paused only by an unexpected summoning from the RA for evaluation.

Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of 30 years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children.

Valeria Falcón es una actriz de cierta notoriedad que cada jueves visita a una vieja gloria del teatro, Ana Urrutia. La Urrutia padece el síndrome de Diógenes y no tiene dónde caerse muerta. Su ocaso se solapa con la eclosión de un capullo en flor, Natalia de Miguel, una joven aspirante que enamora al cínico Lorenzo Lucas, el álter ego de Addison DeWitt. Nadie tendrá derecho a destrozar la felicidad de Natalia de Miguel, una chica muy delgada quien en pantalla da gordita.

The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is a dreamy teenager, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre announces itself, Karim starts to win the sort of attention he has been craving, albeit with some rude and raucous results.

La Panzanella - ovvero Carlotta Cordelli, discendenza fieramente partenopea, un corpo in trasformazione, un magma di pensieri onirico e torrenziale - si vede brutta e sgraziata ma, implacabile, si muove a tentoni verso "bellezza e amore". Lo fa quando si mette in minigonna per farsi abbordare, lo fa quando si aggira per piazza Navona ostentando l'aria da giovane intellettuale, lo fa quando nerovestita si sente una anarchica.

Luca attende la maggiore età andando malvolentieri a scuola, è iscritto all'alberghiero perché vuole un futuro lontano dal padre operaio che sta perdendo la battaglia in difesa dell'occupazione. Meglio preparare cocktail acrobatici in località di vacanza che avvilirsi nel paese in cui è nato, che offre poco o nulla, sia a lui che alla sorella Elena, laureata in computer grafica. Le sue piroette non si limitano allo shaker, ama il parkour e si allena nei giardini pubblici insieme agli amici. È una pratica che gli dona felicità, seppure momentanea.

Pip is an orphan, brought up by his sister and her husband, the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery. One evening, while visiting his parents' graves, he has a shocking encounter with an escaped convict who forces Pip to help him. The very next day, he is invited to go and see Miss Havisham, a rich old lady who is seeking a playmate for the beautiful Estella. These two chance events are to change Pip's life in ways he could never have imagined...

Pretty Amy Curran was just 18 years old when she met Barney Patterson, the love of her life, on Southport pier in 1939. Their romantic, passionate marriage was made in heaven, or so they both believed. But when Britain declared war on Germany, Barney volunteered to fight and the couple were eventually separated for five long years. When he returned to Liverpool after VE Day he wasn't the same person - and neither was Amy.

È l'estate del 2006 a San Zenone, un paese in provincia di Ferrara. Un gruppo di ragazzini delle medie trascorre le giornate a giocare a calcio sull'argine: è questa la loro passione, il loro linguaggio. Per alcuni sarà l'ultima estate prima delle scuole superiori a Ferrara, per altri quella del primo amore, della prima sbronza, della morte del nonno. Per tutti sarà l'estate dello scoppio di «Calciopoli» e del Mondiale di Germania che scandirà il loro tempo.

In the early 1970s, Poe is living a nomadic life, hopping trains, sleeping rough, and juggling to feed himself. He eventually settles in Philadelphia and masters his street act before ever-growing crowds. When one of his fellow buskers presents him with an opportunity—a bank heist—he should have refused, an innocent bystander is killed, and he splits town a felon.

In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies, the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra’s ever loved, every place they’ve felt queer and at home, or queer and out of place, reveals itself in an instant. Unfolding in fragments of memory, Ezra dissolves into the family, religion, desire, losses, pains, and joys that made them into the person that’s decided on this final act of protest.

It’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger inspires Mel’s dawning self-awareness. But Sylvia’s presence sparks fury among her neighbors and throws Mel into conflict with her mother and best friend. Decades later, in 2019, Max (formerly Mel) is on probation from his teaching job for, ironically, defying speech codes around trans identity. Back in Swaffham, he must navigate life as part of a fractured family and face his own role in the disasters of the past.

Rocky Rivera arrives in the US from the Philippines the year that Jimi Hendrix dies. So begins a blazing coming-of-age story suffused with the tensions of immigration that finds Rocky moving from the counterculture of 1960s San Francisco to the extravagant 1980s Manhattan music scene. The Gangster of Love tells the story of the Rivera family as they make their new life in the States, all the while haunted by the memory of the father and the homeland they left behind.

In life Lucien Taylor has made several mistakes, but the two most grievous are as follows: leaving his wife and son to take up with his old flame, Emily; and putting up Emily's bail when she is arrested for murder. The upshot is that Lucien is left stranded in Montana, with a malodorous hot spring and a squandered sense of purpose.

Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men.

A uniquely American story told in powerful, evocative prose, The Beauty of Your Face navigates a country growing ever more divided. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter - radicalized by the online alt-right - attacks the school.

I breathed in and out for a few seconds as I waited at the end of the aisle. It felt like I was standing overlooking the edge of a cliff, and the minute I saw my future wife, I was going to freefall. The music started. Shit, I was seriously going to pass out. People stood; Demetri nodded his head and patted me on the back. And then I saw her. It was like seeing her for the first time all over again. Memories of meeting her that first day of school had me grinning from ear to ear.