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Douglas Kennedy

    22. říjen 1955

    Douglas Kennedyho díla jsou často zasazena do nehostinných krajin světa a zkoumají témata osamělosti, odcizení a hledání smyslu v moderní společnosti. Jeho styl je charakteristický pronikavým vhledem do lidské psychiky a schopností vykreslit složité mezilidské vztahy s nekompromisní upřímností. Kennedyho romány se noří do hlubin lidské duše a odhalují křehkost identity a neustálý boj o nalezení vlastního místa ve světě.

    State of the Union
    The Moment
    Isabelle in the Afternoon
    The Big Picture
    The Pursuit of Happiness
    The Big Picture. Nachtblende, englische Ausgabe
    • 2021

      THE EXPLOSIVE NEW THRILLER FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, DOUGLAS KENNEDY __________________________ 'A pulse-racing thriller centred on hot-button debates' Daily Mail Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of sixty, he finds himself scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer to a man his age - driving for Uber. When one of his rides, a retired professor named Elise, asks to be dropped off outside an abortion clinic where she now volunteers, Brendan finds himself driving right into the virulent epicentre of one of the major issues of our time, engulfing his life in the process. A novel of high suspense and considerable moral complexity, Afraid of the Light is a tough, affecting social thriller that speaks volumes about the corrosive divisions of our troubled times. __________________________ 'Kennedy is skilled at zigzag plotting, blending domestic twists with turns created by global affairs' OBSERVER

      Afraid of the Light
    • 2020

      Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradictions. Sam is instantly smitten but wary of the wedding ring on her finger. What begins as a regular arrangement in Isabelle's tiny Parisian apartment transforms into a true affair of the heart, and one which lasts for decades to come. Isabelle in the Afternoon is a novel that questions what we seek, what we find, what we settle for and shows how love, when not lived day in, day out, can become the passion of a lifetime.

      Isabelle in the Afternoon
    • 2019

      De retour à New York après une tragique parenthèse irlandaise, la jeune étudiante américaine Alice Burns est une femme brisée. En rupture avec sa famille, elle tente de se reconstruire, de retrouver goût à la vie... Dans cette Amérique qu'elle ne reconnaît plus, la tâche ne sera pas aisée. Ce sont les années Reagan, les années sida. Celles de l'argent facile, de la consommation comme idole, et d'une concurrence acharnée de tous contre tous - jusque chez les siens... Hasard ou destin ?

      La Symphonie du hasard Livre 3
    • 2016

      In the heady strangeness of Morocco, Paul is everything Robin wants him to be - passionate, talented, knowledgeable. Robin is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant. But when Paul disappears, and Robin finds herself under suspicion, everything changes. Suddenly she is on a roller-coaster journey into a heart of darkness that asks the question : What would you be capable of doing if your life depended on it ?

      The Heat of Betrayal
    • 2013

      Cinq jours

      • 150 stránek
      • 6 hodin čtení
      3,3(179)Ohodnotit

      Laura is in the throes of a midlife crisis. Her 20 year marriage has gone stale; her husband has become a stranger to her since losing his job 18 months ago. So when she is invited to a conference in Boston, she jumps at the opportunity. In the hotel lobby, she gets talking to Richard Coleman, an insurance salesman in his 50s. Initially, Laura writes him off as grey and uninspiring. But when a chance meeting brings them together again that evening, Laura begins to discover a smarter, more animated person beneath the salesman'

      Cinq jours
    • 2011
    • 2011

      In Paris im Winter trifft der amerikanische Filmdozent Rick auf eine geheimnisvolle Fremde, was eine abgründige, obsessive Affäre auslöst. Doch bald hegt er den schrecklichen Verdacht, dass sie mit einer mysteriösen Mordserie in Verbindung steht, und gerät in den Bann einer düsteren Macht.

      Die Liebhaberin. Psycho-Thriller
    • 2011

      The Moment

      • 656 stránek
      • 23 hodin čtení
      3,9(201)Ohodnotit

      Thomas Nesbitt lives a very private life in Maine, where he is still trying to reconcile himself to the fact that his long marriage has ended. But when a package arrives on his doorstep one morning, he is forced to confront a past he has never discussed with any living person.

      The Moment