Dans un futur lointain, après que les feux nucléaires aient ravagé le monde, les hommes sont revenus à l'âge de fer, et leur survie est sans cesse menacée par les chiens mangeurs d'hommes.
L'ignorance, la peur et les superstitions ont pris le pouvoir, et la langue n'est plus qu'un patois menaçant et vif où subsiste des fragments du passé. C'est là qu'Enig Marcheur, douze ans, va se mettre à écrire les aventures qu'il mène à la poursuite de la Vrérité sur les pas des hommes à l'origine du Sale Temps. Road-movie postapocalyptique, Enig Marcheur est avant tout une oeuvre profondément humaine qui s'interroge sur la survie, les croyances, la manipulation et l'espoir. Raconté avec les mots d'un enfant de douze ans dans la seule langue qu'il connait.
Un soir de Noël, deux souris mécaniques, un père et son fils, sont jetés dans une décharge. Elles doivent alors parcourir le monde pour échapper au cruel rat Manny et trouver une famille et une maison. Mais l'existence des automates est fragile, car elle dépend de celui qui les remonte. Énigmes, batailles et étranges rencontres, leur périple est semé d'embûches et plein d'émotion...
On his death in 2011, The Times described Russell Hoban as ''perhaps the most consistently strange writer of the late 20th century''. He thought and wrote in an extraordinary range of genres, becoming first a bestselling writer of children''s books, particularly the immortal Frances stories and his first novel, The Mouse and His Child (1968). After its publication he continued to write for children (most notably perhaps the Captain Najork books with Quentin Blake and The Marzipan Pig), but focussed most of his energies on a sequence of wonderful novels, which began with The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (1973) and ended with Angelica Lost and Found (2010). He also wrote the libretto for Harrison Birtwhistle''s opera The Second Mrs Kong (1994).br>br>His novels were wildly various, but share his obsession with objects, animals, specific works of art and pieces of music, his love of words and sense of humour. Penguin Modern Classics publishes his first eight novels: The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, Kleinzeit, Turtle Diary, Riddley Walker, Pilgermann, The Medusa Frequency, Fremder and Mr Rinyo-Clacton''s Offer.>
Fourth Galaxy, 4 November 2052: in the blackness of space a figure in blue overalls tumbles over and over as it drifts towards the planet Badr-al-Budur. No space suit, no helmet, no oxygen. He can''t be alive, can he? But he is. br>br>First Navigator Fremder Gorn is the only survivor when the Corporation tanker Clever Daughter disappears. Nobody knows how he did it, and everybody, including Fremder himself, wants to know. Dr Caroline Lovecraft, Head of the Physio/Psycho unit, finds that intimacy doesn''t lead to answers and Fremder''s own memories are resolutely obscure. Fremder''s name means stranger, and his story is otherworldly and yet ultimately life-affirming.>
An inexplicable message flashing onto the screen of his Apple II computer at 3 a.m. heralds the beginning of a startling quest for frustrated author Herman Orff. Taking up the offer of a cure for writer''s block leads him to ''those places in your head that you can''t get to on your own''. Herman is plunged into a semi-dreamland inhabited by a bizarre combination of characters from myth and reality: the talking head of Orpheus; a lost love; the young girl of Vermeer''s famous portrait - and a frequency of Medusas.>
A story that begins with an ice-lolly stick. Its sweetness gone, it lies discarded and lonely... until a little girl called Rosie places it in her cigar box, full of other sticks. "Without our ice-lollies we are nothing," says an old stick. But this new stick wants to BE something and into the minds of all the old sticks he plants dreams...
Frustrated author Herman Orff takes up the offer of a cure for writer's block and plunges into a semi-dreamland inhabited by a bizarre combination of characters from myth and reality: the talking head of Orpheus, the young girl of Vermeer's famous portrait, and a frequency of Medusas.
With a new baby sister in the house, Frances is feeling quite forgotten. Mother doesn't have time to iron Frances's favorite dress, her parents don't appreciate her new song, and there are no raisins for her oatmeal. So Frances decides to run away, and she does--but not too far. Full of warmth and family love, this new edition of Russell and Lillian Hoban's beloved classic is perfect for beginning readers.
With a new addition to the family, Frances is feeling left out. So Frances decides to run away--but not too far! This new edition of Russell and Lillian Hoban's beloved classic is perfect for beginning readers.
A novel about bloodthirsty 1950s movie cowgirls with hallucinogenic toadsucking properties: this is seductive, fine fiction at the cutting edge of mayhem
Il est sept heures. Il est l'heure pour Frances d'aller au lit.
Comme tout les jeunes blaireaux, Frances ne veut pas aller au lit. D'abord, un verre de lait. Si papa la portait sur son dos ? Inventons une chanson pour passer le temps. Oh, il y a un tigre dans la chambre. Et un géant ! Le temps passe et Frances ne s'endort pas... Après nombre de péripéties et d'entourloupes, Frances finira-t-elle par trouver le sommeil ?
Dans cet album de 1960, premier de la série à succès, Russell Hoban et Garth Williams donnent vie à une charmante famille de blaireaux, dont l'enfant veut retarder l'heure du coucher. Le texte de qualité et les dessins, en gris et vert, dépeignent avec justesse le ressenti des héros - voyez l'expression du père réveillé en pleine nuit, chacun pourra se reconnaître !
Tom, qui vit avec sa tante Séverine Casque-de-Fer, aime par-dessus tout bricoler, flâner, rêver, en un mot: batifoler. Mais celle-ci ne l'entend pas de cette oreille! Elle appelle le terrible Capitaine Najork pour donner à Tom une bonne leçon...
Tells a story that begins with an ice-lolly stick. Its sweetness gone, it lies discarded and lonely... until a little girl called Rosie comes along. She places it carefully in her cigar box, full of other sticks.
