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‎40 livres Actes Sud (voir description complète)l Une histoire de la lecture C'est moi qui souligne White Palace Les fenêtres murées Sous le règne de Bone‎

‎Actes sud in8. Sans date. Broché. 40 volume(s). 40 livres Actes Sud: 1: Une histoire de la lecture (Manguel) 2:C'est moi qui souligne (Berberova) 3: L'origine du monde (Rezvani) 4: Le voyage d'Anna Blume (Auster) 5: Le seigneur arrive TOME 1 Au délice des ombres (Ballester) 6: Les fenêtres murées (Vona) 7: L'immeuble Yacoubian (Aswany) 8: Léon de France (Mercier) 9: Le jour des Morts (Nooteboom) 10: La quinzaine soviétique (Molina Foix) 11:Le Petit prince cannibale (Lefèvre) 12: Au gré des vents TOME 2 Au délice des ombres (Ballester) 13: L'analyste (Homel) 14: Sous le règne de Bone (Banks) 15: Couleur de fumée (Lakatos) 16: La clef des songes (Vaculik) 17: Charaf ou l'honneur (Ibrahim) 18: L'ame des guerriers (Duff) 19: White Palace (Savan) 20: La filière des panamas (Miller) 21: Tout ce que j'aimais (Hustvedt) 22: Le retour (Enquist) 23: Rive de bronze rive de perle (Alberti) 24: Mr Gladstone et la demi mondaine (Lewis) 25: Poste restante Beyrouth (El-Cheikh) 26: Le livre des illusions (Auster) 27: Lîle Afrique (Lobo) 28: Marie Antoinette à la Conciergerie (Belaiche-Daninos) 29: Lignes de faille (Huston) 30: Les papiers de Walter Jonas (Baptiste-Marrey) 31: Elvira (Baptiste-Marrey) 32: L'homme au costume blanc (Cohen) 33: La source cachée (Haasse) 34: Matin de roses (Mahfouz) 35: Cuisine bourgeoise (Pozner) 36: Etre sans destin (Kertész) 37: La conversation amoureuse (Ferney) 38: La compagnie des eaux (Outers) 39: SMS (Baptiste-Marrey) 40: Requiem pour Fanny Goldmann (Bachmann)‎

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‎Bon état dans l'ensemble couvertures un peu défraîchies tranches légèrement ternies intérieurs propres‎

‎Signed typed letter about his novel Continental Drift ‎

‎Russell BANKS (1940-2023) American writer of fiction and poetry Signed typed letter, signed by Russel Banks, 11 lines, to French autograph collector Gérard Léman + autograph envelope postmarked 30 OCT 2020 — Russell Banks / 14 Victoria Lane, Sarasota Springs, NYY 12866. American writer of fiction and poetry, Russell Banks, member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, thanks Gérard Léman, French autograph collector about his "kind letter" : "I am grateful for your loyalty to my work" and send him a quotation from his famous novel Continental Drift : "Good cheer and mournfulness over lives other than our own, even wholly invented lives — no, especially wholly invented lives — deprive the world as it is of some of the greed it needs to continue to be itself. Sabotage and subversion, then, are this book's objectives. Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is." Continental Drift is a 1985 novel by Russell Banks. Set in the early 1980s, it follows two plots, through which Banks explores the relationship between apparently distant people drawn together in the world under globalization, which Banks compares to the geologic phenomenon of continental drift. The first plot features Bob DuBois, a working class New Englander who heads to Florida in the hopes of striking it rich; the second plot traces the journey of Vanise Dorsinville from Haiti to Florida. It is an avowedly political work, whose stated aim is to "destroy the world as it is." Despite its scope, it is according to critic Michiko Kakutani "somehow, acutely personal. The book sold well (15,000 copies in hard cover, 100,000 in paperback) and was highly acclaimed by critics. After publishing Continental Drift, Banks won the Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 1986. Russell Earl Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on March 28, 1940, and grew up "in relative poverty." He is the son of Florence, a homemaker, and Earl Banks, a plumber, and was raised in Barnstead, New Hampshire. His father deserted the family when Banks was aged 12. While he was awarded a scholarship to attend Colgate University, he dropped out six weeks into university and travelled south instead, with the "intention of joining Fidel Castro's insurgent army in Cuba, but wound up working in a department store in Lakeland, Florida". He married Darlene Bennett, who was working as a sales clerk at the time; they had one daughter and later divorced. According to an interview with The Independent, he started to write when he was living in Miami in the late-1950s, though an interview with The Paris Review dates this to Banks's subsequent spell living in Boston. He moved back to New England in 1964 and then to North Carolina, where he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, funded by the family of his second wife, Mary Gunst. In Chapel Hill, Banks was involved in Students for a Democratic Society and protest during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1976, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Banks divorced Mary Gunst in 1977 after 14 years of marriage. They had three daughters. He was subsequently married to Kathy Walton, an editor at Harper & Row, from 1982 to 1988. The following year, he married poet Chase Twichell. Banks was the 1985 recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for fiction. Continental Drift and Cloudsplitter were finalists for the 1986 and 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction respectively. Banks was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. In popular culture, Banks was briefly mentioned in philosopher Richard Rorty's 1996 future history essay "Fraternity Reigns" in The New York Times Magazine as having written the fictional book Trampling the Vineyards, described as "samizdat", in 2021. Banks lived in upstate New York and Miami. He was a New York State Author for 2004–2006. He was also Artist-in-Residence at the University of Maryland. He taught creative writing at Princeton University. Banks died from cancer at his home in Saratoga Springs, New York, on January 7, 2023, at the age of 82. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards. He wrote fiction, and, later, non-fiction, with Dreaming up America. His main works include the novels Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and Affliction. The latter two novels were each made into feature films in 1997 (see The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction). Many of Banks's works reflect his working-class upbringing. His stories often show people facing tragedy and downturns in everyday life, expressing sadness and self-doubt, but also showing resilience and strength in the face of their difficulties. Banks also wrote short stories, some of which appear in the collection The Angel on the Roof, as well as poetry. Banks also lived in Jamaica. Interviewed in 1998 for The Paris Review, he stated that : "After living in Jamaica and writing The Book of Jamaica, I accepted that I was obliged, for example, to have African-American friends. I was obliged to address, deliberately, the overlapping social and racial contexts of my life. I'm a white man in a white-dominated, racialized society, therefore, if I want to I can live my whole life in a racial fantasy. Most white Americans do just that. Because we can. In a color-defined society we are invited to think that white is not a color. We are invited to fantasize, and we act accordingly." The themes of Continental Drift (1985) include globalization and unrest in Haiti. His 2004 novel The Darling is largely set in Liberia and deals with the racial and political experience of the white American narrator. Writing in the Journal of American Studies, Anthony Hutchison argues that, "[a]side from William Faulkner it is difficult to think of a white twentieth-century American writer who has negotiated the issue of race in as sustained, unflinching and intelligent a fashion as Russell Banks". In 2023, it was confirmed that Paul Schrader would write and direct Oh, Canada, an adaptation of Banks' novel, Foregone, starring Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi. Beautiful piece of American Literature history.‎

‎Het Beatles boek met de fijnste foto's die er zijn ! ( Le livre des Beatles avec les plus belles photos ).‎

‎ Romance van Show Magazine 1964. In-4 agrafé de 28 pages au format 30,5 x 22,5 cm. Couvertures avec photographies des Beatles. Plats et intérieur frais, malgré d'infimes frottis aux coins et un frottis horitontal au 4ème plat. Magazine entiérement consacré aux Beatles avec textes de Maureen Cleave et Ruud Kok sur une idée de Jeremy Banks, avec magnifiques photographies en noir de Norman Parkinson. Edition originale néerlandaise en superbe état général. Billet du concert des Beatles, qui eut lieu à Hertogensbosch en 1964, joint.‎

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‎ Site Internet : Http://librairie-victor-sevilla.fr.Vente exclusivement par correspondance. Le libraire ne reçoit, exceptionnellement que sur rendez-vous. Il est préférable de téléphoner avant tout déplacement.Forfait de port pour un livre 7 €, sauf si épaisseur supérieure à 3 cm ou valeur supérieure ou égale à 100 €, dans ce cas expédition obligatoire au tarif Colissimo en vigueur. A partir de 2 livres envoi en colissimo obligatoire. Port à la charge de l'acheteur pour le reste du monde.Les Chèques ne sont plus acceptés.Pour destinations extra-planétaire s'adresser à la NASA.Membre du Syndicat Lusitanien Amateurs Morues‎

‎America Darling. ( Dédicacé ).‎

‎ Edition Actes Sud / Léméac 2005. In-8 broché de 393 pages au format 14,5 x 24 cm. Couverture illustrée. Dos carré. Plats et intérieur parfaits. Traduction par Pierre Furlan. Edition originale en superbe état général, proche du neuf. Exemplaire enrichi d'une dédicace autographe, signée, de Russel Banks en page de titre. Rare signé.‎

‎ Site Internet : Http://librairie-victor-sevilla.fr.Vente exclusivement par correspondance. Le libraire ne reçoit, exceptionnellement que sur rendez-vous. Il est préférable de téléphoner avant tout déplacement.Forfait de port pour un livre 7 €, sauf si épaisseur supérieure à 3 cm ou valeur supérieure ou égale à 100 €, dans ce cas expédition obligatoire au tarif Colissimo en vigueur. A partir de 2 livres envoi en colissimo obligatoire. Port à la charge de l'acheteur pour le reste du monde.Les Chèques ne sont plus acceptés.Pour destinations extra-planétaire s'adresser à la NASA.Membre du Syndicat Lusitanien Amateurs Morues‎

‎autograph signed card about 2019 Nobel Prize of literature‎

‎Russell BANKS (1940-2023) American writer of fiction and poetry Autograph card, signed by Russel Banks, 11 lines, printed name letterhead to French autograph collector Gérard Léman + autograph envelope postmarked 24 OCT 2019 with printed label : Russell Banks / 1026 Hurricane Road / Keene, New York 12942. 14x10.6 cm American writer of fiction and poetry, Russell Banks, member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, thanks Gérard Léman, French autograph collector about his "kind letter" : "your words pleased me very much" and answer his question about 2019 Nobel Prize of Literature : "You ask whom I would give the Nobel Prize to, if it were up to me. I don't believe there is a "best" in literature or art, so I would decline the offer." The 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Austrian writer Peter Handke (born 1942) "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy on 10 October 2019. Russell Earl Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on March 28, 1940, and grew up "in relative poverty." He is the son of Florence, a homemaker, and Earl Banks, a plumber, and was raised in Barnstead, New Hampshire. His father deserted the family when Banks was aged 12. While he was awarded a scholarship to attend Colgate University, he dropped out six weeks into university and travelled south instead, with the "intention of joining Fidel Castro's insurgent army in Cuba, but wound up working in a department store in Lakeland, Florida". He married Darlene Bennett, who was working as a sales clerk at the time; they had one daughter and later divorced. According to an interview with The Independent, he started to write when he was living in Miami in the late-1950s, though an interview with The Paris Review dates this to Banks's subsequent spell living in Boston. He moved back to New England in 1964 and then to North Carolina, where he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, funded by the family of his second wife, Mary Gunst. In Chapel Hill, Banks was involved in Students for a Democratic Society and protest during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1976, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Banks divorced Mary Gunst in 1977 after 14 years of marriage. They had three daughters. He was subsequently married to Kathy Walton, an editor at Harper & Row, from 1982 to 1988. The following year, he married poet Chase Twichell. Banks was the 1985 recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for fiction. Continental Drift and Cloudsplitter were finalists for the 1986 and 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction respectively. Banks was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. In popular culture, Banks was briefly mentioned in philosopher Richard Rorty's 1996 future history essay "Fraternity Reigns" in The New York Times Magazine as having written the fictional book Trampling the Vineyards, described as "samizdat", in 2021. Banks lived in upstate New York and Miami. He was a New York State Author for 2004–2006. He was also Artist-in-Residence at the University of Maryland. He taught creative writing at Princeton University. Banks died from cancer at his home in Saratoga Springs, New York, on January 7, 2023, at the age of 82. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards. He wrote fiction, and, later, non-fiction, with Dreaming up America. His main works include the novels Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and Affliction. The latter two novels were each made into feature films in 1997 (see The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction). Many of Banks's works reflect his working-class upbringing. His stories often show people facing tragedy and downturns in everyday life, expressing sadness and self-doubt, but also showing resilience and strength in the face of their difficulties. Banks also wrote short stories, some of which appear in the collection The Angel on the Roof, as well as poetry. Banks also lived in Jamaica. Interviewed in 1998 for The Paris Review, he stated that : "After living in Jamaica and writing The Book of Jamaica, I accepted that I was obliged, for example, to have African-American friends. I was obliged to address, deliberately, the overlapping social and racial contexts of my life. I'm a white man in a white-dominated, racialized society, therefore, if I want to I can live my whole life in a racial fantasy. Most white Americans do just that. Because we can. In a color-defined society we are invited to think that white is not a color. We are invited to fantasize, and we act accordingly." The themes of Continental Drift (1985) include globalization and unrest in Haiti. His 2004 novel The Darling is largely set in Liberia and deals with the racial and political experience of the white American narrator. Writing in the Journal of American Studies, Anthony Hutchison argues that, "[a]side from William Faulkner it is difficult to think of a white twentieth-century American writer who has negotiated the issue of race in as sustained, unflinching and intelligent a fashion as Russell Banks". In 2023, it was confirmed that Paul Schrader would write and direct Oh, Canada, an adaptation of Banks' novel, Foregone, starring Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi. Beautiful piece of American Literature history.‎

‎Moise en egypte‎

‎J'ai lu 1999 158 pages in12. 1999. Broché. 158 pages.‎

‎Bon Etat trace étiquette haut 1er plat‎

‎Amour flamboyant‎

‎Passion 1922 156 pages poche. 1922. Broché. 156 pages.‎

‎Pages jaunis‎

‎Passion devorante‎

‎Passion 1996 poche. 1996. Broché.‎

‎Pages jaunis‎

‎Hamilton Stark‎

‎10 1994 379 pages 18x11x2cm. 1994. Poche. 379 pages.‎

‎Bon Etat‎

‎La réserve‎

‎Initiales 2006 45 pages in12. 2006. Agrafé. 45 pages.‎

‎Bon Etat‎

‎Moise en egypte‎

‎J'ai lu 1999 158 pages in12. 1999. Broché. 158 pages.‎

‎Très Bon Etat‎

‎CARTES ET FIGURES DES VOYAGES pour faire des découvertes dans l'Hémisphère Méridional, entrepris par ordre de Sa Majesté Britannique. Rédigée d'après les journaux tenus par les différents commandants & les papiers de M. Banks, Par J. Hawkesworth ‎

‎Paris Chez Saillant et Nyon. Chez Panckoucke 1774 in 4 (25,5x19) 1 volume reliure demi basane fauve de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné de caissons dorés, pièce de titre de cuir beige, 52 planches ou cartes gravées dépliantes. Et successivement exécutés par le Commodore Byron, le Capitaine Carteret, le Capitaine Wallis, et le Capitaine Cook, dans les vaisseaux le Dauphin, le Swallow et l'Endeavour. Rédigée d'après les journaux tenus par les différents commandants & les papiers de M. Banks, Par J. Hawkesworth. Sir Joseph Banks, Londres 1743-1820, aristocrate et naturaliste britannique, participa au premier voyage de James Cook autour du monde (1768-1771). Atlas seul (collationné complet). Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request ) ‎

‎Très bon Couverture rigide ‎

‎The sheep and wool correspondance of Sir Joseph Banks 1781-1820‎

‎British Museum (Natural history), The Library Council of New South Wales 1979 In-4 27 x 17,5 cm. Reliure éditeur pleine toile bleue, jaquette bleu-ciel illustrée avec report du titre en noir sur le dos et le premier plat, XXX-641 pp., 6 planches hors-texte, notes, bibliographie, index. Ouvrage en bon état, jaquette effrangée.‎

‎Texte en anglais. Grande figure de l’Angleterre géorgienne, Joseph Banks (1743-1820) faisait partie de la Royal Society de Londres, la plus prestigieuse des sociétés scientifiques de l'époque. Il participa au titre de naturaliste au premier voyage de Cook à bord de l’Endeavour (1768-71). Il introduisit le mouton Mérinos d’Espagne en Angleterre et préconisa son élevage en Australie. Le roi George III lui confia la direction de Kew Gardens, parc des environs de Londres. Banks en fera le plus grand centre botanique du monde. Bon état d’occasion ‎

‎Filature, Commerce et Prix des Laines en Angleterre ou Correspondance sur ces matières entre MM. Banks, Président de L. S. R. de Londres, Arthur Young et plusieurs grands propriétaires d'Angleterre. Traduit de l'Anglois, par M. C. P.‎

‎Paris, Cuchet, 1789. in-8. XXVIII. 292pp. (22x14 Cm). Broché, couverture de l'époque. Traduction française de l'ouvrage "The Question of Wool truly stated" de 1788. Il s'agit d'une correspondance entre l'agronome réformateur Arthur Young, le botaniste Joseph Banks et plusieurs grands propriétaires anglais. Le livre est un pamphlet contre le projet de loi visant à renforcer l'interdiction de l'exportation de la laine, le Wool Bill. Les auteurs témoignèrent devant les deux chambres du Parlement mais la loi fut tout de même adoptée, provoquant la colère des partisans de Young à Norwich qui se retournèrent contre lui et brûlèrent son effigie. Cette première édition française fut traduite par C. Pinel. ‎

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‎Filature, commerce et prix des laines en Angleterre, ou Correspondance sur ces matières entre MM. Banks, Président de L. S. R. de Londres, Arthur Young, et plusieurs grands propriétaires d'Angleterre. ‎

‎ 1789 1789 A Paris. Chez Cuchet. 1789. 1 volume in-8, brochage orange de l'époque, fatigué et non coupé. XXVIII pp. ; 292 pp.,‎

‎Première édition française traduite par Pinel.Très important document sur l'industrie lainière anglaise et son rôle économique à la fin du XVIIIème siècle.Peu courant. ‎

‎Le secret d'un milliardaire Harlequin Collection Rouge n1129‎

‎Collection Harlequin Sans date. Leanne Banks: Le secret d'un milliardaire/ Harlequin Collection Rouge N°1129 . Leanne Banks: Le secret d'un milliardaire/ Harlequin Collection Rouge N°1129‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎Filature, commerce et prix des laines en Angleterre, ou correspondance sur ces matières‎

‎À Paris, Chez Cuchet, 1789, in-8, XXVIII-292 pp, Broché, couverture d'attente de l'époque, ?Première édition française, traduite sur l'originale anglaise de 1788 (The Question of Wool truly stated). L'ouvrage se constitue de lettres et communications échangées entre l'agronome réformateur Arthur Young (1741-1820) et le botaniste Joseph Banks (1743-1820), président de la société royale de Londres de 1778 à 1820, ainsi que plusieurs grands propriétaires anglais. Ce recueil forme un pamphlet contre le projet de loi visant à renforcer l'interdiction de l'exportation de la laine, le Wool Bill : au début de l'année 1788, les producteurs de laine de Suffolk avaient demandé à Young de soutenir leur pétition au Parlement. Young s'associa avec Banks, député de Lincoln, et témoigna devant les deux chambres du Parlement. La loi fut néanmoins adoptée et les partisans de Young à Norwich le brûlèrent en effigie. Exemplaire tel que paru, sous couverture d'attente muette et non rogné. Rousseurs, couverture défraîchie. Couverture rigide‎

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‎Bon XXVIII-292 pp.‎

‎A selection of the butterflies of Sri Lanka.‎

‎1985 Colombo, Lake House Investments, 1985 : in-4°, broché n.p., 16 planches couleurs, couverture illustrée. Très bon état.‎

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‎FLORA POETICA or POETRY ON FLOWERS selected and arranged by T. Willcocks with plates by G. Banks F. L. S. ‎

‎London , Byers , Devonport Longman , Rees , Orme & Co 1834 1vol. in-18 ( 13 x 8 cm ) ( poids = 200 g ) V( dont fx. t. et t. ) , ( 2 ) pp. n. ch. , de VI à XI , ( 1 ) p. n. ch. , 336 ( i. e. 338 ) pp. .En anglais . 12 planches couleur HT et HP , sous serpente , signées G. Banks . Contient : Preface ; errata ; Index of Authors ; Contents ; List of plates ; Introductory Pieces ; Collection of flowers ; Flowers with pose descriptions ; Fables of flowers ; Dial of flowers ; Dirge of flowers ; Additional and concluding pieces ; Index . Plein chagrin rouge . Dos lisse , titre doré . Encadrements à froid sur les plats . Toutes tranches dorées . Bon état . Les premiers cahiers débordent un peu de la gouttière . Des rousseurs sur les serpentes . P. 331 n. ch. ; p. 332 ch. 330 ; p. 333 ch. 331 et ainsi de suite jusqu' à la p. 338 ch. 336 . L' anémone se trouve p. 231 et non p. 281 . ( Collat. complet ) ‎

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‎Ouvrage bien complet de ses 12 planches couleur de fleurs ( incluant le fx. t. ) : gentianella ,volubilis , perce-neige , primevère , pâquerette , violette , rose , chélidoine , anémone , fleur de la passion , myosotis ... Parmi les poètes : Bryant , Lord Byron , Barry Cornwall , Mrs Hemans , Milton , Wordsworth ..... ‎

‎Un homme de glace.‎

‎ 1997 Editions Denoël coll. Thrillers, 1997, 1 volume in-8 de 329 pages, broché.‎

‎Bon état - Coins légèrement cornés ‎

‎La Réserve‎

‎ 2008 Arles, Actes sud, 2008, 11.5 x 21.5 , 380 pp état neuf car service de presse ‎

‎tarduit de l'américain par Pierre Furlan. ‎

‎Iain M. Banks Culture 25th Anniversary Box Set‎

‎Orbit (10/2012)‎

‎LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9780356502090‎

‎Daedalus, Journal of the american academy of arts and sciences - Winter 1990, volume 119, N°1- Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Europe - Timothy garton ash, ivo banac, yvette biro, ernest gellner, bronislaw geremek, elemer hankiss, tony judt, janos maty...‎

‎The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1990. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 344 pages - en anglais - petite usure sur le 1er plat. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD- PAMELA M. BANKS- KATHRYN S. BERNHEIMER- MARIAN IANNICA- SRICHAND CHELLANI // Winter 1990, volume 119, N°1 of the proceedings of the american academy of arts and sciences // Sommaire : Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Europe - Timothy garton ash, ivo banac, yvette biro, ernest gellner, bronislaw geremek, elemer hankiss, tony judt, janos matyas kovacs, jacques rupnik, george schopflin, josef skvorecky, Z Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎American Darling. ‎

‎ Actes Sud, 2005. Grand in-8 broché, couverture couleurs. A l'état de neuf. ‎

‎"A cinquante-neuf ans, Hannah Musgrave fait retour sur son itinéraire de jeune Américaine issue de la bourgeoisie aisée de gauche que les péripéties de son engagement révolutionnaire avaient conduite, au début des années 1970, à se "planquer" en Afrique. Ayant tenté sa chance au Liberia, la jeune femme a travaillé dans un laboratoire où des chimpanzés servaient de cobayes à des expériences sur le virus de l'hépatite, pour le compte de sociétés pharmaceutiques américaines. Très vite, elle a rencontré puis épousé le Dr Woodrow Sundiata, bureaucrate local appartenant à une tribu puissante et promis à une brillante carrière politique. Quelques années plus tard, elle est brusquement rentrée en Amérique, laissant là leurs trois enfants, fuyant la guerre civile qui enflammait le pays. Au moment où commence ce livre, Hannah quitte sa ferme "écologique" des Adirondacks, car ce passé sans épilogue la pousse à retourner en Afrique... Evocation passionnante d'une turbulente période de l'histoire des Etats-Unis comme du destin d'un pays méconnu, le Liberia, le roman de Russell Banks tire sa force exceptionnelle de la complexité de son héroïne, et d'un bouleversant affrontement entre histoire et fiction. Petite enfant gâtée de l'Amérique rattrapée par la mauvaise conscience en même temps qu'universelle incarnation de toute quête d'identité en ses tours et détours, mensonges et aveux, erreurs et repentirs, Hannah Musgrave est sans doute l'une des créations romanesques les plus fascinantes du grand écrivain américain." ‎

‎Le livre de la Jamaïque‎

‎Actes Sud Broché D'occasion état correct 10/08/1993 380 pages ‎