Robert Woolley
Going Once: A Memoir of Art, Society, and Charity
En Anglais – A legend in the field of auctioneering describes his career at Sotheby’s, giving a backstage look at the world of privilege and art, and explains how AIDS has changed his life.
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The smell of apples
En Anglais – – Set in the bitter twilight of apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s, The Smell of Apples is a haunting story narrated by eleven-year-old Marnus Erasmus, who records the social turmoil and racial oppression that are destroying his own land. Using his family as a microcosm of the corroding society at large, Marnus tells a troubling tale of a childhood corrupted, of unexpected sexual defilements, and of an innocence gone astray.
La France et l’ONU (1945 à 1995)
L’histoire de la diplomatie française depuis la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale à nos jours, et plus particulièrement son rôle en tant que membre permanent du conseil de sécurité de l’ONU.
Un ange de velours
Miles Montgomery est pour le moins surpris. Un tapis roulé ! Quel étrange cadeau ! Il s’approche, le déroule et y découvre une ravissante jeune fille entièrement nue. Or, la belle endormie se révèle bientôt être une véritable tigresse. En effet, Elizabeth est une Chatworth et elle déteste farouchement les Montgomery. Miles, lui, n’a que faire de la haine ancestrale entre leurs deux familles. Elizabeth est une femme magnifique que la colère rend plus désirable encore. Il meurt d’envie de la caresser, de l’embrasser, de la protéger, mais, pour cela, il faudrait d’abord qu’elle se laisse approcher.
The alienist
En Anglais – When The Alienist was first published in 1994, it was a major phenomenon, spending six months on the New York Times bestseller list, receiving critical acclaim, and selling millions of copies. This modern classic continues to be a touchstone of historical suspense fiction for readers everywhere. The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler—a psychologist, or “alienist”—to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a revolutionary effort in criminology: creating a psychological profile of the perpetrator based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who will kill again before their hunt is over. Fast-paced and riveting, infused with historical detail, The Alienist conjures up Gilded Age New York, with its tenements and mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. It is an age in which questioning society’s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and fatal consequences.