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Der Gründer der #1 Stephen-King-News-Website Lilja’s Library präsentiert eine schaurig-schöne Anthologie von Horrorgeschichten – darunter eine seltene Erzählung von Stephen King selbst, Klassiker von Clive Barker und Edgar Allan Poe sowie eine Novelle von John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In).Anlässlich des zwanzigjährigen Jubiläums der umfangreichen Stephen-King-Fanseite »Lilja's Library - The World of Stephen King« ist diese Anthologie die perfekte Lektüre für Horrorfans aller Couleur.Shining in the Dark umfasst Kurzgeschichten von einigen der bekanntesten und talentiertesten Autoren des Genres und enthält eine furchterregende Geschichte, die bisher in keiner anderen Sammlung von Stephen King enthalten war.Zu den Geschichten gehören:»Der blaue Kompressor« von Stephen King»Internet« von Jack Ketchum und P. D. Cacek»Der Roman des Holocaust« von Stewart O’Nan»Aeliana« von Bev Vincent»Pidgin und Theresa« von Clive Barker»Das Ende aller Dinge« von Brian Keene»Totentanz« von Richard Chizmar»Die Verlockung der Flamme« von Kevin Quigley»Der Gefährte« von Ramsey Campbell»Das verräterische Herz« von Edgar Allan Poe»Mutterliebe« von Brian James Freeman»Das Handbuch des Hüters« von John Ajvide Lindqvist

Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, this is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do. Told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart: Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel's younger sister Marie, who reflects on that doomed autumn of 2009 with all the wisdom of hindsight. Author of "Henry, Himself."

A member of the greatest generation looks back on the loves and losses of his past and comes to treasure the present anew in this poignant and thoughtful new novel from a modern master Stewart O'Nan is renowned for illuminating the unexpected grace of everyday life and the resilience of ordinary people with humor, intelligence, and compassion. In Henry, Himself, he offers an unsentimental, moving life story of a twentieth-century everyman. Soldier, son, lover, husband, breadwinner, churchgoer, Henry Maxwell has spent his whole life trying to live with honor. A native Pittsburgher and engineer, he's always believed in logic, sacrifice, and hard work. Now, seventy-five and retired, he feels the world has passed him by. It's 1998, the American century is ending, and nothing is simple anymore. His children are distant, their unhappiness a mystery. Only his wife Emily and dog Rufus stand by him. Once so confident, as Henry's strength and memory desert him, he weighs his dreams against his regrets and is left with questions he can't answer: Is he a good man? Has he done right by the people he loves? And with time running out, what, realistically, can he hope for? Like Emily, Alone, which The New York Times called "O'Nan's best novel yet," Henry, Himself is a wry, warmhearted portrait of an American original who believes he's reached a dead end only to discover life is full of surprises.

Excellent . . .a little jewel, wonderfully sparse, moody and uneasy, reminiscent of the delicious, frayed-collar noir of le Carré's The Spy Who Came in From the Cold . . .You can smell the squally desert wind that bends the cypress trees on the Jerusalem hills but never brings the rain. City of Secrets makes for great summer reading. - Jason Matthews, The New York Times Book Review Post-World War II Jerusalem is the provocative setting for Stewart O'Nan's atmospheric thriller. . .a richly-imagined story. . .may be one of O'Nan's best. Its strength lies in his ability, as always, to take us inside the minds and souls of characters, real or imagined. - The Chicago Tribune Masterful. . .its impact is deceptively large because O'Nan has something that can't be taught to a writer - and can indeed by unlearned by talented writers: the gift of authenticity. -The Washington Post A fine piece of storytelling. . .a work in the exotic historic mode of Graham Greene, with the drier and grittier tone of Raymond Chandler. . .the moral struggle in City of Secrets is timeless and international. - The Boston Globe Enthralling. . .O'Nan takes a clear-eyed and unsentimental look at an astonishing slice of history - one that is strikingly echoed by the heartbreaking events still unfolding in the Middle East. - The Seattle Times A fast-moving story that brings fresh perspective to a moment of historical significance . . . O'Nan's storytelling, once again, demonstrates why he has earned a place among our most illustrious writers. -St. Louis Post Dispatch A search for love and justice after the Holocaust. . . I'll not soon forget Brand and his quest for something worth believing in. . . worth applauding, too, is Mr. O'Nan's ability to realize a complex female character in Eva. -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Stewart O'Nan's City of Secrets will keep you up all night reading - what a beautifully crafted novel. - Alan Furst, New York Times bestselling author of Mission to Paris Finely wrought and morally complex, O'Nan's considerable story-telling powers are masterfully deployed here. With deft strokes, he evokes the tensions and tragedies of Mandate Jerusalem, riven then as now by the fault lines of community and conscience. - Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret Chord I've been a Stewart O'Nan fan since his very first novel, and never more so than with his latest. In City of Secrets , O'Nan takes his mastery of language and depth of character in a fresh direction: a richly nuanced suspense novel, set in an immensely intriguing post-war Jerusalem. A remarkable book. - Chris Pavone, author of The Expats Imaginative and nimble, O'Nan is a master of narrative distillation, and in his latest taut novel, set in British-ruled Jerusalem immediately after WWII, he achieves thriller-like suspense. . .[an] engrossing portrait of an innocent caught in the web of history. - ALA Booklist (starred) A probing, keening thriller. . .though rigorously unsentimental, the text seethes with unresolved emotions. . .the complex moral issues it raises linger unsettlingly. - Kirkus Reviews (starred) A Conradian espionage thriller leavened with existential introspection. . .O'Nan's novel works on several levels, but it is especially memorable as a story where the tortured emotions of its characters are indistinguishable from the turmoil of the chaotic events that overwhelm them. - Publishers Weekly From the Hardcover edition.

"In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. By December 1940, he would be dead of a heart attack. Those last three years of Fitzgerald's life, often obscured by the legend of his earlier Jazz Age glamour, are the focus of Stewart O'Nan's gorgeously and gracefully written novel. With flashbacks to key moments from Fitzgerald's past, the story follows him as he arrives on the MGM lot, falls in love with brassy gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, begins work on The Last Tycoon, and tries to maintain a semblance of family life with the absent Zelda and daughter, Scottie. Fitzgerald's orbit of literary fame and the Golden Age of Hollywood is brought vividly to life through the novel's romantic cast of characters, from Dorothy Parker and Ernest Hemingway to Humphrey Bogart."--

Gemeinsam machen Marion und Art Fowler eine Pauschal-Busreise zu den Niagarafällen, wohin sie dreißig Jahre zuvor auch ihre Hochzeitsreise führte. Im Gepäck befindet sich ihr gesamtes Barvermögen, denn Art glaubt zu wissen, wie man beim Roulette gewinnen kann. Sie schmuggeln das Geld nach Kanada ein, wechseln es in Jetons und beziehen in einem Casino eine teure Hochzeitssuite, die sie sich leisten, weil es ja ohnehin egal ist. Arbeitslos und verschuldet, wie sie sind, haben sie nichts mehr zu verlieren. Das Haus, in dem ihre Kinder groß geworden sind, muss verkauft werden, ihre Ehe, von Seitensprüngen untergraben, steht vor dem Aus. Also greifen sie nach dem letzten Strohhalm: tagsüber beim Sightseeing an den spektakulären Wasserfällen, vor allem aber abends, im Casino. Sie spielen am ersten Abend und am zweiten. Und setzen alles auf eine Karte. Ein heiterer, sogar tröstlicher Roman über Zuversicht, Verzeihen und letzte Chancen, der eindringlich vor Augen führt, dass Liebe – wie das Leben selbst – mitunter ein Glücksspiel ist.

In the new novel from the author of Last Night at the Lobster, a middle-age couple goes all in for love at a Niagara Falls casino Lokk out for City of Secrets coming from Viking on April 26, 2016 Stewart O'Nan's thirteenth novel is another wildly original, bittersweet gem like his celebrated Last Night at the Lobster. Valentine's weekend, Art and Marion Fowler flee their Cleveland suburb for Niagara Falls, desperate to recoup their losses. Jobless, with their home approaching foreclosure and their marriage on the brink of collapse, Art and Marion liquidate their savings account and book a bridal suite at the Falls' ritziest casino for a second honeymoon. While they sightsee like tourists during the day, at night they risk it all at the roulette wheel to fix their finances-and save their marriage. A tender yet honest exploration of faith, forgiveness and last chances, The Odds is a reminder that love, like life, is always a gamble.

Das einfühlsame Porträt einer Frau, die am Ende ihres Lebens einen Neuanfang wagt.Emily Maxwell, eine Witwe, deren Kinder längst eigene Familien gegründet haben, führt ein ziemlich unspektakuläres Leben, allein mit ihrem Hund. Dann und wann trifft sie sich mit ihrer Schwägerin zum Essen, aber das ist es dann auch schon. Als die bei einem gemeinsamen Frühstück zusammenbricht, wird für Emily alles anders.Sie verbringt ganze Tage damit, Besuche ihrer Enkel aufwendig zu planen, sie kauft sich ein kleines Auto, lernt, die bislang noch nie erfahrene Unabhängigkeit in vollen Zügen zu genießen. Auf einmal offenbart ihr das Lebenneue Möglichkeiten.Eine alte Frau wie Emily meint jeder zu kennen, und doch wurde sie selten so einfühlsam und treffend porträtiert.Stewart O’Nan zeigt uns ihre kräftig in alle Richtungen ausschlagenden Gefühle – des Bedauerns, des Stolzes, der Trauer, der Freude – in völlig überraschenden Zusammenhängen. Indem er das scheinbar Gewöhnliche als etwas Außergewöhnliches enthüllt und sich – heiter,ergreifend – mit ernsten Th emen wie Einsamkeit, Alter und nahem Tod befasst, schärft er den Blick des Lesers, sein Verständnis.«Wie Stewart O’Nan das beschreibt – geduldig, ruhig, ohne zu werten, melancholisch dennoch, dicht –, das nimmt den Atem.»Elke Heidenreich, Die Welt«Selbst wenn man keine alte Dame ist, es auch nie sein wird, sind Emilys Hoffnungen und Ängste identisch mit denen, die man selber hegt. Der Roman lässt einen einfach nur begeistert sein.»The Washington Post«In ‹Emily, allein› liegt die Melancholie des Alters über den Szenen, fein abgestimmt und mit zärtlicher Ironie.»Der Spiegel«Herzzerreißend und brillant.»The New York Times

The moving companion novel to Henry, Himself and a bittersweet vision of love, family, and aging from bestselling author Stewart O'Nan Once again making the ordinary and overlooked not merely visible but vital to understanding our own lives, Stewart O'Nan confirms his position as an American master with Emily, Alone. A sequel to the bestselling, much-beloved Wish You Were Here, O'Nan's intimate novel follows Emily Maxwell, a widow whose grown children have long departed. She dreams of visits from her grandchildren while mourning the turnover of her quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood. When her sister-in-law and sole companion, Arlene, faints at their favorite breakfast buffet, Emily's life changes in unexpected ways. As she grapples with her new independence, she discovers a hidden strength and realizes that life always offers new possibilities.