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WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES de Karen Joy Fowler en lice pour le Man Booker Price

Après avoir remporté le prix FAULKNER/PEN, le dixième roman de Karen Joy Fowler a été sélectionné pour le Man Booker Prize 2014.

Les droits de ce bestseller ont été déjà acquis par Putnam/Marian Wood Books (États-Unis); Serpent’s Tail (Royaume Uni); Goldmann (Allemagne); Kinneret (Israël); Albatros (République Tchèque); Aylak Kitap (Turquie); Ponte alle Grazie (Italie); La Magrana (Espagne-langue catalane); Soft Press (Bulgarie).

WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES
by Karen Joy Fowler
Putnam, May 2013

“A gripping and surreptitiously intelligent book about a family’s falling apart after a young daughter is sent away… The book is far deeper and more ambitious, however, than its central conceit would lead one to think.” – Khaled Hosseini

“A novel so readably juicy and surreptitiously smart, it deserves all the attention it can get… [T]his is a story of Everyfamily in which loss engraves relationships, truth is a soulful stalker and coming-of-age means facing down the mirror, recognizing the shape-shifting notion of self.” – Barbara Kingsolver, front page of The New York Times Book Review

“It really is a magnificent piece of work. My greatest joy has been handing it to people and telling them they have to read it. They keep coming back to tell me how much they loved it.” – Ann Patchett

“Read this goddamn book.” – Gawker

“Fowler’s novel is superb….Fowler’s smart and exquisitely sad novel provokes us to think about a lot of aspects of our relationship to animals that most of us would rather ignore.  – Maureen Corrigan, National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air”

“A strong, unsettling novel . . . Fowler explores the depths of human emotions and delivers a tragic love story that captures our hearts.” – Library Journal (starred review!)

Meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; as a young woman, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Something happened, something so awful she has buried it in the recesses of her mind.
Now her adored older brother is a fugitive, wanted by the FBI for domestic terrorism. And her once lively mother is a shell of her former self, her clever and imperious father now a distant, brooding man.
And Fern, Rosemary’s beloved sister, her accomplice in all their childhood mischief? Fern’s is a fate the family, in all their innocence, could never have imagined.

Le biopic de Dalton Trumbo en préparation

Bryan Cranston, le Walter White de la série culte BREAKING BAD, jouera le rôle du scénariste et écrivain dans un biopic produit par Groundswell Productions, Inimitable Pictures et ShivHans Pictures .

En France, JOHNNY S’EN VA-T-EN GUERRE, le chef-d’œuvre de la littérature antimilitariste écrit par Dalton Trumbo, est publié aux Éditions Actes Sud.

Voici l’annonce officielle :

The biopic “Trumbo” starring Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren will enter pre-production on July 21, with principal photography scheduled to start mid-September in New Orleans. The release date has not yet been announced.

Director: Jay Roach

Writer: John McNamara

Stars: Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren

Storyline: The successful career of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, author of JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, comes to an end when he’s blacklisted in the 1940s for being a Communist.

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Crown publiera le prochain roman de Terry McMillan !

Crown Publishing vient d’acheter les droits mondiaux de I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT YOU, le prochain roman de Terry McMillan, dont les précédents titres se sont vendus en millions d’exemplaires dans le monde entier. L’auteure afro-américaine a notamment connu un succès remarquable grâce à WAITING FOR EXHALE qui avait donné lieu à une adaptation cinématographique réalisée par Forest Whitaker et dans laquelle jouaient Angela Bassett et Whitney Houston :

(June 20, 2014 – New York, NY): Multi-million copy bestselling author Terry McMillan has reached agreement with Crown Publishers to write a new work of fiction, I Almost Forgot About You, the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaning.

Each of Ms. McMillan’s seven previous novels was a New York Times bestseller, and four have been made into movies: Waiting to Exhale (Twentieth Century Fox, 1995); How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Twentieth Century Fox, 1998); Disappearing Acts (HBO Pictures, 1999); and A Day Late and a Dollar Short (Lifetime, 2014). McMillan fell in love with books as a teenager while working at the local library. She studied journalism at UC Berkeley and screenwriting at Columbia before making her fiction debut with Mama, which won both the Doubleday New Voices in Fiction Award and the American Book Award. She is a judge for the 2014 PEN Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction. She lives in Pasadena, California.

In I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT YOU, Dr. Georgia Young’s wonderful life—great friends, family, and successful career—aren’t enough to keep loneliness and boredom at bay. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, she finds herself on a wild journey that may or may not include a second chance at love. Like Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, I Almost Forgot About You will show legions of readers what can happen when you face your fears, take a chance, and open yourself up to the world.

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS : déjà un succès au box office

Adapté du best-seller de John Green (NOS ÉTOILES CONTRAIRES, Editions Nathan), le film enregistre un des meilleures démarrages de l’année aux US : 48,2 millions de dollars le premier weekend !

Sorti en même temps, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS avec Shailene Woodley n’a laissé aucune chance à l’ambitieux blockbuster « Edge of Tomorrow », avec Tom Cruise, qui a coûté 15 fois plus et n’a récolté que la moitié des recettes.

NOS ÉTOILES CONTRAIRES sera à l’affiche en France le 20 août prochain.

 

 

UPDATE 24/06/2014 : THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Crosses $100M To Become One Of This Year’s Most Profitable Films

Les Lycéennes de ELLE ont choisi Ruth Ozeki

A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING de Ruth Ozeki, traduit par Sarah Tardy et publié chez Belfond sous le titre « En même temps, toute la terre et tout le ciel », est le lauréat du Prix Littéraire des Lycéennes de ELLE.

A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING est un roman à tiroirs, dans la lignée de Murakami. Une magnifique rencontre littéraire entre réalité et imaginaire, à la fois profonde et intime.
« Ruth retrouve le journal échoué de Nao sur une plage, caché dans un bento Hello Kitty. Nao a des problèmes de son âge, des conflits avec sa famille, avec ses amis. De son côté, Ruth est une romancière en panne d’inspiration. A-t-elle droit de s’emparer du destin de Nao pour renouer avec l’écriture ? Ruth Ozeki donne des réponses romanesques à des questions existentielles, c’est magnifique. » (ELLE du 6 juin 2014)

L’auteure est ravie : « I honestly don’t think I’ve ever been prouder of any award I’ve ever received! This is just so lovely. »