New Releases by Paula Fox

En 1941, Helen Bynum quitte pour la première fois le domicile familial et gagne le Quartier français de La Nouvelle-Orléans, où elle rejoint sa tante, une actrice aux charmes abîmés par l''alcool et une vie dissolue. Elle y découvre la vie dans ce qu''elle a de passionné et d''aventureux. Confrontée à des réalités et dilemmes jusqu''alors insoupçonnés, elle connaît en compagnie de ses amis, des intellectuels bohèmes, le désir et l''amour, l''amitié et ses déboires. Son univers se mêle au mystère étouffant d''une ville dont la sensualité est ici magnifiée.

Carrie''s half brother Ben has long felt rejected by his father until, on a strange visit in Boston, he is able to see that his father really needs him.

Autobiografische Kindheitserinnerungen der Autorin, die von hrer Schauspieler-Mutter abgelehnt wurde und innerlich vereinsamt und ohne familiäre Geborgenheit aufwuchs.

In 1941, at twenty-three years of age, Helen leaves upstate New York for the first time and sets out in search of her aunt in New Orleans. There she finds a new life of passion and adventure.

"The best first novel I''ve read in quite a long time...A merciless uncovering of the exurban wastelands of the spirit." --New York Review of Books

Luisa de la Cueva and her family leave their home on a small Caribbean island and try to start a new life in the barrios of New York.

Annie Ginfala is a young woman cast adrift in Hollywood with World War II looming. Defending herself against personal catastrophe, she tries to save her life and escape.

A Newbery Award-winning author tells the story of a boy who feels angry and rejected because his younger brother has Down''s syndrome and how, through a series of surprising events, he begins to wonder if his brother is indeed worth loving.

First published in 1970 to great acclaim, this novel stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller''s craft in postwar American literature--a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with "Billy Budd" and "The Great Gatsby".

An evening dining out with the family in New York City escalates into a feast of vicious innuendo and subtle cruelty for Laura Maldonado Clapper, her husband, her browbeaten daughter, her flamboyant brother, and an editor she has not seen in over a year.

In the form of a fable, five stories within a story are full of wisdom & humour and feature animal protagonists. 8-11 yrs.

Summary: Liam''s father has AIDS, and his family cannot talk about it until Liam reveals a secret that he has tried to deny ever since he saw his father embracing another man at the beach.

A novel of distinction about a boy whose father is dying of AIDS.

Victoria Finch is a thirteen year old facing many abrupt changes after her father''s death. Victoria and her mother move to a new city where she befriends two boys and, in the entanglements which follow, discovers her own personality.

The retelling of three Italian folktales: Amzat and His brothers, Mezgalten and Olimpia, Cucol and the Door.

Roman - famille - relation parent-enfant - arme - animal.

Shortly after her father''s death, Victoria and her mother move to a village outside of Boston where she meets a wealthy teenage boy who teaches her a valuable but painful lesson about life.

Ethan is not allowed to walk across the street, so when his ball rolls away he devises a clever way to retrieve it.

An eleven-year-old boy gains a new understanding of himself and his father after a trip to Florida with unusual people.

With the help of a falcon an ineffectual medieval king trades the troubled, boring life of royalty for the freedom of a falconer.