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Parents Under the Influence
Part American and part French, part memoir and part guide, this book offers a fresh, unique, and powerful perspective on the challenges of parenting and how to find a rewarding path forward for parents and children alike. How should we raise our children? It should be a simple enough question to answer but in fact it is an intimidating and complex one. We often address it by deciding to do either exactly what our parents did or just the opposite. After that we rely on a cocktail of love and instinct, hoping it will be enough to overcome the difficulties ahead. Far from having perfect free will, however, we are all under the influence. The child still within us confuses, influences, or undermines all our aspirations as parents and prevents us from sticking to the philosophy we initially hoped to follow. These unresolved emotions drive us to reproduce the upbringing we received, including the behaviors that have hurt us the most. In Parents Under the Influence, Cécile David-Weill draws on her own parenting blunders and successes as well as concrete examples, case studies, and works of fiction to guide readers, helping them heal from the past and become effective, nurturing parents.
New York Magazine
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
The Suitors
A comedy of manners that serves as an insightful look at the lives of those in the upper classes. After two sisters, Laure and Marie, learn of their parents’ plan to sell the family’s summer retreat, L’Agapanthe, they devise a scheme for attracting a wealthy suitor who can afford to purchase the estate. Selling it would mean more than just losing a place to go during the summer—for the sisters, it’s become a necessary part of their character, their lifestyle, and their past. L’Agapanthe, a place of charm and nostalgia, is the perfect venue to exercise proper etiquette and intellect, though not all its visitors are socially savvy, especially when it’s a matter of understanding the relationships between old money and the nouveau riche. The comedy of manners begins: with stock traders, yogis, fashion designers, models, swindlers, the Mafia, and a number of celebrity guests. Laure—the witty, disarming, and poignant narrator—guides the reader through elegant dinners, midnight swims in the bay, and conversations about current events, literature, art, and cinema. The Suitors is an amusing insider’s look at the codes, manners, and morals of French high society.
Crush
This debut novel of a Frenchwoman’s obsessive affair is “a little book that astonishes, by the fierceness of its outlook, the rawness of its tone” (Magazine Littéraire). Amélie is a thirty-year-old haute bourgeoisie wife of a distant husband and mother of two picture-perfect daughters. One evening at a service station on the outskirts of the Bois de Boulogne, she meets a man named David and immediately steps into a new life of erotic sensuality. Twenty years her senior, darkly handsome, and almost embarrassingly virile, he is a suave filmmaker, a confirmed bachelor, and the perfect match for the perfect affair—but one with a twist. Amélie is not the typical lonely wife, starving for affection. Capricious, snobbish, and sometimes deceitful, she is ravenously hungry for pleasure. Written with cool-headed intensity and sexual heat, Crush is an unforgettable odyssey through the wilds of desire into the badlands of erotic obsession.
Le roman français au tournant du XXIe siècle
Ce recueil est structuré en six parties : Autofictions, Histoire, Généalogies, Fiction(s) en question, Espaces, limites, bougés et Légitimités. Le texte des interventions est complété d'entretiens avec Philippe Sollers, Richard Millet et Christian Oster
Annales Des Mines
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Bastarde di Francia
A ognuna di noi è data la scelta tra lasciarsi trasportare dalla corrente e opporre resistenza rischiando di essere distrutta. Parigi, 1631. Cécile de La Baume, liberata dalla terribile prigionia che l'ha vista reclusa in un forte per oltre tre anni, cerca di ricostruire il suo animo afflitto. Ma il ritorno a casa non pone fine ai suoi tormenti: infatti il re, suo tutore dopo la morte del padre, accusa lei e il genitore di tradimento per il loro ingente patrimonio dall'origine ignota. Un amore che potrebbe restituirle serenità non è abbastanza forte per affrontare i chiaroscuri della vita; la mente di Cécile è rivolta a un altro solitario obiettivo: la vendetta contro colui che ha orga...
