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Abstract: Seventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father . . . until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story about love in its myriad forms - first love, the love between parents and children - that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts . . . and heal them.

Abstract: Una storia di amicizia e di passione per la musica nella Parigi di oggi....

Abstract: Al tocco magico di un piccolo direttore d'orchestra, gli alberi prendono vita e si trasformano. Un libro che si dispiega come le ali di un uccello, una sinfonia per gli occhi.

Abstract: Il notturno in musica è una composizione di carattere lirico e melodico, veicolo di atmosfere sognanti e sentimenti ambivalenti, e in senso ampio ispirata alla notte. Nei cinque racconti di questa raccolta prevale l'ambientazione notturna delle scene cardine, la qualità onirica e comunque surreale delle vicende e soprattutto quell'alternanza di toni lievi e toni gravi che contraddistingue anche il genere musicale. Una sinestesia quasi perfetta dunque. Ma con un'importante eccezione: se il rigore della costruzione di parole in Ishiguro assorbe e maschera pressoché del tutto le tempeste della vita, è nel rapporto dei protagonisti di Notturni con la musica che il disagiò si rivela. Il crooner del primo racconto, per esempio, uno di quei vecchi cantanti melodici americani ormai fuori moda, ha alle spalle un passato di successi di cui vorrebbe tanto trattenere qualche brandello. La serenata - ovviamente notturna - che dedica alla moglie a bordo di una gondola, sembrerebbe il romantico pegno d'amore di un gentiluomo d'altri tempi ed è invece il primo atto di una cinica (e un po' ridicola) operazione di restyling.

Abstract: Al tocco magico di un piccolo direttore d'orchestra, gli alberi prendono vita e si trasformano. Un libro che si dispiega come le ali di un uccello, una sinfonia per gli occhi. Età di lettura: da 5 anni.

Abstract: High Fidelity is Nick Hornby's hilarious and heart-breaking first novel bestsellerDo you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups?Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behave as if Laura never mattered. But Rob finds he can't move on. He's stuck in a really deep groove - and it's called Laura. Soon, he's asking himself some big questions: about love, about life - and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do.A million-copy bestseller, and adapted into a 2000 film starring John Cusack, High Fidelity explores the world of break-ups, make-ups and what it is to be in love. This astutely observed and wickedly funny book will be enjoyed by readers of David Nicholls and William Boyd, and by generations of readers to come.'It will give enormous pleasure at the same time as expanding in a small but worthwhile way, the range of English literature' Independent on Sunday'Leaves you believing not only in the redemptive power of music but above all the redemptive power of love. Funny and wise, sweet and true' Independent'A triumphant first novel. True to life, very funny and moving' Financial TimesNick Hornby has captivated readers and achieved great critical acclaim for his comic, well-observed novels About a Boy, How to be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award), Slam and Juliet, Naked. His three works of non-fiction, 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Fever Pitch (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree are also available from Penguin.