Anna North
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« En l'an de grâce 1894, je devins une hors-la-loi. »À dix-sept ans, la vie semble sourire à Ada : elle vient d'épouser le garçon qu'elle aime et son travail de sage-femme aux côtés de sa mère la passionne. Mais les mois passent et le ventre de la jeune femme ne s'arrondit toujours pas. Dans cette petite ville du Texas où la maternité est portée plus haut que tout, et la stérilité perçue comme un signe de sorcellerie, les accusations à l'encontre d'Ada ne tardent pas à se multiplier. Bientôt sa vie même est menacée et elle n'a d'autre choix doit que de partir, renonçant à tout ce qu'elle avait construit.Elle trouve refuge au sein du tristement célèbre gang du Hole-in-the-Wall, une bande de hors-la-loi dirigée par un leader charismatique : le Kid. Le Kid rêve de créer un havre de paix pour les femmes marginalisées et rejetées par la société en raison de leurs différences.À ses côtés, Ada apprend à monter à cheval, à tirer et à maîtriser l'art de se déguiser en homme pour piller des diligences ou voler du bétail. Mais le Kid veut aller plus loin et échafaude un plan qui pourrait bien leur être fatal. Ada est-elle prête à risquer sa vie pour un monde meilleur ?Hors-la-loi dépoussière avec fracas le mythe du Far West et brosse le portrait d'une héroïne inoubliable, portée par une soif de vérité et de justice. Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Jean Esch
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK MAJOR TV ADAPTATION IN DEVELOPMENT BY AMY ADAMS ''Calling it The Handmaid''s Tale crossed with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid goes some way to describe this novel''s memorable world, but it is also wholly its own'' KIRKUS ''2021 is already a year that could use a little joy. Here to provide some is Outlawed . . . It''s an absolute romp and contains basically everything I want in a book: witchy nuns, heists, a marriage of convenience, and a midwife trying to build a bomb out of horse dung'' Vox '' Outlawed sets a high bar for the 12 months of publishing still to come . . . It upends the tropes of the traditionally macho and heteronormative genre while also being a rip-snortin'' good read, too'' THE WEEK (Most Anticipated Books of the Year) ''North is a riveting storyteller . . . Reader, you are in for a real treat'' JENNY ZHANG ''Fans of Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy finally get the Western they deserve'' ALEXIS COE ''A thrilling tale eerily familiar but utterly transformed ... In North''s galloping prose, it''s a fantastically cinematic adventure that turns the sexual politics of the Old West inside out'' WASHINGTON POST ''A western unlike any other, Outlawed features queer cowgirls, gender nonconforming robbers and a band of feminists that fight against the grain for autonomy, agency and the power to define their own worth'' MS. ''A grand, unforgettable tale'' ESMe WEIJUN WANG In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. On the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. She loves her broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice midwife. But her luck will not last. It is every woman''s duty to have a child, to replace those that were lost in the Great Flu. And after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are hanged as witches, Ada''s survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang. Its leader, a charismatic preacher-turned-robber, known to all as The Kid, wants to create a safe haven for women outcast from society. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan. And Ada must decide whether she''s willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all.
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Sophie Stark, une réalisatrice talentueuse, ne vit que pour les films qu'elle produit, au détriment de la vie réelle et de ses proches. Obnubilée par sa passion, la jeune femme n'hésite pas à sacrifier ceux qu'elle aime au profit de son talent créatif, derrière lequel elle dissimule sa peur d'affronter le monde.
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@2@@20@'If @18@The Girl on the Train@19@ was the woman of 2015, then Sophie Stark is this year's model. Anna North's novel, @18@The Life and Death of Sophie Stark@19@, has been a hit in America, with Lena Dunham describing its protagonist as a "totally unforgettable female antihero". Out now - soon every girl on every train will be reading it' @18@Sunday Times@19@@21@@3@@2@Who is the real Sophie Stark? @16@@18@@19@@16@@18@The Life and Death of Sophie Stark@19@ is the story of an enigmatic film director, told by the six people who loved her most. Brilliant, infuriating, all-seeing and unknowable, Sophie Stark makes films said to be 'more like life than life itself'. But her genius comes at a terrible cost: to her husband, to the brother she left behind, and to an actress who knows too much. @3@@2@With shades of @18@We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves@19@, @18@A Visit from the Goon Squad@19@ and @18@Where'd You Go, Bernadette@19@, it combines a uniquely appealing sensibility with a compulsively page-turning plot.@3@@2@@20@'Thriller-paced, with mysteries revealed at every turn. The great mystery at the centre is Sophie Stark, a totally unforgettable female anti-hero who conforms to absolutely none of our expectations and suffers deeply for it@18@' @19@Lena Dunham@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@'North is a natural, butter-smooth storyteller' Maggie Shipstead, author of SEATING ARRANGEMENTS@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@'I read THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SOPHIE STARK with my heart in my mouth. Not only a dissection of genius and the havoc it can wreak, but also a thunderously good story' Emma Donoghue, author of ROME@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@'Jennifer Egan, eat your heart out' Sam Baker@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@'A captivating portrait of the artist as a young woman. It's a story that examines the notion of artistic legacy and meditates on the ethics involved in film-making and storytelling' THE INDEPENDENT@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@'Gripping and graceful' THE GUARDIAN@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@'The year's must read' GLAMOUR@21@@3@
