Lonely Hearts Hotel

Author : Heather O'Neill
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443448819

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The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill Pdf

From the two-time Giller Prize shortlisted author, a dazzling circus of a novel set in the seductive underside of Montreal and New York between the wars Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1910. One is a girl named Rose; the other, a boy named Pierrot. Each display rare gifts that bring them adoration and hatred. As they are made to travel around the city performing clown routines to raise funds for the orphanage, they make plans for a sensational future. They are separated as teenagers and sent off to work as menial servants, but both soon find themselves escaping into the criminal world, participating in the vicious and absurd and perverted underbelly of Montreal and New York City between the wars. They search for each other, and one night, under the snowflakes, they reunite, and the underworld will never look quite the same. With all the storytelling skill and magical language for which she is known, Heather O’Neill dazzles us with a new tale of motherless gangsters, drug addicted pianists, radicalized chorus girls and a city whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss.

Author : Heather O'Neill
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443436489

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The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill Pdf

Finalist for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize From the author of the international bestselling, award-winning Lullabies for Little Criminals, a coming-of-age novel set on the seedy side of Montreal’s St. Laurent Boulevard Gorgeous twins Noushcka and Nicolas Tremblay live with their grandfather Loulou in a tiny, sordid apartment on St. Laurent Boulevard. They are hopelessly promiscuous, wildly funny and infectiously charming. They are also the only children of the legendary Québécois folksinger Étienne Tremblay, who was as famous for his brilliant lyrics about working-class life as he was for his philandering bon vivant lifestyle and his fall from grace. Known by the public since they were children as Little Noushcka and Little Nicolas, the two inseparable siblings have never been allowed to be ordinary. On the eve of their twentieth birthday, the twins’ self-destructive shenanigans catch up with them when Noushcka agrees to be beauty queen in the local St. Jean Baptiste Day parade. The media spotlight returns, and the attention of a relentless journalist exposes the cracks in the family’s relationships. Though Noushcka tries to leave her family behind, for better or worse, Noushcka is a Tremblay, and when tragedy strikes, home is the only place she wants to be. With all the wit and poignancy that made Baby such a beloved character in Lullabies for Little Criminals, O’Neill writes of an unusual family and what binds them together and tears them apart. The Girl Who Was Saturday Night is classic, unforgettable Heather O’Neill.

Author : Heather O'Neill
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443435994

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Daydreams Of Angels by Heather O'Neill Pdf

Heather O'Neill's distinctive style and voice fill these charming, sometimes dark, always beguiling stories Heather O’Neill’s unforgettable novels, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Lullabies for Little Criminals, captured readers with their disarming characters and irreverent descriptions of life on Montreal's St Laurent Boulevard. Here, O'Neill's voice takes flight in a collection of original stories that evoke sorrow, laughter, and heartbreak. From the title story of a naive cult follower in "Dear Piglet" to the struggle of two young women in occupied Paris in “Snow-White and Rose-Red” to the story of generations of failed Nureyev clones in post-Soviet Russia in “The Ugly Ducklings”, these stories surprise and delight at every page, showing once again that Heather O’Neill is a remarkable talent and among our best, most inventive writers.

Author : Heather O'Neill
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443451598

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When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O'Neill Pdf

The #1 national bestseller “Marvelous . . . viciously funny and acutely intelligent” (Maclean’s), When We Lost Our Heads is the spellbinding story of two young women whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destroy them, it changes the course of history Marie Antoine is the charismatic, spoiled daughter of a sugar baron. At age twelve, with her pile of blond curls and unparalleled sense of whimsy, she’s the leader of all the children in the Golden Mile, the affluent strip of nineteenth-century Montreal where powerful families live. Until one day in 1873, when Sadie Arnett, dark-haired, sly and brilliant, moves to the neighbourhood. Marie and Sadie are immediately inseparable. United by their passion and intensity, they attract and repel each other in ways that set them both on fire. Marie, with her bubbly charm, sees all the pleasure of the world, whereas Sadie’s obsession with darkness is all-consuming. Soon, their childlike games take on the thrill of danger and then become deadly. Forced to separate, the girls spend their teenage years engaging in acts of alternating innocence and depravity, until a singular event unites them once more, with devastating effects. After Marie inherits her father’s sugar empire and Sadie disappears into the city’s gritty underworld, the working class begins to foment a revolution. Each woman will play an unexpected role in the events that upend their city—the only question is whether they will find each other once more. From the beloved Giller Prize-shortlisted author who writes “like a sort of demented angel with an uncanny knack for metaphor” (Toronto Star), When We Lost Our Heads is a page-turning novel that explores gender and power, sex and desire, class and status, and the terrifying strength of the human heart when it can’t let someone go.

Author : Heather O'Neill
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062484123

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Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill Pdf

A new deluxe edition of the international bestseller by Heather O’Neill, the Giller-shortlisted author of Daydreams of Angels and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, featuring an original foreword from the author, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the coming-of-age story that People describes as “a vivid portrait of life on skid row.” Baby, all of thirteen years old, is lost in the gangly, coltish moment between childhood and the strange pulls and temptations of the adult world. Her mother is dead; her father, Jules, is scarcely more than a child himself and is always on the lookout for his next score. Baby knows that “chocolate milk” is Jules’ slang for heroin and sees a lot more of that in her house than the real article. But she takes vivid delight in the scrappy bits of happiness and beauty that find their way to her, and moves through the threat of the streets as if she’s been choreographed in a dance. Soon, though, a hazard emerges that is bigger than even her hard-won survival skills can handle. Alphonse, the local pimp, has his eye on her for his new girl; he wants her body and soul—and what the johns don’t take he covets for himself. At the same time, a tender and naively passionate friendship unfolds with a boy from her class at school, who has no notion of the dark claims on her—which even her father, lost on the nod, cannot totally ignore. Jules consigns her to a stint in juvie hall, and for the moment this perceived betrayal preserves Baby from terrible harm—but after that, her salvation has to be her own invention. Channeling the artlessly affecting voice of her thirteen-year-old heroine with extraordinary accuracy and power, Heather O’Neill’s heartbreaking and wholly original debut novel blew readers away when it was first published ten years ago. Now in a new deluxe package it is sure to capture its next decade of readers as Baby picks her pathway along the edge of the abyss to arrive at a place of redemption, and of love.

Author : Kate O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781984893864

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The Lonely Heart of Maybelle Lane by Kate O'Shaughnessy Pdf

Maybelle Lane is looking for her father, but on the road to Nashville she finds so much more: courage, brains, heart--and true friends. Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. She records the Louisiana crickets chirping, Momma strumming her guitar, their broken trailer door squeaking. But the crown jewel of her collection is a sound she didn't collect herself: an old recording of her daddy's warm-sunshine laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him. Until the day she hears that laugh--his laugh--pouring out of the car radio. Going against Momma's wishes, Maybelle starts listening to her radio DJ daddy's new show, drinking in every word like a plant leaning toward the sun. When he announces he'll be the judge of a singing contest in Nashville, she signs up. What better way to meet than to stand before him and sing with all her heart? But the road to Nashville is bumpy. Her starch-stiff neighbor Mrs. Boggs offers to drive her in her RV. And a bully of a boy from the trailer park hitches a ride, too. These are not the people May would have chosen to help her, but it turns out they're searching for things as well. And the journey will mold them into the best kind of family--the kind you choose for yourself.

Author : Heather O'Neill
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781772124002

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Wisdom in Nonsense by Heather O'Neill Pdf

I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with those of the geniuses. —Heather O’Neill With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O’Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in childhood from her father: memories and stories about how crime does pay, why one should never keep a diary, and that it is good to beware of clowns, among other things. Her father and his eccentric friends—ex-bank robbers and homeless men—taught her that everything she did was important, a belief that she has carried through her life. O’Neill’s intimate recollections make Wisdom in Nonsense the perfect companion to her widely praised debut novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals (HarperCollins).

Author : Raúl Núñez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173010396864

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The Lonely Hearts Club by Raúl Núñez Pdf

A night porter in a sleazy Barcelona hotel, the only thing the forty-year-old Antonio Castro has going for him is his resemblance to Frank Sinatra. Thinking he has nothing to lose, Antonio joins a lonely hearts club and into his life come a Perez Galdos widow, a dwarf poet, a gay barman. The Lonely Hearts Club is a novel of Barcelona. Its people and its places, the Ramblas, the Plaza Real, the Barrio Chino, are brought to life in a book that is outrageously funny but never loses sympathy with its characters.

Author : Lynn Buckle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1838059288

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What Willow Says by Lynn Buckle Pdf

Author : Heather O'Neill
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1443459038

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Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Book A NOW Magazine Book You Have to Read A Toronto Star Book We Can’t Wait to Read “Heather O’Neill is just getting better and better.” —The Globe and Mail “It would be hard to overstate here just how the good the writing is in The Lonely Hearts Hotel. For it is stunningly, stunningly good.” —Toronto Star “By the end I was a gasping, tearful mess.” —Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and No One Belongs Here More Than You “O’Neill is an extraordinary writer, and her new novel is exquisite.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Set in Montreal and New York between the wars, a spellbinding story about two orphans whose unusual magnetism and talent allow them to imagine a sensational future, from bestselling, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Heather O’Neill The internationally acclaimed author returns with a stunning national bestseller in The Lonely Hearts Hotel. Exquisitely imagined and hypnotically told, it is a love story with the power of legend. Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1914. Before long, their true talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing for the rich, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. Separated as teenagers, both escape into the city’s underworld, where they must use their uncommon gifts to survive without each other. Ruthless and unforgiving, Montreal in the 1930s is no place for song and dance, depicted by O’Neill as “a voyage across Montreal, from realms of innocence and districts of longing to zones of cruelty” (National Post). When Rose and Pierrot finally reunite they’ll go to extreme lengths to make their childhood dreams come true.

Author : Heather O'Neill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9029092874

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Hotel Lonely Hearts by Heather O'Neill Pdf

In het Canada van begin 20e eeuw groeien een jongen en een meisje op in een weeshuis waar ze zich sterk tot elkaar aangetrokken voelen en als ze elkaar jaren later weer ontmoeten, blijkt hun liefde nog steeds te bestaan.

Author : Heather O'Neill
Publisher : J.M. Meulenhoff
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789402312393

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Hotel Lonely Hearts by Heather O'Neill Pdf

Een prachtige, poëtische roman – een modern, origineel sprookje Montreal, 1914. Twee baby’s worden midden in de winter achtergelaten in een weeshuis. Allebei blijken ze uitzonderlijke talenten te bezitten: Pierrot is een wonderkind op de piano, Rose brengt met haar dans en gevoel voor komedie overal waar ze komt vreugde. De kinderen worden verliefd op elkaar en dromen van een toekomst waarin ze de meest extravagante en verleidelijke circusshow ter wereld zullen opzetten. Als tiener worden de twee gescheiden. Beiden aan het werk gezet als hulp tijdens de Grote Depressie, zakken ze langzaam weg in de onderwereld van Montreal, overlevend door sekswerk, drugs en diefstal. Maar als Rose en Pierrot elkaar terugvinden – na jarenlang zoeken en wanhopige armoede – wordt de mogelijkheid van hun jeugddroom nieuw leven ingeblazen en doen ze alles om deze waar te maken. Al snel hebben Rose, Pierrot en hun troep van clowns en showgirls het gemaakt in New York, zowel op het podium als op straat. Noch het theater noch de onderwereld zal ooit hetzelfde zijn. De pers over Hotel Lonely Hearts ‘Zo vol met levendige beschrijvingen en complexe personages dat de leeservaring bijna filmisch is.’ The Washington Post ‘O’Neill is de minnares van de verbeelding en de metafoor. Dit is briljante tragikomedie. Een beetje raar maar heel erg leuk.’ Booklist ‘Een boek als een duizelingwekkende tocht door sprookjesland, vol verwondering en onuitputtelijk geloof in het buitengewone.’ Daily Mail

Author : Heather O'Neill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : First loves
ISBN : 0525536329

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The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill Pdf

"With echoes of The Night Circus, a spellbinding story about two gifted orphans -in love with each other since they can remember-whose childhood talents allow them to rewrite their future. The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with the power of legend. An unparalleled tale of charismatic pianos, invisible dance partners, radicalized chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians, brooding clowns, and an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. In a landscape like this, it takes great creative gifts to thwart one's origins. It might also take true love. Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1914. Before long, their talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing clown routines, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. Separated as teenagers, sent off to work as servants during the Great Depression, both descend into the city's underworld, dabbling in sex, drugs and theft in order to survive. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite beneath the snowflakes -after years of searching and desperate poverty -the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed, and they'll go to extreme lengths to make them come true. Soon, Rose, Pierrot and their troupe of clowns and chorus girls have hit New York, commanding the stage as well as the alleys, and neither the theater nor the underworld will ever look the same. With her musical language and extravagantly realized world, Heather O'Neill enchants us with a novel so magical there is no escaping its spell"--

Author : Heather O'Neill,Dominique Fortier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2896942971

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Hôtel Lonely Hearts by Heather O'Neill,Dominique Fortier Pdf

Author : Heather O'Neill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2896944524

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Hôtel Lonely Hearts by Heather O'Neill Pdf