Their relationship was tumultuous and destructive, ultimately ending when she left him for his best friend and fellow artist Rob. Alice and Rob have achieved the riches and success for which Jay once seemed destined. Ashamed and debilitated by the virus that has ravaged his body, Jay hopes she won’t recognise him behind his dirty surgical mask.

When she does, however, she invites him to recover on the property, setting in motion a reckoning decades in the making.  Gripping and brilliantly orchestrated, Blue Ruin moves back and forth through time to deliver an extraordinary portrait of an artist as he reunites with his past and confronts the world he once loved and left behind.

Una volta Jay è stato inclinata per grandezza, una stella nascente della scena artistica di Londra. Ora, vive dalla sua auto e guadagna generi alimentari per la consegna di denaro ai ricchi di Upstate New York, mentre tutto intorno a una terribile pandemica rabbia. Quando Jay arriva in una casa ambientata in un’enorme superficie di bosco, è scioccato nel vedere qualcuno che pensava per sempre perso con lui. In piedi sul portico c’è Alice, un amante dei suoi giorni di scuola d’arte.

La loro relazione fu tumultuosa e distruttiva, alla fine finì quando lo lasciò per il suo migliore amico e collega artista Rob. Alice e Rob hanno raggiunto le ricchezze e il successo per i quali Jay una volta sembrava destinato. Vergognoso e debilitato dal virus che ha devastato il suo corpo, Jay spera di non riconoscerlo dietro la sua sporca maschera chirurgica.

Quando lo fa, tuttavia, lo invita a riprendersi sulla proprietà, mettendo in moto decenni di resa dei conti. Afferrare e brillantemente orchestrato, Blue Ruin si muove avanti e indietro nel tempo per offrire uno straordinario ritratto di artista mentre si riunisce con il suo passato e si confronta con il mondo che una volta amava e lasciato alle spalle.

Meanwhile, controversial and outspoken women’s rights activist Kate McKay is embarking on a multi-state lecture tour, drawing packed venues of both fans and detractors. Someone who vehemently opposes Kate’s message of female empowerment is targeting her and disrupting her events.

At first, no one is hurt, but the stalker is growing bolder, and Holly is hired to be Kate’s bodyguarda challenging task with a headstrong employer and a determined adversary driven by wrath and his belief in his own righteousness.

Featuring a riveting cast of characters both old and new, including world-famous gospel singer Sista Bessie and an unforgettable villain addicted to murder, these twinned narratives converge in a chilling and spectacular conclusiona feat of storytelling only Stephen King could pull off.

Thrilling, wildly fun, and outrageously engrossing, Never Flinch is one of King’s richest and most propulsive novels.

The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are trying to figure out the world around them: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for an exoplanet, decades from now. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril.

An ancient textthe story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the skyprovides solace and mystery to these unforgettable characters.

Doerr has created a tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectednesswith other species, with each other, with those who lived before us and those who will be here after we’re gone.

Dedicated to ‘;the librarians then, now, and in the years to come,’ Cloud Cuckoo Land is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardshipof the book, of the Earth, of the human heart.