Pourquoi notre futur dépend des bibliothèques, de la lecture et de l'imagination

"Il est des choses qui nous perturbent, des mots ou des idées qui surgissent sous nos pas comme des trappes, nous précipitant de notre monde de sécurité et de bon sens en un lieu beaucoup plus sombre et moins accueillant." C'est là le chemin que Neil Gaiman nous propose d'arpenter à travers ces vingt-quatre nouvelles, contes et poèmes, en s'affranchissant des genres pour ne garder que la substantifique moelle d'un imaginaire tour à tour sombre ou flamboyant.

Signal d'alerte - Fictions courtes et dérangements

Neil Gaiman. Alice Cooper. Deux immenses artistes réunis autour du dessinateur Michael Zulli, pour donner corps à ce roman graphique inspiré de l'album studio d'Alice "The Last Temptation". Voici l'Edition Ultime de cette oeuvre, transposant en français la version "20ème anniversaire" du livre. Album relié contenant : l'introduction de Neil Gaiman, La BD en couleurs remasterisées (récit complet), postface de Michael Zulli, la lettre de Neil Gaiman à Alice Cooper à l'origine du projet, le synopsis de présentation à Marvel, le script original intégral (en anglais), des pages encrées, une nouvelle illustration de Michael Zulli et la galerie de Dave McKean (Batman : Arkham Asylum, Sandman). Peureux et réservé, Steven va devoir apprendre à maîtriser ses craintes en assistant au spectacle donné par un cirque de l'Etrange, mené par un Monsieur Loyal aux pouvoirs inquiétants.

La dernière tentation - Edition ultime

WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2013 BOOK OF THE YEAR        The Ocean at the End of the Lane  is the bestselling magical novel from Neil Gaiman, one of the most brilliant storytellers of our generation and author of the epic novel  American Gods , and the much-loved  Sandman  series.  'Possibly Gaiman's most lyrical, scary and beautiful work yet.  It's a tale of childhood for grown-ups, a fantasy rooted in the darkest corners of reality' ( Independent on Sunday).   If you loved the mesmerising world of Erin Morgenstern's  The Night Circus  or were drawn into J.K. Rowling's magical universe, this book is for you.        It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond this world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it.   His only defence is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.    The Ocean at the End of the Lane  is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac - as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark.

OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE

The enduring story of the children, the breadcrumb trail and the gingerbread house is brought to life by master storyteller, Neil Gaiman. Who better to retell the Brothers Grimm's greatest, and perhaps darkest, fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel? Coupled with breathtakingly haunting illustrations from Lorenzo Mattotti, you will be enticed into the world and into the woods . . . so beware.

HANSEL AND GRETEL

La légende raconte qu'il existerait neuf mondes, reliés par Yggdrasil, le frêne puissant et parfait. C'est là le théâtre des aventures d'Odin, le plus grand et ancien dieu, Père de tout ; de son fils aîné Thor, fort et tumultueux, armé de Mjollnir, son légendaire marteau ; et de Loki, séduisant, rusé et manipulateur inégalable. Dieux trop humains, parfois sages, souvent impétueux, quelquefois tricheurs, ils guerroient, se défient et se trahissent. Jusqu'à Ragnarok, la fin de toutes choses. Voici leur histoire, rapportée par Neil Gaiman, le plus grand des conteurs.

La Mythologie Viking

American Gods,  the extraordinary, highly acclaimed epic novel from storytelling genius and international bestseller Neil Gaiman, was brought vividly to life this year in the         hottest major TV show of 2017    , and Amazon Prime video series starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane,   Emily Browning and Gillian Anderson. For fans of  The Book of Dust  and  Mythos  by Stephen Fry.   After three years in prison, Shadow has served his time.  But as the days and hours until his release tick away, he can feel a storm brewing.  Two days before his release date, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in adulterous circumstances.  Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.  Together they embark on a very strange journey across the States, along the way solving the murders which have occurred every winter in one small American town.  But the storm is about to break . . .  Disturbing, gripping and profoundly strange, Gaiman's epic novel sees him on the road to the heart of America.

American gods

Il y a trois siècles, un des Infinis a renoncé à sa charge et à sa famille. Aujourd'hui, le Délire est en proie à des angoisses et ne voit qu'un remède à son mal-être: implorer le Rêve de l'accompagner, et retrouver la trace du frère prodigue. Mais même pour Morphée, le monde de l'Éveil a ses pièges. Malgré les mises en garde de la Mort et du Destin, l'heure est venue de briser d¹anciens serments. Contenu : The Sandman #40-49, Vertigo, Preview #1, Sandman Special #1, Winter's Edge #3, Sandman Companion.

Sandman - Volume IV

'An electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons.... a real bedtime-buster'. Read an exclusive excerpt at BookBrowse today. Reading age approx. 9 yrs +.The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it's different. At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself. Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.

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