Résultats pour "Lynda Rutledge" dans Littérature et fiction

In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It’s also where two girls are going to shake things up. This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran’s childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her. Corky is quick to befriend America and eager to share her favorite new “grown-up” novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. America’s take on it is different and profoundly personal.

Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to become Southern California’s first giraffes. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow.

2 Giraffen, 12 Tage, 3.000 Meilen nach Westen. Amerika, 1938. Woody Nickels hat alles verloren. Seine Familie, sein Zuhause, seine Arbeit. Der junge Mann verlässt wie so viele andere Texas und versucht sein Glück in New York. Doch als der große Hurrikan im September 1938 die gesamte Ostküste zerstört, erlischt auch der letzte Funken Hoffnung in Woody. Zwischen den Trümmern von Schiffen und Häusern macht er jedoch eine besondere Entdeckung: Zwei Giraffen, riesengroß, elegant und wunderschön, haben inmitten des Hurrikans auf einem Schiff die USA erreicht.