Douglas Kennedy

EN BUSCA DE LA FELICIDAD es un libro del autor KENNEDY, DOUGLAS editado por ARPA. EN BUSCA DE LA FELICIDAD tiene un código de ISBN 978-84-16601-62-2, de la colección ARPA.

Años 70, París. Sam, un estudiante americano recien llegado a la Ciudad de la Luz para disfrutar brevemente de la vida bohemia, conoce a una mujer en una librería. Isabelle es enigmática, hermosa, catorce años mayor que Sam, con gran experiencia en las vicisitudes del amor, y casada. Lo que comienza como un encuentro fortuito, se convierte en una aventura furtiva, apasionada y constreñida en el tiempo, pero que durara decadas. Una aventura que consigue esquivar la monotonia y la rutina.Acompañaremos a Sam en un viaje hacia la madurez. Predestinado a ser un abogado de prestigio, late en el permanentemente un deseo de fondo: volver a tener entre sus brazos a Isabelle, en cuerpo y alma. Pero, ¿esta ella dispuesta a sacrificar su vida acomodada por el?Isabelle por la tarde es una novela sensual y delicada sobre amores frustrados, el destino que nos forjamos y la manera de compartir nuestra verdadera intimidad. Cuando menos lo esperamos, un encuentro casual puede transformar el transcurso de nuestra vida.

Una tarde tranquila y soleada en la ciudad de Los Ángeles, un edificio aparentemente anónimo y, de repente, una explosión se produce en su interior. El edificio devastado albergaba una de las pocas clinicas que realizan abortos. Hubo una victima y entre los testigos indefensos se encontraban Brendan, un conductor de Uber de unos cincuenta años, y su cliente, Elise, una antigua profesora universitaria que ayuda a las mujeres que estan a punto de abortar. En el lugar equivocado y en el momento mas imprevisible, ambos se ven envueltos en una peligrosa carrera contrarreloj. Al principio, todo parece demostrar que se trata de un atentado perpetrado por un pequeño grupo de fundamentalistas religiosos, pero la realidad es mucho mas turbia y alarmante... A medio camino entre la novela negra y la cronica social de una America en crisis, Los hombres tienen miedo a la luz es sobre todo un poderoso retrato de un hombre y una mujer atrapados por la violencia y los extremismos de nuestro tiempo.

Douglas Kennedys new novel demonstrates once again his talent for writing serious popular fiction. The Pursuit of Happiness and A Special Relationship were both Sunday Times bestsellers in paperback. That was the year my life fell apart, and that was the year I moved to Paris. When Harry Ricks arrives in Paris on a bleak January morning he is a broken man. He is running away from a failed marriage and a dark scandal that ruined his career as a film lecturer in a small American university. With no money and nowhere to live, Harry swiftly falls in with the citys underclass, barely scraping a living while trying to finish the book hed always dreamed of writing. A chance meeting with a mysterious woman, Margit Kadar, with whom Harry falls in love, is his only hope of a brighter future. However, Margit isnt all she seems to be and Harry soon has to make a decision that will alter his life forever.

Aged thirteen, Jane makes a vow to herself and to her feuding parents - she will never marry, have children and lead the resentful life they chose. Years later, now a Harvard professor and living with Theo, a filmmaker, Jane falls unexpectedly pregnant. She begins to warm to the idea of motherhood, but a devastating turn of events takes the decision out of her hands in a way she could never have predicted. Her familiar world torn apart, Jane feels forced to leave her old life behind, and piece by piece begins to destroy the little that is left. She resigns from her job, cuts all ties with friends and family and moves to a place where no one will find her. Isolated, she feels she has finally succeeded in leaving her world. Yet when a young girl disappears, prompting a high-profile police investigation, Jane is drawn in. Convinced that the person at the heart of the case is much closer to her new community than anyone realises, she has to make a decision - stay hidden or bring to light a shocking truth.

París puede ser una ciudad muy sucia, poco glamorosa, mostrenca. Al menos si quien escribe es Douglas Kennedy, raro ejemplo de autor de best-sellers subversivos. De modo que el París de La mujer del quinto distrito no se parece a la ciudad de las postales, peliculas y novelas que imaginaba Harry, quien viene huyendo del desastre provocado por un desliz amoroso. De marido, padre de familia y reputado profesor en una universidad americana, Harry ha pasado a tener un empleo de guardian nocturno y una habitacion mugrienta en un barrio sordido y roñoso. Pero no todo es miseria y fracaso en la vida real. Cuando Harry cree haber tocado fondo aparece Margit, una hungara hace tiempo radicada en Paris, hermosa, cultivada y disponible aunque, como no, un poco misteriosa. De todas formas, Harry no tendra mucho tiempo para resentir la relacion, un tanto peculiar, que entabla con Margit. Es decir, la relacion que Margit le permite entablar con ella. Y es que todas las personas que han causado la desgracia de Harry empiezan a padecer lo que solo podria ser una venganza de los dioses. Pero la policia no cree en esas supersticiones. Vale mas contar con un sospechoso de carne y hueso, alguien que tenga un movil, alguien como Harry.

A wonderfully sardonic and nightmarish tale of a Hollywood success story gone wrong, from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship and State of the Union. Like all would-be Hollywood screenwriters, David Armitage wants to be rich and famous. But for the past eleven years, he's tasted nothing but failure. Then, out of nowhere, luck comes his way when one of his scripts is bought for television. Suddenly, he's the new toast of Hollywood as the creator of a hit series. A new player in Tinsel Town, David reinvents himself at great speed — notably and especially by walking out on his wife and daughter for a young producer who worships only at the altar of ambition. But David's upward mobility takes a decidedly strange turn when a billionaire film buff named Philip Fleck barges into his life, proposing a very curious collaboration. David takes the bait, and finds he has inadvertently entered a Faustian Pact, one that results in an express ride to the lower depths of the Hollywood jungle.

Hannah lleva una vida ordenada en un pueblito en Maine: es maestra de escuela, está casada y tiene dos hijos. También guarda, sin embargo, algún secreto. Hace treinta años, Hannah tuvo un idilio con Tobias, celebre activista politico. Y cuando este reaparece de la nada con un libro de memorias, Hannah se hunde. Algunos pecados no se expian en una vida entera. Ambientada entre la efervescencia ideologica de los años sesenta y setenta y el conservadurismo de los Estados Unidos de tiempos recientes, El discreto encanto de la vida conyugal sigue la pista de una mujer, madre y esposa que busca su propio camino entre las veleidosas corrientes politicas y los valores contrapuestos de su tiempo.

From the bestselling author of The Woman in the Fifth and The Pursuit of Happiness comes a devastating new novel. Years after vowing to herself and her parents to never marry, have children and lead the resentful life they chose, Jane, now a Harvard professor, falls unexpectedly pregnant. Resolved as she's been to childlessness, she begins to warm to the idea of motherhood, even with a partner who is increasingly absent. But a devastating turn of events takes the decision out of her hands in a way she could never have predicted. Her familiar world torn apart, Jane feels forced to leave her old life behind. She resigns from her job, cuts all ties with friends and family and moves to a place where no one will find her. Isolated, she feels she has finally succeeded in leaving her world. Yet when a young girl disappears, prompting a high-profile police investigation, Jane is drawn in. Convinced that the person at the heart of the case is much closer to her new community than anyone realises, she has to make a decision to either stay hidden or bring to light a shocking truth.

America in the Sixties is an era of radical upheaval - of civil rights protests and anti-war marches; of sexual liberation and hallucinogenic drugs. More tellingly, it was a time when you weren''t supposed to trust anyone over the age of thirty; when, if you were young, you rebelled against your parents and their conservative values. But not Hannah Buchan. Hannah is a great disappointment to her famous radical father and painter mother. Because instead of mounting the barricades and embracing this age of profound social change, she wants nothing more than to marry her doctor boyfriend and raise a family in a small town. Hannah gets her wish. But once installed as the doctor''s wife in a nowhere corner of Maine, boredom sets in ...until an unforeseen moment of personal rebellion changes everything. Especially as Hannah is forced into breaking the law. For decades, this one transgression in an otherwise faultless life remains buried. But then, in the charged atmosphere of America after 9/11, her secret comes out and her life goes into freefall.

"Hay una parte de mí que siempre cree que me merezco los desastres," afirma la heroína Jane Howard, la protagonista de "Abandonar el mundo". Podría ser. Aquí esta su vida, una vida repleta de incidentes, de desengaños y de trampas con los que facilmente el lector podria llegar a la misma conclusion. Pero, mas alla de la facilidad de Howard para encontrarse en callejones sin salida, de elegir a los hombres equivocados, de perder empleos envidiables, esta tambien su extraordinaria capacidad para superar esos desastres, para comenzar de nuevo en Harvard, en Maine o en Canada. Todo nace, evidentemente, en la infancia. En esa noche en la que Jane de su 13º cumpleaños en la que Jane grita a sus padres, borrachos y peleandose, que "jamas me casare ni tendre hijos". Y al dia siguiente su padre le abandona y su madre le culpa de la catastrofe. Ese desenlace marcara a Jane toda su vida. Una vida llena de giros, de sorpresas y de busquedas que descubre a una heroina llena de fuerza y de pasion, que lucha contra el destino y conseguira salvarse quizas cuando menos lo espera. La ultima novela de Douglas Kennedy no dejara indiferente a sus lectores.

Douglas KennedyLe soir de son treizième anniversaire, lors d'une énième dispute entre ses parents, Jane Howard annonce qu'elle ne se mariera jamais et n'aura jamais d'enfants. Mais sommes-nous maître

Is it ever too late to find the life you always wanted? A modern day Brief Encounter or The Bridges of Madison County, this is a novel which poses the ultimate romantic dilemma, from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship, and The Moment.Is it ever too late to have the life you wanted? Or do we owe it to ourselves to pursue the promise of happiness?For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and mother. She''s supported her husband through redundancy, she''s worried about her son, she''s encouraged her daughter. She has been constant, caring and selfless.She''s stopped thinking about her own dreams, the places she''d like to go and the books she''d like to talk about.But a chance meeting with a man in a hotel lobby - and the five days that follow - remind Laura of the young woman she used to be, and the woman she could have become.How long does it take to fall in love and leave your life behind?

Is it ever too late to find the life you always wanted? A modern day Brief Encounter or The Bridges of Madison County, this is a novel which poses the ultimate romantic dilemma, from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship, and The Moment. Is it ever too late to have the life you wanted? Or do we owe it to ourselves to pursue the promise of happiness? For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and mother. She's supported her husband through redundancy, she's worried about her son, she's encouraged her daughter. She has been constant, caring and selfless. She's stopped thinking about her own dreams, the places she'd like to go and the books she'd like to talk about. But a chance meeting with a man in a hotel lobby - and the five days that follow - remind Laura of the young woman she used to be, and the woman she could have become. How long does it take to fall in love and leave your life behind?

Sally Goodchild is everything you'd expect of a thirty-seven year old American journalist - independent, strong-willed and ambitious. That is until she meets Tony Hobbs, an English foreign correspondent, on assignment in Cairo. After a passionate but uneasy romance, Sally's life is turned upside down when she unexpectedly finds herself married, pregnant and living in London. Married life in a foreign place is a far bigger adjustment than Sally and Tony could ever have imagined - and as their lives shift from freedom and adventure to responsibility and hard work, everyday problems soon spiral into nightmares. After the birth of their son, Sally finds herself trapped in a downward spiral of post-natal depression over which she has little control, whilst Tony's life returns to relative normality. Filled with resentment and unable to cope with the cards life has dealt her, Sally is shocked when the man she trusted above all others turns against her. As her world begins to fall down around her, Sally quickly realises she must fight before she loses everything. In this authentic and compelling novel, Kennedy explores the misunderstandings that can occur when two people speak the same language but miss all the vital signs.