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The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his salvation to master grifter Thomas Schell. Together with Schell's gruff and powerful partner, they sail comfortably through hard times, scamming New York's grieving rich with elaborate, ingeniously staged séances -- until an impossible occurrence changes everything. While "communing with spirits," Schell sees an image of a young girl in a pane of glass, silently entreating the con man for help. Though well aware that his otherworldly "powers" are a sham, Schell inexplicably offers his services to help find the lost child -- drawing Diego along with him into a tangled maze of deadly secrets and terrible experimentation. At once a hypnotically compelling mystery and a stunningly evocative portrait of Depression-era New York, The Girl in the Glass is a masterly literary adventure from a writer of exemplary vision and skill.… (plus d'informations)
Ce roman de Jeffrey Ford nous entraîne aux États-Unis, dans la période qui a suivi la grande dépression de 1929. Nous suivons un trio de professionnels du spiritisme et de l'arnaque qui vont se retrouver pris à leur propre piège, l'un d'eux étant le témoin involontaire de l'apparition fantomatique d'une petite fille récemment disparue. L'enquête qu'ils vont mener sur la disparition de cette enfant va les confronter avec une horreur laissant deviner les sinistres évènements à venir en Europe. L'intrigue est parfaitement menée, les personnages sont attachants, le milieu dans lequel ils évoluent attise notre curiosité ; bref, tous les éléments pour obtenir un bon roman sont là. Il aurait été excellent avec une fin plus complexe et des personnages aux caractères encore plus finement ciselés. ( )
Pour Jack, avec toute mon affection et tout mon respect. À toi de jouer.
Premiers mots
Il y a quelques jours, installé dans un siège à proximité de la fenêtre de ma chambre, je comptais le nombre de pilules calmantes que l'ai escamotées au cours des trois derniers mois.
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Every time the widow Morrison cried, she farted, long and low like a call from beyond the grave.
Thomas Schell possessed more flimflam than a politician, a poet, and a pope put together. As Antony often put it, "He could sell matches to the devil."
What we considered inconsequential, Schell could possibly snatch up and spin into gold. We had to work fast, with a scattershot method, and merely hope for the best.
The minute hand on the big clock above the grill moved like a thoroughbred on the back turn as I noted information about Barnes's shipping business, his political affiliations, the movie stars who'd visited his home, the charitable contributions he'd made.
"It's dark out there," I said. "Yeah, that's what happens at night."
Laced in with the distinctive aroma of the sound was that of true autumn.
Sitting close to Isabel made the early days return, vivid and full of life, as if my memory was a room full of butterflies.
None of us, Antony, Schell, or I, cared much about baseball, but the feeling was infectious, and the entire city seemed to be swaggering.
She turned to me and eyed me up and down, focusing on my turban. "Who's this, Genghis Khan?" she asked, holding her hand out to me. "This here is Ondoo," said Antony. "He's a swami." "Halloween isn't till the end of the month," she said, and grabbed my hand and squeezed it. "Nice to meet you," I said. "Is this your boy, Thomas?" she asked Schell. He nodded. "God help you," she said to me.
"What do you want?" he asked when he saw us. His head looked like a dried apple; his hair was an afterthought—a few strands blowing around in the breeze. Behind big glasses, his eyes shrunk down to slits, and he made a face like he was chewing glass.
All of our hours were underscored by the magisterial dirges the boss spun on his Victrola.
She wore that blank, stunned expression that seemed to me to be the mask of poverty. I'd seen it in the city on men standing around a trash barrel fire and in newspaper photos of whole families out west, trapped in the Dust Bowl.
"From one captain to another," he said, "when the battle is on, the only real enemy is Doubt." Having said that, he closed his eyes and leaned his head back. It was crowded in bed. Besides Isabel on my right, lightly snoring, Doubt was to my left, tossing and turning, elbowing me in the ribs and talking in its sleep.
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C'est alors que j'ai remarqué, voletant au dessus de l'allée centrale, une simple piéride du pin, comme le fantôme d'un souvenir venu à la vie.
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The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his salvation to master grifter Thomas Schell. Together with Schell's gruff and powerful partner, they sail comfortably through hard times, scamming New York's grieving rich with elaborate, ingeniously staged séances -- until an impossible occurrence changes everything. While "communing with spirits," Schell sees an image of a young girl in a pane of glass, silently entreating the con man for help. Though well aware that his otherworldly "powers" are a sham, Schell inexplicably offers his services to help find the lost child -- drawing Diego along with him into a tangled maze of deadly secrets and terrible experimentation. At once a hypnotically compelling mystery and a stunningly evocative portrait of Depression-era New York, The Girl in the Glass is a masterly literary adventure from a writer of exemplary vision and skill.
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L'intrigue est parfaitement menée, les personnages sont attachants, le milieu dans lequel ils évoluent attise notre curiosité ; bref, tous les éléments pour obtenir un bon roman sont là. Il aurait été excellent avec une fin plus complexe et des personnages aux caractères encore plus finement ciselés. (