Lou Sonata Tome 01

Retour en mode majeur. Julien Neel l’avait promis à la fin du Tome 8 de Lou !, il revient pour une saison 2 intitulée Lou ! Sonata. Désormais, Lou est une jeune femme confrontée à sa vie d’étudiante qui s’installe seule (enfin presque, le chat est toujours là) dans la ville de Tygre. Les joies mais aussi certaines peines de l’indépendance, les nouvelles connaissances, se perdre dans une ville qu’on ne connait pas, le retour d’une amie, Lou continue d’avancer dans sa vie et de nous questionner via ce mélange d’humour et de sensibilité dont la formule inédite en BD fût de faire grandir son héroïne en même temps que ses lecteurs. Quand Lou débutait en 2004, c’était une enfant qui vivait seule avec une maman un peu loufoque et gauche mais toujours bienveillante pour sa fille. Il s’en est passé des choses depuis sa rencontre avec Tristan, les étés avec les copains, l’arrivée d’un frère ou la crise des cristaux ! Au fil des 8 tomes de la première saison et de toutes ces rencontres, Lou s'est émancipée et affirmée. Il est maintenant temps qu'elle apprenne à se connaître en tant qu’adulte. Entre quotidien décalé et références à la pop-culture, Lou ! est une série qui fascine par sa créativité atypique qui en fait l’une des BD les plus en phase avec son époque. Si les lecteurs ont grandi depuis 15 ans, Julien Neel également, il s’y est affirmé comme un véritable auteur, capable de surprendre ses lecteurs tout en se renouvelant. Sonata c'est une référence directe à la musique. Une musique qui a toujours nourri l’univers intime de Julien Neel. Sonata c’est la promesse de mouvement dans la vie de Lou, celle d’écrire une nouvelle partition toujours ensemble et créer cette petite musique qui vous accompagnera longtemps encore après la lecture de ce premier tome de 144 pages.

Meet Lou! She's hardly your average 12 year old. Her handmade outfits are the talk of the school (even though they make the other girls laugh), and her homework gets a lot of attention from her teachers (even though it lands her in the shrink's office). Home sweet home is an apartment she shares with her couch-potato mom and a cat named Cat. At least she can pour her heart out to her best friend, Mina, and scribble her dreams in her secret diary. Now that she's almost a teenager, Lou's life is becoming even more interesting. Playing with dolls has lost its appeal and the boy across the street gets cuter every day. The new neighbor, Richard, just might be the perfect match for Lou's mom. But will Lou or her mom ever pluck up their courage and actually talk to their crushes?

Meet the new Lou! She's thirteen years old, so it's time to stop mooning over the guy who used to be the guy next door. Instead she's heading for a dreamy seaside village with her friends Mina, Mary Emily, and Karen. Let the boy hunt begin! But the first cute boy she spots is Tristan, the guy next door himself! It's the perfect opportunity to rekindle their romance. So why is Lou giving Tristan the cold shoulder? And why can't Tristan strike up a conversation that doesn't end with his foot in his mouth? It doesn't help that Mary Emily is making the moves on Tristan herself. And things get really messy when Lou's mom shows up with a surprise: Lou's old pal Paul! But Paul is just a friend, nothing more, right?

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Lou's school year is off to a rocky start. Her BFF, Mina, won’t speak to her, but a new friend, Mary Emily, never shuts up. Lou's mom and her new boyfriend are madly in love, but all their smooching is starting to get on Lou's nerves. Meanwhile, a wrecking ball is smashing down the apartment that used to belong to her beloved Tristan. Lou still has a friend in Paul, if she can just work up the courage to write him a letter. Life was a lot easier when dressing up in her pink princess gown and going to the park for ice cream would solve any problem. Is it any wonder that Lou is down in the dumps?

"Gass has produced a book that burrows inside us then wails like a beast, a book that mainlines a century's terror direct to the brain."--Voice Literary Supplement

Summertime is here! But there's no sun, surf, or sand for Lou. Instead, it's Brussels sprouts, mud, and mosquitoes. Lou and her mom are off to spend the summer with Memaw in the most boring town on earth. Lou's mom keeps busy by exchanging love letters with her new sweetheart, Richard, but Lou's crush, Tristan, only sends her a lousy postcard. Will meeting a new boy chase Lou's blues away? Paul's not exactly a heartthrob, but he's sweet and . . . unusual. He's nothing like Tristan, but could he be just as crush-worthy?

Marxism in a Lost Century retells the history of the radical left during the twentieth century through the words and deeds of Paul Mattick. Three biographical themes receive special attention -- the self-taught nature of left-wing activity, Mattick’s publishing endeavors, and the nexus of men, politics, and friendship.