Fatal Deadline
E-book
5,49 €
Nouveauté
Night at the Belvedere
Par :Formats :
Disponible dans votre compte client Decitre ou Furet du Nord dès validation de votre commande. Le format ePub est :
- Compatible avec une lecture sur My Vivlio (smartphone, tablette, ordinateur)
- Compatible avec une lecture sur liseuses Vivlio
- Pour les liseuses autres que Vivlio, vous devez utiliser le logiciel Adobe Digital Edition. Non compatible avec la lecture sur les liseuses Kindle, Remarkable et Sony
, qui est-ce ?Notre partenaire de plateforme de lecture numérique où vous retrouverez l'ensemble de vos ebooks gratuitement
Pour en savoir plus sur nos ebooks, consultez notre aide en ligne ici
C'est si simple ! Lisez votre ebook avec l'app Vivlio sur votre tablette, mobile ou ordinateur :
- FormatePub
- ISBN8235950399
- EAN9798235950399
- Date de parution15/07/2026
- Protection num.pas de protection
- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurIoakim Ioakim
Résumé
No living person knew Nick Esposito's great grandfather, Baltimore's Chief Police Inspector, on New Year's Eve in 1899, burst the Belvedere Hotel to stop the assassination of political reformer Charles Bonaparte. Only spirits trapped for 100 years within the walls of the hotel knew and they somehow knew Nick, who was a brilliant history educator, should also know. Night at the Belvedere is an epic tale that revolves around Nick's psychic and highly suspect paranormal experiences.
Young Nick was a kind and gentle, introverted bookworm, a child tormented by his failure to achieve his own validity in the playful, gregarious Esposito family of East Baltimore. You follow Nick through his identity struggles during dissociated life stages-brilliant history scholar, outsider, theatrical teacher, closet alcoholic, Bohemian, and manic wild man. He cannot "belong" because of a habit of not letting down his walls.
Instead, Nick is mired in fantasies from his love of history books. By adolescence, Nicky begins to go into 'trance-like states' with flashbacks into history. He can visit the past almost at will, to walk through and observe earlier events. He is at the Annapolis docks watching a slave auction, at Gettysburg witnessing Pickett's charge, with Edgar Allan Poe composing in his house in Baltimore, watching the horrible 1904 fire that destroyed downtown Baltimore, and dozens of other events.
His shaky career as an unorthodox public school history teacher ends with the death of his father, forcing Nick to abandon his chosen career to run his aging grandfather's tavern. Alone at the bar in the fall of 1999, he encounters subtle and mysterious urgings to attend a New Year's millennium party at the Belvedere Hotel. Nick's family and friends quietly question his sanity as he insists that, while smashed at the party on Heineken, whiskey and absinthe, he had met and conversed with many of his favorite historical heroes such as Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie, Enoch Pratt, Woodrow Wilson, and Bonaparte, before his famous relative, Inspector Mike, makes a dramatic appearance.
Young Nick was a kind and gentle, introverted bookworm, a child tormented by his failure to achieve his own validity in the playful, gregarious Esposito family of East Baltimore. You follow Nick through his identity struggles during dissociated life stages-brilliant history scholar, outsider, theatrical teacher, closet alcoholic, Bohemian, and manic wild man. He cannot "belong" because of a habit of not letting down his walls.
Instead, Nick is mired in fantasies from his love of history books. By adolescence, Nicky begins to go into 'trance-like states' with flashbacks into history. He can visit the past almost at will, to walk through and observe earlier events. He is at the Annapolis docks watching a slave auction, at Gettysburg witnessing Pickett's charge, with Edgar Allan Poe composing in his house in Baltimore, watching the horrible 1904 fire that destroyed downtown Baltimore, and dozens of other events.
His shaky career as an unorthodox public school history teacher ends with the death of his father, forcing Nick to abandon his chosen career to run his aging grandfather's tavern. Alone at the bar in the fall of 1999, he encounters subtle and mysterious urgings to attend a New Year's millennium party at the Belvedere Hotel. Nick's family and friends quietly question his sanity as he insists that, while smashed at the party on Heineken, whiskey and absinthe, he had met and conversed with many of his favorite historical heroes such as Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie, Enoch Pratt, Woodrow Wilson, and Bonaparte, before his famous relative, Inspector Mike, makes a dramatic appearance.
A propos de Stephen Berberich