Adelle Waldman Help Wanted. Op 5 maart 2024 verschijnt de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Adelle Waldman. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave.
Adelle Waldman Help Wanted recensie
- “A bracing and worthwhile glimpse of the high stakes faced by low-wage workers.” (Publishers Weekly)
- “The workplace dramedy of the year.” (Kirkus Review)
Adelle Waldman boeken en informatie
Adelle Waldman is in 1977 geboren in de Amerikaanse stad Baltimore in de staat Maryland. Ze studeerde aan de Brown University, waar ze afstudeerde in 1998. Later studeerde ze ook aan de Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Naast romanschrijfster is ze columnist en blogger.
In 2013 debuteerde ze met de roman The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. die in het Nederlands is vertaald als Het liefdesleven van Nathaniel P. Haar tweede roman Help Wanted verschijnt in maart 2024. Of en wanneer er een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verschijnt is nog onbekend.
Help Wanted
- Auteur: Adelle Waldman (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company
- Verschijnt: 5 maart 2024
- Omvang: 288 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $28.99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Adelle Waldman
From the best-selling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. comes a funny, eye-opening tale of work in contemporary America.
Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty the day’s truck of merchandise, stock the shelves, and scatter before the store opens and customers arrive. Their lives follow a familiar if grueling routine, but their real problem is that Town Square doesn’t schedule them for enough hours—most of them are barely getting by, even while working second or third jobs. When store manager Big Will announces he is leaving, the members of Movement spot an opportunity. If they play their cards right, one of them just might land a management job, with all the stability and possibility for advancement that that implies. The members of Team Movement—including a comedy-obsessed oddball who acts half his age, a young woman clinging on to her “cool kid” status from high school, and a college football hopeful trying to find a new path—band together to set a just-so-crazy-it-might-work plot in motion.
Adelle Waldman’s debut novel was a breakout sensation, lauded by the Los Angeles Times as an “exacting character study” with “excellent and witty prose” and described as “incisive and very funny” by the Economist and “brilliant” by both NPR’s Fresh Air and the Washington Post. In her long-awaited follow-up, Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and astute social observation to the world of modern, low-wage work. A humane and darkly comic workplace caper that shines a light on the odds low-wage workers are up against in today’s economy, Help Wanted is a funny, moving tale of ordinary people trying to make a living.