Categorie archieven: Amerikaanse Schrijvers

Native American, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Indianen, Verhalen

Morgan Talty – Night of the Living Rez

Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez review, recensie en informatie verhalen van de Native American en Penobscot Indian Nation schrijver. Op 5 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij And Other Stories de heruitgave van Night of the Living Rez, de heruitgave van het debuut van Morgan Talty, de Amerikaanse schrijver van Indiaanse afkomst. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez review en recensie

  • “Remarkable. An electric, captivating voice … Talty has assured himself a spot in the canon of great Native American literature.” (The New York Times)
  • “These stories took me in the same way Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son did when I first read it. The comparison here is meant in every way to praise Talty as a writer, and I’m sure I won’t be the only one who says so, partially because of his emotional precision, his stark, unflinching, droll, intoxicating style, and also because of a certain drug/addiction element at play here. But as I got deeper into the work, into the book, and came to understand these lives and this community, the further away it felt from my initial comparison with Johnson, and the more familiar it felt–our Native communities being bound by countless common threads, strengths and afflictions both–and only then did I understand the distinct brilliance of Talty’s voice as its own, and ours. I knew and felt for these people. Wanted to and knew I couldn’t help them, even as they did me. There is so much brutal, raw, and beautiful power in these stories. I kept wanting to read and know more about these peoples’ lives, how they ended up where they ended up, how they would get out, how they wouldn’t. It is difficult to be so honest, and funny, and sad, at once, in any kind of work. Reading this book, I literally laughed and cried.” (Tommy Orange)

Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez

Night of the Living Rez

  • Auteur: Morgan Talty (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Native American verhalen uit 2022
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 7 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 296 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek met verhalen van Morgan Talty, de native American schrijver

A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family’s unravelling; a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen into the snow; and two friends, inspired by Antiques Roadshow, attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs. Night of the Living Rez is an unforgettable portrayal of Indigenous community, whose arrival heralded a stand-out talent in contemporary fiction.

Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation, and bon in born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is the author of the critically acclaimed linked story collection Night of the Living Rez (USA: Tin House Books 2022; UK: And Other Stories 2025), winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Best First Book. His writing has appeared in Granta and The Guardian amongst others, and he was selected by Karen Russell as a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. Fire Exit, his first novel was published in 2024. Talty is an Assistant Professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and Contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in creative writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Levant, Maine.

Morgan Talty Fire Exit recensieMorgan Talty (Verenigde Staten) – Fire Exit
native American roman
Uitgever: And other Stories
Verschijnt: 1 oktober 2024

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Victor Suthammanont – Hollow Spaces

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces review, recensie en informatie roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver en advocaat. Op 5 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Counterpoint Press het boek en debuut van Victor Suthammanont. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces review en recensie

  • “Cerebral, sexy, and provocative, Hollow Spaces is a can’t-put-down exploration of marriage, infidelity, and murder. Every page is steeped in sophisticated commentary on the far reaching effects of violence. A smart, compelling read that pays particular attention to the nuances of family and what both brings people together and tears them apart.” (Lo Patrick)
  • “Brennan and Hunter Lo, the children of a lawyer who was found innocent of murder but saw his life destroyed anyway, have spent their lives avoiding all sorts of truths, and each other. Hollow Spaces is the twisty, compelling, well-written, and human story of what happens when they join together to understand the father they lost, and the crime that ripped their lives apart.” (Jamie Harrison)

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces

Hollow Spaces

  • Auteur: Victor Suthammanont (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Counterpoint Press
  • Verschijnt: 5 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het debuut van Victor Suthammanont

The only Asian American partner at a prestigious law firm sees his professional and personal life demolished when he is put on trial for murder. Three decades later, his children reunite to uncover the truth and try to salvage what remains of their family.

Thirty years ago, John Lo was acquitted of the murder of an employee he was having an affair with. The repercussions of that long-ago event still haunt his adult children. Brennan, a lawyer following in her father’s footsteps in more ways than one, has always maintained that the trial got it right. Hunter, a disgruntled war correspondent whose similarities to his father run more than skin-deep, believes their father got away with murder. Their opposing convictions have pushed them apart. Now, spurred by their mother’s failing health, the estranged siblings decide to reconcile their differences by reinvestigating the murder to come to a definitive conclusion.

Told in a dual timeline that moves between John’s perspective thirty years prior and Brennan and Hunter’s present-day investigation,  Hollow Spaces is a moving portrait of a flawed man’s shocking fall from grace and a gripping exploration of race in corporate America, filial loyalty, ambition, and the fallout of a sensational trial for those caught in its wake.

Victor Suthammanont is a lawyer and author. Hollow Spaces is his debut novel. He lives in New York City.

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Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen The Corrections review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse familieroman uit 2001. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The The Corrections van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Jonathan Franzen. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel De correcties.

Jonathan Franzen The Corrections review en recensie

  • “A genuine masterpiece, the first great American novel of the twenty-first century.” (Elle)
  • “Funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent.” (The Guardian)
  • “A novel of outstanding sympathy, wit, moral intelligence and pathos, a family saga told with stylistic brio and psychological and political insight.”  (Financial Times)
  • “A big-hearted, panoramic American epic, intelligent and wise but also wildly, stonkingly funny.” (Independent)
  • “Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture.” (Don DeLillo)

Jonathan Franzen The Corrections

The Corrections

  • Auteur: Jonathan Franzen (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse familieroman uit 2001
  • Taal: Engels
  • Eerste uitgever: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Omvang: 576 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • National Book Award for Fiction 2001
  • Nederlandse vertaling: De correcties
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Jonathan Franzen uit 2001

The Lamberts – Enid, Alfred and their three grown-up children – are a troubled family living in a troubled age. After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid is ready to have some fun, but her husband Alfred is losing his mind to Parkinson’s. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the long-buried secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathering everyone together for one last family Christmas.

Jonathan Franzen is born 17 August 1957 in Western Springs, The Corrections Jonathan Franzen novel from 2001 first editionIllinois in the United States. He isthe author of The Corrections, winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Faulkner. He is also the author of the novels The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, Freedom and Crossroads. and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone. In 1996, he was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Beste Romans

John Fante – Wait Until Spring, Bandini

John Fante Wait Until Spring, Bandini review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse roman uit 1938. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige  schrijfster John Fante en deel  van het Bandini kwartet. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman en over de schrijver. De Nederlandse vertaling heeft als titel Wacht op het voorjaar, Bandini en is alleen tweede hands verkrijgbaar.

John Fante Wait Until Spring, Bandini review en recensie

  • “Bandini is a magnificent creation, and his rediscovery is not before time.” (Time Literary Supplement)
  • “Wait Until Spring, Bandini is not merely a novel; it’s an enduring testament to life’s raw truths, a timeless chronicle of human vulnerability and resilience, proving once and for all that genuine literature comes not from refinement but from honesty, from courageously confronting the brutal, beautiful mess of being alive.” (Independent Review of Books)

John Fante Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Bandini Quartet

  • Auteur: John Fante (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1938
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Cannongate Canons
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1938 van John Fante

A powerful, lyrical and touching tale of a turbulent adolescent trying to break out of the suffocating, prison-like confinements of family, poverty and religion in a small town, Wait Until Spring, Bandini tells the story of a winter in the childhood of Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in Colorado during the Great Depression.
With its powerful and evocative account of tragic love affairs, grinding poverty and adolescence in turmoil, this first novel from the Bandini quartet is a much-neglected masterpiece of modern American literature.

De Nederlandse vertaling heeft als titel Wacht op het voorjaar, Bandini en is alleen tweede hands verkrijgbaar.

John Fante was born in Denver, Colorado on 8 April 1909. He migrated to Los Angeles in his early twenties. Classically out of place in a town built on celluloid dreams, Fante’s literary fiction was full of Wait Until Spring, Bandini John Fante novel from 1938 first editiontorn grace and redemptive vengeance. Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), his first novel, began the saga of Arturo Bandini, a character whose story continues in The Road to Los Angeles, Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill – collectively known as The Bandini Quartet. Fante published several other novels, as well as stories, novellas and screenplays in his seventy-four years, including The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977) and 1933 Was A Bad Year (posthumously, 1985). John Fante died on 8 May 1983 in Los Angeles, California, due to diabetes-related complications at the age of 74. He was posthumously recognised in 1987 with a Lifetime Achievement Award by PEN in Los Angeles, four years after his death.

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Taylor Moore – Cold Trail

Taylor Moore Cold Trail review, recensie en informatie van de Garrett Kohl thriller 4, geschreven door de Amerikaanse thrillerschrijver. Op 29 juli 2025 verschijnt bij William Morrow de thriller Cold Trail, deel 4 in de Garrett Kohl reeks. Het boek is geschreven door de Amerikaanse thrillerschrijver Taylor Moore. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Taylor Moore Cold Trail review en recensie

  • “Taylor Moore packs a punch in his latest Garrett Kohl thriller, Cold Trail, bringing his insider knowledge of the intelligence community and tradecraft to the genre. Taylor is a talent readers will be enjoying for years to come. Cold Trail is not to be missed!” (Jack Carr)
  • “A slam-bang, can’t-miss reading adventure that reminds everyone that everything—even the action—really is bigger in Texas. Moore’s gonna be a star. . . if you aren’t already reading him, start.” (The Real Book Spy)

Taylor Moore Cold Trail

Cold Trail

Garrett Kohl thriller 4

  • Auteur: Taylor Moore (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse thriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: William Morrow
  • Verschijnt: 29 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 18,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 27,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de vierde Garret Kohl thriller van Taylor Moore

In the fourth pulse-pounding thriller in the series, DEA Special Agent Garrett Kohl must find out what’s truly tainted in the energy industry and uncover a deep-rooted plot in order to protect his new business, beloved ranch, and family. Perfect for fans of C. J. Box and Jack Carr.

On leave from the DEA, Garrett Kohl is ready to settle down and build a stable foundation for his family. But that’s easier said than done. In order to give his girlfriend, Lacey, and adopted son, Asadi, the life they deserve, and get out from under crippling debt, some risks have to be taken. And shocking alliances have to be formed.

First, Garrett partners with an old nemesis to form his new energy venture: Savage Exploration. Then his estranged, aloof sister, Grace, reemerges, keen on brokering a contract to connect Kohl Ranch to a pipeline on the Texas coast. But the company’s earlier success is endangered when an explosion at a nearby natural gas plant injures several workers. Garrett begins to suspect foul play and embarks on a winding investigation, teaming up with his old war buddy, Kai Stoddard, and reaching out to his CIA contacts, uncovering a sinister conspiracy overseas.

From an ex-CIA intelligence officer and consultant for the Department of Defense, this exhilarating thriller follows a man’s turbulent journey to fight for his family and hold on to the land that he calls home, culminating in an explosive final showdown that he never could have expected.

Taylor Moore is the author of Cold Trail, Ricochet, Firestorm, and Down Range, which was nominated for the Barry Award for Best First Novel, named a Strand Magazine Best Mystery of the year, and selected for the Texas Library Association’s Lariat Reading List. He is a sixth-generation Texan who grew up on a farm and ranch northwest of Houston and is a former CIA Intelligence Officer who worked in both analysis and operations and later consulted for the Department of Defense in Theater Security Cooperation, Force Protection, and Counternarcotics. He now lives in the Texas Panhandle with his wife and two children, where he is a full-time author, screenwriter, and speaker.

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Ben Markovitz – The Rest of Our Lives

Ben Markovitz The Rest of Our Lives review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de in Texas geboren Britse schrijver. Op 27 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Faber & Faber de nieuwe roman van schrijver Benjamin Markovitz. De roman is door de jury geselecteerd voor de longlist van de Booker Prize 2025. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Ben Markovitz The Rest of Our Lives review en recensie

  • “When Tom Layward’s wife cheated on him, he stayed for the children but promised to leave when his youngest turned eighteen. Twelve years later, Tom drops his daughter off at college, but instead of driving back to New York he heads west. What follows is a remarkably satisfying road trip full of strangers, friends, and self-discovery. It’s clear author Ben Markovits has spent time teaching. This novel speaks like a much-loved professor, one whose classes have a terribly long waitlist. It’s matter of fact, effortlessly warm, and it uses the smallest parts of human behaviour to uphold bigger themes, like mortality, sickness, and love. The Rest of Our Lives is a novel of sincerity and precision. We found it difficult to put it down.” (Booker Prize 2025 jury)
  • “We all fear irrelevance as technology and society outpace us, and as the young outgrow us. Yet, reading Ben Markovits’s gentle, powerful and funny novel, we are reminded that family love can ground us and keep us together.” (Philip Womack, Times Literary Supplement)
  • “The Rest of Our Lives is another quiet triumph, an elegant, devastating book that lays bare the way time calcifies our failures, how we find ourselves trapped not by circumstance but by the slow erosion of the will to escape. Markovits has long been one of our most under-appreciated novelists; this is yet more proof that he deserves far greater recognition.” (Alex Preston, Guardian)

Ben Markovits The Rest of Our Lives

The Rest of Our Lives

  • Auteur: Ben Markovitz (Engeland, Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Faber & Faber
  • Verschijnt: 27 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99
  • Shortlist Booker Prize 2025
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Ben Markovitz

When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair, the synopsis reads, ‘he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest child turned eighteen. Twelve years later, while driving her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact. He is also on the run from his own health issues, and the fact that he’s been put on leave at work after students complained about the politics of his law class – something he hasn’t yet told his wife.

So, after dropping Miriam off, he keeps driving, with the vague plan of visiting various people from his past – an old college friend, his ex-girlfriend, his brother, his son – en route, maybe, to his father’s grave in California. Pitch perfect, quietly exhilarating and moving, The Rest of Our Lives is a novel about family, marriage and those moments which may come to define us.

Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. His novels include Either Side of Winter, You Don’t Have to Live Like This, Christmas in Austin, and, most recently, The Sidekick. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review and the New York Times, among others. In 2013 Granta selected him as one of their Best of Young British Novelists and in 2015 he won the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Henry Beston – The Outermost House

Henry Beston The Outermost House review, recensie en informatie memoir uit 1928 over een jaar leven op het strand van Cape Cod. Op 17 juli 2025 verschijnt als Pushkin Press Classic de heruitgave van de memoir The Outermost House, AYear of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod. Het boek is geschreven door de Amerikaanse schrijver en naturalist Henry Beston. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Henry Beston The Outermost House review en recensie

  • “Beston reminds us of the transformative power of nature, its ability to heal, renew and sustain… Haunting, brave, breathtakingly beautifu.” (Isabella Tree)
  • “Written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty.” (New York Herald Tribune)

Henry Beston The Outermost House

The Outermost House

A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

  • Auteur: Henry Beston (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir uit 1928, natuurboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Pushkin Press Classics
  • Verschijnt: 17 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de memoir van Henry Beston over Cape Cod

Henry Beston planned to spend only two weeks in his newly built cottage on the outer beach of Cape Cod. As summer drifted into autumn, however, he found himself so entranced by the landscape’s rhythms and beauty that he could not bear to leave.

Settled in his isolated house facing the North Atlantic, Beston spent a year immersed in the raw, elemental life of the great beach around him. Observing the migrations of seabirds, savage winter storms and the constantly shifting interactions between sea and shore, he wrote of the passing seasons in ecstatic, riveting detail.

A highly influential classic of American nature writing, The Outermost House is a vital precursor to today’s masters of the genre. Impassioned and richly layered, it is a matchless evocation of the spirit of a place and the enduring appeal of the wild.

Henry Beston was born on 1 June 1888 in Quincy, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He wrote many books in his lifetime, including a memoir of his years in the volunteer ambulance corps in the First World War, an account of life in the US Navy and a book of fairy tales. The Outermost House, widely considered his masterpiece, was published in 1928. His Cape Cod house was named a National Literary Landmark in 1964, and it was destroyed by a huge winter storm in 1978. He died at the age of 79 in Nobleboro, Maine.

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Joe Pan – Florida Palms

Joe Pan Florida Palms review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse thriller die zich afspeelt aan de Space Coast. Op 22 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de eerste thriller van Joe Pan, de Amerikaanse dichter en schrijver. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Joe Pan Florida Palms review en recensie

  • “If Florida is purgatory with a sun, Florida Palms exposes what happens to the young men who grow up in the shadows—a tightly plotted page-turner filled with gangsters, brotherhood, and betrayal. Joe Pan is an extraordinarily skilled writer, but his genius is his empathy, understanding that good people sometimes do bad things. What if you turned eighteen in the wrong neighborhood and found yourself surrounded by drug dealers, bikers, and eccentric hitmen? These are characters no reader will forget.” (Alexander Bolizar)
  • “Transfixing…A must-read. Pan’s intense drama has a Sons of Anarchy vibe but with a greater pathos.” (Library Journal)

Joe Pan Florida Palms

Florida Palms

  • Auteur: Joe Pan (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse thriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 22 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 480 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste Florida thriller van Joe Pan

The Outsiders meet Sons of Anarchy in this gripping debut about a group of young men dragged into a drug-running operation.

It’s 2009, the height of the Great Recession. Best friends Eddy, Cueball, and Jesse are fresh out of high school and wild at heart, but the economy is in the dumps. With jobs scarce along Florida’s Space Coast, they join a furniture-moving company run by Cueball’s father, a gruff ex-con biker who’s supposedly retired from the fast life. But when a mysterious old boss arrives in town, the payload is switched out, and the young men are coerced into shipping a new designer drug up the East Coast.

What is advertised as a bastion of brotherhood and respect quickly spirals into back-alley deals, bloodshed, and an all-out turf war that will test the bounds of love and friendship. Enticed by larger paychecks, and fueled by burgeoning drug habits, the young friends find themselves trapped between rank opportunists, warring gangsters, meth zombies, crazed bikers, and a blowgun-wielding hitman, all vying for a shot at the big time.

Soaring, ambitious, and deeply humane, Florida Palms is a gritty coming-of-age story with enormous heart and an unflinching vision of the violence and inequities facing forgotten communities. In a relentless race against desperate circumstances, the young friends must fully embrace the crime life or abandon their loyalties and risk ending up face down in the muck of the unforgiving swamps.

Joe Pan is the author of five poetry books and founder of Brooklyn Arts Press, one of the smallest independent houses ever honored with a National Book Award in Poetry, and publisher of Augury Books, honored with a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. His writing has appeared in the Boston Review, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, and Poets & Writers, and he’s been profiled by Publishers Weekly, The Rumpus, and The Wall Street Journal. He grew up along the Space Coast of Florida and now lives in Los Angeles. With his wife he cofounded BAH, an activist group that serves unhoused populations with sleeping bags and goods. Florida Palms is his debut novel.

Joe Pan is the author of five poetry books and founder of Brooklyn Arts Press, one of the smallest independent houses ever honored with a National Book Award in Poetry, and publisher of Augury Books, honored with a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. His writing has appeared in the Boston Review, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, and Poets & Writers, and he’s been profiled by Publishers Weekly, The Rumpus, and The Wall Street Journal. He grew up along the Space Coast of Florida and now lives in Los Angeles. With his wife he cofounded BAH, an activist group that serves unhoused populations with sleeping bags and goods. Florida Palmsis his debut novel.

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Henry Miller – Sexus

Henry Miller Sexus review, recensie en informatie autobiografische roman uit 1949 van de Amerikaanse schrijver en deel 1 van de The Rosy Crucifixion trilogie. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Sexus van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Henry Miller die in 1949 verscheen en door de expliciete erotische inhoud een schandaal veroorzaakte. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman ook Sexus en is in verschillende edities verschenen maar op dit moment alleen antiquarisch verkrijgbaar.

Henry Miller Sexus review en recensie

  • “There’s nothing like Henry Miller when he gets rolling … The Rosy Crusifixion is his most ambitious work and some of his best writing.” (Norman Mailer)
  • “A huge, sprawling narrative of Miller’s life in New York, ‘Sexus’ culminates in a description of an orgy as remarkable for its account of the author’s powers of sexual endurance as for its versatility. Interspersed are descriptions of his friends, some of them extremely funny and all of them lively. The lack of inhibition and genteel or moral restraint with which Miller describes these various characters gives ‘Sexus’ a unique vitality. Miler cannot be pompous, a rare virtue, and his honesty is absolute.” (Spectator)

Henry Miller Sexus

Sexus

The Rosy Crusifixion 1

  • Auteur: Henry Miller (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1949
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Omvang: 512 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 /
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de autobiografische erotische roman van Henry Miller

Sexus is the first volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller’s major life work.

Henry Miller called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in 1930s Paris his ‘rosy crucifixion’. His searing fictionalized autobiography of this time of liberation was banned for nearly twenty years. Sexus, the first volume in The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, looks back to his early sexual escapades in Brooklyn, and his growing infatuation with the playful, teasing dance hall hostess who will become the great obsession of his life.

Henry Miller was born 29 December 1891 in New York City. He is one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. His best-known novels include Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939), and the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (Sexus, 1949, Plexus, 1953, and Nexus, 1959), all published in France and banned in the US and the UK until 1964. He is widely recognised as an irreverent, risk-taking writer who redefined the novel and made the link between the European avant-garde and the American Beat generation. At the age of 88 he died on 7 June 1980 in Los Angeles, California.

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Norman Lock – Eden’s Clock

Norman Lock Eden’s Clock review, recensie en informatie over de Amerikaanse historische roman. Op 1 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Bellevue Literary Press de nieuwe roman van Norman Lock, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Het is een nieuw deel in The American Novel Series. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Norman Lock Eden’s Clock review en recensie

  • “Norman Lock has created a memorable portrait gallery of American subjects, in a succession of audaciously imagined, wonderfully original, and beautifully written novels unlike anything in our literature.” (Joyce Carol Oates)
  • “Our national history and literature are Norman Lock’s playground in his dazzling series, The American Novels. . . . [His] supple, elegantly plain-spoken prose captures the generosity of the American spirit in addition to its moral failures, and his passionate engagement with our literary heritage evinces
    pride in its unique character.” (Wendy Smith, The Washington Post)

Norman Lock Eden's Clock

Eden’s Clock

The American Novel Series

  • Auteur: Norman Lock (Verenigde Staten
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse historische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Bellevue Literary Press
  • Verschijnt: 1 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe historische roman van Norman Lock

Rendered mute at the Battle of Gettysburg, Frederick Heigold returns to Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he marries a resolute suffragist and resumes his vocation as a clocksmith. Bereft after she dies in a freak accident, he accepts a commission to repair the enormous clock on the San Francisco Embarcadero, but the routine railway journey becomes a six-month odyssey. Finally reaching the Pacific, after having survived imprisonment, shipwreck on Edisto Island, and run-ins with assorted roughnecks and thieves, he happens upon novelist Jack London drinking in the Palace Hotel bar—just before one of the deadliest natural disasters in United States history.

Eden’s Clock, the twelfth and final stand-alone book in The American Novels series, calls into question the American belief in individualism to shape our destiny when confronted with irrepressible, chaotic forces.

Norman Lock is the award-winning author of the dozen volumes in The American Novels series, as well as other novels, short fiction, poetry, and stage and radio plays. He has won The Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award, The Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, and has been longlisted twice for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. He has also received writing fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.

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