Rob Franklin Great Black Hope recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse debuutroman. Op 19 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de eerste roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Rob Franklin. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
Rob Franklin Great Black Hope recensie en review
- “Great Black Hope indeed! Rob Franklin’s brilliant storytelling explores and explodes every fact and fiction of those charged words; likewise, the intricacies and treacheries of privilege. Those categories we parse so confidently — class, race, gender sexuality — are shaped into nuanced individual stories. His prose is elegant and searching, his pace flawless from start to finish.” (Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland)
- “Dynamic and excellent….Smith is a character worth spending time with, full of pathos and insightful observations as he lives through his wayward twenties….Franklin deftly develops his characters, vividly rendering their perceptions and bringing the reader into the scene through elegant prose.” (Allison Escoto, Booklist)
- “If Tom Wolfe, Jay McInerney, and Margo Jefferson somehow collaborated, this might have been the delightful result.” (Boris Kachka, The Atlantic)
Great Black Hope
- Auteur: Rob Franklin (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Afro-Amerikaanse debuutroman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
- Verschijnt: 17 juni 2025
- Omvang: 320 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 24,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Rob Franklin
A gripping, elegant debut novel about a young Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy, a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest, from an electrifying new voice.
An arrest for cocaine possession on the last day of a sweltering New York summer leaves Smith, a queer Black Stanford graduate, in a state of turmoil. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself in an absurd but dangerous situation: his class protects him, but his race does not.
It’s just weeks after the death of his beloved roommate Elle, the daughter of a famous soul singer, and he’s still reeling from the tabloid spectacle—as well as lingering questions around how well he really knew his closest friend. He flees to his hometown of Atlanta, only to buckle under the weight of expectations from his family of doctors and lawyers and their history in America. But when Smith returns to New York, it’s not long before he begins to lose himself to his old life—drawn back into the city’s underworld, where his search for answers may end up costing him his freedom and his future.
Smith goes on a dizzying journey through the nightlife circuit, anonymous recovery rooms, Atlanta’s Black society set, police investigations and courtroom dramas, and a circle of friends coming of age in a new era. Great Black Hope is a propulsive, glittering story about what it means to exist between worlds, to be upwardly mobile yet spiraling downward, and how to find a way back to hope.
Born and raised in Atlanta, Rob Franklin is a writer of fiction and poetry, and a cofounder of Art for Black Lives. A Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award, he has published work in New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Rumpus among others. Franklin lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches writing at the School of Visual Arts. Great Black Hope is his first novel.
