Joanna Pocock Greyhound review, recensie en informatie memoir van de reis van miskraam naar ouderschap van de Iers-Canadese schrijfster. Op 12 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Soft Skull Press de memoir van Joanna Pocock, de Iers-Canadese schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Joanna Pocock Greyhound review en recensie
- “Joanna Pocock’s Greyhound is an intimate epic, and a fierce mirror held to our U.S. ecological and sociological present such as only a visitor, seemingly, can provide. The thinking is scrupulous, the writing scraped and glinting and as stark as the landscape. This book kept me up all night and will stay with me.” (Jonathan Lethem)
- “With clear eyes Pocock observes and reports from America’s interstitial spaces, its abandoned detours and dark medians, revealing a country of wild and violent edges that somehow still suffers beauty in its midst.” (Jonny Diamond, Literary Hub)
Greyhound
A Memoir
- Auteur: Joanna Pocock (Ierland, Canada)
- Soort boek: memoir, reisverhaal
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Soft Skull Press
- Verschijnt: 12 augustus 2025
- Omvang: 400 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: $ 18,95 / $ 12,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de memoir van de Iers-Canadese schrijfster Joanna Pocock
Combining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives when we feel purposeless
In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock traveled by Greyhound bus across the United States from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, she undertakes the same journey, revisiting the cities, edgelands, highways, and motels in the footsteps of the few women writers—Simone de Beauvoir, Ethel Mannin, and Irma Kurtz—who also chronicled their road trips across the United States. Combining memoir, reportage, environmental writing, and literary criticism, Greyhound is a moving and immersive book that captures an America in the throes of late capitalism with all its beauty, horror, and complexity.
Joanna Pocock is an Irish Canadian writer living in London. Her writing has notably appeared in the Los Angeles Times and The Nation, and she is a contributor to the Dark Mountain Project. She won the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for Surrender, and in 2021 she was awarded the Arts Foundation’s Environmental Writing Award. She was short-listed for the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award for Greyhound.
Auteur: H.M. van den Brink (Nederland)
Auteur: Willemijn van Dijk (Nederland)
Soort boek: reisverhalen
Auteur: Nelleke Noordervliet (Nederland)
