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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Debuutroman

Margie Sarsfield – Bella Vulgaris

Margie Sarsfield Bella Vulgaris recensie, review en informatie eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 11 februari 2025 verschijnt bij uitgeverij W.W. Norton & Company de debuutroman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Margie Sarsfield. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Margie Sarsfield Bella Vulgaris recensie, review en informatie

  • “I’m trying to create a niche for myself as the preeminent weird-girl-book guy. To cement my legacy, I’m recommending Beta Vulgaris, a very weird book that I’m very excited for! When a young woman and her boyfriend start working a seasonal job at a sugar beet farm, she wants to make enough money to pay her rent for a few months. What she gets is a string of mysterious disappearances and a pile of beets that seems to be talking to her. Thank you Margie Sarsfield for your contribution to the “vegetable gothic” canon.” (McKayla Coyle, Literary Hub)
  • “An ambitious and delightfully bizarre debut… This is a knockout.” (Publishers Weekly)

Margie Sarsfield Bella Vulgaris

Bella Vulgaris

  • Auteur: Margie Sarsfield (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company
  • Verschijnt: 11 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 296 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 18,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Margie Sarsfield

A young woman’s seasonal job working a sugar beet harvest takes a surreal turn in this surprising and vivid debut.

Elise and her boyfriend, Tom, set off for Minnesota, hoping the paycheck from the sugar beet harvest will cover the rent on their Brooklyn apartment. Amidst the grueling work and familiar anxieties about her finances, Elise starts noticing strange things: threatening phone calls, a mysterious rash, and snatches of an ominous voice coming from the beet pile.

When Tom and other coworkers begin to vanish, Elise is left alone to confront the weight of her past, the horrors of her uncertain future, and the menacing but enticing siren song of the beets. Biting, eerie, and confidently told, Beta Vulgaris harnesses a distinct voice and audacious premise to undermine straightforward narratives of class, trauma, consumption, and redemption.

Margie Sarsfield was the recipient of the 2019 Calvino Prize. She earned her MFA from Ohio State University. Her work has appeared in Salt Hill, CutBank, the Normal School, Seneca Review, Hippocampus, and elsewhere. She lives in Reno, Nevada.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster

Djuna Barnes – Nachtwoud

Djuna Barnes Nachtwoud recensie en informatie van de inhoud van de roman uit 1936 van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 7 maart 2025 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Orlando de nieuwe Nederlandse vertaling van de roman Nightwood van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Djuna Barnes. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Djuna Barnes Nachtwoud recensie en informatie

  • “Nachtwoud is zijn eigen gecreëerde wereld, exotisch en vreemd, en het lezen ervan is als het drinken van een glas wijn met een parel die oplost. Je hebt meer tot je genomen dan je beseft, en de uitwerking ervan blijft voelbaar. Vanaf nu ben je gepareld.” (Jeanette Winterson)
  • “Verbluffend (…) diepgravend (…) grote intensiteit (…) schitterend vuurwerk.” (Vrij Nederland)
  • “Ik las met de pijnlijke intensiteit van een bezetene (…) Het verhaal van passie en verdriet, van ballingschap en eenzaamheid, sprak rechtstreeks tot mij, een jonge vrouw die nooit het gevoel had dat ze er helemaal bij hoorde (…) Een lofzang op de bezitlozen, de buitenbeentjes en degenen die te veel liefhebben.” (Siri Hustvedt)

Djuna Barnes Nachtwoud

Nachtwoud

Orlando Klassiekers

  • Auteur: Djuna Barnes (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: Nightwood (1936)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Erik Bindervoet
  • Uitgever: Uitgeverij Orlando
  • Verschijnt: 7 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: € 23,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Djuna Barnes uit 1936

Nachtwoud speelt zich af in Parijs, Berlijn en Wenen tijdens de decadente periode tussen de twee wereldoorlogen en ‘behoort tot die kleine groep boeken die op de een of andere manier een tijdperk weerspiegelen’, aldus de Times Literary Supplement.

In Nachtwoud vertelt Djuna Barnes de verhalen van een groep Amerikaanse en Europese ontwortelden in het Parijs van de jaren twintig van de vorige eeuw, die in de marges van de maatschappij leven: circusartiesten, homoseksuelen, transgenders, travestieten – een nachtelijke onderwereld, excentriek, louche en mooi.

Sinds de publicatie in 1936 is Barnes’ meanderende tour de force een klassieker geworden van de modernistische literatuur geworden. Daarnaast is het een van de eerste romans waarin homoseksualiteit openlijk beschreven werd.

Djuna Barnes is geboren op 12 juni 1892 in Cornwall-on-Hudson, Orange County in de staat New York. Ze was een Amerikaanse schrijfster en journaliste. Ze woonde in New York en reisde tussen de twee wereldoorlogen door Europa, met Parijs als standplaats, waar ze verkeerde in de kringen van James Joyce en Gertrude Stein. Nachtwoud (1936) is haar bekendste roman, die ze schreef in het Engelse landhuis van Peggy Guggenheim. Ze overleed op 18 juni 1982, 90 jaar oud, in New York City.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster

Charmaine Wilkerson – Good Dirt

Charmaine Wilkerson Good Dirt recensie, review en informatie nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 6 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Michael Joseph de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Charmaine Wilkerson. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave.

Charmaine Wilkerson Good Dirt recensie, review en informatie

  • “A remarkable exploration of family bonds, grief, heartbreak, friendship, and the deep scars of slavery and racism… Wilkerson’s prose is succinct yet richly evocative, masterfully delving into the minds and motivations of her characters and delivering a narrative that lingers long after the final page… This novel solidifies Wilkerson’s place as one of the great multi-generational storytellers of our time.” (Abi Daré, author of The Girl with the Louding Voice)
  • “Beautiful, deeply resonant…A story that is as meaningful as it is delicious.” (Taylor Jenkins Reid)

Charmaine Wilkerson Good Dirt

Good Dirt

  • Auteur: Charmaine Wilkerson (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Michael Joseph
  • Verschijnt: 6 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 16,99 / £ 7,99 / £16.99 / £ 14,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Charmaine Wilkerson

A family full of secrets. A chance to set them all free.

When Ebby Freeman travels to France to take a three-month hiatus from her complicated home life, the last person she expects to find is her ex-fiancé Henry, with his new girlfriend in tow.

Nearly twenty years earlier, the Freemans were the only African American family living in a wealthy coastal enclave in Connecticut when armed robbers invaded their home and tragedy changed their lives forever.

Then, just as Ebby thought she had a new chance at happiness, her storybook romance with Henry fell apart.

Now, this unexpected encounter with Henry will force Ebby to reckon with her past and to think on the other loss her family suffered that day – the destruction of a beloved stoneware jar crafted by an enslaved ancestor and passed down through the generations.

A piece that might hold not only her family history, but also the key to reclaiming her future.

Charmaine Wilkerson was born in New York City. She is the author of Black Cake, a New York Times bestselling novel. An American writer, she spent much of her childhood living in the Caribbean and is now based in Italy. She is a former television journalist and an award-winning writer of short fiction. Her debut novel Black Cake was selected as a Read With Jenna pick and was adapted for the screen as a Hulu original series airing on Disney+ and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey. Her new novel Good Dirt is available in february 2025.

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  • Nieuwe Amerikaanse romans
Amerikaanse schrijfster, Debuutroman, Egypte, Historische Roman

Rachel Louise Driscoll – Nephthys

Rachel Louise Driscoll Nephthys recensie, review en informatie historische roman over Egypte, de Nijl en hiërogliefen. Op 6 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Harvill Secker de debuutroman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Rachel Louise Driscoll. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Rachel Louise Driscoll Nephthys recensie, review en informatie

  • “Brilliant and meticulously researched. . . I devoured it in two days. A gripping & skilfully written Victorian adventure set in Egypt & based on mythology. I loved it.” (Santa Montefiore)
  • “An intoxicating tale of adventure and obsession, told in prose that shimmers like the Nile.” (Emilia Hart)
  • “Seamlessly blending extensive historical research and ancient Egyptian mythology with exquisite storytelling, Nephthys is an astonishingly accomplished debut from an exciting new talent.” (Jessica Bull)

Rachel Louise Driscoll Nephthys

Nephthys

Sister, Rival, Protector

  • Auteur: Rachel Louise Driscoll (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: historische roman over Egypte
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Harvill Secker
  • Verschijnt: 6 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 16,99 / £ 8,99 / £ 14,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst historische roman over Egypte, de Nijl en hiërogliefen

Sister. Rival. Protector. The spellbinding story of a forgotten daughter and a forgotten goddess.

Quiet and reserved, Clemmie is happy in the background. But although her parents may overlook her talents, her ability to read hieroglyphs makes her invaluable at the Egyptian relic parties which have made her father the toast of Victorian society.

But at one such party, the words Clemmie interprets from an unusual amulet strike fear into her heart. The beautiful and dangerous glyphs she holds in her hands will change her life forever.

Five years later, Clemmie arrives in Egypt on a mission to save what remains of her family. The childhood game she used to play about the immortal sisters, Isis and Nephthys, has taken on a devastating resonance and it is only by following Nephthys’ story that she can undo the mistakes of the past. On her journey up the Nile she will meet unexpected allies and enemies and, along with long-buried secrets and betrayals, Clemmie will be forced to step into the light.

Rachel Louise Driscoll won the Curtis Brown Creative scholarship in 2020. Originally from the South West, she lives in the North East with her husband and cat, Cleopatra. Nephthys is her debut novel. She was inspired to write Clemmie’s story by an experience she had at a local museum as a child where she was allowed to hold a mummified ancient Egyptian cat. Enjoying the hours of avid research required, Rachel even wrote some of the book wearing a corset in order to capture Clemmie’s experience more accurately!

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Familiegeschiedenis, Familieroman, Palestijnse roman, Palestijnse schrijfster, Palestina

Betty Shamieh – Too Soon

Betty Shamieh Too Soon recensie, review en informatie van de roman van de Palestijns-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 28 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Avid Reader Press de roman van de Palestijns-Amerikaanse toneelschrijfster Betty Shamieh. 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.

Betty Shamieh Too Soon recensie, review en informatie

  • “The novel, which opens in 2012, has all the beats of a romantic comedy—one that unfolds partly in the West Bank. The ribald humor, the over-the-top-ness that Shamieh brings to describing this struggle, reminded me—surprisingly—of mid-century Jewish American writers, especially Philip Roth. . . . These women are all antiheroes of a sort … Shakespeare would approve.” (Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic)
  • “Palestinian-American playwright Shamieh makes her wonderfully brash and sparkling fiction debut with this novel of three generations. . . . Funny, sexy, and often furious, this book fills in gaps in our understanding.” (Oprah Daily)
  • “For a book titled Too Soon, you will certainly not soon forget these powerful voices Shamieh presents to us.” (Chicago Review of Books)

Betty Shamieh Too Soon

Too Soon

  • Auteur: Betty Shamieh (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Palestijns-Amerikaanse familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 28 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 26,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman over de West Bank van Betty Shamieh

Arabella gets an unexpected chance at love when she’s thrust into a conflict and history she’s tried to avoid all her life. Zoya is playing matchmaker for her last unmarried granddaughter and stirring up buried memories. Naya is keeping a secret from her children that will change all their lives.

Thirty-five-year-old Arabella, a New York theatre director whose dating and career prospects are drying up, is offered an opportunity to direct a risqué cross-dressing interpretation of a Shakespeare classic—that might garner international attention—in the West Bank. Her mother, Naya, and grandmother, Zoya, hatch a plot to match her with Aziz, a Palestinian American doctor volunteering in Gaza. Arabella agrees to meet Aziz, since her growing feelings for Yoav, a celebrated Israeli American theatre designer, seem destined for disaster…

With biting hilarity, Too Soon introduces us to a trio of bold and unforgettable voices. This dramatic saga follows one family’s epic journey fleeing war-torn Jaffa in 1948, chasing the American Dream in Detroit and San Francisco in the sixties and seventies, hustling in the New York theatre scene post-9/11, and daring to stage a show in Palestine in 2012. Upon learning one of them is living on borrowed time, the three women fight to live, make art, and love on their own terms. A funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching literary debut, Too Soon illuminates our shared history and asks, how can we set ourselves free?

Betty Shamieh (she/her) was born in San Francisco. She is a Palestinian American writer and the author of fifteen plays. She is the playwright-in-residence at the Classical Theatre of Harlem. Her six New York play premieres include the sold-out off-Broadway runs of Roar and Malvolio, a sequel to Twelfth Night, which were both New York Times Critic’s Picks. Shamieh was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and named a UNESCO Young Artist for Intercultural Dialogue. She is a founding artistic director of The Semitic Root, a collective that supports innovative theatre cocreated by Arab and Jewish Americans. A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama, she lives with her family in San Francisco.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Debuutroman, Familiegeschiedenis, Familieroman, India

Tara Dorabji – Call Her Freedom

Tara Dorabji Call Her Freedom review, recensie en informatie novel en eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en dochter van Indiase en Duits-Italiaanse immigranten. Op 21 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de debuutroman van Tara Dorabji. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Tara Dorabji Call Her Freedom review, recensie en informatie

  • “In her brave debut novel, Tara Dorabji tells a story of one family under a brutal military occupation. In the foothills of the Himalayas, three generations—a mother, a daughter, a great-niece —draw strength from a matriarchal legacy as healers, warriors, and survivors. Based on real accounts from an ongoing struggle, Call Her Freedom gives voice to women we otherwise would not hear.” (Evelina Galang, author)
  • “Ultimately, Dorabji invites readers to explore deep family love and the battle for liberation amid a ruthless militaristic reign.” (Booklist)
  • “This is a dazzling and beautiful debut. Tara Dorabji introduces us to a singularly unique protagonist and a cast of indomitable characters living, loving, and fighting for their homeland in a landscape scarred by violence and the bitter legacy of colonialism. The result is a novel both intimate and panoramic about resilience, family, and unwavering hope.” (Alex Espinoza, author of The Sons of El Rey)

Tara Dorabji Call Her Freedom

Call Her Freedom

  • Auteur: Tara Dorabji (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: familieroman over India
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 21 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 25,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Tara Dorabji

A sweeping family saga following one woman’s struggle to protect her culture and her family amidst the backdrop of a military occupation.

In the foothills of the Himalayas, the picturesque mountain village of Poshkarbal is home to lush cherry and apple orchards and a thriving community—one divided by a patrolled border. Aisha and her mother Noorjahan live on the outskirts—two women alone in a world dominated by men. As the village midwife, Noorjahan teaches Aisha how to heal using local herbs and remedies. Isolated but content, Aisha is shocked when Noorjahan decides it is time for her to attend the village school as few girls do. Despite the taunting of her classmates and the teacher’s initial resistance to having her in the class, Aisha becomes a star student, destined for college.

When Aisha’s hand is bequeathed to a local boy in the village, she is forced to abandon her dreams of college. She comforts herself by staying on her ancestral land, creating a nourishing life with her children and husband. But her mother’s secrets come back to haunt her and her marriage and the growing military presence in Poshkarbal force Aisha to make impossible choices in order to save her family and preserve the independence Noorjahan fought for. What follows is a family chronicle brimming with life, love, and humor, about sacrifice and honor, and fighting for your home and culture in the face of occupation.

A deeply moving novel about one woman’s love for her family, this is an epic investigation of colonialism, militarization, and the loss and innocence on the journey to creating home. Spanning 1969 to 2022, Call Her Freedom is a love story that untangles family secrets and heals generational wounds, announcing Tara Dorabji as a thrilling new voice in fiction.

Tara Dorabji is the author of the novel, Call Her Freedom, winner of the Simon & Schuster Books Like Us first novel contest. She is the daughter of Parsi-Indian and German-Italian migrants. Her documentary film series on human rights defenders in Kashmir won awards at over a dozen film festivals throughout Asia and the USA. Tara’s publications include Al Jazeera, The Chicago Qusrterly and acclaimed anthologies: Good Girls Marry Doctors and All the Women in My Family Sing. She lives in Northern California with her family and rabbit.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, China, Historische Roman

Lisa See – De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan

Lisa See De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan recensie en informatie van de inhoud van de historische roman over China in 15e eeuw tijdens de Ming-dynastie. Op 22 januari 2025 verschijnt bij The House of Books de Nederlandse vertaling van de roman Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, geschreven door de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Lisa See. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave.

Lisa See De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan recensie en informatie

  • “Ondanks de buitensporige beperkingen die aan vrouwen worden opgelegd, laat See hun sterke punten hun verhalen domineren.” (Washington Post)
  • “See is een van die bijzondere schrijvers die zowel poëzie als plot kunnen leveren.” (New York Times Book Review)

Lisa See De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan

De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan

  • Auteur: Lisa See (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: historische roman over China
  • Origineel: Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (2023)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Marga Blankestijn
  • Uitgever: The House of Books
  • Verschijnt: 22 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 23,99 / € 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de historische roman over China tijdens de Ming-dynastie van Lisa See

China, 15e eeuw. Van jongs af aan leert Yunxian over vrouwenkwalen, samen met Meiling, een vroedvrouw-in-opleiding. De twee meisjes raken bevriend en vinden elkaar in hun gezamenlijke doel om vrouwen uit alle lagen van de bevolking te genezen. Maar wanneer Yunxian wordt uitgehuwelijkt, moet ze alles wat ze geleerd heeft vergeten om zich te gedragen als een voorbeeldige echtgenote. Haar verlangen om te genezen is echter sterker dan de traditie. Met de hulp van Meiling zal Yunxian een onuitwisbare indruk achterlaten op de levens van vele vrouwen tijdens de Ming-dynastie.

Lisa See is geboren op 18 februari 1955 in Parijs. Ze de de New York Times-bestsellerauteur van onder andere de romans De meisjes van Sjanghai en Het theemeisje van Yunnan. Ze ontving de Golden Spike Award van de Chinese Historical Association of Southern California en de Historymaker’s Award van het Chinese American Museum. Ze werd ook benoemd tot Vrouw van het Jaar door de Organisatie van Chinees-Amerikaanse Vrouwen. Haar boeken worden in 39 landen uitgegeven. Haar nieuwe historische roman De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan verschijnt in januari 2025.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster

Rebecca Kauffman – I’ll Come to You

Rebecca Kauffman I’ll Come to You review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 7 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Counterpoint Press de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Rebecca Kauffman. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Rebecca Kauffman I’ll Come to You review, recensie en informatie

  • “The joy in this book is something to admire deeply…the genuine, radiant, quiet, don’t blink kind of happiness. She shows us there is room in a novel—as in the heart—for everyone.” (The New York Times Book Review)
  • “A gentle, comic touch… sweet and satisfying.” (Wall Street Journal)
  • “An exquisite work of fiction that shines a light on one year in the life of a family—their truths and lies, vows and betrayals, seductive dreams and deepest fears. Like Elizabeth Strout and Marilynne Robinson before her, Kauffman is brilliant at drawing out the subtle links between lives—and at capturing the mix of awe and terror that exists within us all.” (Jonathan Lee)
  • “Rebecca Kauffman writes like a sunbeam, strong and warm on whatever lands in her path. This book only looks short—in reality, it reveals a family so richly drawn, so deep and complex, that it contains the whole world.” (Emma Straub)

Rebecca Kauffman I'll Come to You

I’ll Come to You

  • Auteur: Rebecca Kauffman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Counterpoint Press
  • Verschijnt: 7 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 26,00 / $ 13,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Rebecca Kauffman

A modern and classic story of family, I’ll Come to You chronicles intersecting lives over the course of one year—1995—anchored by the anticipation and arrival of a child. With empathy, insight, and humor, Rebecca Kauffman explores overlapping narratives involving a couple whose struggle to become pregnant has both softened and hardened them, a woman whose husband of forty years has left her for reasons he’s unwilling to share and the man who is now disastrously attempting to woo her, a couple in denial about a looming health crisis, and their son who is fumbling toward middle age and can’t stop lying. Ultimately, these storylines crescendo and converge into a dramatic and harrowing turn of events. With heart, wit, and courage, and through pain, these characters traverse territory that both challenges and defines the bonds of family.

Sweeping yet compact, I’ll Come to You investigates themes of intimacy, memory, loss, grief, and reconciliation, and the wonder, terror, frustration, fear, and magic of brushing up against the unknowable—both around us and within us.

Rebecca Kauffman received her MFA in creative writing from New York University. She is the author of Another Place You’ve Never Been, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; The Gunners, which received the Premio Tribùk dei Librai; The House on Fripp Island, and most recently Chorus. Originally from rural northeastern Ohio, Kauffman now lives in Virginia.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Non-Fictie, Verenigde Staten

Amy Gamerman – The Crazies

Amy Gamerman The Crazies review, recensie en informatie non-fictie boek over The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West. Op 7 januari 205 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het non-fictie boek over van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Amy Gamerman over cowboys, miljardairs en een opwarmende planeet in de Amerikaanse staat Montana.

Amy Gamerman The Crazies review, recensie en informatie

  • “It’s impossible to say what’s more compelling about this marvelous book: the story itself—an epic tale of greed, resilience, and hypocrisy playing out against the backdrop of one of the most stunningly gorgeous pieces of real estate in the entire world—or the skill with which Amy Gamerman has masterfully woven a set of complex themes into narrative that boasts all the page-turning compulsiveness of a true-to-life thriller. Like the ferocious winds that that roar down from the mountains and across the pains of central Montana, The Crazies has the power to leave you feeling walloped, whip-sawed, and wildly invigorated, all within the same breath.” (Kevin Fedarko, auteur van A Walk in the Park)
  • “An absolutely wild ride through the untamed frontier of American culture. Gamerman brings alive the modern West in a breakneck story that’s outlandish but also almost mythically familiar. It turns out that the old fights over the frontier and the nature of American freedom aren’t over.” (Christopher Leonard, auteur van The Lords of Easy Money)

Amy Gamerman The Crazies

The Crazies

The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West

  • Auteur: Amy Gamerman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: reportages
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 7 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over Montana van Amy Gamerman

A dazzling piece of narrative nonfiction about land lust and the American West, The Crazies tells the story of a wind farm that triggers a 21st century range war between a struggling fifth-generation rancher and the billionaires next door.

Most locals in Big Timber, Montana learn to live with the wind. Rick Jarrett sought his fortune in it. Like his pioneer ancestors who staked their claims in the Treasure State, he believed in his right to make a living off the land—and its newest precious resource, million-dollar wind.

Trouble was, Jarrett’s neighbors were some of the wealthiest and most influential men in America, trophy ranchers who’d come West to enjoy magnificent mountain views, not stare at 500-foot wind turbines.

And so began an epic showdown that would pull in an ever-widening cast of larger-than-life characters, including a Texas oil and gas tycoon, a roguish wind prospector, a Crow activist fighting for his tribe’s rights to the mountains they hold sacred, and an Olympic athlete-turned-attorney whose path to redemption would lead to Jarrett’s wind farm. A wildly entertaining yarn, the brawl over Crazy Mountain Wind would become a fight over the values that define us as Americans—and a window into how this country actually works. All the while, the most coveted rangeland in the West was being threatened by forces more powerful than anything one man could muster: dwindling snowpack, record drought, raging wildfires.

The Crazies is a Western for a warming planet, full of cowboys and billionaires and billionaire cowboys. But it’s also so much more. It’s an exquisitely reported, ruggedly beautiful elegy for a vanishing way of life and a bighearted inquiry into how you can love a place so much you risk destroying it.

Amy Gamerman has written about real estate and culture for The Wall Street Journal for more than two decades. The Crazies is her first book.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster

Elaine Kraf – The Princess of 72nd Street

Elaine Kraf The Princess of 72nd Street review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1979. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Princess of 72nd Street van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Elaine Kraf. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Elaine Kraf The Princess of 72nd Street recensie, review en informatie

  • “If one were to imagine a perfect specimen of a ‘forgotten classic’ by a woman writer from the 1960s and ’70s, you might come up with The Princess of 72nd Street… it’s a slender, accomplished and frequently funny work told from the perspective of a lively and bruised female consciousness….Its first-person narration feels essayistic, full of bold declarations about heterosexual love, gender roles and aesthetics.” (Washington Post)
  • “A provocative 1970s novel…. Almost half a century after it was first published, The Princess of 72nd Street sounds like a contemporary cry for freedom from the expectations of others.” (The Atlantic)

Elaine Kraf The Princess of 72nd Street

The Princess of 72nd Street

  • Auteur: Elaine Kraf (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1979
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Verschijnt: 2 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1979 van Elaine Kraf

Ellen is a single artist living alone on New York’s Upper West Side in the 1970s. She is beset by old boyfriends, paint pigment choices, and, occasionally, by ‘radiances’ – episodes of joyous, reckless unreality. Under the influence of ‘radiances’ she becomes Princess Esmeralda, and West 72nd Street becomes the kingdom over which she rules. Life as Esmeralda is a liberating experience for Ellen, who, despite the chaos and stigma these episodes can bring, relishes the respite from the confines of the everyday. And yet those around her, particularly the men in her life, are threatened by her incarnation as Esmeralda, and by the freedom that it gives her.

The Princess of 72nd Streetis Elaine Kraf’s witty, dizzyingly inventive take on female liberation and mental health, a work of immense literary power and unbridled energy. Provocative at the time of its publication in 1979 and thoroughly iconoclastic, it is a remarkable portrait of an unforgettable woman.

Elaine Kraf was born on 21 February 1936 in New York City. She was a writer and painter. She was the author of four published works of fiction: I Am Clarence (1969), The House of Madelaine (1971), Find Him! (1977) and The Princess of 72nd Street (1979)—as well as several unpublished novels, plays and poetry collections. She was the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts awards, a 1971 fellowship at the Broad Loaf Writers’ Conference and a 1977 residency at Yaddo. She was born and lived in New York City. On 26 June 2013 she died at the age of 77.

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