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Kara Swisher – Burn Book

Kara Swisher Burn Book recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het journalistieke memoir over de Amerikaanse techindustrie. Op 27 februari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster, Burn Book, A Tech Love Story, geschreven door de Amerikaanse podcastmaker en journalist Kara Swisher. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Kara Swisher Burn Book recensie

  • “Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley…takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution of the digital world…Bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking, just like its author, Burn Book sizzles” (Booklist, starred review)

Kara Swisher Burn Book

Burn Book

A Tech Love Story

  • Auteur: Kara Swisher (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: journalistieke memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 27 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $30.00 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de Amerikaanse techindustrie van Kara Swisher

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.

Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. From “the queen of all media” (Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal), this is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world.

When tech titans crowed that they would “move fast and break things,” Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. While covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the facts about this new world order. Her consistent scoops drove one CEO to accuse her of “listening in the heating ducts” and prompted Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg to once observe: “It is a constant joke in the Valley when people write memos for them to say, ‘I hope Kara never sees this.’”

While still in college, Swisher got her start at The Washington Post, where she became one of the few people in journalism interested in covering the nascent Internet. She went on to work forThe Wall Street Journal, joining with Walt Mossberg to start the groundbreaking D: All Things Digital conference, as well as pioneering tech news sites.

Swisher has interviewed everyone who matters in tech over three decades, right when they presided over an explosion of world-changing innovation that has both helped and hurt our world. Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Bob Iger, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Meg Whitman, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few whom Swisher made sweat—figuratively and, in Zuckerberg’s case, literally.

Despite the damage she chronicles, Swisher remains optimistic about tech’s potential to help solve problems and not just create them. She calls upon the industry to make better, more thoughtful choices, even as a new set of powerful AI tools are poised to change the world yet again. At its heart, this book is a love story to, for, and about tech from someone who knows it better than anyone.

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Rex Chapman – It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me

Rex Chapman It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de memoir van de Amerikaanse basketballer. Op 27 februari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de memoir, It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me van de basketballer Rex Chapman die hij samen met Seth Davis schreef. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Rex Chapman It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me recensie

  • “Chapman’s frank assessment of the toll his addictions took on his loved ones lends his account appealing humility….It’s the off-court sections that lend this sports memoir its power.” (Publishers Weekly)
  • “Readers will appreciate Chapman’s candor and hard-won perspective as he shares his up-and-down story as a cautionary tale.” (Booklist)
  • “A former basketball prodigy’s blunt memoir about stardom, addiction, and American culture…..Throughout, the author is raw [and] consistently candid….the most compelling and focused aspect of the book is Chapman’s frankness about the toll of his battle with painkillers and the hard work required on the long road to recovery.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Rex Chapman It's Hard for Me to Live with Me

It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me

  • Auteurs: Rex Chapman, Seth Davis (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir, sportboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 27 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $27.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de memoir van de Amerikaanse basketballer Rex Chapman

A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media influencer about his recovery from addiction.

He is considered by many the greatest basketball player ever produced by the hoops-crazy state of Kentucky. In two years at the University of Kentucky, he scored over 1,000 points, led the Wildcats to a Sweet Sixteen appearance and was nicknamed “King Rex.” The first player ever drafted by the Charlotte Hornets, he spent twelve seasons in the NBA, dazzling in dunk contests and sinking one of the most memorable buzzer-beaters in league history. But by the end of his career, Rex Chapman was harboring a destructive secret.

Years before America’s opioid crisis would become national news, Chapman developed a dependency on Vicodin and Oxycontin, ultimately ingesting fifty painkillers a day. In addition, he developed a severe gambling addiction, once nearly losing $400,000 at a Las Vegas blackjack table. All this would cost him his family as well as most of the $40 million fortune he’d made in basketball, leaving him to live in his car and shoplift to support his addictions. Only when he was arrested—and his mugshot made national news—did he finally commit to getting clean.

In It’s Hard for Me to Live With Me, Chapman—who has amassed millions of social media followers for his relatable and uplifting posts—tells the story of his addiction and recovery in unflinching detail. With equal frankness, he describes his history with depression; the racism he witnessed growing up and how that shaped his outspokenness on matters of social justice; and his complex and volatile relationship with his father, also a former professional basketball player. Cowritten with New York Times bestselling author Seth Davis, Chapman’s memoir is an equally devastating and inspiring story about the human struggle for self-acceptance.

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Carlos Lozada – The Washington Book

Carlos Lozada The Washington Book recensie en informatie boek over hoe machtige Amerikaanse politici zich uiten in boeken en geschriften. Op 27 februari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster, The Washington Book, het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse columnist en politiek journalist Carlos Lozada. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Carlos Lozada The Washington Book recensie

  • “An absolutely original genius.” (Bob Woodward, The Washington Post)
  • “Lozada’s strengths as a critic are obvious. He is charming, funny, and light on his feet, and his descriptions are exceptionally clear and pithy. . . . This aphoristic style cuts to the quick of complex ideas.” (Katy Waldman, The New Yorker)
  • “Lozada’s insights are piquant and enlightening, the result being an enhanced understanding of the complicated mess that is American politics.” (Booklist)

Carlos Lozada The Washington Book

The Washington Book

  • Auteur: Carlos Lozada (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse politiek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 27 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $29.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de Amerikaanse politiek van Carlos Lozada

The Pulitzer Prize–winning opinion columnist at The New York Times explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings and, in so doing, illuminates the personal, political, and cultural conflicts driving Washington and the nation.

As a long-time book critic and columnist in Washington, Carlos Lozada dissects all manner of texts: commission reports, political reporting, Supreme Court decisions, and congressional inquiries to understand the controversies animating life in the capital. He also reads copious books by politicians and top officials: tell-all accounts by administration insiders, campaign biographies by candidates longing for high office, revisionist memoirs by those leaving those offices behind. With this provocative essay collection, Lozada argues that no matter how carefully political figures sanitize their experiences, positions, and records, no matter how diligently they present themselves in the best and safest and most electable light, they almost always let slip the truth. They show us their faults and blind spots, their ambitions and compromises, their underlying motives and insecurities. Whether they mean to or not, they tell us who they really are.

In his memoirs and speeches, Barack Obama constantly invoked the power and meaning of his life story, Lozada notes, a sign of how the former president capitalized on his personal symbolism, trying to transform it from inspiration on the campaign trail into an all-purpose governing tool. In a soliloquy about his hair in a self-help book published two decades ago, Donald Trump revealed not just his vanity, Lozada explains, but his utter isolation from the world, long before he entered the bubble of the White House. In deft and lacerating prose, Lozada interprets the unresolved tensions of Hillary Clinton’s ideological beliefs. He imagines the wonderful memoir George H.W. Bush could have given us but instead left scattered in throughout various books and letters. He explores why Kamala Harris has struggled to carve out a distinctive role as vice president. He explains how Ron DeSantis’s pitch to America is just a list of enemies. And he even glimpses what Vladimir Putin fears the most, and why he seeks conflict with the West. He does so all through their own books, and their own words.

Lozada reads these books so you don’t have to. The Washington Book is the perfect guide to the state of our politics, and then men and women who dominate the terrain. It explores the construction of personal identity, the delusions of leadership, and that mix of subservience and ambition that can define a life in politics. The more we read the stories of Washington, Lozada contends, the clearer our understanding of the competing visions of our country.

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Marie Arana – LatinoLand

Marie Arana LatinoLand recensie en informatie boek over de Latino’s in Amerika de grootste en mist begrepen minderheid. Op 20 februari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster het boek LatinoLand, geschreven door de in Peru geboren schrijfster Maria Arana. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling verkrijgbaar op aangekondigd.

Marie Arana LatinoLand recensie

  • “The celebrated Arana unpacks one of the most contentious demographic categories in the U.S. In her sympathetic snapshots and deeply researched reporting, Arana tells a compelling story of Latinos as ‘mutable, uncertain creatures, protean in our very selves—the bewildered offspring of centuries of cross-fertilization and chance.’” (Booklist)
  • “An impressively wide-ranging overview of the turbulent history of Latine people in America. . . . Ably blends historical research with insightful anecdotes. . . . Arana has a fascinating, complex, and deeply personal story to tell, and she narrates it with abundant verve and intelligence.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “Marie Arana does something beautiful in this book: she captures all the strands and weaves that form the fabric of the one-fifth of our nation she calls LatinoLand. This burgeoning population contains many different narratives, as she shows, but there are a number of commonalities. Her book not only helps explain LatinoLand but also America itself.” (Walter Isaacson, schrijver)

Marie Arana Latinoland

LatinoLand

A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority

  • Auteur: Marie Arana (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek; journalistieke non fictie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 20 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 576 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $32.50 / $16.99 / $29.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Maria Arana over Latino’s in Amerika

A sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority.

LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana’s life experience as a Latina. At present, Latinos comprise 20 percent of the US population, a number that is growing. By 2050, census reports project that one in every three Americans will claim Latino heritage.

But Latinos are not a monolith. They do not represent a single group. The largest numbers are Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Salvadorans, and Cubans. Each has a different cultural and political background. Puerto Ricans, for example, are US citizens, whereas some Mexican Americans never immigrated because the US-Mexico border shifted after the US invasion of 1848, incorporating what is now the entire southwest of the United States. Cubans came in two great waves: those escaping communism in the early years of Castro, many of whom were professionals and wealthy, and those permitted to leave in the Mariel boat lift twenty years later, representing some of the poorest Cubans, including prisoners.

As LatinoLand shows, Latinos were some of the earliest immigrants to what is now the US—some of them arriving in the 1500s. They are racially diverse—a random fusion of White, Black, Indigenous, and Asian. Once overwhelmingly Catholic, they are becoming increasingly Protestant and Evangelical. They range from domestic workers and day laborers to successful artists, corporate CEOs, and US senators. Formerly solidly Democratic, they now vote Republican in growing numbers. They are as varied culturally as any immigrants from Europe or Asia.

Marie Arana draws on her own experience as the daughter of an American mother and Peruvian father who came to the US at age nine, straddling two worlds, as many Latinos do. Latinoland unabashedly celebrates Latino resilience and character and shows us why we must understand the fastest-growing minority in America.

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Elizabeth Gonzalez James – The Bullet Swallower

Elizabeth Gonzalez James The Bullet Swallower. Op 23 januari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de nieuwe Amerikaanse westernroman van Elizabeth Gonzalez James. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Elizabeth Gonzalez James The Bullet Swallower recensie

  • “Mesmerizing and important. . .The Bullet Swallower is valuable for its gorgeous language and gripping story alone, but the questions it asks could hardly be timelier. Should we be expected to pay for the sins of our ancestors? To whom do we owe reparations? How do we break generational cycles of abuse and trauma? There’s not much overt discussion of race in this novel, but the impact of racism on Antonio’s life is impossible to miss, as is his family’s complicity in exploiting both the land and its Indigenous inhabitants. . .Elizabeth Gonzalez James makes such deft use of tropes from Westerns, Gothic literature, and magical realism that they don’t feel like tropes at all. She clearly understands why these motifs persist, and she gives them life with prose that’s both spare and intensely rich.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
  • “Gonzalez laces magical realism into her vivid epic of the Texas-Mexico border and the violence that shapes a family for generations. . .The novel’s striking centerpiece follows Antonio and fellow desperado Peter Ainsley as they cut a swath across the border badlands [with] blazing guns and rich, Butch and Sundance–esque banter. . .Readers will find this a refreshingly modern recasting of the classic western.” (Publishers Weekly)

Elizabeth Gonzalez James informatie

De Amerikaanse schrijfster Elizabeth Gonzalez James is afkomstig uit het zuiden van Texas. Tegenwoordig woont ze met haar familie in de Amerikaanse staat Massachusetts. In 2021 debuteerde ze met de roman Mona at Sea die over het algemeen goed werd ontvangen door de Amerikaanse critici. Tot nu toe zijn de romans van Elizabeth Gonzalez James nog niet in Nederlandse vertaling verschenen.

Elizabeth Gonzalez James The Bullet Swallower

The Bullet Swallower

  • Auteur: Elizabeth Gonzalez James (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse westernroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 23 januari 2024
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $26.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst nieuwe avonturenroman van Elizabeth Gonzalez James

A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making.

In 1895, Antonio Sonoro is the latest in a long line of ruthless men. He’s good with his gun and is drawn to trouble but he’s also out of money and out of options. A drought has ravaged the town of Dorado, Mexico, where he lives with his wife and children, and so when he hears about a train laden with gold and other treasures, he sets off for Houston to rob it—with his younger brother Hugo in tow. But when the heist goes awry and Hugo is killed by the Texas Rangers, Antonio finds himself launched into a quest for revenge that endangers not only his life and his family, but his eternal soul.

In 1964, Jaime Sonoro is Mexico’s most renowned actor and singer. But his comfortable life is disrupted when he discovers a book that purports to tell the entire history of his family beginning with Cain and Abel. In its ancient pages, Jaime learns about the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors. And when the same mysterious figure from Antonio’s timeline shows up in Mexico City, Jaime realizes that he may be the one who has to pay for his ancestors’ crimes, unless he can discover the true story of his grandfather Antonio, the legendary bandido El Tragabalas, The Bullet Swallower.

A family saga that’s epic in scope and magical in its blood, and based loosely on the author’s own great-grandfather, The Bullet Swallower tackles border politics, intergenerational trauma, and the legacies of racism and colonialism in a lush setting and stunning prose that asks who pays for the sins of our ancestors, and whether it is possible to be better than our forebears.

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Patrick Stewart – Making It So Memoir

Op 3 oktober 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster Patrick Stewart Making It So, A Memoir. Van is het autobiografische boek van de Engelse auteur Patrick Stewart is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Patrick Stewart Making It So Memoir

De Britse acteur Patrick Stewart is op 13 juli 1940 geboren in het stadje Mirfield, West-Yorkshire in Engeland. Hij is vooral bekend geworden door zijn iconische rol als captain Jean-Luc Picard in de science fiction tv-serie Star Trek: The Next Generation en in de speelfilms.

Hij is opgeleid als toneelacteur en speelde vanaf de jaren zestig onder andere rollen bij het vermaarde toneelgezelschap The Royal Shakespeare Company. Vanaf de tweede helft van de jaren zestig van de vorige eeuw speelde hij ook rollen in speelfilms en voor televisie. In de jaren 2000 begon hij ook met het inspreken van stemmen voor computergames en voice-overs voor documentaires en commercials.

Patrick Stewart Making It So Memoir

Making It So

A Memoir

  • Auteur: Patrick Stewart (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: memoir, autobiografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster, Gallery Books
  • Verschijnt: 3 oktober 2023
  • Omvang: 480 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: € 36,00 / € 18,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de autobiografie van acteur Patrick Stewart

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart!

From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations with his indelible command of stage and screen. Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, Making It So, a revealing portrait of an artist whose astonishing life—from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire, England, to the heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim—proves a story as exuberant, definitive, and enduring as the author himself.

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Scott Eymann – Charlie Chaplin vs. America

Scott Eymann – Charlie Chaplin vs. America, When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided. Op 1 november 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster het boek over hoe filmmaker, acteur en komiek uit de gratie viel in de Verenigde Staten van wegen zijn te liberale standpunten. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Scott Eymann – Charlie Chaplin vs. America

Scott Eymann is geboren op 2 maart 1951. Hij is een voormalige journalist en schrijver. Veel van zijn boeken gaan over de filmwereld, acteurs, actrices en regisseurs. In zijn nieuwe boek vertelt hij het verhaal van hoe Charlie Chaplin uit de gratis viel in Amerika tijdens de  MacCarthy heksenjacht op communisten, medio jaren vijftig van de vorige eeuw.

Scott Eymann - Charlie Chaplin vs. America

Charlie Chaplin vs. America

When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided

  • Auteur: Scott Eymann (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: filmboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 1 november 2023
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $29.99 /
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over Charlie Chaplin en America

The remarkable, must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling biographer Scott Eyman.

Bestselling Hollywood biographer and film historian Scott Eyman tells the story of Charlie Chaplin’s fall from grace. In the aftermath of World War Two, Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook. He had never become a US citizen, something that would be held against him as xenophobia set in when the postwar Red Scare took hold.

Politics aside, Chaplin had another problem: his sexual interest in young women. He had been married three times and had had numerous affairs. In the 1940s, he was the subject of a paternity suit, which he lost, despite blood tests that proved he was not the father. His sexuality became a convenient way for those who opposed his politics to condemn him. Refused permission to return to the US from a trip abroad, he settled in Switzerland, and made his last two films in London

In Charlie Chaplin vs. America, bestselling author Scott Eyman explores the life and times of the movie genius who brought us such masterpieces as City Lights and Modern Times. This is a perceptive, insightful portrait of Chaplin and of an America consumed by political turmoil.

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John Irving – The Last Chairlift

John Irving The Last Chairlift recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 18 oktober 2022 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de nieuwe roman van John Irving. De Nederlandse vertaling met de titel De laatste skilift verschijnt op 22 november 2022 bij uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers.

John Irving The Last Chairlift recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op de pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman The Last Chairlift. Het boek is geschreven door John iIving. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van dit nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver John Irving.

John Irving The Last Chairlift Recensie

The Last Chairlift

  • Schrijver: John Irving (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 18 oktober 2022
  • Omvang: 912 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: De laatste skilift

Recensie en waardering van de roman

  • “Powerfully cinematic…Irving’s portrayal of a shooting in a crowded venue, for instance, is rendered with such visual acuity and kinetic energy that I’d swear I saw it rather than read it….Whenever “The Last Chairlift” is actively expanding the boundaries of what a family can be — the story feels vital and exciting.” (The Washington Post)
  • “Here the consistent pleasure is an extended family whose distinctive voices deliver thoughtful messages of tolerance, understanding, and affection for those who are different.” (Kirkus Review)
  • “His enormous imagination, his storytelling gifts, and his intelligence are all on display.” (Publishers Weekly)

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van John Irving

John Irving, one of the world’s greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years–a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.

In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor.

Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren’t the first or the last ghosts he sees.

John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time–among them, The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. In The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.

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Iuliia Mendel – The Fight of Our Lives

Iuliia Mendel The Fight of Our Lives recensie en informatie journalistiek boek over Zelensky en Oekraïne. Op dit moment is het boek in het Engels verkrijgbaar. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling aangekondigd.

Iuliia Mendel The Fight of Our Lives recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van The Fight of Our Lives. Het boek is geschreven door Iuliia Mendel . Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van dit boek over My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World, geschreven door de Oekraïense journaliste Iuliia Mendel.

Iuliia Mendel The Fight of Our Lives Recensie

The Fight of Our Lives

My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World

  • Schrijfster: Iuliia Mendel (Oekraïne)
  • Soort boek: journalistiek boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 13 september 2022
  • Omvang: 240 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook

Flaptekst van het boek over Zelensky en Oekraïne van Iuliia Mendel

When Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel got the call she had been hired to work for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, she had no idea what was to come.

In this frank and moving inside account, Zelenskyy’s former press secretary tells the story of his improbable rise from popular comedian to the president of Ukraine. Mendel had a front row seat to many of the key events preceding the 2022 Russian invasion. From attending meetings between Zelenskyy and Putin and other European leaders, visiting the front lines in Donbas, to fielding press inquiries after the infamous phone calls between Donald Trump and Zelenskyy that led to Trump’s first impeachment.

Mendel saw firsthand Zelenskyy’s efforts to transform his country from a poor, backward Soviet state into a vibrant, prosperous European democracy. Mendel sheds light on the massive economic problems facing Ukraine and the entrenched corrupt oligarchs in league with Russia. She witnessed the Kremlin’s repeated attacks to discredit Zelenskyy through disinformation and an army of bots and trolls.

Woven into her account are details about her own life as a member of Zelenskyy’s new Ukraine. Written with the sound of Russian bombs and exploding shells in the background, Mendel details life lived under Russian siege in 2022. She says goodbye to her fiancé who joins the front lines, like so many other Ukrainian men. Throughout this story of Zelenskyy, Ukraine, and its extraordinary people, Iuliia Mendel reminds us of the paramount importance of truth and human values, especially in these darkest of times.

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Joseph Kanon – The Berlin Exchange

Joseph Kanon The Berlin Exchange recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse spionageroman over de Koude Oorlog. Op 22 februari 2022 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Joseph Kanon. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verschenen of aangekondigd.

Joseph Kanon The Berlin Exchange recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek gelezen heeft, kun je op de pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de spionagethriller The Berlin Exchange. Het boek is geschreven door Joseph Kanon. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van dit nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse thrillerschrijver Joseph Kanon.

Joseph Kanon The Berlin Exchange Recensie

The Berlin Exchange

  • Schrijver: Joseph Kanon (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse spionagethriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 22 februari 2022
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook

Recensie en waardering van de spionagethriller

  • “A novel that gives paranoia a new name, Kanon’s latest in a brilliant collection—including Leaving Berlin (2014) and Istanbul Passage (2012)—may be his most tightly rendered. The suspense builds quietly, almost stealthily, before tightening its grip. Another supersophisticated spy thriller from a ranking master.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Flaptekst van de nieuwe spionageroman van Joseph Kanon

From “master of the genre” (The Washington Post) Joseph Kanon, an espionage thriller set at the height of the Cold War, when a captured American who has spied for the KGB is swapped by the British and returns to East Berlin needing to know who arranged his release and what they want from him.

Berlin. 1963. The height of the Cold War. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, or at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and an aging MI6 operative. On the other side of the trade: Martin Keller, a physicist who once made headlines, but who then disappeared into the English prison system. Keller’s most critical possession: his American passport. Keller’s most ardent desire: to see his ex-wife Sabine and their young son.

The exchange is made with the formality characteristic of these swaps. But Martin has other questions: who asked for him? Who negotiated the deal? The KGB? He has worked for the service long enough to know that nothing happens by chance. They want him for something. Not physics—his expertise is out of date. Something else, which he cannot learn until he arrives in East Berlin, when suddenly the game is afoot.

Filled with intriguing characters, atmospheric detail, and plenty of action Kanon’s latest espionage thriller is one you won’t soon forget.

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