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Biografie

David Michaelis – Eleanor

David Michaelis Eleanor Roosevelt biografie recensie en informatie. Op 6 oktober 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de biografie van Eleanor Roosevelt, de vrouw van de Amerikaanse president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. De paperback verschijnt op 5 oktober 2021. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie verschenen of aangekondigd.

David Michaelis Eleanor recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de biografieEleanor. Het boek is geschreven door David Michaelis. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van dit deze biografie van presidentsvrouw Eleanor Roosevelt.

David Michaelis Eleanor Roosevelt biografie

Eleanor

  • Schrijver: David Michaelis (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 6 oktober 2020
  • Paperback: 5 oktober 2021
  • Omvang: 720 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Paperback / Ebook

Flaptekst van de biografie van Eleanor Roosevelt

Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a “stunning” (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America’s longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world’s most widely admired and influential women.

In the first single-volume cradle-to-grave portrait in six decades, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis delivers a stunning account of Eleanor Roosevelt’s remarkable life of transformation. An orphaned niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she converted her Gilded Age childhood of denial and secrecy into an irreconcilable marriage with her ambitious fifth cousin Franklin. Despite their inability to make each other happy, Franklin Roosevelt transformed Eleanor from a settlement house volunteer on New York’s Lower East Side into a matching partner in New York’s most important power couple in a generation.

When Eleanor discovered Franklin’s betrayal with her younger, prettier social secretary, Lucy Mercer, she offered a divorce and vowed to face herself honestly. Here is an Eleanor both more vulnerable and more aggressive, more psychologically aware and sexually adaptable than we knew. She came to accept FDR’s bond with his executive assistant, Missy LeHand; she allowed her children to live their own lives, as she never could; and she explored her sexual attraction to women, among them a star female reporter on FDR’s first presidential campaign, and younger men.

Eleanor needed emotional connection. She pursued deeper relationships wherever she could find them. Throughout her life and travels, there was always another person or place she wanted to heal. As FDR struggled to recover from polio, Eleanor became a voice for the voiceless, her husband’s proxy in presidential ambition, and then the people’s proxy in the White House. Later, she would be the architect of international human rights and world citizen of the Atomic Age, urging Americans to cope with the anxiety of global annihilation by cultivating a “world mind.” She insisted that we cannot live for ourselves alone but must learn to live together or we will die together.

Drawing on new research, Michaelis’s riveting portrait is not just a comprehensive biography of a major American figure, but the story of an American ideal: how our freedom is always a choice. Eleanor rediscovers a model of what is noble and evergreen in the American character, a model we need today more than ever.

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Non-Fictie, Politieke Boeken

Bob Woodward – Rage

Bob Woodward Rage recensie en informatie over de inhoud van dit nieuwe journalistieke boek over Donald Trump. Op 15 september 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Simon & Schuster van de Amerikaanse journalist en schrijver Bob Woodward. De Nederlandse vertaling verschijnt op 1 oktober 2020 en heeft als titel Woede.

Bob Woodward Rage Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van Rage. Het boek is geschreven door Bob Woodward. 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 over Donald Trump van Bob Woodward.

Bob Woodward Rage Boek over Donald Trump

Rage

  • Schrijver: Bob Woodward (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: politieke non-fictie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 15 september 2020
  • Omvang: 480 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek

Flaptekst boek van Bob Woodward over Donald Trump

Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest.

Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump’s head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans.

In 17 on-the-record interviews with Woodward over seven volatile months—an utterly vivid window into Trump’s mind—the president provides a self-portrait that is part denial and part combative interchange mixed with surprising moments of doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the “dynamite behind every door.”

At key decision points, Rage shows how Trump’s responses to the crises of 2020 were rooted in the instincts, habits and style he developed during his first three years as president.

Revisiting the earliest days of the Trump presidency, Rage reveals how Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats struggled to keep the country safe as the president dismantled any semblance of collegial national security decision making.

Rage draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand witnesses as well as participants’ notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents.

Woodward obtained 25 never-seen personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a “fantasy film.”

Trump insists to Woodward he will triumph over Covid-19 and the economic calamity. “Don’t worry about it, Bob. Okay?” Trump told the author in July. “Don’t worry about it. We’ll get to do another book. You’ll find I was right.”

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Engelse romans, Engelse schrijvers

Hari Kunzru – Red Pill

Hari Kunzru Red Pill recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe roman. Op 3 september 2020 bij Uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de nieuwe roman ven de Engels-Indiase schrijver Hari Kunzru. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Hari Kunzru Red Pill Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman Red Pill. Het boek is geschreven door Hari Kunzru. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de nieuwe roman van de Engels-Indiase schrijver  Hari Kunzru.

Hari Kunzru Red Pill Recensie

Red Pill

  • Schrijver: Hari Kunzru (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: psychologische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 3 september 2020
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Hari Kunzru

From the author of White Tears comes a breathtaking, state-of-the-world novel about one man’s struggle to defend his values and create a reality free from the shadows of the past.

‘From now on when you see something, you’re seeing it because I want you to see it. When you think of something, it’ll be because I want you to think about it…’

And with those words, the obsession begins. A writer has left his family in Brooklyn for a three month residency at the Deuter Centre in Berlin, hoping for undisturbed days devoted to artistic absorption.

When nothing goes according to plan, he finds himself holed up in his room watching Blue Lives, a violent cop show with a bleak and merciless worldview. One night at a party he meets Anton, the charismatic creator of the show, and strikes up a conversation.

It is a conversation that leads him on a journey into the heart of moral darkness. A conversation thatthreatens to destroy everything he holds most dear, including his own mind.

Red Pill is a novel about the alt-right, online culture, creativity, sanity and history. It tells the story of the 21st century through the prism of the centuries that preceded it, showing how the darkest chapters of our past haunt our present. More than anything, though, this is a novel about love and how it can endure in a world where everything else seems to have lost all meaning.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster

Rachel Beanland – Florence Adler Swims Forever

Rachel Beanland Florence Adler Swims Forever recensie en informatie over de inhoud van deze nieuwe Amerikaanse roman. Op 7 juli 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Rachel Beanland. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Rachel Beanland Florence Adler Swims Forever Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman Florence Adler Swims Forever. Het boek is geschreven door Rachel Beanland. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de debuutroman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Rachel Beanland.

Rachel Beanland Florence Adler Swims Forever Recensie

Florence Adler Swims Forever

  • Schrijfster: Rachel Beanland (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • verschijnt: 7 juli 2020
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Ebook

Flaptekst van de roman van Rachel Beanland

Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to “America’s Playground” and move into the small apartment above their bakery. Despite the cramped quarters, this is the apartment where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence, and it always feels like home.

Now Florence has returned from college, determined to spend the summer training to swim the English Channel, and Fannie, pregnant again after recently losing a baby, is on bedrest for the duration of her pregnancy. After Joseph insists they take in a mysterious young woman whom he recently helped emigrate from Nazi Germany, the apartment is bursting at the seams.

Esther only wants to keep her daughters close and safe but some matters are beyond her control: there’s Fannie’s risky pregnancy–not to mention her always-scheming husband, Isaac–and the fact that the handsome heir of a hotel notorious for its anti-Semitic policies, seems to be in love with Florence.

When tragedy strikes, Esther makes the shocking decision to hide the truth–at least until Fannie’s baby is born–and pulls the family into an elaborate web of secret-keeping and lies, bringing long-buried tensions to the surface that reveal how quickly the act of protecting those we love can turn into betrayal.

Based on a true story and told in the vein of J. Courtney Sullivan’s Saints for All Occasions and Anita Diamant’s The Boston Girl, Beanland’s family saga is a breathtaking portrait of just how far we will go to in order to protect our loved ones and an uplifting portrayal of how the human spirit can endure–and even thrive–after tragedy.

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Politieke Boeken

John Bolton – The Room Where It Happened

John Bolton The Room Where It Happened recensie en informatie boek over Donald Trump. Op 23 jui 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Simon & Schuster dit zeer kritische boek over het gedrag van Donald Trump, geschreven door zijn ex National Security Advisor John Bolton. Of en wanneer er een Nederlandse vertaling van dit boek zal verschijnen is nog onbekend.

John Bolton The Room Where It Happened Boek over Donald Trump

Als de redactie het boek gelezen heeft, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van The Room Where It Heppened, A White Hoise Memoir. Het boek is geschreven door John Bolton. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van boek geschreven door John Bolton.

John Bolton The Room Where It Happened Boek over Donald Trump

The Room Where It Happened

A Whitehouse Memoir

  • Schrijver: John Bolton (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoires, politiek boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 23 juni 2020
  • Omvang: 592 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Ebook

Flaptekst van het boek van John Bolton over Donald Trump

As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves.

The result is a White House memoir that is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration, and one of the few to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the President, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a President for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation. “I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations,” he writes. In fact, he argues that the House committed impeachment malpractice by keeping their prosecution focused narrowly on Ukraine when Trump’s Ukraine-like transgressions existed across the full range of his foreign policy—and Bolton documents exactly what those were, and attempts by him and others in the Administration to raise alarms about them.

He shows a President addicted to chaos, who embraced our enemies and spurned our friends, and was deeply suspicious of his own government. In Bolton’s telling, all this helped put Trump on the bizarre road to impeachment. “The differences between this presidency and previous ones I had served were stunning,” writes Bolton, who worked for Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43. He discovered a President who thought foreign policy is like closing a real estate deal—about personal relationships, made-for-TV showmanship, and advancing his own interests. As a result, the US lost an opportunity to confront its deepening threats, and in cases like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea ended up in a more vulnerable place.

Bolton’s account starts with his long march to the West Wing as Trump and others woo him for the National Security job. The minute he lands, he has to deal with Syria’s chemical attack on the city of Douma, and the crises after that never stop. As he writes in the opening pages, “If you don’t like turmoil, uncertainty, and risk—all the while being constantly overwhelmed with information, decisions to be made, and sheer amount of work—and enlivened by international and domestic personality and ego conflicts beyond description, try something else.”

The turmoil, conflicts, and egos are all there—from the upheaval in Venezuela, to the erratic and manipulative moves of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, to the showdowns at the G7 summits, the calculated warmongering by Iran, the crazy plan to bring the Taliban to Camp David, and the placating of an authoritarian China that ultimately exposed the world to its lethal lies. But this seasoned public servant also has a great eye for the Washington inside game, and his story is full of wit and wry humor about how he saw it played.

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Mary L. Trump Too Much and Never Enough Boek over Donald TrumpMary L. Trump (Verenigde Staten) – Too Much and Never Enough
How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
Soort boek: non-fictie
Uitgever:  Simon & Schuster
Verschijnt: 28 juli 2020
Inhoud boek: In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric….lees verder> 

Non-Fictie

Mary L. Trump – Too Much and Never Enough

Mary L. Trump Too Much and Never Enough recensie en informatie boek over Donald Trump geschreven door zijn nicht. Op 28 juli 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Simon & Schuster dit zeer kritische portret van Donald Trump, geschreven door zijn nicht en psychiater Mary L. Trump. De Nederlandse vertaling met als titel Het Amerikaanse trauma verschijnt op 15 juli 2021 bij Xander Uitgevers.

Mary L. Trump Too Much and Never Enough Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek gelezen heeft, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van Too Much and Never Enough, How My Family Created the World’s Most Dagerous Man. Het boek is geschreven door Mary L. Trump. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van boek geschreven door Mary L. Trump.

Mary L. Trump Too Much and Never Enough Boek over Donald Trump

Too Much and Never Enough

How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man

  • Schrijfster: Mary L. Trump (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: non-fictie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 28 juli 2020
  • Omvang: 240 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Ebook

Flaptekst van het boek van Mary L. Trump over Donald Trump

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.

Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.

A firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and family interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for regifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s.

Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider’s perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families.

Het Amerikaanse trauma

De afrekening met vier jaar Trump

  • Mary L. Trump Het Amerikaanse trauma RecensieSchrijfster: Mary L. Trump (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: politieke non-fictie
  • Origineel: Too Much and Never Enough (2020)
  • Uitgever: Xander Uitgevers
  • Verschijnt: 15 juli 2021
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekhandel / Bol
  • Inhoud boek: Na de slopende verkiezingen van 2020 staat de Verenigde Staten een enorme taak te wachten: het land en de internationale verhoudingen repareren, het vertrouwen in leiderschap herstellen en bovenal: het helen van het trauma van vier jaar Trump. Mary L. Trump is niet alleen de nicht van Donald Trump en bestsellerauteur van hét boek over de ex-president, maar ze is ook gespecialiseerd in trauma. Wie anders dan zij kan vertellen wat de VS te doen staat?…lees verder >

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster

Emily Gould – Perfect Tunes

Emily Gould Perfect Tunes recensie en informatie over dit boek over de inhoud van deze nieuwe Amerikaanse roman. Op 14 april 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster de nieuwe roman van Emily Gould.

Emily Gould Perfect Tunes Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de Amerikaanse roman, Perfect Tunes van Emily Gould. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van deze roman van schrijfster Emily Gould.

Emily Gould Perfect Tunes Recensie001Boek-Bestellen

Perfect Tunes

  • Schrijfster: Emily Gould (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 14 april 2020
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Ebook

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Emily Gould

It’s the early days of the new millennium, and Laura has arrived in New York City’s East Village in the hopes of recording her first album. A songwriter with a one-of-a-kind talent, she’s just beginning to book gigs with her beautiful best friend when she falls hard for a troubled but magnetic musician whose star is on the rise. Their time together is stormy and short-lived—but will reverberate for the rest of Laura’s life.

Fifteen years later, Laura’s teenage daughter, Marie, is asking questions about her father, questions that Laura does not want to answer. Laura has built a stable life in Brooklyn that bears little resemblance to the one she envisioned when she left Ohio all those years ago, and she’s taken pains to close the door on what was and what might have been. But neither her best friend, now a famous musician who relies on Laura’s songwriting skills, nor her depressed and searching daughter will let her give up on her dreams.

Funny, wise, and tenderhearted, Perfect Tunes explores the fault lines in our most important relationships, and asks whether dreams deferred can ever be reclaimed. It is a delightful and poignant tale of music and motherhood, ambition and com­promise—of life, in all its dissonance and harmony.

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Journalistieke boeken, Non-Fictie

Sarah Frier – No Filter

Sarah Frier No Filter recensie en informatie over dit boek over de inhoud van dit journalistieke boek over Instagram. Op 14 april 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Simon & Schuster het nieuwe boek van journaliste Sarah Frier. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek aangekondigd.

Sarah Frier No Filter Recensie en Informatie Boek over Instragram

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van No Filter, The Inside Story van Instagram, geschreven door Sarah Frier. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van dit journalistieke non-fictie boek van Sarah Freier.

Sarah Frier No Filter Boek over Instragram Recensie

No Filter

The Inside Story of Instagram

  • Schrijfster: Sarah Frier (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: journalistieke non-fictie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschenen: 14 april 2020
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Paperback / Ebook

Flaptekst van dit boek over Instagram

Award-winning reporter Sarah Frier reveals the never-before-told story of how Instagram became the most culturally defining app of the decade.

In 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released a photo-sharing app called Instagram, with one simple but irresistible feature: it would make anything you captured through your phone look more beautiful. The cofounders started to cultivate a community of photographers and artisans around the app, but it quickly went mainstream. In less than two years, it caught Facebook’s attention: Mark Zuckerberg bought the company for a historic $1 billion when Instagram was just 13 employees.

That might have been the end of a classic success story. But the cofounders stayed on, trying to maintain Instagram’s beauty, brand, and cachet, considering their app a separate company within the social networking giant. They urged their employees to make changes only when necessary, resisting Facebook’s grow-at-all-costs philosophy in favor of a strategy that highlighted creativity and celebrity. Just as Instagram was about to reach 1 billion users, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg—once supportive of the founders’ autonomy—began to feel threatened by Instagram’s success.

At its heart, No Filter is a human story, as Sarah Frier uncovers how the company’s decisions have fundamentally changed how we interact with the world around us. Frier draws on unprecedented exclusive access—from the founders of Instagram, as well as employees, executives, and competitors; Anna Wintour of Vogue; Kris Jenner of the Kardashian-Jenner empire; and a plethora of influencers, from fashionistas with millions of followers to owners of famous dogs worldwide—to show how Instagram has fundamentally changed the way we shop, eat, travel, and communicate, all while fighting to preserve the values which contributed to the company’s success. No Filter examines how Instagram’s dominance acts as lens into our society today, highlighting our fraught relationship with technology, our desire for perfection, and the battle within tech for its most valuable commodity: our attention.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Historische Roman

Lulu Miller – Why Fish Don’t Exist

Lulu Miller Why Fish Don’t Exist recensie en informatie over deze Amerikaanse debuutroman. Op 14 april 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse wetenschapsjournalist en schrijfster Lulu Miller. De Nederlandse vertaling van het boek met als titel Waarom vissen niet bestaan verschijnt op 1 maart 2023 bij uitgeverij Lebowski.

Lulu Miller Why Fish Don’t Exist Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van deze Amerikaanse roman Why Fish Don’t Exist. De roman is geschreven door Lulu Miller.. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van deze debuutroman van de Amerikaanse journaliste en schrijfster Lulu Miller.

Lulu Miller Why Fish Don't Exist Recensie

Why Fish Don’s Exist

  • Schrijfster: Lulu Miller (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 14 april 2020
  • Omvang: 240 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Ebook / Luisterboek

Flaptekst van de roman van Lulu Miller

David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. His specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake—which sent more than a thousand of his discoveries, housed in fragile glass jars, plummeting to the floor. In an instant, his life’s work was shattered.

Many might have given up, given in to despair. But Jordan? He surveyed the wreckage at his feet, found the first fish he recognized, and confidently began to rebuild his collection. And this time, he introduced one clever innovation that he believed would at last protect his work against the chaos of the world.

When NPR reporter Lulu Miller first heard this anecdote in passing, she took Jordan for a fool—a cautionary tale in hubris, or denial. But as her own life slowly unraveled, she began to wonder about him. Perhaps instead he was a model for how to go on when all seemed lost. What she would unearth about his life would transform her understanding of history, morality, and the world beneath her feet.

Part biography, part memoir, part scientific adventure, Why Fish Don’t Exist reads like a fable about how to persevere in a world where chaos will always prevail.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers

Dan Bevacqua – Molly Bit

Dan Bevacqua Molly Bit recensie en informatie over deze Amerikaanse roman over de filmwereld in Hollywood. Op 4 februari 2020 verscheen bij Uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de debuutroman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Dan Bevacqua. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van dit boek aangekondigd.

Dan Bevacqua Molly Bit Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van deze Amerikaanse roman over de filmwereld in Hollywood, Molly Bit van Dan Bevacqua. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van deze debuutroman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Dan Bevacqua.

Dan Bevacqua Molly Bit Recensie001Boek-Bestellen

Molly Bit

  • Schrijver: Dan Bevacqua (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschenen: 4 februari 2020
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Ebook

Flaptekst van de roman van Dan Bevacqua

Molly Bit is a great actress. From her first acting classes to her big break, she is different from the others struggling to make it.

But fame is perilous. She uses—and is used by—the Hollywood system. Her collaborator is an addict. The producer who promises her stardom is ruthless and unhinged by grief. Fans, friends, strangers—they want and want. And one dangerously obsessed fan wants to take away everything.

Funny, touching, and heartrending, Molly Bit explores the high stakes of our culture’s complicated fascination with celebrities and our complicity in their rise and fall. Molly Bit is an ode to the strange magic of moviemaking and a haunting reflection on fame, obsession, and art’s power to redeem loss. It announces a dazzling new voice in contemporary fiction.

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