Tag archieven: Vintage Classics

William Maxwell – So Long, See You Tomorrow

William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1980. Op 6 juni 2025 verschijnt als Vintage Classic de heruitgave van de roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige roman schrijver William Maxwell. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. De roman is in in Nederlandse verschenen met als titel Tot ziens, tot morgen bij Uitgeverij Cossee.

William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow recensie en review

  • “One of the great books of our age. It is the subtlest of miniatures that contains our deepest sorrows and truths and love.” (Michael Ondaatje)
  • “So magically deft at being profound…posesses that daunting quality impossible to emulate: it makes greatness seem simple.” (Richard Ford)

William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow

So Long, Se You Tomorrow

  • Auteur: William Maxwell (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1980
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics
  • Verschijnt: 5 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van William Maxwell uit 1980

Discover the tragically beautiful world of So Long, See You Tomorrow, a quietly devastating masterpiece of human frailty and resilience.

In the quiet farmlands of Illinois, two lonely teenagers – bound by the burden of their rural lives – forge a delicate friendship. But when jealousy ignites between their farming families, it leads to unthinkable tragedy, and severs their bond forever.

Fifty years later, haunted by the past, the narrator seeks to piece together those harrowing events and find redemption for a lifetime of regret. So Long, See You Tomorrow is a haunting exploration of memory, loss, and the enduring quest for forgiveness.

De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman met met als titel Tot ziens, tot morgen is in 2009 verschenen bij Uitgeverij Cossee.

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Andrew Holleran – Dancer from the Dance

Andrew Holleran Dancer from the Dance recensie, review en informatie van de queer roman uit 1978 van de op Aruba geboren Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 5 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classics de heruitgave van de roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Andrew Holleran. Hier lees je informatie van de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Andrew Holleran Dancer from the Dance

Dancer from the Dance

  • Auteur: Andrew Holleran (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1978
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics
  • Verschijnt: 5 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1978 van Andrew Holleran

Young, divinely beautiful and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight, small town lawyer for the disco-lit decadence of New York’s 1970’s gay scene. Joining an unbridled world of dance parties, saunas, deserted parks and orgies – at its centre Malone befriends the flamboyant queen, Sutherland, who takes this new arrival under his preened wing.

But for Malone, the endless city nights and Fire Island days, are close to burning out. It is love that Malone is longing for, and soon he will have to set himself free.

Andrew Holleran was born in Aruba in 1944. After attending Harvard and dropping out of law school he moved to New York City where, after ten years, he wrote his first novel Dancer from the Dance in 1978. Holleran is the author of three other novels, Nights in ArubaThe Beauty of Men and Grief, and one collection of short stories, In September, the Light Changes. He currently lives in Washington, D.C. His real name is Eric Garber.

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Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus

Angela Carter Nights at the Circus recensie, review en informatie roman uit 1984 van de Engelse schrijfster. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classics Weird Girls de heruitgave van de roman van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijfster Angela Carter. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman met als titel Circusnachten is in 2020 verschenen bij Uitgeverij Orlando.

Angela Carter Nights at the Circus recensie en review

  • “Raunchy, raucous…a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety.” (The Times)
  • “A spellbinding achievement.” (Literary Review)
  • “One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World”

Angela Carter Nights at the Circus

Nights at the Circus

  • Auteur: Angela Carter (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse circusroman uit 1984
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 4,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1984 van de Engelse schrijfster Angela Carter

Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe’s capitals, part swan…or all fake?

Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney’s circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London, St Petersburg and Siberia.

De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman met als titel Circusnachten is in 2020 verschenen bij Uitgeverij Orlando.

Angela Carter was born on 7 Mai 1940 in Eastbourne, England,. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died on 16 February 1992 in London at the age of 51 from lung cancer.

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Intan Paramaditha – Apple and Knife

Intan Paramaditha Apple and Knife recensie, review en informatie boek met gothic verhalen van de Indonesische schrijfster. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classics Weird Girls de Engelse vertaling van het boek met gothic verhalen van de uit Indonesië afkomstige schrijfster Intan Paramaditha. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Intan Paramaditha Apple and Knife recensie en review

  • “Dark, subversive… Here are fairy tales and myths reworked with a feminist bent.” (Tatler)

Intan Paramaditha Apple and knife

Apple and Knife

  • Auteur: Intan Paramaditha (Indonesië)
  • Soort boek: gothic verhalen
  • Engelse vertaling: Stephen J Epstein
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van de Indonesische schrijfster Intan Paramaditha

A dazzling, provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and sharp twists on fairy tale.

Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, Apple and Knife is an unsettling ride that swerves into the supernatural to explore the dangers and power of occupying a woman’s body in today’s world.

These stories set in the Indonesian everyday – in corporate boardrooms, in shanty towns, on dangdut stages – reveal a soupy otherworld stewing just beneath the surface. This is subversive feminist horror at its best, where men and women alike are arbiters of fear, and where revenge is sometimes sweetest when delivered from the grave.

Intan Paramaditha is a writer and academic. Her novel The Wandering (Harvill Secker, Penguin Random House UK), translated from the Indonesian by Stephen J. Epstein, was nominated for the Stella Prize in Australia and awarded the Tempo Best Literary Fiction Prize in Indonesia, the English PEN Translates Award and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America. She is the author of the short-story collection Apple and Knife and editor of Deviant Disciples: Indonesian Women Poets, part of the Translating Feminisms series by Tilted Axis Press. Her essay ‘On the Complicated Questions Around Writing About Travel’ was selected for The Best American Travel Writing 2021. She holds a PhD from New York University and teaches Media and Film Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney.

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Takashi Nagai – The Bells of Nagasaki

Takashi Nagai The Bells of Nagasaki review, recensie en informatie boek over de gevolgen van de atoombom op de Japanse stad Nagasaki in 1945 van de Japanse arts en schrijver. Op 31 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classics de Nederlandse vertaling van 長崎の鐘, het boek uit 1946 van Takashi Nagai. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Takashi Nagai The Bells of Nagasaki review en recensie

  • “A vivid first-hand account of the nuclear destruction of Nagasaki… The testament of one of the most remarkable men in post-war Japan.” (Bloomsbury Review)
  • “The Bells of Nagasaki evoked on extraordinary deep response of the Japanese people… (they) rediscovered in this book something that had long lain buried under war – love!” (Shusaku Endo)
  • “A book that everyone should read.” (The Times)

Takashi Nagai The Bells of Nagasaki

The Bells of Nagasaki

  • Auteur: Takashi Nagai (Japan)
  • Soort boek: oorlogsboek
  • Origineel: 長崎の鐘 (1946)
  • Engelse vertaling; William Johnston
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics
  • Verschijnt: 31 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99 / £ 8,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de atoombom op Nagasaki van Takashi Nagai

A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki – and the acts of human kindness left in its wake.

On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb. Forty thousand people are killed instantly. Doctor Takashi Nagai is not one of them.

Pulling himself, broken and bloodied, from the wreckage that was once the city’s university hospital, Takashi bundles together a tattered group of survivors. Doctors, nurses, students, each with their own losses, their own fears for the future: they work tirelessly at the impossible task of aiding the countless wounded and easing the deaths of those they cannot save. They remain determined to heal their fallen city, to find solace and hope among the rubble, even as a strange and growing sickness begins to claim them.

Eyewitness to one of the most fatal events in human history, this is Takashi’s record, written from his sickbed – a chilling historical document, and undeniable evidence of the capacity for human kindness.

Takashi Nagai was born on 3 february 1908 in Matsue, Japan. He was a Japanese Catholic physician specializing in radiology, an author, and a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. His subsequent life of prayer and service earned him the affectionate title ‘The saint of Nagasaki’. He died on 1 May 1951, aged 43, in Nagasaki from leukaemia.

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Joseph Heller – Catch-22

Joseph Heller Catch-22 recensie en informatie roman uit 1961 over de Tweede Wereldoorlog van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Catch-22 van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Joseph Heller. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft ook Catch-22 als titel. Het boek is door onze redactie gewaardeerd met ∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend).

Joseph Heller Catch-22 recensie, review en informatie

  • “The greatest satirical work in the English language.” (The Observer)
  • “The most devastating satire ever written about the lunacy of war and military bureaucracy.” (Antony Beevor)

Joseph Heller Catch-22

Catch-22

  • Auteur: Joseph Heller (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse oorlogsroman uit 1961
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics
  • Omvang: 544 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 18,99 /  £ 9,99
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de oorlogsroman van Joseph Heller

Discover Joseph Heller’s hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man’s efforts to survive it.

It’s the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, each flight mission introduces him to thousands of people determined to kill him.

But the enemy above is not Yossarian’s problem – it is his own army intent on keeping him airborne, and the maddening ‘Catch-22’ that allows for no possibility of escape.

Joseph Heller was born on 1 May 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a bombardier in the Second World War and then attended Joseph Heller Catch-22 first edition 1961New York University and Columbia University and then Oxford, the last on a Fullbright scholarship. He then taught for two years at Pennsylvania State University, before returning to New York, where he began a successful career in the advertising departments of Time, Look and McCall’s magazines. It was during this time that he had the idea for Catch-22. Working on the novel in spare moments and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was first published in 1961. His second novel, Something Happened was published in 1974, Good As Gold in 1979 and Closing Time in 1994. He is also the author of the play We Bombed in New Haven. He died 12 December 1999 in at the age of 76 in East Hampton, New York.

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Yukio Mishima – After the Banquet

Yukio Mishima After the Banquet recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Japanse roman uit 1960. Op 25 december 2024 verschijnt bij Vintage Classics vertaling van de roman 宴のあと/  Utage no Ato van de Japanse schrijver Yukio Mishima. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. De Nederlandse vertaling met als titel Na het banket is op dit moment alleen tweede hands verkrijgbaar.

Yukio Mishima After the Banquet recensie, review en informatie

  • “His most novelistic work, with a degree of earthiness and warmth rare in his fiction.” (New York Times)
  • “Direct yet allusive, poetic…an amazing feat.” (Atlantic)

Yukio Mishima After the Banquet

After the Banquet

  • Auteur: Yukio Mishima (Japan)
  • Soort boek: Japanse roman
  • Origineel: 宴のあと/  Utage no Ato (1960)
  • Engelse vertaling: Donald Keene
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics
  • Verschijnt: 5 december 2024
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Yukio Mishima uit 1960

For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness – then she falls in love.

The man is one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, and she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit. Eventually Kazu must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. After the Banquet is a magnificent portrait of political and domestic warfare and love in later life.

Yukio Mishima was born on 14 January 1925 in Yotsuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan, into a samurai family and imbued with the code of complete のあと- Utage no Ato roman van Yukio Mishima uit 1970control over mind and body, and loyalty to the Emperor – the same code that produced the austerity and self-sacrifice of Zen. He wrote countless short stories and thirty-three plays, in some of which he acted. Several films have been made from his novels, including The Sound of Waves; Enjo, which was based on The Temple of the Golden Pavilion; and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea. Among his other works are the novels Confessions of a Mask and Thirst For Love and the short-story collections Death in Midsummer and Acts of Worship. He comitted suicide by seppuku on 24 November 1970 in JGSDF Camp Ichigaya in Ichigaya, Japan at the age of 45 years.

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Bernice L. McFadden – Sugar

Bernice L. McFadden Sugar recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman uit 2000 van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de historische debuutroman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Bernice L. McFadden. Op dit moment is er geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Bernice L. McFadden Sugar recensie, review en informatie

  • “A page-turning novel guaranteed to be looked back on as a timeless classic.” (The Independent)
  • “This book is so engaging and beautiful and intriguing and satisfying that I could not put it down.” (Elle)

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Sugar

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  • Auteur: Bernice L. McFadden (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 2000
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de debuutroman uit 2000 van Bernice L. McFadden

When she arrives in the southern town of Bigelow, it isn’t long before the neighbourhood is alight with gossip and suspicion. Sugar fears her past is catching up with her. Then she meets Pearl, a woman trying to forget her own trauma. As these next-door neighbours become unlikely friends, they wonder if their lives could finally be changing for the better. But small towns have long memories.

Bernice L. McFadden (26 september 1965, Brooklyn, New York) is Bernice L. McFadden Sugar novel first edition from 2000the bestselling and award-winning author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick Sugar, and eight other novels. She’s won the American Book Award, the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine and is a four-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of three awards from the BCALA. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Richard Wright – Native Son

Richard Wright Native Son Afro-Amerikaanse roman uit 1940 recensie en informatie over de inhoud.  Op 1 oktober 2020 verschijnt in de reeks Vintage Classics de heruitgave van de roman uit 1940 van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver Richard Wright. De Nederlandse vertaling met als titel Een van ons, verschijnt op 23 augustus 2024 bij uitgeverij Van Oorschot.

Richard Wright Native Son recensie en informatie

Het boek is geschreven door Richard Wright. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de roman uit 1940 van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver Richard Wright.

Richard Wright Native Son Afro-Amerikaanse roman uit 1940

Native Son

  • Schrijver: Richard Wright (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Afro-Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Eerste druk: 1940
  • Uitgever heruitgave: Vintage Classics
  • Verschijnt: 1 oktober 2020
  • Omvang: 480 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Paperback / Ebook

Recensie en waardering voor de roman Native Son

  • “Native Son] possesses an artistry, penetration of thought, and sheer emotional power that places it into the front rank of American fiction.” (Ralph Ellison)
  • “The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America.” (James Baldwin)

Flaptekst van de roman van Richard Wright

Reckless, angry and adrift, Bigger Thomas has grown up trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. But a job with the affluent Dalton family provides the setting for a catastrophic collision between his world and theirs. Hunted by citizen and police alike, and baited by prejudiced officials, Bigger finds himself the cause célèbre in an ever-narrowing endgame.

First published in 1940, Native Son shocked readers with its candid depiction of violence and confrontation of racial stereotypes. It went on to make Richard Wright the first bestselling black writer in America.

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Rosemary Tonks – The Bloater

Rosemary Tonks The Bloater Engelse roman uit 1968 recensie en informatie over de inhoud. Op 5 mei 2022 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Vintage Classics de heruitgave van de roman uit 1968 van de Engelse schrijfster Rosemary Tonks. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman aangekondigd of verkrijgbaar.

Rosemary Tonks The Bloater recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op de pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de Engelse roman The Blaoter. Het boek is geschreven door Rosemary Tonks. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de roman uit 1968 van de Britse schrijfster Rosemary Tonks.

Rosemary Tonks The Bloater Roman uit 1968

The Bloater

  • Schrijfster: Rosemary Tonks (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Eerste druk: 1968
  • Heruitgave: Vintage Classics
  • Verschijnt: 5 mei 2022
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook

Recensie en waardering van de roman

  • “A wonderfully unromantic romantic comedy.” (Daily Telegraph)
  • “Uncommonly good.” (The Guardian)
  • “It is the perfect aperitif, makes you feel warm and careless and much, much happier.” (The Times)

Flaptekst van de roman van Rosemary Tonks

Min works at the BBC as an audio engineer, where she is struggling to replicate the sound of a heartbeat. At home, other matters of the heart are making a mockery of life as Min knows it.

Min has found herself the object of her lodger’s affection. An internationally renowned opera singer she’s nicknamed ‘The Bloater’, Min is disgusted and attracted to him in equal measure. But with a husband so invisible that she accidentally turns the lights off on him even when he’s still in the room, Min can’t quite bring herself to silence The Bloater’s overtures.

Vain, materialistic, yet surprisingly tender, The Bloater is a sparklingly ironic comedy of manners for all flirtatious gossips who love to hate and hate to love.

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