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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Geschiedenisboeken, Verenigde Staten

David S. Brown – A Hell of a Storm

David S. Brown A Hell of a Storm recensie, review en informatie boek over The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War. Op 17 september 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner het boek over het ontstaan van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog in 1854, geschreven door de Amerikaanse historicus David S. Brown. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het geschiedenisboek is niet verkrijgbaar.

David S. Brown A Hell of a Storm recensie, review en informatie

  • “Engaging . . . intriguing and persuasive . . . Brown’s ultimate conclusions are apt, compelling, and memorably expressed. . . . A lively, incisive examination of the social and political background of a tumultuous era.” (Kirkus)
  • “David S. Brown has crafted a fascinating narrative web, one that expertly interweaves the well-known with the little-remembered. The book abounds in compelling portraits of the great and not-so-great. A Hell of a Storm is a hell of a book, insightfully revealing how America’s best minds could not avert America’s greatest calamity.” (John Matteson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author)

David S. Brown A Hell of a Storm

A Hell of a Storm

The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War

  • Auteur: David S. Brown (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 17 september 2024
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over het begin van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog

From popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law—the Kansas-Nebraska Act—unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing North and South, creating the Republican party, and paving the way for the Civil War.

The history of the United States includes a series of sectional compromises—the Constitutional Convention, the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and the Compromise of 1850. While these accords created an imperfect republic, or “a house divided,” as Lincoln put it, the country remained united. But then in 1854, this three-generations system suddenly blew up with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and here, David Brown explores in riveting detail how the Act led to the sudden division of North and South.

The Act declared that planters, if permitted by territorial laws, could bring their enslaved peoples to the land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains—the core of Jefferson’s old Louisiana Purchase which had been reserved for free labor. Northerners were shocked that free soil might now be turned over to slavery and responded with unprecedented backlash. In the bill’s wake the conservative Whig Party (winners of multiple presidential elections) collapsed, and the radical Republican Party was born—in six years it would take control of the central government, provoking Southern secession.

In A Hell of a Storm, Brown brings history to life in a way that resonates with the events of present. Through chapters on Lincoln, Emerson, Stowe, Thoreau, and Tubman, along with a cast of presidents, poets, abolitionists, and black emigrationists, Brown weaves a political, cultural, and literary history that chronicles the Republican party’s creation and rise, the collapse of antebellum compromises, and the coming of the Civil War, all topics that mirror current discussions about polarization in our nation today. By illuminating the personalities and the platforms, the writings and ideas that upended an older America and made space for its successor, A Hell of a Storm reminds us that American history is always being made, and it can be both dynamic and dangerous, both then and now.

David S. Brown (29 September 1966, Troy, Ohio) teaches history at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of seven books, among them four biographies: The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson, The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams, Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography.

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Richard Grant – A Race to the Bottom of Crazy

Richard Grant A Race to the Bottom of Crazy recensie, review en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse staat Arizona. Op 17 september 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek A Race to the Bottom of Crazy, Dispatches from Arizone, van de Amerikaanse journalist en filmmaker Richard Grant. 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.

Richard Grant A Race to the Bottom of Crazy recensie, review en informatie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van A Race to the Bottom of Crazy, het boek over Arizona van Richard Grant dan besteden we er hier aandacht aan.

Richard Grant A Race to the Bottom of Crazy

A Race to the Bottom of Crazy

Dispatches from Arizona

  • Auteur: Richard Grant (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir, boek over Arizona
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 17 september 2024
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over Arizona van Richard Grant

The bestselling author of Dispatches from Pluto and The Deepest South of All turns his sharp wit and observational powers on the epicenter of America’s most divisive issues: Arizona.

When Richard Grant and his wife moved with their four-year-old daughter back to Tucson, Arizona, where the couple first met, he expected to easily rekindle his love of the region. Instead, he found a housing market gone haywire, rampant election conspiracies, and right-wing political violence alarmingly close to his home and family. Undocumented immigration was surging, and the state was also on the front lines of climate change, breaking heat and drought records, and running out of long-term water supplies. Under these circumstances, Grant wondered how he might raise a happy, well-adjusted child who believes in the future. Yet these concerns weren’t keeping people away: Arizona was simultaneously experiencing some of the nation’s highest population growth.

In A Race to the Bottom of Crazy, Grant mixes memoir, research, and reporting in a quest to understand what makes Arizona such a confounding and irresistible place. He visits the world’s largest machine-gun shoot; takes a sunset boat cruise with a US Congressman and a group of far-right patriots; rides through the desert with a Border Patrol agent; and goes camping with his family in breathtaking mountain ranges that rise out of the desert like islands in the sky. Interspersed with these adventures are recollections of his previous stint in the state, including his friendship with cult writer Charles Bowden and years living off the grid with smugglers, dope farmers, and outlaws on the Mexican border. Ultimately, Grant arrives at the conclusion that Arizona has always been a scattershot improvisation, with bizarre and extreme behavior in its DNA.

This book is an entertaining, illuminating, and essential guide to understanding modern America at its most overheated.

Richard Grant is an author of nonfiction books, a journalist, and a documentary film writer. His last two books, Dispatches from Pluto and The Deepest South of All, were New York Times bestsellers. His previous books include the adventure travel classic God’s Middle Finger: Into the Heart of the Sierra Madre and American Nomads, which was made into an acclaimed BBC documentary with Grant as the writer and star. Currently a contributor to Smithsonian magazine, Grant has published journalism in Esquire, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Originally from London, England, now a US citizen, he has traveled extensively and written books about Mexico and East Africa. After several years of living in a remote farmhouse in the Mississippi Delta, an experience chronicled in the multi-award-winning Dispatches from Pluto, Grant is living in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife and daughter.

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Jesse Ball – The Repeat Room

Jesse Ball The Repeat Room recensie, review en informatie over de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 24 september 2024 verschijnt bij Catapult de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Jesse Ball. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is nog niet verschenen of aangekondigd.

Jesse Ball The Repeat Room recensie, review en informatie

  • “A Kafkaesque descent into a legal system . . . The contrast between the first and second halves of Ball’s mesmerizing novel is stark and effective . . . A fast-paced tilt-a-whirl of a social commentary absurdist novel, with insights that will leave readers feeling complicit.” (Shelf Awareness)
  • “The fictional realms Ball constructs are unnerving in their depictions of social and physical austerity, facades behind which emotions roil . . . Ball’s vision is chilling, his writing flawless in this stark, grueling tale.” (Booklist)

Jesse Ball The Repeat Room

The Repeat Room

  • Auteur: Jesse Ball (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever:  Catapult
  • Verschijnt: 24 september 2024
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 27,00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Jesse Ball

Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brilliant and distinctive writers.

In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant’s lived experience, to see as if through their eyes.

The case to which Abel is assigned is revealed in the novel’s shocking second act. We receive a record of a boy’s broken and constrained life, a tale that reveals an illicit and passionate psycho-sexual relationship, its end as tragic as the circumstances of its conception.

Artful in its suspense, and sharp in its evocation of a byzantine and cruel bureaucracy, The Repeat Room is an exciting and pointed critique of the nature of knowledge and judgment, and a vivid framing of Ball’s absurd and nihilistic philosophy of love.

Jesse Ball (7 June 1978, Port Jefferson, New York) is an absurdist whose prize-winning work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, True Crime Boeken, True-Crime

Truman Capote – In Cold Blood

Truman Capote In Cold Blood recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de true crime roman uit 1966 van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over het boek In Cold Blood van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Truman Capote. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel In koelen bloede.

Truman Capote In Cold Blood recensie, review en informatie

  • “It is the American dream turning into the American nightmare … By juxtaposing and dovetailing the lives and values of the Clutters and those of the killers, Capote produces a stark image of the deep doubleness of American life … a remarkable book.” (Spectator)

Truman Capote In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood

A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences

  • Auteur: Truman Capote (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: true crime roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: In koelen bloede
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de true crime roman van Truman Capote

The chilling true crime ‘non-fiction novel’ that made Truman Capote’s name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Truman Capote In Cold Blood boek uit 1966Capote’s comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human.

Truman Capote (30 September 1924, New Orleans, Louisiana – 25 August 1984, Los Angeles) was born in New Orleans. He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for The New Yorker, which provided his first – and last – regular job. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction – short stories, novels and novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays and films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965), Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986).

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John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1939 en winnaar van de National Book Award en de Pulitzer Prize.  Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Grapes of Wrath van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver John Steinbeck die in 1962 de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur ontving. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel De druiven der gramschap.

John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath recensie, review en informatie

  • “A warm-hearted celebration of the persistence of the human spirit.” (Guardian)

John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

  • Auteur: John Steinbeck (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1939
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: De druiven der gramschap
  • National Book Award
  • Pulitzer Prize
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1939 van John Steinbeck

“I’ve done my damndest to rip a reader’s nerves to rags, I don’t want him satisfied.”

Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath Amerikaanse roman uit 1939Wrath is Steinbeck’s Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness, yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral vision.

John Steinbeck (27 februari 1902, Salinas, Californië – 20 december 1968, New York) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony, Pastures of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1951. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de coming of age-roman The Catcher in the Rye van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Ken Kesey. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel De vanger in het graan.

J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye recensie, review en informatie

  • “He was the poet of youthful alienation before youth really knew what that was.” (Sunday Times)
  • “He wrote a perfect novel and it changed US culture forever.” (Independent)
  • “Tough-tender… It charts the miseries and ecstasies of an adolescent rebel [in] acidly humorous deadpan satire.” (TIME)
  • “His work meant a lot to me when I was a young person and his writing still sings.” (Dave Eggers)

J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

  • Auteur: J.D. Salinger (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1951
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: De vanger in het graan
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1951 van de Amerikaanse schrijver J.D. Salinger

It’s Christmas and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters – shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends.

J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye roman uit 1951The city is beautiful and terrible in all its lonesome neon glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic coming-of-age story: an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

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Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1962. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Ken Kesey. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel En ééntje zag ze vliegen.

Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest recensie, review en informatie

  • “A roar of protest against middlebrow society’s Rules and the Rulers who enforce them.” (Time)
  • “If you haven’t already read this book, do so. If you have, read it again.” (Scotsman)
  • “A glittering parable of good and evil.” (The New York Times Book Review)

Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

  • Auteur: Ken Kesey (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman 1962
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: En ééntje zag ze vliegen
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1962 van Ken Kesey

Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties.

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Eerste drukthreat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy’s heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. The subject of an Oscar-winning film starring Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.

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Herman Melville – Moby-Dick

Herman Melville Moby-Dick recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1851. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Moby-Dick van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Herman Melville. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel Moby-Dick.

Herman Melville Moby-Dick recensie, review en informatie

  • “After reading Moby-Dick, you will have enhanced your sense of wonder, you will have increased the size of your universe.” (E. M. Forster)
  • “One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world … It moves awe in the soul.” (D. H. Lawrence)

Herman Melville Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick

or, The Whale

  • Auteur: Herman Melville (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1851
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Omvang: 720 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Moby-Dick
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1851 van Herman Melville

‘Call me Ishmael.’

So begins Herman Melville’s masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. As Ishmael is drawn into Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest to slay the white whale Moby-Dick, he finds himself engaged in a metaphysical struggle between good and evil. More than just a novel of adventure, more than an paean to whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting social commentary, populated by some of the most enduring characters in literature; the crew of the Pequod, from stern, Quaker First Mate Starbuck, to the tattooed Polynesian harpooner Queequeg, are a vision of the world in microcosm, the pinnacle of Melville’s lifelong meditation on America.

Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is a profound, poetic inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.

Herman Melville (1 augustus 1819, New York City – 28 september 1891, New York City) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor – writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1925. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Great Gatsby van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver F. Scott Fitzgerald. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel De grote Gatsby.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby recensie, review en informatie

  • “A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel.” (John Carey, Sunday Times – Books of the Century)

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

  • Auteur: F. Scott Fitzgerald (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1925
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: De grote Gatsby
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1925 van F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.”

Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach … Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby – young, handsome, fabulously rich – always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on 24 September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama, he met and later married Zelda Sayre. He died 21 December 1940 (aged 44) in Los Angeles, California of a heart attack, His first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922, The Great Gatsby in 1925 and Tender is the Night in 1934. He was working on The Last Tycoon (1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.

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John Steinbeck – East of Eden

John Steinbeck East of Eden recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1952.  Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman East of Eden van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver John Steinbeck. In het Nederlands is de roman vertaald als Ten oosten van Eden.

John Steinbeck East of Eden recensie, review en informatie

  • “A novel planned on the grandest possible scale…One of those occasions when a writer has aimed high and then summoned every ounce of energy, talent, seriousness, and passion of which he was capable…It is an entirely interesting and impressive book.” (New York Herald Tribune)
  • “When the book club ended a year ago, I said I would bring it back when I found the book that was moving…and this is a great one. I read it for myself for the first time and then I had some friends read it. And we think it might be the best novel we’ve ever read!” (Oprah Winfrey)

John Steinbeck East of Eden

East of Eden

  • Auteur: John Steinbeck (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1952
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Omvang: 736 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Ten oosten van Eden
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1952 van John Steinbeck

California’s fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of the First World War, the Trasks and the Hamiltons will helplessly replay the fall of Adam and Eve and the murderous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

East of Eden was considered by Steinbeck to be his magnum opus, and its epic scope and memorable characters, exploring universal themes of love and identity, ensure it remains one of America’s most enduring novels.

John Steinbeck East of Eden roman uit 1952John Steinbeck (27 februari 1902, Salinas, Californië – 20 december 1968, New York) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony, Pastures of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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