Brian Castleberry The Californians recensie, review en informatie van de inhoud van de nieuwe Amerikaanse roman. Op 11 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Mariner Books de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstig schrijver Brian Castleberry. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
Brian Castleberry The Californians recensie, review en informatie
- “Immersive, expansive, century-spanning, and deeply felt, Brian Castleberry’s The Californians takes you on a ride through three generations of artists, capitalists, patsies, dreamers, cheats — Californians. It’s a book that entertains and excites, a story of movies, of yearning, of how and why we make art, of how and why money both propels and traps, seduces and destroys. A story of failures and legacies passed down. A total pleasure of a book.” (Lynn Steger Strong, author of Flight)
- “It’s hard to write something totally new, but Brian Castleberry has managed it. The Californians is a story within a story within a story–set across three distinct time periods and featuring an incredible cast of interconnected characters who are all trying to figure out how to make art and money and not let the making of one consume the other. Somehow Castleberry manages the spectacular feat of writing a novel that can be read forwards, backwards and sideways, and the result is a book I’ll be thinking about for years to come.” (Rachel Beanland)
The Californians
- Auteur: Brian Castleberry (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Mariner Books
- Verschijnt: 11 maart 2025
- Omvang: 384 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 27.99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de roman van Brian Castleberry
It’s 2024, and Tobey Harlan—college dropout, temporary waiter, recently dumped—steals from the wall of his father’s house three paintings by the venerated and controversial artist Di Stiegl. Tobey’s just lost everything he owns to a Northern California wildfire, and if he can sell the paintings (albeit in a shady way to a notorious tech bro) he can start life anew in a place no one will ever find him, perhaps even Oregon.
A hundred years before, Klaus Aaronsohn—German-Jewish immigrant, resident of the Lower East Side—inveigles his way into a film studio in Astoria, Queens. In love with silent cinema, Klaus will restyle himself Klaus von Stiegl, a mysterious aristocratic German film director. In true Hollywood fashion, he will court fame, fortune, romance, and betrayal, and end his career directing Brackett: a radical, notorious 60s-era detective show.
Weaving between Tobey and Klaus is the story of Diane “Di” Stiegl: Klaus’s granddaughter, raised in Palm Springs, who claws out a career as an artist in gritty 1980s NYC. As America yields the presidency to a Hollywood cowboy, as Diane’s grifter father and free-spirited mother circle in and out of her life, Diane will reflect America’s most urgent and hypocritical years back to itself, uneasily finding critical adoration as well as great fame and wealth.
