Margie Sarsfield Bella Vulgaris recensie, review en informatie eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 11 februari 2025 verschijnt bij uitgeverij W.W. Norton & Company de debuutroman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Margie Sarsfield. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Margie Sarsfield Bella Vulgaris recensie, review en informatie
- “I’m trying to create a niche for myself as the preeminent weird-girl-book guy. To cement my legacy, I’m recommending Beta Vulgaris, a very weird book that I’m very excited for! When a young woman and her boyfriend start working a seasonal job at a sugar beet farm, she wants to make enough money to pay her rent for a few months. What she gets is a string of mysterious disappearances and a pile of beets that seems to be talking to her. Thank you Margie Sarsfield for your contribution to the “vegetable gothic” canon.” (McKayla Coyle, Literary Hub)
- “An ambitious and delightfully bizarre debut… This is a knockout.” (Publishers Weekly)
Bella Vulgaris
- Auteur: Margie Sarsfield (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company
- Verschijnt: 11 februari 2025
- Omvang: 296 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: $ 18,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de roman van Margie Sarsfield
A young woman’s seasonal job working a sugar beet harvest takes a surreal turn in this surprising and vivid debut.
Elise and her boyfriend, Tom, set off for Minnesota, hoping the paycheck from the sugar beet harvest will cover the rent on their Brooklyn apartment. Amidst the grueling work and familiar anxieties about her finances, Elise starts noticing strange things: threatening phone calls, a mysterious rash, and snatches of an ominous voice coming from the beet pile.
When Tom and other coworkers begin to vanish, Elise is left alone to confront the weight of her past, the horrors of her uncertain future, and the menacing but enticing siren song of the beets. Biting, eerie, and confidently told, Beta Vulgaris harnesses a distinct voice and audacious premise to undermine straightforward narratives of class, trauma, consumption, and redemption.
Margie Sarsfield was the recipient of the 2019 Calvino Prize. She earned her MFA from Ohio State University. Her work has appeared in Salt Hill, CutBank, the Normal School, Seneca Review, Hippocampus, and elsewhere. She lives in Reno, Nevada.