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Benjamin Resnick – Next Stop

Benjamin Resnick Next Stop recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse dystopische roman. Op 17 september 2024 verschijnt bij Avid Reader Press de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Benjamin Resnick. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave.

Benjamin Resnick Next Stop recensie, review en informatie

  • “Resnick­’s prose is lucid and moves at a steady clip, nev­er dwelling any­where too long, avoid­ing the kind of teeth-gnash­ing mis­ery one might expect in a nov­el about per­se­cu­tion and eth­nic cleans­ing. For all its futur­is­tic ter­rors, this is real­ly a sto­ry about a fam­i­ly.” (Jewish Book Council)
  • “A striking debut. . . Resnick skillfully uses the raw materials of postapocalyptic fiction and speaks lucidly to his Jewish characters’ legacy of displacement. This timely tale will appeal to fans of speculative fantasies by Michael Chabon and Lavie Tidhar.” (Publishers Weekly)

Benjamin Resnick Next Stop

Next Stop

  • Auteur: Benjamin Resnick (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: dystopische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 17 september 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Benjamin Resnick

For readers of Leave the World Behind and Exit West, an astonishingly resonant novel that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life through one family after a black hole consumes the State of Israel and similar strange events occur in major cities around the world, ushering in a time of chaos as well as miracles.

When a black hole suddenly consumes Israel and as similar anomalies spread across the globe, a conspiracy takes hold: will the holes swallow the Jews, or will they swallow the earth?

Against a backdrop of antisemitic paranoia, restrictions on Jewish life, and spasms of violence, Ethan and Ella, Jewish citizens of a nameless American city, meet and fall in love. Ella, a photojournalist, documents the changes in daily life, particularly among the city’s Jewish residents. Some Jews, feeling inexplicably drawn to the unusual events, go underground to an abandoned subway system that seems to connect the entire world. Others leave for the south, forming militias and stockpiling weapons. But most, like Ethan, Ella, and her young son Michael, stay and try to make their way amid the hostility and small joys of the ever-changing landscape.

But then thousands of commercial planes are sucked from the sky. Air travel stops. Borders close. Refugees pour into the capital. Eventually all Jews in the city are forced to relocate to the Pale, an area sandwiched between a park and a river. There, under the watchful eye of border guards, drones, and robotic dogs, they form a fragile new society.

Suspenseful, thought-provoking, and brilliantly conceived, Next Stop is an enthralling novel that explores the fault lines between our collective, national, and individual memories and how our deepest bonds can be unexpectedly reshaped in moments of crisis.

Benjamin Resnick is the rabbi of the Pelham Jewish Center in New York. Ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, he lives in Pelham with his family. Next Stop is his first novel.

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Marissa Stapley – The Lightning Bottles

Marissa Stapley The Lightning Bottles review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 24 september 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de muziekroman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Marissa Stapley. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is nog niet verkrijgbaar.

Marissa Stapley The Lightning Bottles review, recensie en informatie

  • “Fiercely visceral and exquisitely written, The Lightning Bottles is an ode to rock and roll, the 90s and the power of music to hurt and heal in equal measure. This one will satisfy readers looking for a tumultuous love story, as well as those in the mood for a twisty mystery. Be prepared for the wildly talented, charismatic duo that is The Lightning Bottles to take up permanent residence in your head and heart.” (People)
  • “Both a page-turning mystery and a love letter to the grunge era. The set-up is simple and compelling: what if Courtney Love set out on a road trip across Europe with her internet sleuthing neighbor to uncover the real truth behind Kurt’s death? The parallels to Kurt and Courtney aren’t that exact… Still, we all know what we’re meant to be listening to while reading it.” (Lit Hub)

Marissa Stapley The Lightning Bottles

The Lightning Bottles

  • Auteur: Marissa Stapley (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, muziekroman
  • Taal; Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 24 september 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Marissa Stapley

The author of New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club pick Lucky returns with a spellbinding story of rock ‘n’ roll and star-crossed love—about grunge-era musician Jane Pyre’s journey to find out what really happened to her husband and partner in music, who abruptly disappeared years earlier.

He was the troubled face of rock ‘n’ roll…until he suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Jane Pyre was once half of the famous rock ‘n’ roll duo, the Lightning Bottles. Years later, she’s perhaps the most hated—and least understood—woman in music. She was never as popular with fans as her bandmate (and soulmate), Elijah Hart—even if Jane was the one who wrote the songs that catapulted the Lightning Bottles to instant, dizzying fame, first in the Seattle grunge scene, then around the world.

But ever since Elijah disappeared five years earlier and the band’s meteoric rise to fame came crashing down, the public hatred of Jane has taken on new levels, and all she wants to do is retreat. What she doesn’t anticipate is the bombshell that awaits her at her new home in the German countryside: the sullen teenaged girl next door—a Lightning Bottles superfan—who claims to have proof that not only is Elijah still alive, he’s also been leaving secret messages for Jane. And they need to find them right away.

A cross-continent road trip about two misunderstood outsiders brought together by their shared love of music, The Lightning Bottles is both a love letter to the 90s and a searing portrait of the cost of fame.

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Jessica Elisheva Emerson – Olive Days

Jessica Elisheva Emerson Olive Days recensie, review en informatie over de debuutroman over de orthodox Joodse gemeenschap in Los Angeles. Op 10 september 2024 verschijnt bij Counterpoint Press de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Jessica Elisheva Emerson. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Jessica Elisheva Emerson Olive Days recensie, review en informatie

  • “Olive Days is a brilliant exploration of the lasting power of Jewishness, of Jewishness that’s not dependent on belief . . . Emerson is an incredibly acute observer…  a fantastic debut novel.” (Karen E. H. Skinazi, Jewish Journal)
  • “Effervescent . . . Emerson provides a fascinating picture of Rina’s commitments as a Modern Orthodox woman and goes deep into the psychological battle between her duty to uphold tradition and her life-affirming desire. The result is titillating and thought-provoking in equal measure.” (Publishers Weekly)

Jessica Elisheva Emerson Olive Days

Olive Days

  • Auteur: Jessica Elisheva Emerson (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Counterpoint Press
  • Verschijnt: 10 september 2024
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 27,00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Jessica Elisheva Emerson over de Joodse gemeenschap in Los Angeles

A smoldering debut novel about a young mother in an Orthodox Jewish community of Los Angeles whose quest for authenticity erupts in a passionate affair following a night of wife swapping.

Rina Kirsch is a young mother and Modern Orthodox Jew in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood of Los Angeles. Dutifully keeping to the formidable expectations of a traditional household connects Rina with generations past and those to come. But a contradiction burns at her center: Rina is an atheist. She is also stymied in her life and marriage.

Hoping to reinvigorate their relationship, Rina’s husband convinces her to partake in a night of wife swapping with other Orthodox couples. Rather than preserve her marriage, however, the swap plunges Rina down a heady path that begins with a rekindled passion for painting and culminates in an intoxicating affair with Will Ochoa, her married art teacher. Clandestine rendezvous and stolen moments of ardor awaken Rina to an existence beyond the confining parameters of tradition, offering a glimpse at the possible life she left behind in the olive groves of her youth. As the blush of erotic thrill comes into sharp contrast with the complications of living a secret life, Rina must decide if it’s worth sacrificing everything she’s ever known to fully inhabit the uncharted landscape unfolding before her, one where her needs take precedence.

Told in the fevered tenor common to both lust and religious devotion, Olive Days is an unforgettable story of the agonizing choices women make to balance duty against desire.

Jessica Elisheva Emerson is obsessed with cooking beans, growing food, eating pie, sleeping in on Shabbat, and working toward a better world. A Tucson native, Jessica spent twenty-two years in Los Angeles before returning to the Sonoran Desert, where she lives with her husband and children. Her stories and poems have been published in numerous journals, and she’s a produced playwright.

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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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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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Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1957. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Atlas Shrugged van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Ayn Rand. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel De kracht van Atlantis.

Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged recensie, review en informatie

  • “A writer of great power … she writes brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly.”  (The New York Times)
  • “Atlas Shrugged … is a celebration of life and happiness.” (Alan Greenspan)

Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged

  • Auteur: Ayn Rand (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1957
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: De kracht van Atlantis
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1937 van Ayn Rand

A towering philosophical novel that is the summation of her Objectivist philosophy, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is the saga of the enigmatic John Galt, and his ambitious plan to ‘stop the motor of the world’, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Opening with the enigmatic question ‘Who is John Galt?’, Atlas Shrugged envisions a world where the ‘men of talent’ – the great innovators, producers and creators – have mysteriously disappeared. With the US economy now faltering, businesswoman Dagny Taggart is struggling to get the transcontinental railroad up and running. For her John Galt is the enemy, but as she will learn, nothing in this situation is quite as it seems. Hugely influential and grand in scope, this story of a man who stopped the motor of the world expounds Rand’s controversial philosophy of Objectivism, which champions competition, creativity and human greatness.

Ayn Rand (2 February 1905, Sint Petersburg, Russia – 6 March 1982, New York City), born Alisa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged roman uit 1957emigrated to America with her family in January 1926, never to return to her native land. Her novel The Fountainhead was published in 1943 and eventually became a bestseller. Still occasionally working as a screenwriter, Rand moved to New York City in 1951 and published Atlas Shrugged in 1957. Her novels espoused what came to be called Objectivism, a philosophy that champions capitalism and the pre-eminence of the individual.

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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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Toni Morrison – Beloved

Toni Morrison Beloved recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman uit 1987 van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de historische slavernijroman Beloved van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Toni Morrison. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel Beminde.

Toni Morrison Beloved recensie, review en informatie

  • “Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours… Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all.” (Margaret Atwood, New York Times)

Toni Morrison Beloved

Beloved

  • Auteur: Toni Morrison (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse slavernijroman uit 1987
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Beminde
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Toni Morrison uit 1987

Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’.

A tale of brutality, horror and, above all, love at any cost, Beloved is Toni Morrison’s enduring masterpiece and best-known work.

Toni Morrison (18 februari 1931, Lorain, Ohio – 5 augustus 2019, Toni Morrison Beloved novel 1987New York) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.

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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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