Tag archieven: Amerikaanse schrijfster

Taylor Jenkins Reid – Atmosphere

Taylor Jenkins Reid Atmosphere review, recensie en informatie nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 3 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Hutchinson Heinemann de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Taylor Jenkins Reid. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de auteur en over de uitgave. Of en wanneer er een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verschijnt is niet bekend.

Taylor Jenkins Reid Atmosphere review, recensie en informatie

  • “Taylor Jenkins Reid is surely the queen of escapist fiction.” (Sunday Telegraph)

Taylor Jenkins Reid Atmosphere

Atmosphere

  • Auteur: Taylor Jenkins Reid (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Hutchinson Heinemann
  • Verschijnt: 3 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 20,00 / £ 10,99 / £ 14,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Taylor Jenkins Reid

An epic novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilots Hank Redmond and John Griffin; mission specialist Lydia Danes; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer. As the new astronauts prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined and begins to question everything she believes about her place in the observable universe.

Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant.

Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars.

Taylor Jenkins Reid is geboren op 20 december 1983 in Maryland, Verenigde Staten. Ze is een veelzijdige Amerikaanse auteur en fulltime televisie- en filmscenarioschrijver. Ze heeft haar talenten zowel in de literaire als in de entertainmentwereld laten schitteren. Naast haar succesvolle carrière als scenarioschrijver, heeft Reid zes romans geschreven die de harten van lezers wereldwijd hebben veroverd. Haar bekendste roman, Daisy Jones & The Six, heeft bijzonder veel lof ontvangen en bevestigt haar reputatie als een meesterverteller. De roman is als miniserie verfilmd en uitgezonden op Prime Video. In 2023 verschijnt de roman Carrie Soto Is Back, deel 3 in de California Dream reeks. Begin 2025 verschijnt de roman After I Do in Nederlandse vertaling. Reid’s werk wordt gekenmerkt door diepgaande karakterstudies en meeslepende verhalen die vaak draaien om liefde, verlies en het complexe web van menselijke relaties. Taylor Jenkins Reid woont en werkt in Los Angeles, waar ze blijft inspireren met haar veelzijdige creativiteit en scherpe inzichten.

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Betty Shamieh – Too Soon

Betty Shamieh Too Soon recensie, review en informatie van de roman van de Palestijns-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 28 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Avid Reader Press de roman van de Palestijns-Amerikaanse toneelschrijfster Betty Shamieh. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Betty Shamieh Too Soon recensie, review en informatie

  • “The novel, which opens in 2012, has all the beats of a romantic comedy—one that unfolds partly in the West Bank. The ribald humor, the over-the-top-ness that Shamieh brings to describing this struggle, reminded me—surprisingly—of mid-century Jewish American writers, especially Philip Roth. . . . These women are all antiheroes of a sort … Shakespeare would approve.” (Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic)
  • “Palestinian-American playwright Shamieh makes her wonderfully brash and sparkling fiction debut with this novel of three generations. . . . Funny, sexy, and often furious, this book fills in gaps in our understanding.” (Oprah Daily)
  • “For a book titled Too Soon, you will certainly not soon forget these powerful voices Shamieh presents to us.” (Chicago Review of Books)

Betty Shamieh Too Soon

Too Soon

  • Auteur: Betty Shamieh (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Palestijns-Amerikaanse familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 28 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 26,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman over de West Bank van Betty Shamieh

Arabella gets an unexpected chance at love when she’s thrust into a conflict and history she’s tried to avoid all her life. Zoya is playing matchmaker for her last unmarried granddaughter and stirring up buried memories. Naya is keeping a secret from her children that will change all their lives.

Thirty-five-year-old Arabella, a New York theatre director whose dating and career prospects are drying up, is offered an opportunity to direct a risqué cross-dressing interpretation of a Shakespeare classic—that might garner international attention—in the West Bank. Her mother, Naya, and grandmother, Zoya, hatch a plot to match her with Aziz, a Palestinian American doctor volunteering in Gaza. Arabella agrees to meet Aziz, since her growing feelings for Yoav, a celebrated Israeli American theatre designer, seem destined for disaster…

With biting hilarity, Too Soon introduces us to a trio of bold and unforgettable voices. This dramatic saga follows one family’s epic journey fleeing war-torn Jaffa in 1948, chasing the American Dream in Detroit and San Francisco in the sixties and seventies, hustling in the New York theatre scene post-9/11, and daring to stage a show in Palestine in 2012. Upon learning one of them is living on borrowed time, the three women fight to live, make art, and love on their own terms. A funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching literary debut, Too Soon illuminates our shared history and asks, how can we set ourselves free?

Betty Shamieh (she/her) was born in San Francisco. She is a Palestinian American writer and the author of fifteen plays. She is the playwright-in-residence at the Classical Theatre of Harlem. Her six New York play premieres include the sold-out off-Broadway runs of Roar and Malvolio, a sequel to Twelfth Night, which were both New York Times Critic’s Picks. Shamieh was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and named a UNESCO Young Artist for Intercultural Dialogue. She is a founding artistic director of The Semitic Root, a collective that supports innovative theatre cocreated by Arab and Jewish Americans. A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama, she lives with her family in San Francisco.

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Tara Dorabji – Call Her Freedom

Tara Dorabji Call Her Freedom review, recensie en informatie novel en eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en dochter van Indiase en Duits-Italiaanse immigranten. Op 21 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de debuutroman van Tara Dorabji. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Tara Dorabji Call Her Freedom review, recensie en informatie

  • “In her brave debut novel, Tara Dorabji tells a story of one family under a brutal military occupation. In the foothills of the Himalayas, three generations—a mother, a daughter, a great-niece —draw strength from a matriarchal legacy as healers, warriors, and survivors. Based on real accounts from an ongoing struggle, Call Her Freedom gives voice to women we otherwise would not hear.” (Evelina Galang, author)
  • “Ultimately, Dorabji invites readers to explore deep family love and the battle for liberation amid a ruthless militaristic reign.” (Booklist)
  • “This is a dazzling and beautiful debut. Tara Dorabji introduces us to a singularly unique protagonist and a cast of indomitable characters living, loving, and fighting for their homeland in a landscape scarred by violence and the bitter legacy of colonialism. The result is a novel both intimate and panoramic about resilience, family, and unwavering hope.” (Alex Espinoza, author of The Sons of El Rey)

Tara Dorabji Call Her Freedom

Call Her Freedom

  • Auteur: Tara Dorabji (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: familieroman over India
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 21 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 25,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Tara Dorabji

A sweeping family saga following one woman’s struggle to protect her culture and her family amidst the backdrop of a military occupation.

In the foothills of the Himalayas, the picturesque mountain village of Poshkarbal is home to lush cherry and apple orchards and a thriving community—one divided by a patrolled border. Aisha and her mother Noorjahan live on the outskirts—two women alone in a world dominated by men. As the village midwife, Noorjahan teaches Aisha how to heal using local herbs and remedies. Isolated but content, Aisha is shocked when Noorjahan decides it is time for her to attend the village school as few girls do. Despite the taunting of her classmates and the teacher’s initial resistance to having her in the class, Aisha becomes a star student, destined for college.

When Aisha’s hand is bequeathed to a local boy in the village, she is forced to abandon her dreams of college. She comforts herself by staying on her ancestral land, creating a nourishing life with her children and husband. But her mother’s secrets come back to haunt her and her marriage and the growing military presence in Poshkarbal force Aisha to make impossible choices in order to save her family and preserve the independence Noorjahan fought for. What follows is a family chronicle brimming with life, love, and humor, about sacrifice and honor, and fighting for your home and culture in the face of occupation.

A deeply moving novel about one woman’s love for her family, this is an epic investigation of colonialism, militarization, and the loss and innocence on the journey to creating home. Spanning 1969 to 2022, Call Her Freedom is a love story that untangles family secrets and heals generational wounds, announcing Tara Dorabji as a thrilling new voice in fiction.

Tara Dorabji is the author of the novel, Call Her Freedom, winner of the Simon & Schuster Books Like Us first novel contest. She is the daughter of Parsi-Indian and German-Italian migrants. Her documentary film series on human rights defenders in Kashmir won awards at over a dozen film festivals throughout Asia and the USA. Tara’s publications include Al JazeeraThe Chicago Qusrterly and acclaimed anthologies: Good Girls Marry Doctors and All the Women in My Family Sing. She lives in Northern California with her family and rabbit.

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Lisa See – De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan

Lisa See De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan recensie en informatie van de inhoud van de historische roman over China in 15e eeuw tijdens de Ming-dynastie. Op 22 januari 2025 verschijnt bij The House of Books de Nederlandse vertaling van de roman Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, geschreven door de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Lisa See. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave.

Lisa See De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan recensie en informatie

  • Ondanks de buitensporige beperkingen die aan vrouwen worden opgelegd, laat See hun sterke punten hun verhalen domineren.” (Washington Post)
  • See is een van die bijzondere schrijvers die zowel poëzie als plot kunnen leveren.” (New York Times Book Review)

Lisa See De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan

De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan

  • Auteur: Lisa See (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: historische roman over China
  • Origineel: Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (2023)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Marga Blankestijn
  • Uitgever: The House of Books
  • Verschijnt: 22 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 23,99 / € 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de historische roman over China tijdens de Ming-dynastie van Lisa See

China, 15e eeuw. Van jongs af aan leert Yunxian over vrouwenkwalen, samen met Meiling, een vroedvrouw-in-opleiding. De twee meisjes raken bevriend en vinden elkaar in hun gezamenlijke doel om vrouwen uit alle lagen van de bevolking te genezen. Maar wanneer Yunxian wordt uitgehuwelijkt, moet ze alles wat ze geleerd heeft vergeten om zich te gedragen als een voorbeeldige echtgenote. Haar verlangen om te genezen is echter sterker dan de traditie. Met de hulp van Meiling zal Yunxian een onuitwisbare indruk achterlaten op de levens van vele vrouwen tijdens de Ming-dynastie.

Lisa See is geboren op 18 februari 1955 in Parijs. Ze de de New York Times-bestsellerauteur van onder andere de romans De meisjes van Sjanghai en Het theemeisje van Yunnan. Ze ontving de Golden Spike Award van de Chinese Historical Association of Southern California en de Historymaker’s Award van het Chinese American Museum. Ze werd ook benoemd tot Vrouw van het Jaar door de Organisatie van Chinees-Amerikaanse Vrouwen. Haar boeken worden in 39 landen uitgegeven. Haar nieuwe historische roman De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan verschijnt in januari 2025.

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Rebecca Kauffman – I’ll Come to You

Rebecca Kauffman I’ll Come to You review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 7 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Counterpoint Press de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Rebecca Kauffman. 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.

Rebecca Kauffman I’ll Come to You review, recensie en informatie

  • “The joy in this book is something to admire deeply…the genuine, radiant, quiet, don’t blink kind of happiness. She shows us there is room in a novel—as in the heart—for everyone.” (The New York Times Book Review)
  • A gentle, comic touch… sweet and satisfying.” (Wall Street Journal)
  • “An exquisite work of fiction that shines a light on one year in the life of a family—their truths and lies, vows and betrayals, seductive dreams and deepest fears. Like Elizabeth Strout and Marilynne Robinson before her, Kauffman is brilliant at drawing out the subtle links between lives—and at capturing the mix of awe and terror that exists within us all.” (Jonathan Lee)
  • “Rebecca Kauffman writes like a sunbeam, strong and warm on whatever lands in her path. This book only looks short—in reality, it reveals a family so richly drawn, so deep and complex, that it contains the whole world.” (Emma Straub)

Rebecca Kauffman I'll Come to You

I’ll Come to You

  • Auteur: Rebecca Kauffman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Counterpoint Press
  • Verschijnt: 7 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 26,00 / $ 13,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Rebecca Kauffman

A modern and classic story of family, I’ll Come to You chronicles intersecting lives over the course of one year—1995—anchored by the anticipation and arrival of a child. With empathy, insight, and humor, Rebecca Kauffman explores overlapping narratives involving a couple whose struggle to become pregnant has both softened and hardened them, a woman whose husband of forty years has left her for reasons he’s unwilling to share and the man who is now disastrously attempting to woo her, a couple in denial about a looming health crisis, and their son who is fumbling toward middle age and can’t stop lying. Ultimately, these storylines crescendo and converge into a dramatic and harrowing turn of events. With heart, wit, and courage, and through pain, these characters traverse territory that both challenges and defines the bonds of family.

Sweeping yet compact, I’ll Come to You investigates themes of intimacy, memory, loss, grief, and reconciliation, and the wonder, terror, frustration, fear, and magic of brushing up against the unknowable—both around us and within us.

Rebecca Kauffman received her MFA in creative writing from New York University. She is the author of Another Place You’ve Never Been, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; The Gunners, which received the Premio Tribùk dei Librai; The House on Fripp Island, and most recently Chorus. Originally from rural northeastern Ohio, Kauffman now lives in Virginia.

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Amy Gamerman – The Crazies

Amy Gamerman The Crazies review, recensie en informatie non-fictie boek over The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West. Op 7 januari 205 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het non-fictie boek over van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Amy Gamerman over cowboys, miljardairs en een opwarmende planeet in de Amerikaanse staat Montana.

Amy Gamerman The Crazies review, recensie en informatie

  • “It’s impossible to say what’s more compelling about this marvelous book: the story itself—an epic tale of greed, resilience, and hypocrisy playing out against the backdrop of one of the most stunningly gorgeous pieces of real estate in the entire world—or the skill with which Amy Gamerman has masterfully woven a set of complex themes into narrative that boasts all the page-turning compulsiveness of a true-to-life thriller. Like the ferocious winds that that roar down from the mountains and across the pains of central Montana, The Crazies has the power to leave you feeling walloped, whip-sawed, and wildly invigorated, all within the same breath.” (Kevin Fedarko, auteur van A Walk in the Park)
  • “An absolutely wild ride through the untamed frontier of American culture. Gamerman brings alive the modern West in a breakneck story that’s outlandish but also almost mythically familiar. It turns out that the old fights over the frontier and the nature of American freedom aren’t over.” (Christopher Leonard, auteur van The Lords of Easy Money)

Amy Gamerman The Crazies

The Crazies

The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West

  • Auteur: Amy Gamerman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: reportages
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 7 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over Montana van Amy Gamerman

A dazzling piece of narrative nonfiction about land lust and the American West, The Crazies tells the story of a wind farm that triggers a 21st century range war between a struggling fifth-generation rancher and the billionaires next door.

Most locals in Big Timber, Montana learn to live with the wind. Rick Jarrett sought his fortune in it. Like his pioneer ancestors who staked their claims in the Treasure State, he believed in his right to make a living off the land—and its newest precious resource, million-dollar wind.

Trouble was, Jarrett’s neighbors were some of the wealthiest and most influential men in America, trophy ranchers who’d come West to enjoy magnificent mountain views, not stare at 500-foot wind turbines.

And so began an epic showdown that would pull in an ever-widening cast of larger-than-life characters, including a Texas oil and gas tycoon, a roguish wind prospector, a Crow activist fighting for his tribe’s rights to the mountains they hold sacred, and an Olympic athlete-turned-attorney whose path to redemption would lead to Jarrett’s wind farm. A wildly entertaining yarn, the brawl over Crazy Mountain Wind would become a fight over the values that define us as Americans—and a window into how this country actually works. All the while, the most coveted rangeland in the West was being threatened by forces more powerful than anything one man could muster: dwindling snowpack, record drought, raging wildfires.

The Crazies is a Western for a warming planet, full of cowboys and billionaires and billionaire cowboys. But it’s also so much more. It’s an exquisitely reported, ruggedly beautiful elegy for a vanishing way of life and a bighearted inquiry into how you can love a place so much you risk destroying it.

Amy Gamerman has written about real estate and culture for The Wall Street Journal for more than two decades. The Crazies is her first book.

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Zora Neale Hurston – The Life of Herod the Great

Zora Neale Hurston The Life of Herod the Great review, recensie en informatie over de nog niet eerder verschenen historische roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en antropoloog. Op 7 januari 2025 verschijnt bij HQ Books de historische roman van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster Zora Neale Hurston over koning Herodus de Grote, heerser ten tijde van de geboorte van Jezus. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de historische roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Zora Neale Hurston The Life of Herod the Great review, recensie en informatie

  • The Life of Herod the Great is a work of historical fiction that reimagines one of the Bible’s most infamous characters and offers a new way to view him. The manuscript itself is unfinished, but the book also includes letters from Hurston about her research, which lets readers in on the author’s process.” (Town & Country)
  • The Life of Herod The Great – like Hurston herself – is a masterpiece, a miracle, and a marvel. In other words, treasure for the whole world.” (Tayari Jones)
  • “Hurston delivers an intriguing counterpoint to the biblical ‘massacre of the innocents’ story, framing Herod as a strong and complex protagonist, one who balances his political ambitions with his loyalty to his people. Hurston completists ought to snatch this up.” (Publishers Weekly)

Zora Neale Hurston The Life of Herod the Great

The Life of Herod the Great

  • Auteur: Zora Neale Hurston (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: historische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: HQ Books
  • Verschijnt: 7 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman over koning Herodus de Grote van Zora Neale Hurston

In the 1950s Zora Neale Hurston penned a historical novel reconsidering the life of one of the most well-known biblical figures, Herod the Great. That novel was never published in Hurston’s lifetime. Now for the first time, it is brought to glorious life with commentary from scholar Deborah G. Plant.

Far from his villainous portrayal in the New Testament, Hurston casts Herod as a forerunner of Christ, a beloved king who enriched Jewish culture and brought prosperity and peace to Judea. An intimate of both Marc Antony and Julius Caesar, the Judean king lived in a time of war and imperial expansion that was rife with political assassinations and bribery, as the old world gave way to the new.

By bringing this complex, compelling and oft misunderstood leader into shining focus, The Life of Herod the Great invites the reader to reassess history and the world as they know it. What was in Herod’s time is and will be again. Zora Neale Hurston’s never-before-published novel is a lantern of understanding that might be held up to the present or the future, and nothing short of a masterpiece.

A never-before-published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great – not the demon the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who lived a life of adventure.

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Sarah Blakley-Cartwright – Alice Sadie Celine

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright Alice Sadie Celine review, recensie en informatie van de nieuwe Amerikaanse roman. Op 10 december 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Sarah Blakley-Cartwright. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright Alice Sadie Celine review, recensie en informatie

  • “The absence of commas in the title of Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s richly intimate debut adult novel hints at the characters’ boundary-less enmeshment in one another’s lives… Wickedly delightful.” (The New York Times Book Review)
  • “A heartfelt, smart, and keenly observed take on friendship and fulfillment, and what it means to start thinking of parents as actual people.” (Town & Country Magazine)

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright Alice Sadie Celine

Alice Sadie Celine

  • Auteur: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 10 december 2024
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 26,99 / $ 17,99 / $ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

It’s opening night, but Alice’s performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter’s Tale is far from glamorous. She doesn’t have dreams of stardom, but the basement theater in a wildfire-choked town isn’t exactly what she envisioned for her career back home in Los Angeles. To make matters worse, her best friend Sadie is not even coming.

Pragmatic, serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have been best friends since high school—really one another’s only friends—but now that they are through with college (which they attended together) and living on opposite ends of California, Alice would at least expect her friend’s support. Sadie, determined not to cancel her plans with her boyfriend, ends up enlisting the help of her mother, Celine.

A professor of women’s and gender studies at UC Berkeley, Celine’s landmark treatise on sex and identity made her notorious, but she’s struggling to write her new book in a post-second-wave feminist world. So, when Sadie begs her to attend Alice’s play, she relents, if only to escape writer’s block. But in a turn of perplexing events, Celine becomes entranced by Alice’s performance and realizes that her daughter’s once lanky, slightly annoying best friend is now an irresistible young woman.

Set over the course of decades—from Alice and Sadie’s early friendship days and Celine’s decision to leave her husband to the radical movements of 1990s Berkeley and navigating contemporary Hollywood—Alice and Celine’s affair will test the limits of their love for Sadie and their own beliefs of power, agency, and feminism. Witty and relatable, sexy and surprising, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s debut adult novel is a mesmerizing portrait of the inner lives of three very different women.

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright is born on 11 March 1988 in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of Red Riding Hood, a #1 New York Times bestseller published worldwide in thirty-eight editions and fifteen languages. She is the editor of Hauser & Wirth’s The Artist’s Library for Ursula magazine. She is publishing director of the Chicago Review of Books, and associate editor of A Public Space.

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Willa Cather – The Song of the Lark

Willa Cather The Song of the Lark review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse roman uit 1915, deel 2 van de The Prairie Trilogy. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige  schrijfster Willa Cather. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman en over de schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Willa Cather The Song of the Lark review, recensie en informatie

  • “Lingers long in the memory.” (Joyce Carol Oates)
  • “Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic.” (Helen Dunmore)
  • “The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work.” (A.S. Byatt)

Willa Cather The Song of the Lark

The Song of the Lark

  • Auteur: Willa Cather (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1915
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Classics
  • Omvang: 448 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9.99 / £ 7,99
  • Waardering redactie∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1915 van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Willa Cather

The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young woman.

Thea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in Colorado has a great gift – her beautiful singing voice. Her talent takes her to the great opera houses of Europe, and through ambition and hard work, she forges a life as an artist. But if she can never go home again, nor can she leave behind her past. At last, in a desert canyon in Arizona, Thea has a revelation that will allow her to attain a new state of spirituality and become a truly great artist.

Willa Cather was born on 7 December 1873 in Gore, Virginia. She Willa Cather The Song of the Lark first editionwas an American writer best known for her novels of the Plains and for One of Ours, a novel set in World War I, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943 and received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1944. By the time of her death in 1947 she had written twelve novels, five books of short stories, and a collection of poetry. She died on 24 April 1947 in New York City, 73 years of age.

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Taylor Jenkins Reid – After I do

Taylor Jenkins Reid After I do recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 9 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Ambo | Anthos de Nederlandse vertaling van de roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Taylor Jenkins Reid. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave.

Taylor Jenkins Reid After I do recensie en informatie

  • “Ontroerend, prachtig en hartverscheurend. Jenkins Reid schrijft met humor en echte emotie. Lees het, geniet ervan, deel het.” (Sarah Jio, auteur van Bloemen voor mijn dochter)
  • “Even hoopgevend als pijnlijk realistisch – een must read!” (Kirkus Reviews)

Taylor Jenkins Reid After I do

After I do

  • Auteur: Taylor Jenkins Reid (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: After I Do (2023)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Marja Borg
  • Uitgever: Ambo | Anthos
  • Verschijnt: 9 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 328 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs; € 22,99 / € 14,99 / € 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Boekhandel / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Taylor Jenkins Reid

After I do is een liefdesverhaal over wat er gebeurt als de liefde verbleekt. Wat doe je om verliefd te blijven en wanneer moet je besluiten de liefde op te geven?

Wanneer het huwelijk van Lauren en Ryan een dieptepunt bereikt, besluit het stel een jaar uit elkaar te gaan in de hoop hun liefde terug te vinden. Er is maar één regel: ze mogen dat hele jaar geen contact met elkaar opnemen. Ondanks haar verdriet probeert Lauren van haar vrijheid te genieten, maar haar vrienden en familie hebben zo hun eigen ideeën over de betekenis van het huwelijk. Deze invloeden, evenals haar eigen uitdagingen in het leven zonder Ryan, veranderen Laurens blik op het huwelijk. Wat is romantiek zonder loyaliteit, en wat als liefde en lust niet langer met elkaar verbonden zijn? Waarvoor ben jij bereid te vechten?

Taylor Jenkins Reid geboren op 20 december 1983 in Maryland, Verenigde Staten. Ze is de auteur van The New York Times-bestsellers Carrie Soto is backMalibu risingDaisy Jones & The Six en The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Ze woont in Los Angeles met haar man en dochter.

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