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Wallace Thurman – The Blacker the Berry

Wallace Thurman The Blacker the Berry recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de debuutroman uit 1929 van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de Harlem Renaissance roman The Blacker the Berry van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige  schrijver Wallace Thurman. Op dit moment is er geen Nederlandse vertaling verkrijgbaar.

Wallace Thurman The Blacker the Berry recensie, review en informatie

  • “The first novel to focus its plot on race prejudice or ‘colorism’ among African Americans…Apart from the vibrant character of Emma Lou, Thurman’s novel presents some of the most layered portrayals of New York City life I’ve ever come across, from seedy employment agency waiting rooms to swank Harlem hot spots.” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air)

Wallace Thurman The Blacker the Berry

The Blacker the Berry

  • Auteur: Wallace Thurman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Harlem Renaissance roman uit 1929
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Omvang; 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1929 van Wallace Thurman

The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community.

Emma Lou Morgan’s skin is black. So black that it’s a source of shame to her not only among the largely white community of her hometown of Boise, Idaho, but also among her lighter-skinned family and friends. Seeking a community where she will be accepted, she leaves home at age eighteen, traveling first to Los Angeles and then to New York City, where in the Harlem of the 1920s she finds a vibrant scene of nightclubs and dance halls and parties and love affairs . . . and, still, rejection by her own race.

One of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance, and the first novel to openly address prejudice among black Americans and the issue of colorism, The Blacker the Berry is a book of undiminished power about the invidious role of skin color in American society.

Wallace Thurman (16 August 1902, Salt Lake City, Utah – 22 Wallace Thurman The Blacker the Berry first edition form 1929December 1934, New York City) was a Afro-American writer during the Harlem Renaissance. He died at the age of only 32 as reult of tuberculosis, probably caused by alcoholism. He worked as a ghostwriter, a publisher, and editor and wrote novels, plays, and articles. In 1926, he became the editor of The Messenger, a socialist journal addressed to black people and publised stories of Afro-American writer Langston Hughes.

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Langston Hughes – Not Without Laughter

Langston Hughes Not Without Laughter recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de debuutroman uit 1930 van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de Harlem Renaissance roman Not Without Laughter van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige  schrijver Langston Hughes. Op dit moment is er geen Nederlandse vertaling verkrijgbaar.

Langston Hughes Not Without Laughter recensie, review en informatie

  • “Hughes gives his readers… a guide for careful consideration of the lives of everyday black people. Such a guide is still useful to readers and writers today. Perhaps now more than ever.” (Angela Flournoy, New York Times)

Langston Hughes Not Without Laughter

Not Without Laughter

  • Auteur: Langston Hughes (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Harlem Renaissance roman uit 1930
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Omvang; 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de debuutroman uit 1930 van Langston Hughes

In a poor town in Kansas, an African American family struggles. At its centre sits Sandy Rodgers – a young boy attempting to find purpose amid the chaos, meagreness and music of his surroundings. His narrative intertwines with those of his family – his wandering father, his fervent grandmother, his blues-singing aunt – to create a brilliantly intricate portrait of Black life in the early twentieth century. Not Without Laughter, Langston Hughes’ unforgettable debut novel, is a landmark in the history of a racially divided America and one of the jewels of the Harlem Renaissance.

Langston Hughes (1 February 1901, Joplin, Missouri – 22 May 1967, New York City) was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance and one of the most influential and acclaimed American Langston Hughes Not Without Laughter first edition form 1930writers of the twentieth century. A renowned poet from a young age, Hughes’ first collection of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published when he was just 24. He would go on to publish more than thirty-five books, including his award-winning debut novel, Not Without Laughter, and the short story collection, The Ways of White Folks. His widely-read journalism and nonfiction became important documents in the support and promotion of the civil rights movement.

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Cebo Campbell – Sky Full of Elephants

Cebo Campbell Sky Full of Elephants recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 10 september 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de debuutroman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Cebo Campbell. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Cebo Campbell Sky Full of Elephants recensie, review en informatie

  • “Replete with airline-less airports, sprawling mansions up for grabs, and an Alabaman monarchy, Sky Full of Elephants is a supremely imaginative exploration of family, loss, and the many roads to healing. Cebo Campbell gifts us a vivid odyssey full of possibility, proving that liberation doesn’t reside in the rejection of history, but in our embrace of it. This is a debut that dares us to tap into frequencies of freedom, to view ourselves as what we truly are and always have been: beings full of light worthy of love.” (Mateo Askaripour, author of Black Buck)
  • “A captivating near future fantasy… Campbell’s depiction of their trek across an altered and occasionally nightmarish Southern landscape evokes Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD, and he caps the narrative with fascinating revelations about the cause of the event. This stunning allegory will spark much discussion.” (Publishers Weekly)

Cebo Campbell Sky Full of Elephants

Sky Full of Elephants

  • Auteur: Cebo Campbell (Verenigde Staten)
  • Uitgever: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 10 september 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Cebo Campbell

In a world without white people, what does it mean to be Black?

One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white mother and step-family.

Traumatized by the event, and terrified of the outside world, Sidney has spent a year in isolation in Wisconsin. Desperate for help, she turns to the father she never met, a man she has always resented. Sidney and Charlie meet for the first time as they embark on a journey across a truly “post-racial” America in search for answers. But neither of them are prepared for this new world and how they see themselves in it.

Heading south toward what is now called the Kingdom of Alabama, everything Charlie and Sidney thought they knew about themselves, and the world, will be turned upside down. Brimming with heart and humor, Cebo Campbell’s astonishing debut novel is about the power of community and connection, about healing and self-actualization, and a reckoning with what it means to be Black in America, in both their world and ours.

Cebo Campbell is an author and creative director based in Brooklyn, New York. Winner of the Linda L. Ross Creative Writing Award and the Stories Award for Poetry, Cebo’s work has been featured in numerous publications. Cebo is the cofounder of the award-winning creative agency, Spherical, where he leads a team of creatives in shaping the best hotel brands in the world. Sky Full of Elephants is his debut novel.

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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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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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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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