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James Salter – A Sport and a Pastime

James Salter A Sport and a Pastime review, recensie en informatie roman uit 1967 van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige  schrijver James Salter. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman en over de schrijfster. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is Spel en tijdverdrijf.

James Salter A Sport and a Pastime review, recensie

  • “The astonishing novel and tour de force about a love affair in postwar France from the iconic author.” (The New York Times Book Review)
  • “Nearly as perfect as any American fiction I know.” (Reynolds Price)
  • “One of the finest American writers of his mighty generation.” (Esquire)
  • “A tour de force of erotic realism, a romantic cliffhanger.” (The New York Times)
  • “A Sport and a Pastime … Slender, cynical and bruisingly sexy, the novel represents the first full flowering of [Salter’s] mature style; his exquisite sentences and extraordinary evocation of place.” (The Daily Telegraph)
  • “Now deemed canonical … A Sport and a Pastime [is] still one of the most intensely honest books about sexual passion.” (The Sunday Times)

James Salter A Sport and a Pastime

A Sport and a Pastime

  • Auteur: James Salter (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1967
  • Eerste uitgever: Doubleday
  • Huidige uitgever: Picador
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Omvang: 208 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Spel en tijdverdrijf
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van James Salter uit 1967

The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes Paris in a borrowed, once elegant car. He begins a mismatched affair with a young shop girl named Anne-Marie. Together they burn in an everyday but stunningly sensual paradise.

A Sport and a Pastime is a seductive classic that established James Salter’s reputation as one of the finest writers of our time. It is remarkable for its eroticism, its luminous prose and its ability to explore the boundaries between what is dreamt and what is lived, between body and soul.

James Salter was born 10 June 1925 in Passaic, New Jersey in the United States. He is the author of numerous books, including the novels: Solo Faces, Light Years, A Sport and a Pastime, The Arm of Flesh (revised as Cassada), and The Hunters; the memoirs Gods of Tin and Burning the Days; the collections Dusk and Other Stories, which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award, and Last Night, which won the Rea Award for the Short Story and the PEN/Malamud Award; and Life Is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days, written with Kay Salter. He died on 19 Juni 2015 in Sag Harbor, New York at the age of 90.

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Andrew Krivak – Mule Boy

Andrew Krivak Mule Boy review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 24 februari 2026 verschijnt bij Bellevue Literary Press de nieuwe roman van Andrew Krivak afkomstig uit de Verenigde Staten. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Andrew Krivak Mule Boy review en recensie

  • “Sometimes you hold a writer so close you want them all to yourself. Andrew Krivak has been that writer for me and his Mule Boy blazes so brightly it has already become, in my life, a great constellation. This novel is bewitching sorcery, a total wonder, a raging fever dream that sings and bellows and captures the entirety of our lives—all the things we fear and love and let go of and win back and cherish the most. It should, and will, stand alongside the works of Roberto Bolaño, Marilynne Robinson, and Denis Johnson. Here is a tale for our times, for all time.” (Paul Yoon)
  • “Andrew Krivak is one of contemporary fiction’s finest architects of the line, and I am utterly swept away by his lyric, daring, and kinetic music. Mule Boy is a riveting exploration of the ghosts we carry coiled within us—and what is unleashed when they leap out into the present. This book is as brilliant and sure as a bolt of lightning.” (Laura van den Berg)
  • “Descending into the coal mines of Pennsylvania in the early part of the twentieth century, Andrew Krivak has come up with a diamond. Mule Boy is both mesmerizing and emotionally shattering. Its beautiful, hypnotic, lyrical prose, often reminiscent of the scriptures, casts a spell so profound that you will not want to break out of it.” (Neel Mukherjee)

Andrew Krivak Mule Boy

Mule Boy

  • Auteur: Andrew Krivak (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Bellevue Literary Press
  • Verschijnt: 24 februari 2026
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Andrew Krivak

On New Year’s Day, 1929, Ondro Prach, the thirteen-year-old son of Slovak immigrants in Pennsylvania coal country, begins a new job as mule boy. He knows the danger—his father died in the mines—but he is proud of his position handling the animal that hauls cartloads of coal from shafts deep within the earth to the surface. After Ondro earns the trust of the miners and the mule in his charge, the room the men are working collapses and their fate is sealed.

From that moment onward, Ondro carries the hard memory of that day, a burden that leads to addiction and imprisonment, costing him his family. But, years later, when the miners’ loved ones come searching for answers, he finds the strength to share what the men spoke of and prayed for in the pitch black.

Told in incantatory prose set to the rhythm of human breath, this sublime novel turns the memento mori into a meditation not only on death but on what it takes to tunnel through darkness and live.

Andrew Krivak is an award-winning writer whose books include Mule Boy (2026);The Bear (De beer), a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read selection; and the freestanding novels of the Dardan Trilogy: The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist; and Like the Appearance of Horses, a Library Journal “Best Book of the Year” and Indie Next List for Reading Groups selection. He is a discussion facilitator with the Family Connections Center, New Hampshire Department of Corrections, and visiting lecturer on English at Harvard University. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

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James Weldon Johnson – The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse roman uit 1912 van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige  auteur James Weldon Johnson. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman en over de schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man review en recensie

In deze baanbrekende, nog altijd actuele roman uit 1912 beschrijft de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver James Weldon Johnson op indrukwekkende wijze de innerlijke ontwikkeling van een zwarte en getalenteerde man, die in een door segregatie doordrongen maatschappij probeert om te gaan met de beperkingen die het geïnstitutionaliseerde racisme hem oplegt. (Allesoverboekenenschrijvers.nl, ∗∗∗∗∗)

In this groundbreaking, still relevant 1912 novel, African-American writer James Weldon Johnson impressively describes the inner development of a black and talented man who, in a society permeated by segregation, tries to cope with the limitations imposed on him by institutionalized racism. (Allesoverboekenenschrijvers.nl, ∗∗∗∗∗)

James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

  • Auteur: James Weldon Johnson (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1912
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Macmillan Collector’s Library
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man review en recensie

In deze baanbrekende, nog altijd actuele roman uit 1912 beschrijft de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver James Weldon Johnson op indrukwekkende wijze de innerlijke ontwikkeling van een zwarte en getalenteerde man, die in een door segregatie doordrongen maatschappij probeert om te gaan met de beperkingen die het geïnstitutionaliseerde racisme hem oplegt. (Allesoverboekenenschrijvers.nl, ∗∗∗∗∗)

In this groundbreaking, still relevant 1912 novel, African-American writer James Weldon Johnson impressively describes the inner development of a black and talented man who, in a society permeated by segregation, tries to cope with the limitations imposed on him by institutionalized racism. (Allesoverboekenenschrijvers.nl, ∗∗∗∗∗)

Flaptekst van de roman van James Weldon Johnson uit 1912

“I became painfully conscious of a difference between myself and the boys with whom I played.” (James Weldon Johnson)

James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a powerful, trailblazing novel that exposes the intricate relationship between race and class in late nineteenth-century America.

After losing his mother at a very young age, the narrator is thrust from his comfortable, middle-class environment, afforded by his distant but aristocratic father, into the wider world. His passion for music begins in Georgia’s all-black church community and takes him from New York, where he plays ragtime for a rich white gentleman, to the South, where he witnesses lynchings and out of fear gives up his passion, as well as his race, to pass for white.

Relevant to this day, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is an unflinching account of black experience in America.

James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida,  on 17 June 1871. He trained in music and in 1901 moved to New York with his brother John; together they wrote around two hundred songs The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson novel from 1912 first editionfor Broadway. His first book, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, published anonymously in 1912, was not a great success until he reissued it in his own name in 1927. In that time he established his reputation as a writer and became known in the Harlem Renaissance for his poems and for collating anthologies of poems by other black writers. Through his work as a civil rights activist he became the first executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as well as the first African American professor to be hired at New York University. He died on 26 June 1938 in Wiscasset, Maine, at the age of 67.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Amerikaanse thrillers, Dystopische roman, Science Fiction

Thomas R. Weaver – Artificial Wisdom

Thomas R. Weaver Artificial Wisdom review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de dystopische thriller over AI. Op 14 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Bantam de dystopische toekomstthriller en sciencefiction van Thomas R. Weaver, de Amerikaanse schrijver. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Thomas R. Weaver Artificial Wisdom review en recensie

  • “A stunning story and a remarkable vision, all incredibly well told. As modern as tomorrow and even more frightening. Be afraid – very afraid – of where we are and of what is coming.” (Terry Hayes)
  • “A richly-imagined, fast-paced exploration of an uncertain future where technology promises to serve as our saviour and rule as our master. An all too human story of a desperate man in search of the truth.” (Michael Cordy)

Thomas R. Weaver Artificial Wisdom

Artificial Wisdom

  • Auteur: Thomas R. Weaver (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse dystopische thriller, sciencefiction
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgave: Bantam / Del Rey Books
  • Verschijnt: 14 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de dystopische sciencefictionthriller van Thomas R. Weaver

Who would you trust with the future?

The year is 2050. In the teeth of a climate catastrophe, the world is left with a drastic solution: one global leader to steer it through the coming apocalypse.

The final two candidates are ex-US President Lockwood, and Solomon, the world’s first political artificial intelligence.

As whispers of a global conspiracy emerge, investigative journalist Marcus Tully find himself at the centre of it – when Solomon’s creator turns up murdered.

Overnight, one investigation becomes two, and it’s not just the result of the election that’s at stake but the future of the species. Suddenly humanity must make an impossible choice – between salvation, or freedom.

Thomas R. Weaver writes stories about tomorrow to help make sense of today. A tech entrepreneur turned author, he holds a degree in Computer Science but never expected to actually use it in his career. After spending years exploring how technology could transform experiences in the places outside of the home and the office, he founded a tech startup in the restaurant hospitality space, which was later acquired by Just Eat Takeaway. Exiting in 2018–2019 left him with no more excuses not to pursue a long-held dream: writing fiction. Despite vowing he had enough grey hair already and he’d never to run another startup, he continues to build a portfolio of interesting new ideas with his former cofounder, backed by a major Silicon Valley tech accelerator. Outside of spending time with his family, he loves to cook, draw, paint and lose at online bullet chess. He loves a great movie or TV series, and collects more books than time allows to read.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Familieroman

Nick Fuller Googins – The Frequency of Living Things

Nick Fuller Googins The Frequency of Living Things review, recensie en informatie nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 12 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Atria Books de tweede roman van Nick Fuller Googins, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver. Van het boek is geen Nederlandse vertaling verkrijgbaar.

Nick Fuller Googins The Frequency of Living Things review en recensie

  • “This emotionally resonant family saga celebrates the potent bonds between mothers, daughters and sisters.” (The Washington Post)
  • “A stirring family epic.” (Harper’s Bazaar)
  • “A masterfully written family saga, an ode to how our mothers, daughters and sisters often understand us better than we do ourselves. I would gladly spend forever with the fiercely loving, bitingly tender Tayloe sisters and their complicated, heroic mother. Heartbreaking yet filled with hope, Googins’s sophomore novel cements him as one of our greatest contemporary novelists.” (Cat Shook)

Nick Fuller Googins The Frequency of Living Things

The Frequency of Living Things

  • Auteur: Nick Fuller Googins (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt 12 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 26,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de tweede roman van Nick Fuller Googins

A heartbreaking American epic about three sisters who unearth lifetimes of family tensions as they are forced to rescue one of their own from peril, testing the limits of sacrifice, sisterhood, and forgiveness.

Josie may be the youngest sister, but she takes care of everyone. She is the left-brained scientist to her twin sisters’ right-brained artistic chaos. She makes sure their rent gets paid on time, they make their therapy appointments, and has also been their de-facto band manager since she was a teenager. When Ara, her middle sister (by a few minutes), calls from jail, it isn’t exactly a surprise, and Josie knows exactly how to snap into action.

Emma is the quintessential frontwoman, complete with looks and attitude. But the success of The Twins’ first (and only) album—gold records, Grammy nominations, and diehard fans—is two decades behind her. Hiding under the surface of her swagger is a long-held guilt that has turned her into her sister’s enabler. Emma knows she needs Ara’s creative genius and thinks a jailhouse record could be just the thing to get Ara her freedom and their band back on the main stage.

Ara is detoxing, not only from her opioid habit but also from her family. The truth is, as crazy as it sounds, she’s not in a hurry to get out of lock-up. In the most unlikely and dangerous of places, this could be her chance to face the demons of her past and disentangle herself from her family.

Bertie, who raised her three daughters as a single mother, has always taught them that family won’t always be around to take care of you. A former defense attorney and perennial do-gooder, she’s committed to taking care of everyone less fortunate even if that means putting her girls’ needs second. But now Bertie must decide if she should reenter her daughters’ lives in their greatest time of need—or watch to see if the resilience she’s taught them will help carry them through.

A story both intimate and sweeping, The Frequency of Living Things explores the timeless question of how our individual destinies are intertwined with our family, our siblings, and our history no matter how we try to untangle ourselves from them.

Nick Fuller Googins has published short stories and essays in The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Maine and works as an elementary school teacher. He is the author of The Great Transition and The Frequency of Living Things.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Verenigde Staten, Western roman

Beste western romans

Beste western romans en wildwestromans. Waaraan kun je  en western roman of wildwestroman herkennen? Welke schrijvers, schrijfsters of auteurs hebben dit soort romans geschreven? Wat zijn de beste romans over het Wilde Westen van Amerika?

Waaraan kun je een western roman of wildwestroman herkennen?

Het antwoord op deze vraag is vrij simpel. Dit soort romans kenmerken zich doordat het verhaal zich afspeelt in het Wilde Westen van Amerika tussen de jaren 1860 tot 1900. Er zijn trouwens ook romans die je min of meer tot het genre kunt rekeningen maar zich toch later in de Verenigde Staten afspelen maar omdat ze verder alle kenmerken in zich dragen toch tot het genre worden gerekend.

Wat zijn de beste western romans en wildwestroman?

Dit type roman dat in het Engels vaak wordt aangeduid met Western fiction of Western novel, ontstond aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw met de opkomst van de zogenaamde dime novels, in het Nederlands vaak aangeduid met drie stuiver romans. in de Verenigde Staten. Dit waren vrij korte en goedkoop geproduceerde boekjes die vooral dienden als vermaak. Wat later in de twintigste eeuw gingen ook bekende schrijvers western romans schrijven waardoor de kwaliteit omhoog ging. De plot van deze boeken kreeg meer gelaagdheid en de karakters meer diepgang.

Willa Cather The Song of the Lark first editionWilla Cather – The Song of the Lark

Amerikaanse roman uit 1915, The Prairie Trilogy 2
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
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…lees verder >

Elmore Leonard Valdez Is Coming reviewElmore Leonard – Valdez Is Coming

Amerikaanse westernroman uit 1970
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (zeer goed)
Valdez is Coming is a stunning tale of morality and justice in which a simple, honest man is transformed into a killer – and begins a long journey of revenge against those who scarred his soul for ever…lees verder >

Cormac McCarthy The Border TrilogyCormac McCarthy – The Border Trilogy

Amerikaanse westernromans
All the Pretty Horses (1992)
The Crossing (1994)
Cities of the Plain (1998)
Nederlandse vertaling: De grenstrilogie
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
De jongemannen in deze drie klassieke meesterwerken groeien op in de jaren dertig op ranches in het zuidwesten van de VS. Aan de andere kant van de grens lonkt Mexico, met zijn desolate schoonheid en zijn wrede belofte van een plek waar dromen met bloed bekostigd worden…lees verder >

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove Western novel from 1985 first editionLarry McMurtry – Lonsesome Dove

Amerikaanse westernroman uit 1971
Winnaar Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1986
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
This is the story of a group of audacious cowboys on a perilous cattle drive across the sprawling wilderness, from Texas to Montana. Bound by duty and hardened by the relentless frontier, their shared journey embodies the enduring spirit of the West. The saga paints the American West with a palette of nuanced characters, from heroes to outlaws, in a narrative that is as unflinching as it is captivating…lees verder >

Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose review en recensieWallace Stegner – Angle of Repose

Amerikaanse westernroman uit 1971
Nederlandse vertaling: De fundamenten van ons leven
Winnaar Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1972
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
An iconic novel of the American West — a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of the past. Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, in the Sierra Nevada. Living with a debilitating bone disease, he embarks on a search of monumental proportions, as he strives to rediscover the life of his grandmother – now long dead…lees verder >

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Afbeelding bovenzijde: Colorado (T. Brandon, Unsplash)

Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Indianen, Native American, Verhalen

Morgan Talty – Night of the Living Rez

Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez review, recensie en informatie verhalen van de Native American en Penobscot Indian Nation schrijver. Op 5 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij And Other Stories de heruitgave van Night of the Living Rez, de heruitgave van het debuut van Morgan Talty, de Amerikaanse schrijver van Indiaanse afkomst. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez review en recensie

  • “Remarkable. An electric, captivating voice … Talty has assured himself a spot in the canon of great Native American literature.” (The New York Times)
  • “These stories took me in the same way Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son did when I first read it. The comparison here is meant in every way to praise Talty as a writer, and I’m sure I won’t be the only one who says so, partially because of his emotional precision, his stark, unflinching, droll, intoxicating style, and also because of a certain drug/addiction element at play here. But as I got deeper into the work, into the book, and came to understand these lives and this community, the further away it felt from my initial comparison with Johnson, and the more familiar it felt–our Native communities being bound by countless common threads, strengths and afflictions both–and only then did I understand the distinct brilliance of Talty’s voice as its own, and ours. I knew and felt for these people. Wanted to and knew I couldn’t help them, even as they did me. There is so much brutal, raw, and beautiful power in these stories. I kept wanting to read and know more about these peoples’ lives, how they ended up where they ended up, how they would get out, how they wouldn’t. It is difficult to be so honest, and funny, and sad, at once, in any kind of work. Reading this book, I literally laughed and cried.” (Tommy Orange)

Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez

Night of the Living Rez

  • Auteur: Morgan Talty (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Native American verhalen uit 2022
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 7 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 296 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek met verhalen van Morgan Talty, de native American schrijver

A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family’s unravelling; a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen into the snow; and two friends, inspired by Antiques Roadshow, attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs. Night of the Living Rez is an unforgettable portrayal of Indigenous community, whose arrival heralded a stand-out talent in contemporary fiction.

Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation, and bon in born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is the author of the critically acclaimed linked story collection Night of the Living Rez (USA: Tin House Books 2022; UK: And Other Stories 2025), winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Best First Book. His writing has appeared in Granta and The Guardian amongst others, and he was selected by Karen Russell as a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. Fire Exit, his first novel was published in 2024. Talty is an Assistant Professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and Contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in creative writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Levant, Maine.

Morgan Talty Fire Exit recensieMorgan Talty (Verenigde Staten) – Fire Exit
native American roman
Uitgever: And other Stories
Verschijnt: 1 oktober 2024

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Elmore Leonard – Valdez Is Coming

Elmore Leonard Valdez Is Coming review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse Western roman uit 1970. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Valdez is Coming van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Elmore Leonard. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de Westernroman is niet verkrijgbaar. De roman is 1971 verfilmd door regisseur Edwin Sherin met in de hoofdrollen Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Richard Jordan en Jon Cypher.

Elmore Leonard Valdez is Coming review en recensie

  • “This is a shot of pure Wild West pleasure, and you instantly know you’re in the hands of an expert storyteller, with a galloping thrill-ride across the mesa lying before you. Highly recommended for fans of the genre.” (Grass and Vanilla)

Elmore Leonard Valdez Is Coming

Valdez Is Coming

  • Auteur: Elmore Leonard (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse western roman uit 1970
  • Taal: Engels
  • Eerste uitgever: Fawcett Gold Medal Books
  • Uitgever heruitgave: Penguin
  • Verschijnt: 6 november 2025
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Prijs: £ 9,99
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (zeer goed)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de westernroman van Elmore Leonard uit 1970

Valdez is Comingis a stunning tale of morality and justice in which a simple, honest man is transformed into a killer – and begins a long journey of revenge against those who scarred his soul for ever.

Elmore Leonard’s Western novels stand as some of the most vivid writing of his career. With all of his trademark sharp dialogue and set against a beautifully evoked landscape, this is a classic work that captures the wild and glorious spirit of the American West.

Elmore Leonard was born on 11 October 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He  began his long and extraordinary career as a writer of Westerns, most famously a story which was made into the film 3:10 To Yuma. He then became known for his remarkable sequence of crime novels, generally set in Michigan or Florida. A master of funny and threatening dialogue, his influence has been incalculable. Leonard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN US and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Leonard died on 20 August 2013 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, aged 87.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Debuutroman

Victor Suthammanont – Hollow Spaces

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces review, recensie en informatie roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver en advocaat. Op 5 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Counterpoint Press het boek en debuut van Victor Suthammanont. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces review en recensie

  • “Cerebral, sexy, and provocative, Hollow Spaces is a can’t-put-down exploration of marriage, infidelity, and murder. Every page is steeped in sophisticated commentary on the far reaching effects of violence. A smart, compelling read that pays particular attention to the nuances of family and what both brings people together and tears them apart.” (Lo Patrick)
  • “Brennan and Hunter Lo, the children of a lawyer who was found innocent of murder but saw his life destroyed anyway, have spent their lives avoiding all sorts of truths, and each other. Hollow Spaces is the twisty, compelling, well-written, and human story of what happens when they join together to understand the father they lost, and the crime that ripped their lives apart.” (Jamie Harrison)

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces

Hollow Spaces

  • Auteur: Victor Suthammanont (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Counterpoint Press
  • Verschijnt: 5 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het debuut van Victor Suthammanont

The only Asian American partner at a prestigious law firm sees his professional and personal life demolished when he is put on trial for murder. Three decades later, his children reunite to uncover the truth and try to salvage what remains of their family.

Thirty years ago, John Lo was acquitted of the murder of an employee he was having an affair with. The repercussions of that long-ago event still haunt his adult children. Brennan, a lawyer following in her father’s footsteps in more ways than one, has always maintained that the trial got it right. Hunter, a disgruntled war correspondent whose similarities to his father run more than skin-deep, believes their father got away with murder. Their opposing convictions have pushed them apart. Now, spurred by their mother’s failing health, the estranged siblings decide to reconcile their differences by reinvestigating the murder to come to a definitive conclusion.

Told in a dual timeline that moves between John’s perspective thirty years prior and Brennan and Hunter’s present-day investigation,  Hollow Spaces is a moving portrait of a flawed man’s shocking fall from grace and a gripping exploration of race in corporate America, filial loyalty, ambition, and the fallout of a sensational trial for those caught in its wake.

Victor Suthammanont is a lawyer and author. Hollow Spaces is his debut novel. He lives in New York City.

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Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen The Corrections review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse familieroman uit 2001. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The The Corrections van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Jonathan Franzen. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel De correcties.

Jonathan Franzen The Corrections review en recensie

  • “A genuine masterpiece, the first great American novel of the twenty-first century.” (Elle)
  • “Funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent.” (The Guardian)
  • “A novel of outstanding sympathy, wit, moral intelligence and pathos, a family saga told with stylistic brio and psychological and political insight.”  (Financial Times)
  • “A big-hearted, panoramic American epic, intelligent and wise but also wildly, stonkingly funny.” (Independent)
  • “Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture.” (Don DeLillo)

Jonathan Franzen The Corrections

The Corrections

  • Auteur: Jonathan Franzen (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse familieroman uit 2001
  • Taal: Engels
  • Eerste uitgever: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Omvang: 576 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • National Book Award for Fiction 2001
  • Nederlandse vertaling: De correcties
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Jonathan Franzen uit 2001

The Lamberts – Enid, Alfred and their three grown-up children – are a troubled family living in a troubled age. After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid is ready to have some fun, but her husband Alfred is losing his mind to Parkinson’s. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the long-buried secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathering everyone together for one last family Christmas.

Jonathan Franzen is born 17 August 1957 in Western Springs, The Corrections Jonathan Franzen novel from 2001 first editionIllinois in the United States. He isthe author of The Corrections, winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Faulkner. He is also the author of the novels The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, Freedom and Crossroads. and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone. In 1996, he was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.

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