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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster

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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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Non-Fictie, Reisverhalen, Verenigde Staten

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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Autobiografieën Memoires, Reisverhalen

Patti Smith – Year of the Monkey

Patti Smith Year of the Monkey recensie en informatie over de inhoud van dit nieuwe boek met autobiografische verhalen. Op 23 september 2019 verschijnt het nieuwe boek met verhalen van de legendarische Amerikaanse zangeres Patti Smith.

Patti Smith Year of the Monkey Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek gelezen heeft, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering lezen van Year of the Monkey, het nieuwe boek van Patti Smith. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over het boek met autobiografische verhalen van Patti Smith.

Patti Smith Year of the Monkey Recensie

Year of the Monkey

  • Schrijfster: Patti Smith (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: autobiografische verhalen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Knopf
  • Verschenen: 23 september 2019
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Ebook

Flaptekst van het boek van Patti Smith