John Rolfe Gardiner North of the Ordinary review, recensie en informatie nieuw boek met verhalen van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 14 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Bellevue Literary Press het nieuwe boek van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver John Rolfe Gardiner. 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.
John Rolfe Gardiner North of the Ordinary review en recensie
- “What dazzling stories John Rolfe Gardiner writes. His characters, in the best way, are earthbound, caught in the web of work and school and family, past and present. Each story is a world, perfect and complete, and when I read the last one I marveled that so much wisdom and beauty could be contained in a single volume.” (Margot Livesey, schrijfster)
North of the Ordinary
- Auteur: John Rolfe Gardiner (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse verhalen
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Bellevue Literary Press
- Verschijnt: 14 januari 2025
- Omvang: 192 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol
John Rolfe Gardiner North of the Ordinary review en recensie
- “What dazzling stories John Rolfe Gardiner writes. His characters, in the best way, are earthbound, caught in the web of work and school and family, past and present. Each story is a world, perfect and complete, and when I read the last one I marveled that so much wisdom and beauty could be contained in a single volume.” (Margot Livesey, schrijfster)
Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van John Rolfe Gardiner
“You’re as likely to be hit twice by lightning on a Monday as see a wood chipper pull a man into its maw.”
So begins North of Ordinary, John Rolfe Gardner’s virtuosic story collection of survivors getting by despite the odds in a shifting world. In these pages, we meet a nervous young apprentice to a weathered tree climber; a dangerously obsessed student at a Southern Bible college; an attractive schemer trying to build an audience for her tiny radio station; an undercover, cross-dressing lawman whose friendship changes the life of a deaf child in a suburban cul-de-sac; and an elderly Black mason whose knowledge of the town’s history harbors truths that shake his visitor’s foundation.
Surprising, touching, and deeply humane, the ten stories of North of Ordinary offer an intimate, revelatory look at our fractured society and pull us together through the power of art.
North of Ordinary is introduced by Christopher Benfey and illustrated by Maria Nicklin.
John Rolfe Gardiner was born on 20 November 1936 in New York and grew up in the Washington, D.C. suburbs of Northern Virginia during World War II. Recipient of a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers Award and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, he is the author of six novels and four collections of short fiction, including North of Ordinary. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, American Scholar, Oxford American, One Story, Pushcart Prize anthology, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. Gardiner lives in Middleburg, Virginia, with his wife, ceramic artist Joan Gardiner.