Rachel Genn What You Could Have Won recensie en informatie van deze nieuwe Engelse roman. Op 6 april 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij And Other Stories de nieuwe roman van de Engelse schrijfster Rachel Genn. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.
Rachel Genn What You Could Have Won Recensie en Informatie
Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman What You Could Have Won. Het boek is geschreven door Rachel Genn. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van deze roman van de Engelse schrijfster Rachel Genn.
What You Could Have Won
- Schrijfster: Rachel Genn (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Engelse roman
- Taal : Engels
- Uitgever: And Other Stories
- Verschijnt: 3 november 2020
- Omvang: 276 pagina’s
- Uitgave: Paperback / Ebook
Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Rachel Genn
Fame is the only thing worth having. Love is temporary brain damage. Or so thinks Henry Sinclair, a failing psychiatrist, whose career-breaking discovery has been pinched by a supervisor smelling of nipple grease and hot-dog brine. An emotional miser and manipulator par excellence, desperate for the recognition he’s certain his genius deserves, Henry claws his way into the limelight by transforming his girlfriend—a singer-in-ascendance, beloved for her cathartically raw performances—into a drug experiment. As he systematically works to reinforce feelings of worthlessness while at the same time feeding off Astrid’s fame, and as Astrid collapses deeper into dependence, what emerges is a two-sided toxic relationship: the bullying instincts of a man shrunk by an industry where bullying is currency, and the peculiar strength of a star more comfortable offloading her talent than owning her brilliance.
Pinging between their apartment in New York (where they watch endless episodes of The Sopranos), a nudist campsite in Greece (where the tantalizingly handsome Gigi thwacks octopi into the sand), and a celebrity rehab facility in Paris (founded by the cassock-wearing and sex-scandal plagued ‘artist’ Hypno Ray), What You Could Have Won is a relationship born of regrettable events, and a novel about female resilience in the face of social control.