Tag archieven: W.W. Norton

Amerikaanse roman, Debuutroman

Katherine Packert Burke – Still Life

Katherine Packert Burke Still Life review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de queer roman van de Amerikaanse auteur. Op 9 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij W.W. Norton de roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Katherine Packert Burke. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Katherine Packert Burke Still Life review, recensie en informatie

  • “Still Life is vibrantly, brilliantly alive—by turns steely and delicate, wintry and warm, tart and bittersweet, elegiac and joyous. Just like the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim (this novel’s patron saint, quietly ever-present), Katherine Packert Burke’s writing is cerebral and exquisitely precise yet brimming with feeling.” (James Frankie Thomas, author of Idlewild)
  • “Katherine Packert Burke’s Still Life is everything you want from a Künstlerroman: smart, sexy, funny, sly, and exceptionally queer. With biting insights and heartbreaking attention, this debut captures the daunting thrill of becoming an artist while becoming yourself.” (Isle McElroy, author of People Collide)

Katherine Packert Burke Still Life

Still Life

  • Auteur: Katherine Packert Burke (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse queer roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: W.W. Norton
  • Verschijnt: 9 oktober 2024
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Katherine Packert Burke Still Life review, recensie en informatie

  • “Still Life is vibrantly, brilliantly alive—by turns steely and delicate, wintry and warm, tart and bittersweet, elegiac and joyous. Just like the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim (this novel’s patron saint, quietly ever-present), Katherine Packert Burke’s writing is cerebral and exquisitely precise yet brimming with feeling.” (James Frankie Thomas, author of Idlewild)
  • “Katherine Packert Burke’s Still Life is everything you want from a Künstlerroman: smart, sexy, funny, sly, and exceptionally queer. With biting insights and heartbreaking attention, this debut captures the daunting thrill of becoming an artist while becoming yourself.” (Isle McElroy, author of People Collide)

Flaptekst van de queer roman van Katherine Packert Burke

A profound and piercing tribute to messy webs of queer friendship and to what is left behind in transition.

Everything in Edith’s life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend, Val, is dead.

Still Life volleys between the present and recent past, chronicling the lives of three women—one cis, two trans, all forever entwined. Edith was a bumbling “boy” pre-transition, in love with Tessa, enamored by Val, and drowning in Boston. She and Tessa called each other Joni and Joan, an homage to the musical backdrop of their fledgling adulthood. When Edith decides to leave behind the East Coast for graduate school, she begins a yearslong journey away from the person she loves most and toward a hazy new understanding of who she will become.

In the present, Edith visits Boston feeling like a failure of a writer, a failure of a girl, and wracked with guilt over Val’s death. Val, the intrepid wanderer, had drifted in and out of Edith’s life, arriving in Texas with estrogen pills and wisdom from a life on the road. A sometimes lover, sometimes trans mentor, Val was everything Tessa wasn’t and everything Edith needed. Home alone in Texas, she is left loveless and exhausted as the state slowly chips away at trans rights. Was Val’s fatal car crash Edith’s fault? Would she have stayed put if Edith had loved her better?

Katherine Packert Burke’s debut novel unfolds like a rusty pocketknife, jagged and lacerating. Infused with pop culture, cigarettes, and Sondheim, Still Life traces the lives of three friends, authentic and evolving, loving and cruel, here and gone, to craft a tableau of modern womanhood.

Katherine Packert Burke is a graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop in San Diego and the MFA program at the University of Alabama. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Groenland, Klimaat, Populair Wetenschappelijke Boeken

Paul Bierman – When the Ice Is Gone

Paul Bierman When the Ice Is Gone recensie, review en informatie boek over klimaatverandering op Groenland en het smelten van het landijs. Op 20 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij W.W. Norton & Co het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse klimaatwetenschapper en schrijver Paul Bierman. 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.

Paul Bierman When the Ice Is Gone recensie, review en informatie

  • “A potent examination of how melting glaciers and rising ocean levels are already at crisis levels…Bierman has written not another global warming polemic but rather a compelling introduction to Greenland, glaciers, and how scientists drill down through ice to reveal the past…Frightening yet excellent popular science.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “When the Ice is Gone tells the story of the scientists who pieced together the history of the Greenland ice sheet and, as a result, can now peer into its future. Paul Bierman, is himself one of these scientists, and he brings to his subject a deep affection and a wealth of experience. The result is at once fascinating, sobering, and eye-opening.” (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction)

Paul Bierman When the Ice Is Gone

When the Ice Is Gone

What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth’s Tumultuous History and Perilous Future

  • Auteur: Paul Bierman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: populair wetenschappelijk boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: W.W. Norton
  • Verschijnt: 20 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 27,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over het smelten van het ijs op Groenland van Paul Bierman

Paul Bierman’s realization that Greenland’s ice sheet melted when Earth was no warmer than today sounds an alarm for our planet.

In 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world’s first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When geologist Paul Bierman and his team first melted a piece of this unique material, they were shocked to find perfectly preserved leaves, twigs, and moss. That observation led them to a startling discovery: Greenland’s ice sheet had melted naturally before, about 400,000 years ago. The remote island’s ice was far more fragile than scientists had realized—unstable even without human interference.

In When the Ice Is Gone, Bierman traces the story of this extraordinary finding, revealing how it radically changes our understanding of the Earth and its climate. A longtime researcher in Greenland, he begins with a brief history of the island, both human and geological, explaining how over the last century scientists have learned to read the historical record in ice, deciphering when volcanoes exploded and humans started driving cars fueled by leaded gasoline.

For the origins of ice coring, Bierman brings us to Camp Century, a U.S. military base built inside Greenland’s ice sheet, where engineers first drilled through mile-thick ice and into the frozen soil beneath. Decades later, a few feet of that long-frozen earth would reveal its secrets—ancient warmth and melted ice.

Changes in Greenland reverberate around the world, with ice melting high in the arctic affecting people everywhere. Bierman explores how losing Greenland’s ice will catalyze devastating events if we don’t change course and address climate change now.

Paul Bierman is professor of environmental science at the University of Vermont, where he develops methods to understand ice and date rocks. He has published in Science and Nature, and his findings have been covered by CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Weather Channel, among others. He lives in Burlington, Vermont.

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Amerikaanse dichters, Poëzie

James Longenbach – Seafarer

James Longenbach Seafarer recensie, review en informatie over de laatste dichtbundel van de Amerikaanse dichter. Op 23 juli 2024 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij W.W. Norton de dichtbundel van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige dichter en criticus James Longenbach die in 2022 overleed. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de dichter en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de dichtbundel verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

James Longenbach Seafarer recensie en review

  • “James Longenbach’s poems wash over you like waves, lift you up and set you down back at the beginning of your life. . . . Longenbach’s lucid poems echo across decades, bound for poetry’s future.” (Rob Schlegel, author of Childcare)

James Longenbach Seafarer

Seafarer

New Poems with Earthling and Forever

  • Auteur: James Longenbach (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: gedichten, poëzie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: W.W. Norton
  • Verschijnt: 23 juli 2024
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $29.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de laatste dichtbundel van James Longenbach

Standing on the shore, preparing to journey into the unknown, James Longenbach wrote these final poems with astonishing courage and clarity. Seafarer opens with a gorgeous sequence in which the poet looks down on his life from above, as if he’s already left it behind. With prophetic perception, Longenbach reflects on the encroaching tide of mortality through myth and memory. This volume unites Seafarer with Forever (2021) and the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Earthling (2017); the three works have a powerful symmetry in their recognition of the ordinary, extraordinary, and precarious experiences of love and loss.

James Longenbach (17 september 1959 – 29 juli 2022, Stonington, Connecticut) was the author of seven volumes of poems and eight books of prose. His honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster

Bonnie Jo Campbell – The Waters

Bonnie Jo Campbell The Waters. Op 9 januari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij W.W. Norton de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Bonnie Jo Campbell. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Daarnaast is er aandacht voor de boekbespreking en recensie van het boek. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Bonnie Jo Campbell The Waters recensie

  • “With a ruthless and precise eye for the details of the physical world, Bonnie Jo Campbell presents an elegant antidote to the dark side of masculinity, celebrating the resilience of nature and the brutality and sweetness of rural life.” (Jane Smiley, New York Times Book Review)
  • “If you loved Where the Crawdads Sing, you’re going to love, and I’m saying love, our first read of 2024.” (Jenna Bush Hager, TODAY Show)

Informatie over Bonnie Jo Campbell

Bonnie Jo Campbell is geboren op 14 september 1962 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Ze studeerde filosofie aan de University of Chicago, gevolgd door een studie wiskunde en creative writing. Na haar studie reisde ze enige tijd mee met het Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Bovendien organiseerde ze fietstochten in Oost-Europa en Rusland.

Als schrijfster debuteerde ze in 1999 met de verhalenbundel Women & Other Animals, gevolgd door de debuutroman Q Road in 2003. Haar tweede verhalenbundel American Salvage verscheen in 2009 waarna haar tweede roman One Upon a River vanaf 2011 in de boekhandel lag. Deze roman is in het Nederlands vertaald als Aan de rivier. In 2015 verscheen haar voorlaatste boek de verhalenbundel Mothers, Tel Your Daughters. Op 9 januari 2024 verschijnt de nieuwe roman van Bonnie Jo Campbell. Of de roman ook in Nederlandse vertaling zal worden uitgegeven is onbekend.

Bonnie Jo Campbell The Waters.

The Waters

  • Auteur: Bonnie Jo Campbell (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company
  • Verschijnt: 9 januari 2024
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 30,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Bonnie Jo Campbell

On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp—an area known as “The Waters” to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan—herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest—the beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose Thorn—has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey” Zook, to grow up wild.

Donkey spends her days searching for truths in the lush landscape and in her math books, waiting for her wayward mother and longing for a father, unaware that family secrets, passionate love, and violent men will flood through the swamp and upend her idyllic childhood. Rage simmers below the surface of this divided community, and those on both sides of the divide have closed their doors against the enemy. The only bridge across the waters is Rose Thorn.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Biografie, John Steinbeck

William Souder – Mad at the World

William Souder Mad at the World John Steinbeck biografie recensie en informatie. Op 21 oktober 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij W. W. Norton & Company deze nieuwe biografie van de Amerikaanse schrijver John Steinbeck, geschreven door William Souder. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie verschenen of aangekondigd.

William Souder Mad at the World Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek gelezen heeft, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de biografie Mad at the World, A Life of John Steinbeck. Het boek is geschreven door William Souder. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud deze biografie van John Steinbeck geschreven door de Amerikaanse biograaf William Souder.

William Souder Mad at the World John Steinbeck biografie

Mad at the World

A Life of John Steinbeck

  • Schrijver: William Souder (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: John Steinbeck biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Verschijnt: 13 oktober 2020
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek

Recensie en waardering van de biografie van John Steinbeck

  • “Souder’s sympathy for Steinbeck … is most effective and eloquent in his depiction of the California landscape or of the sea, which he describes as swimming with small pelagic crabs ‘like a crimson carpet spread across an ocean the color of lapis lazuli.’” (Brenda Wineapple, New York Times Book Review)
  • “A comprehensive, eloquent exploration of the life and career of John Steinbeck…Steinbeck fans could not ask for a more nuanced account of this troubled giant of American literature.” (Publishers Weekly)
  • “Painstakingly researched, psychologically nuanced, unshowy, lucid…. Souder, in his own humble style, has brought a deeply human Steinbeck forth in all his flawed, melancholy, brilliant complication.” (Alexander C. Kafka, Washington Post)
  • “A comprehensive new biography of America’s best-known novelist of the Great Depression arrives at a timely moment.” (Joumana Khatib, New York Times)

Flaptekst van de John Steinbeck biografie van William Souder

The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy. Pulitzer Prize finalist William Souder explores Steinbeck’s long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath. Angered by the plight of the Dust Bowl migrants who were starving even as they toiled to harvest California’s limitless bounty, fascinated by the guileless decency of the downtrodden denizens of Cannery Row, and appalled by the country’s refusal to recognize the humanity common to all of its citizens, Steinbeck took a stand against social injustice – paradoxically given his inherent misanthropy – setting him apart from the writers of the so-called “lost generation.”

A man by turns quick-tempered, compassionate, and ultimately brilliant, Steinbeck could be a difficult person to like. Obsessed with privacy, he was mistrustful of people. Next to writing, his favorite things were drinking and womanizing and getting married, which he did three times. And while he claimed indifference about success, his mid-career books and movie deals made him a lot of money – which passed through his hands as quickly as it came in. And yet Steinbeck also took aim at the corrosiveness of power, the perils of income inequality, and the urgency of ecological collapse, all of which drive public debate to this day.

Steinbeck remains our great social realist novelist, the writer who gave the dispossessed and the disenfranchised a voice in American life and letters. Eloquent, nuanced, and deeply researched, Mad at the World captures the full measure of the man and his work.

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Amerikaanse thrillers

Steven Pressfield – 36 Righteous Men

Steven Pressfield 36 Righteous Men recensie en informatie over de inhoud van deze nieuwe Amerikaanse thriller. Op 5 november 2019 verscheen bij Uitgeverij W.W. Norton & Company de nieuwe thriller van Steven Pressfield.

Steven Pressfield 36 Righteous Men Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de thriller 36 Righteous Men, geschreven door Steven Pressfield. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over inhoud van de nieuwe thriller van Steven Pressfield.

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36 Righteous Men

  • Schrijver: Steven Pressfield (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse thriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company
  • Verschenen: 5 november 2019
  • Omvang: 360 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Ebook

Flaptekst van de thriller van Steven Pressfield

When James Manning and Covina Dewey Duwai are called in to investigate a string of murders, their investigations take them from the headquarters of the Russian mafia in Brighton Beach to a sweltering maze of shops in Little Hong Kong, with scant leads on the killer. But when Manning and Dewey apprehend a woman-a disgraced but brilliant rabbinical scholar-fleeing one of the crime scenes, they’re brought face-to-face with the shocking truth: the Jewish legend of the hidden Righteous Men, the 36 who protect the world from destruction, is no legend at all. They are real, and they are being murdered. As the bodies pile up and the world tilts further into chaos,

Manning and Dewey must protect the last of the Righteous Men from a ruthless killer able to beguile his victims and command them against their will. Plunged into a deadly game of cat and mouse, the detectives find their arsenal of bullets and blades of little use against a foe who knows their every move. Joining forces with the rabbinical scholar and a renowned anthropologist, Manning and Dewey set off on a perilous quest from New York to Gehenna in Israel to confront a murderer who won’t stop until he’s killed every one.

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Geschiedenisboeken

Elaine Sciolino – The Seine

Elaine Sciolino The Seine recensie en informatie over de inhoud van dit boek over de rivier de Seine en Parijs. Op 1 november 2019 verscheen bij Uitgeverij W.W. Norton & Company dit boek over de Seine en Parijs, geschreven Elaine Sciolino.

Elaine Sciolino The Seine Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden over het boek The Seine, The River That Made Paris, geschreven door Elaine Sciolino. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van het boek over de rivier de Seine en Parijs van Elaine Siolino.

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The Seine

The River That Made Paris

  • Schrijfster: Elaine Sciolino (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company
  • Verschenen: 1 november 2019
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Ebook

Flaptekst van het boek over de Seine

In the spring of 1978, as a foreign correspondent in Paris, Elaine Sciolino was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she builds the story of the river through memoir, travelogue and history, writing a love letter to the city she has called home since 2002. Sciolino begins in Paris, then moves east to discover the river’s origins-both real and mythical-in Burgundy.

She celebrates the river’s rich history and captures the charm of its lively characters: a bargewoman who worked on the river for decades, a bookseller along the riverbanks, a houseboat dweller and a famous cameraman who knows how to capture the river’s light. She patrols the Seine with river police, rows with a restorer of antique boats, discovers a champagne vineyard, and even dares to drink from and swim in the river. In this rich portrait, Sciolino explains why the Seine is the world’s most romantic river and invites readers to explore its secrets and magic for themselves.

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Afrikaanse roman, Nigeria

Helon Habila – Travelers

Helon Habila Travelers Roman uit Nigeria recensie en informatie van dit nieuwe boek. Op 18 juni 2019 verscheen bij uitgeverij W.W. Norton & Company de nieuwe roman van de Nigeriaanse schrijver Helon Habila.

Helon Habila Travelers Roman uit Nigeria Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek gelezen heeft, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman Travelers, geschreven door Helon Habila. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de nieuwe roman van Helon Habila.

Helon Habila Travelers Roman uit Nigeria Recensie

Travelers

  • Schrijver: Helon Habila (Nigeria)
  • Soort boek: Nigeriaanse roman, sociale roman
  • Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company
  • Verschenen: 18 juni 2019
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek 

Flaptekst van deze roman uit Nigeria

Award-winning author Helon Habila has been described as “a courageous tale teller with an uncompromising vision…a major talent” (Rawi Hage). His new novel Travelers is a life-changing encounter with those who have been uprooted by war or aspiration, fear or hope.

A Nigerian graduate student who has made his home in America knows what it means to strike out for new shores. When his wife proposes that he accompany her to Berlin, where she has been awarded a prestigious arts fellowship, he has his reservations: “I knew every departure is a death, every return a rebirth. Most changes happen unplanned, and they always leave a scar.”

In Berlin, Habila’s central character finds himself thrown into contact with a community of African immigrants and refugees whose lives previously seemed distant from his own, but to which he is increasingly drawn. The walls between his privileged, secure existence and the stories of these other Africans on the move soon crumble, and his sense of identity begins to dissolve as he finds that he can no longer separate himself from others’ horrors, or from Africa.

A lean, expansive, heart-rending exploration of loss and of connection, Travelers inscribes unforgettable signposts―both unsettling and luminous―marking the universal journey in pursuit of love and home.

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