Janet Fitch Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young woman

A striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning. For readers of Claire Messud and Mary Gaitskill comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning. Hausfrau haus·frau /haus-frau/ n 1: Origin: German. Housewife, homemaker. 2: A married woman. 3: A novel by Jill Alexander Essbaum Anna was a good wife, mostly. Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno—a banker—and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her. But Anna can't easily extract herself from these affairs. When she wants to end them, she finds it's difficult. Tensions escalate, and her lies start to spin out of control. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back. Intimate, intense, and written with the precision of a Swiss Army knife, Jill Alexander Essbaum's debut novel is an unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most especially self. Navigating the lines between lust and love, guilt and shame, excuses and reasons, Anna Benz is an electrifying heroine whose passions and choices readers will debate with recognition and fury. Her story reveals, with honesty and great beauty, how we create ourselves and how we lose ourselves and the sometimes disastrous choices we make to find ourselves.

Josie Tyrell, een model en filmactrice van eenvoudige komaf, denkt met kunstenaar Michael Faraday de ware liefde gevonden te hebben. Michael is de zoon van een gerenommeerde concertpianiste en de kleinzoon van een legendarische componist. Door haar relatie met Michael gaat er voor Josie een wereld open waar ze voorheen alleen van had kunnen dromen. Haar wereld wordt abrupt verstoord als Michael op een dag, schijnbaar zonder enige aanleiding, zelfmoord pleegt. Michaels moeder verergert Josies verdriet en woede, maar ondanks hun heftige vijandigheid en wederzijds wantrouwen voelen de twee vrouwen zich tot elkaar aangetrokken door hun gedeelde verlies. In 'Portret in zwart' vertelt Janet Fitch het aangrijpende verhaal van een moeizame relatie waarin talloze verschillen en hindernissen moeten worden overwonnen voordat een vriendschap kan ontstaan.

Wanneer haar moeder wegens moord een levenslange gevangenisstraf moet uitzitten, groeit een tienermeisje in Californië op in verschillende pleeggezinnen.

Around the world designers have turned their attention from costly precious jewellery to aesthetic and inspiring pieces that can be produced at a low cost using materials such as wood, paper, base metal and cloth. This is a practical guide to this fashionable craft.