Judith Rossner Boeken

De wonderlijke en tragische, waar gebeurde levensgeschiedenis van een Amerikaans meisje dat in 1839 als 13-jarige in de Amerikaanse katoenindustrie ging werken om haar familie te onderhouden.

Een intelligente Newyorkse lerares kan alleen liefdevol en onbevangen omgaan met haar leerlingen, maar staat argwanend tegenover volwassenen en zoekt daarom haar heil in contacten met onbekende mannen.

Een Amerikaanse tiener vertelt haar psychiater over haar lesbische pleegouders en haar vriendjes.

This compelling story explores the lives of two women in contemporary New York: a psychologist and her patient. August portrays their parallel lives in a moving portrait that will mean many things to each of its readers in many startling ways.

Entertaining and insightful look at a complicated family.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar comes the story of two women whose relationships to conjoined twins puts their friendship to the ultimate test. A haunting story of an obsessive relationship; physical, spiritual, and sexual bonding; jealousy and eroticism; tenderness and exploitation; a woman who draws her closest friend into a bizarre union; the two men who marry them—want and need them—despite their own inevitable attachment; and wildly sensuous fantasies that suddenly come true.

Her mother makes love to strangers and chooses the worst kind of friends.  Her classmates talk of going to college, but Madeleine, with a scholarship waiting at an Ivy League school, knows that escape is unlikely.  For Maddy's life revolves around one her jealous, raging, promiscuous mother.And now that Maddy has a lover of her own, now that her mother's delusion-filled, grudge-filled, lover-filled life is crashing down around them, now that Maddy knows leaving would be the deadliest blow of all, there is only one way through a terrifying, disastrous moment that will change everything forever....  In her explosive novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Judith Rossner issued a chilling wake-up call to a generation intoxicated by sexual freedom.  Now the New York Times bestselling author explores another fatal in this unforgettable novel of mother-daughter love gone torturously, tragically wrong.

Judith Rossner erzählt die Geschichte einer fatalen Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung. Anita wetteifert mit ihrer Tochter Madeleine um alles - Erfolg, Aussehen, selbst um junge Männer. Und dennoch wünscht Maddy sich nichts sehnlicher, als von ihrer Mutter geliebt zu werden. Als Anita eines Tages in betrunkenem Zustand auf ihre Tochter losgeht, setzt Maddy sich zur Wehr. Ein Zweikampf mit tödlichen Folgen.