Aline Azoulay-Pacvon Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

The debut novel from global star Millie Bobby Brown Love blooms in the darkest days...

In this classic novel Richard Yates, hailed as a preeminent chronicler of the American condition and author of the acclaimed Revolutionary Road, weaves a masterful, unflinching tale of two families brought together by chance, desperation, and desire. Evan Shepard was born with good looks, bad luck, and a love for the open ro But it was on one such drive, with his father from rural Long Island into lower Manhattan, that Evan’s life would be changed forever. When their car breaks down on a Greenwich Village street, Evan’s father presses a random doorbell, looking for a telephone. Within hours, two families—sharing equally complex and addled histories—will come together. There will be flirtation. There will be a marriage. There will be a child, a new home… But as Evan moves further into the uncharted land of manhood, as the women and men around him come into focus, he faces roads not taken and a journey not made—in Richard Yates’ haunting exploration of human restlessness, family secrets, and a future shaped by them both.

Drie Noord-Engelse vrouwen uit verschillende generaties vormen samen een gezin en hebben gemeen dat ze eraan twijfelen of ze wel een goede moeder zijn of zijn geweest.

There's nothing normal about a man loving a woman. Meet Simon, early thirties, a travel agent going nowhere, looking for love in all the wrong places. Simon says his big problem is that he only falls in love with his best friends - the rest of the world doesn't compare. Simon says his great gift is that he understands the workings of a woman's mind. Simon even says he knows what women want. Simon says a lot of things. When Simon finally does find love, it's where he least expects it, and to his great surprise and relief, she feels the same way. His new passion changes everything: how Simon looks at the world, how the world sees him, what he thinks about himself. He's a stranger in a strange land with a lot to learn. But why does he have to practice gently licking sugar of the top of a cappuccino? What's all that about? An original and comic angle on how men love, by turns startlingly earthy and unexpectedly touching, this is a tremendous debut novel from an outstanding new voice in contemporary popular fiction.