Douglas Kennedy Boeken

In En de liefde, dat zich afspeelt in New York, vertelt Douglas Kennedy het tragische liefdesverhaal van Sara Smythe en Jack Malone. Hij doet dat tegen de achtergrond van het vrolijke optimisme van de jaren kort na de Tweede Wereldoorlog en de politieke repressie die daarop al snel volgde. En de liefde is een indringende roman die met veel emotie verhaalt van loyaliteit, morele keuzes en de duistere wegen van het Lot. New York, eind 1945. Eric Smythe geeft een daverend feest voor zijn talrijke vrienden. Tot de gasten behoort ook zijn zus Sara - een onafhankelijke jonge vrouw die aan het begin van een veelbelovende carrière staat. Dan komt, onuitgenodigd, Jack Malone binnen. Hij is oorlogscorrespondent en pas terug uit het verslagen en verwoeste Duitsland. Zijn kijk op de wereld is totaal anders dan die van de overige feestgangers. De ontmoeting tussen Sara en Jack zal beider levens ingrijpend veranderen.

Harry Ricks is alleen. Een affaire met een van zijn studentes zorgt ervoor dat hij behalve zijn baan als docent ook zijn huwelijk en zijn enige kind verspeelt. Hij besluit naar Parijs te vertrekken, waar hij een onopvallend en doelloos bestaan leidt. Het is winter en Harry heeft zich nog nooit zo eenzaam gevoeld. Totdat, voorzichtig, de liefde weer in zijn leven terugkeert – in de persoon van Magrit, een elegante en intelligente weduwe uit Hongarije. Harry is overdonderd door zijn liefde voor haar, maar Magrit houdt afstand. Ze wil hem alleen ontmoeten in haar appartement, twee keer per week, en ze blijft vaag over haar werk, haar verleden, haar hele leven. Wie is zij eigenlijk?

Contents: -- Paradise house / Erica James -- A special relationship / Douglas Kennedy -- The children's hour / Marcia Willett.

On the face of it, Ben Bradford is a standard Wall Street hotshot - six-figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But with the WASP lifestyle comes the sting: Ben hates it. Whe he realizes that the state of his marriage has less to do with baby-induced sleeplessness and more to do with a wife who's playing outside the ground, a moment of madness provides Ben with the opportunity to redesign his life. But as the roller-coaster trajectory of his new existence takes hold, he begins to question the price of fulfilment. Because finding yourself means nothing when you're pretending to be someone else.

This collection of essays is concerned with fatherhood. It includes disparate viewpoints—funny, poignant, and philisophical, and reflects on the first inklings of male broodiness, the nine months of pregnancy, and the moment of birth and beyond.

'Accomplished...a strangely mesmerising effect...absolutely excellent'New StatesmanNew York, 1980sAlice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life.

On the face of it, Ben Bradford is your standard Wall Street hot shot - Junior partner in a legal firm, 6 figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But along with the WASP lifestyle comes the sting - Ben hates it. He wants - has always wanted - to be a photographer. When he discovers his wife is playing outside the ground, the conseqences of a moment of madness force him to question not just the design of his life but the price of fulfiment. Because finding yourself means nothing when you're pretending to be someone else. From the picket fences of yuppie New England to Montana's untouchable splendour, THE BIG PICTURE spans states and states of mind in a thrilling novel of genuine originality.

Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradictions. Sam is instantly smitten but wary of the wedding ring on her finger. What begins as a regular arrangement in Isabelle's tiny Parisian apartment transforms into a true affair of the heart, and one which lasts for decades to come. Isabelle in the Afternoon is a novel that questions what we seek, what we find, what we settle for and shows how love, when not lived day in, day out, can become the passion of a lifetime.

Thomas Nesbitt lives a very private life in Maine, where he is still trying to reconcile himself to the fact that his long marriage has ended. But when a package arrives on his doorstep one morning, he is forced to confront a past he has never discussed with any living person.

America in the Sixties was an era of radical upheaval - of civil rights protests and anti-war marches; of sexual liberation and hallucinogenic drugs. More tellingly, it was a time when you weren't supposed to trust anyone over the age of thirty; when, if you were young, you rebelled against your parents and their conservative values. But not Hannah Buchan. Hannah is a great disappointment to her famous radical father and painter mother. Instead of mounting the barricades and embracing this age of profound social change, she wants nothing more than to marry her doctor boyfriend and raise a family in a small town. Hannah gets her wish. But once installed as the doctor's wife in a nowhere corner of Maine, boredom sets in ... until an unforeseen moment of personal rebellion changes everything. Especially as Hannah is forced into breaking the law. For decades, this one transgression in an otherwise faultless life remains buried. But then, in the charged atmosphere of America after 9/11, her secret comes out and her life goes into freefall.