Michel Lederer Boeken

Udalls turbulente Geschichten sind im kargen Südwesten der USA angesiedelt. Sie zeigen das Leben der Menschen dort, wo Touristenmassen durch Indianerreservate und Westernstädte geschleust werden. Udall erzählt mit Humor und einem feinen Gespür für die Besonderheit der Menschen dort. Udalls Figuren sind allesamt Antihelden, vom Leben nicht gerade begünstigt, deren Lebensstil und Sprache sich kaum von ihrer unwirtlichen Umgebung unterscheiden. Sie schuften und trinken, fluchen und pflegen Freundschaften zu Truthahngeiern und anderen Kreaturen. Es sind einfache, skurrile Typen, die oft bissig von den Abgründen ihres Lebens im tiefen Westen berichten. Die Geschichten bilden auf ganz eigene Art das Leben fernab der schillernden Metropolen des American Way of Life ab. Dieser Band versammelt elf der schönsten und besten Erzählungen, die in Amerika in verschiedenen Zeitschriften erschienen und mit Begeisterung aufgenommen wurden.

Tijdens een grote brand in het gebergte van Montana waar Julia Bishop kampeert met een aantal probleemjongeren ziet zij Skye, een 17-jarig meisje, omkomen en wordt haar vriend Ed Tully, die daar met zijn team 'rookspringers' probeert de brand te blussen ernstig gewond. Ondanks haar stille verliefdheid op Eds vriend Connor Ford trouwt Julia toch met de blind geworden Ed. Als blijkt dat Ed geen kinderen kan verwekken, vragen zij Connor zijn zaad beschikbaar te stellen en zo wordt door kunstmatige inseminatie een dochter geboren. Connor trekt als oorlogscorrespondent de wereld door en is jarenlang onbereikbaar. Na de dood van Ed en na veel verwikkelingen vinden Julia en Connor elkaar in Afrika. Dit zeer romantische verhaal is ingebed in schitterende beschrijvingen van de ruige natuur rondom Montana. De karakters van de drie hoofdpersonen worden met psychologisch inzicht beschreven.

391 AD Fanatics burn down the greatest storehouse of knowledge and treasure in the ancient world—the mighty library and museum of Alexandria. But a few conspirators secretly remove the most precious items and hide them deep in a specially excavated stronghold... 1991 AD A UN plane, with the Secretary-General aboard, crashes in the icy waters of Greenland, brought down by a murderous conspiracy. And trouble-shooter Dirk Pitt is drawn into a deadly battle, against the darkest forces of international terrorism, that could reshape the balance of world power forever.

From the award-winning author of the Native American classic Fools Crow , a richly crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of storytelling and the historical imagination. Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and journeys from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the back streets of nineteenth-century Marseille. Left behind in a Marseille hospital after a serious injury while the show travels on, he is forced to remake his life alone in a strange land. He struggles to adapt as well as he can, while holding on to the memories and traditions of life on the Plains and eventually falling in love. But none of the worlds the Indian has known can prepare him for the betrayal that follows. This is a story of the American Indian that we have seldom seen: a stranger in a strange land, often an invisible man, loving, violent, trusting, wary, protective, and defenseless against a society that excludes him but judges him by its rules. At once epic and intimate, The Heartsong of Charging Elk echoes across time, geography, and cultures.

De Amerikaanse kustwacht wordt geconfronteerd met een gevaarlijk gif in de wateren rond Alaska.

Britt Anderson, productrice de télévision à Boston, apprend le décès de sa soeur Greta dans un incendie. Les deux femmes ne s'étaient pas revues depuis la mort de leur père et une rupture orageuse il y a onze ans. L'enquête conclut à un crime, les soupçons se portent sur Alec, le mari de Greta, qui est finalement arrêté. Mais face à l'incompétence de la police, Britt se lance dans l'enquête...

A New York Times bestseller: from a luminous storyteller, a highly anticipated new novel about the American family writ large. “Udall masterfully portrays the hapless foibles and tragic yearnings of our fellow humans.”—San Francisco Chronicle Golden Richards, husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is having the mother of all midlife crises. His construction business is failing, his family has grown into an overpopulated mini-dukedom beset with insurrection and rivalry, and he is done in with grief: due to the accidental death of a daughter and the stillbirth of a son, he has come to doubt the capacity of his own heart. Brady Udall, one of our finest American fiction writers, tells a tragicomic story of a deeply faithful man who, crippled by grief and the demands of work and family, becomes entangled in an affair that threatens to destroy his family’s future. Like John Irving and Richard Yates, Udall creates characters that engage us to the fullest as they grapple with the nature of need, love, and belonging. Beautifully written, keenly observed, and ultimately redemptive, The Lonely Polygamist is an unforgettable story of an American family—with its inevitable dysfunctionality, heartbreak, and comedy—pushed to its outer limits.