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William Giraldi creëert verhalen die zich verdiepen in de complexiteit van menselijke verbindingen en de innerlijke landschappen van zijn personages. Zijn proza wordt gekenmerkt door scherpe introspectie en zorgvuldig gekozen taal, waardoor lezers worden meegetrokken in diepe emotionele en psychologische diepten. Giraldiss werk ontdekt consequent universele waarheden over de menselijke conditie door gedetailleerde en suggestieve vertelkunst. Zijn bijdragen aan vooraanstaande literaire tijdschriften onderstrepen zijn belangrijke stem in de hedendaagse Amerikaanse literatuur.

The Hero's Body
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12 uur lezen
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At just 47, William Giraldi's father was killed in a motorcycle crash. This tragedy, which forever altered the young Giraldi and devastated his family, provides the pulse for The Hero's Body. This is an investigation into three generations of men from the working-class town of Manville, New Jersey, including Giraldi's own adolescent forays into obsessive bodybuilding as a teenager desperate to be worthy of his family's pitiless, exacting codes of manhood. Lauded by The New Yorker for his 'unrelenting, perfectly paced prose,' Giraldi writes with searing honesty about the American male.
Busy Monsters
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11 uur lezen
3,2(19)Tarief
The best literary present . . . has a delicate sweetness that shows through at just the right moments.-Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World
Hold the Dark
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8 uur lezen
3,5(1530)Tarief
Now a Netflix original film starring Alexander Skarsgard, Riley Keough, and Jeffrey Wright At the edge of civilization, nature and evil collide in what "stands out as one of the decade's best books of its kind" (Alan Cheuse, Boston Globe).

The Hero's Body

Busy Monsters

Hold the Dark