Heidi Zerning Boeken

Presents three stories connected into one narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. This work is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances.

Often compared to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Naomi Alderman's The Power - Woman on the Edge of Time has been hailed as a classic of speculative science fiction. Disturbing and forward thinking, Marge Piercy's remarkable novel will speak to a new generation of readers.

Lief leven is de briljante nieuwe verhalenbundel van de veelgeprezen Canadese auteur Alice Munro. Ze is op ongeëvenaarde wijze in staat de essentie van het leven in korte, tijdloze verhalen neer te zetten. Ze beschrijft de momenten die het leven vormgeven: de momenten waarop een droom, seks of misschien een simpele speling van het lot een persoon van zijn gebaande paden af weet te brengen en nieuwe poorten opent. Zoals Greta, de getrouwde dichteres in Japan bereiken , die dronken wordt op een literair feestje waar ze zich niet thuis voelt. Ze wordt gered door een columnist op wie ze halsoverkop verliefd wordt. Ze volgt hem, met haar dochtertje in haar kielzog, naar de andere kant van het land, in de hoop hem weer te zien.

'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits . . . ' Meet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, lop-sided romantic girl about town. With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly is a style sensation wherever she goes. Her apartment rocks to Martini-soaked parties and she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate dream - to find a real life place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home. Full of sharp wit and exuberant, larger-than-life characters which vividly capture the restless, madcap era of 1940s New York, Breakfast at Tiffany's will make you fall in love, perhaps for the first time, with a book. 'A master writer . . . makes the heart sing and the narrative fly' The New York Times

Grady beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. But her privileged society life of parties, debutantes and dresses leaves her wanting more. And excitement comes in the form of the highly unsuitable Clyde, a Brooklyn-born, Jewish parking attendant.