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Dorothy Baker

    21 april 1907 – 17 juni 1968

    Dorothy Baker was een Amerikaanse romanschrijfster wier werken complexe menselijke relaties met onverschrokken eerlijkheid onderzochten. Haar proza werd gekenmerkt door precieze taal en een diep psychologisch inzicht in haar personages. Baker verdiepte zich vaak in thema's als identiteit, seksualiteit en familiale banden. Haar schrijven, hoewel beïnvloed door een bewonderde stilistische elegantie, behield een uniek en indringend perspectief.

    Cassandra at the Wedding
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    • The Queen

      • 70bladzijden
      • 3 uur lezen

      Set in the twelfth century, the Queen embodies a timeless spirit, seamlessly navigating the comforts of the twenty-first century. With a strong belief that war is obsolete, she embraces her freedom and modern lifestyle, challenging the constraints of her historical context. Her character offers a unique perspective on the clash between past and present, highlighting themes of peace and liberation.

      The Queen
    • Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn’t matter to the Cotton Club boss that he was underage, or to the guys in the band that he was just a white kid. He started out in the slums of LA with nothing, and he ended up on top of the game in the speakeasies and nightclubs of New York. But while talent and drive are all you need to make it in music, they aren’t enough to make it through a life. Dorothy Baker’s Young Man with a Horn is widely regarded as the first jazz novel, and it pulses with the music that defined an era. Baker took her inspiration from the artistry—though not the life—of legendary horn player Bix Beiderbecke, and the novel went on to be adapted into a successful movie starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day.

      Young Man with a Horn
    • Cassandra at the Wedding

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      4,1(636)Tarief

      Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding. Dorothy Baker’s entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events in which her heroine appears variously as conniving, self-aware, pitiful, frenzied, absurd, and heartbroken—at once utterly impossible and tremendously sympathetic. As she struggles to come to terms with the only life she has, Cassandra reckons with her complicated feelings about the sister who she feels owes it to her to be her alter ego; with her father, a brandy-soaked retired professor of philosophy; and with the ghost of her dead mother. First published in 1962, Cassandra at the Wedding is a book of enduring freshness, insight, and verve. Like the fiction of Jeffrey Eugenides and Jhumpa Lahiri, it is the work of a master stylist with a profound understanding of the complexities of the heart and mind.

      Cassandra at the Wedding