The amateur marriage af Anne Tyler (Bog)

Hele livet har Rebecca koncentreret sig om familien, men som 53-årig enke føler hun sig pludselig udenfor, og hun begynder at spekulere over, om hun har udnyttet sine muligheder forkert Titel: Back when we were grownups Genre: Fiktion Sammendrag: One morning, Rebecca wakes up and realizes she has turned into the wrong person. Is she really this joyous and outgoing organiser of parties, the put-upon heart of her dead husband's extended family? What happened to her quiet and serious nineteen-year-old self, and what would have happened if she'd married her college sweetheart? Can someone ever recover the person they've left behind? Type: Paperback

Softcover book. Published by Penguin Random House (1996). Forlag: Vintage

The accidental tourist af Anne Tyler (bog) - engelsk

To ægtepar fra Baltimore adopterer samtidigt hver sin lille koreanske pige, og med børnenes udvikling som omdrejningspunkt skabes en gryende forståelse for hinanden og et spinkelt venskab mellem de to familier, skønt de ellers intet har til fælles Titel: Og hvor har du så hjemme? Genre: roman_samtid Sammendrag: I Baltimore i 1997 modtager to par hver deres adoptivdatter fra Korea i lufthavnen. De kender ikke hinanden, men mødet omkring pigerne bliver starten på et særligt fællesskab. Bitsy og Brad Donaldson er hvide amerikanere med stor tillid til den amerikanske livsform, mens ægteparret Yazdan har iransk baggrund og balancerer mellem integration og fastholdelse af egne traditioner. Hvert år samles familierne for at fejre pigernes ankomstdag, og langsomt flettes liv, venskaber og konflikter sammen. Særligt Maryam, Samis mor, der føler sig rodløs mellem Iran og USA, konfronteres med spør

Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she's always in trouble at work - her pre-school charges adore her, but the adults don't always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There's only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. When Dr Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he's relying - as usual - on Kate to help him Titel: Vinegar girl : The taming of the shrew reto

Forlag: Gyldendal Type: Hardcover

Now a major motion picture starring Glenn Close in her Golden Globe–winning role! One of bestselling author Meg Wolitzer’s most beloved books—an “acerbically funny” (Entertainment Weekly) and “intelligent…portrait of deception” (The New York Times). The Wife is the story of the long and stormy marriage between a world-famous novelist, Joe Castleman, and his wife Joan, and the secret they’ve kept for decades. The novel opens just as Joe is about to receive a prestigious international award, The Helsinki Prize, to honor his career as one of America’s preeminent novelists. Joan, who has spent forty years subjugating her own literary talents to fan the flames of his career, finally decides to stop. Important and ambitious, The Wife is a sharp-eyed and compulsively readable story about a woman forced to confront the sacrifices she’s made in order to achieve the life she thought she wanted. “A

Eric og Alice er et ungt ægtepar, der i 1969 flytter ind i parcelhuset. Alice er på trods af uddannelse som sygeplejerske hjemmegående, og de får snart 3 børn. Vi følger, hvordan de ikke-eksisterende normer er ved at ødelægge familien Titel: Hvad man ikke ved : roman Genre: Roman Sammendrag: På Glasværmervej i forstaden Vase bor Alice og Erik Horn med deres tre børn. Erik arbejder som økonom, mens Alice tager sig af hjemmet. Alice føler sig fanget i det borgerlige liv, og Erik opfordrer hende til at leve i åbent ægteskab og indgå i eksperimenter med andre partnere, hvilket får uventede konsekvenser. Type: Paperback