Literaire fictie algemeen (5)
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The Devil All the Time
2024 || Paperback || Donald Ray Pollock || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson
A dark and riveting vision of 1960s America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree.
In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic overtones of Flannery O'Connor at her most haunting.
Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre...
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Pond
2024 || Paperback || Claire-Louise Bennett || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
"A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths."-New York Times Book Review
"Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." -O, the Oprah Magazine
Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett's debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captu...
The Extinction of Irena Rey
2025 || Paperback || Jennifer Croft || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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A Novel
2025 || Paperback || Adelle Waldman || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty the day's truck of merchandise, stock the shelves, and scatter before the store opens and customers arrive. Their lives follow a familiar if grueling routine, but their real problem is that Town Square doesn't schedule them for enough hours-most of them are barely getting by, even while ...
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Girl Meets Boy
2024 || Paperback || Ali Smith || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A bold and joyous retelling from Ovid's Metamorphoses by the award-winning, bestselling author of How to be Both