{"id":265990,"date":"2011-02-18T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tirade.nu\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2020-03-31T13:49:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:49:48","slug":"oud-nieuwsnieuw-nieuws-jennifer-egan","status":"publish","type":"tirade_blog","link":"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/tirade_blog\/oud-nieuwsnieuw-nieuws-jennifer-egan\/","title":{"rendered":"Oud nieuws\/nieuw nieuws: Jennifer Egan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tirade.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/9780307592835-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"9780307592835\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><strong>Original Title<\/strong>: Happy Ending<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where<\/strong>: The Regency Hotel, on Park Avenue and 61st Street<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why<\/strong>: It doesn\u2019t usually happen for me this way, but I had an experience and it prompted me to begin a story. As experiences go, this one was brief: on Christmas Eve, my husband, kids and I were having cheeseburgers with my mom and stepfather at the bar of the Regency hotel (a kind of tradition with us). Washing my hands in the bathroom, I noticed a fat green wallet inside a wide-open bag beside the sink. I had a thought along the lines of:\u00a0She\u2019s lucky it\u2019s me, seeing this wallet, and not a different kind of person. Which led to the question:\u00a0What kind of person? Who is the woman who would look down while washing her hands, see a wallet, and take it? That question stayed with me. Although I wasn\u2019t intending to work on stories \u2014 in fact, I was trying to begin a novel set in the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II \u2014 I sat down with that wallet in my head and a pen in my hand, to see what might happen.<\/p>\n<p>En wat er toen gebeurde was dat Jennifer Egan een prachtig boek schreef. Een reeks korte verhalen die samen een roman vormen. De bovenstaande tekst is afkomstig van de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferegan.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. De site is leuk om te bekijken omdat je kan zien hoe Egan te werk is gegaan bij het schrijven van haar boek, hoe ze bij haar personages terecht is gekomen, hoe ze een kort verhaal schreef dat uitgroeide tot een zeer geslaagde, originele en eigentijdse roman met de titel: <em>A Visit From The Goon Squad<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Tot voor kort had ik nog nooit van Jennifer Egan gehoord, tot ik een paar weken geleden een uitstekende recensie in de <em>Groene Amsterdammer<\/em> las, geschreven door Herman Stevens.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nStevens wist zo bevlogen over <em>A Visit From The Goon Squad<\/em> te schrijven, zo oprecht had ik al sinds lange tijd geen recensie gelezen: \u00e9\u00e9ntje die je naar de winkel deed rennen en velen met mij want in geen enkele zichzelf respecterende boekhandel in Amsterdam was het boek meer te vinden.<\/p>\n<p>Mijn vriendin kocht het op <em>bol.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A Visit From the Goon Squad<\/em> is een fantastische moza\u00efekvertelling waarin elk personage overtuigt en waarin een even afschrikwekkend als ontroerend beeld van de tijdsgeest geschetst wordt.<br \/>\nDat vonden ze in Amerika ook, het boek werd lovend ontvangen, is daar een bestseller en stond in allerlei toplijsten van o.a. <em>The New York Times<\/em>, <em>Washington Post<\/em> en <em>Times Magazine<\/em>.<br \/>\nHerman Stevens schreef in <em>de Groene<\/em> dat Egans boek in Nederland is &#8220;ondergesneeuwd&#8221; door het succes van Jonathan Franzen&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Freedom<\/em>, een boek dat eveneens de tijdsgeest heeft proberen te vangen.<\/p>\n<p>Over de tijdsgeest gesproken: ik ga het niet over ondergesneeuwde auteurs hebben en al helemaal niet over de Nederlandse (markt)positie van vrouwen in de literatuur, maar<em> A Visit From The Goon Squad<\/em> verdient een groot lezerspubliek in Nederland. Mocht ik u niet hebben weten te overtuigen: lees <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hermanstevens.nl\/result_weblog.asp?Id=141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hier<\/a> de recensie van Stevens, hij is een verkoper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original Title: Happy Ending Where: The Regency Hotel, on Park Avenue and 61st Street Why: It doesn\u2019t usually happen for me this way, but I had an experience and it prompted me to begin a story. 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