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Andrew Ridker

Autor von The Altruists

5 Werke 238 Mitglieder 14 Rezensionen

Werke von Andrew Ridker

The Altruists (2019) 170 Exemplare
Hope: A Novel (2023) 59 Exemplare
Hoop (2023) 1 Exemplar

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Geburtstag
1991
Geschlecht
male
Ausbildung
Iowa Writers' Workshop

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Als een Amerikaanse professor zijn twee volwassen kinderen uitnodigt in het ouderlijk huis, waarvan hij de hypotheek niet meer kan betalen, komen de frustraties uit het verleden naar boven
 
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huizenga | 8 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 3, 2024 |
Een succesvolle familie wordt door schandalen achtervolgd als de vader wordt betrapt op het vervalsen van bloedmonsters. Zijn open huwelijk begint scheuren te vertonen en waardes worden in twijfel getrokken. Na alle decepties hervinden de familieleden veerkracht, verbinding en hoop
 
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huizenga | Feb 4, 2024 |
This novel begins in the summer of 2013, in the pleasant, upscale community of Brookline, Massachusetts, where Scott and Deborah Greenspan are throwing a dinner party, a dinner party that is abruptly ended when Scott receives a phone call that signals the downfall of the Greenspan family. Taking place over the following year, Ridker follows each member of the Greenspan family, from Scott, watching his career and his marriage collapse when he is caught cheating on signing up his patients for a medical study; to Deborah, who runs to her lover, a woman who runs a chain of charter schools and who may be less compatible with Deborah than she had initially thought; to their two adult children, Gideon, whose hero-worship of his father is taking a serious beating, and Maya, whose past has just grabbed her and forced her to reassess what happened to her in high school.

This is a traditionally structured novel, well-told and well-written, which means that it was a very enjoyable book to read. I like experimentation and authors trying new things, but there is little more satisfying than a well-executed traditional novel. As in his previous novel, The Altruists, the characters are all a little silly, their conflicts a little exaggerated, but here it holds together better, as Ridker finds his feet as a novelist. There's a lot of heart here, and even thought it takes place a scant decade ago, it feels almost like a historical novel, the Obama years feel so far away now.
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RidgewayGirl | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 21, 2023 |
A hilarious and heartfelt novel about a seemingly perfect family in an era of waning American optimism.
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HandelmanLibraryTINR | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 20, 2023 |

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5
Mitglieder
238
Beliebtheit
#95,270
Bewertung
½ 3.4
Rezensionen
14
ISBNs
21
Sprachen
6

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