Bøger om New York City

Celeste Donovan, a high-powered finance executive, seems to have it all-the penthouse apartment, the supermodel physique with a mathematician mind, and a trail of beautiful men she has loved and left behind. But when her boyfriend Theodore is killed in a mysterious accident, she discovers Omar, her abusive ex she had hoped would never resurface, is behind his death. Now she's caught in a game of cat and mouse, trying to anticipate Omar's next move, as she realizes he will stop at nothing to get to her. She sets out alone on a whirlwind journey to entrap him, determined to put an end to Omar's destruction. Soon Celeste is thrust in the middle of the largest financial scandal in decades. This time, however, powerful government officials are in bed with some of the world's most dangerous men. When she discovers that those she thought she knew best are involved in a secret society warring with Omar and his coconspirators, she must decide how far she will go to avenge Theodore's death and whether she is willing to risk her own life to save everyone she loves.

From Patrick Hoffman, CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award finalist and critically acclaimed author of The White Van and Every Man a Menace, comes a breakout thriller about a powerful law firm on the brink of disaster, and the woman charged with making all their problems go away

1940. Da tyskerne rykker frem mod Paris, bliver den unge syerske Estella Bissette tvunget til at flygte fra alt, hvad hun har kært. Hun sætter kursen mod New York med blot et par francs på lommen, en kuffert med det allermest nødvendige, sin symaskine og en stor drøm om at åbne sin egen systue. 2015. Den australske kurator Fabienne Bissette rejser til New York for at arbejde på en udstilling af de værker, som hendes bedstemor, en af verdens førende modedesignere, har skabt. Men efterhånden som Fabienne finder ud af mere om sin bedstemors fortid, afdækker hun også en tragisk historie om hjertesorg og familiehemmeligheder, som på dramatisk vis vil ændre hendes eget liv. Der ligger altid solid research bag Natasha Lesters romaner, så ud over de medrivende historier får læseren også et indblik i et hjørne af 2. verdenskrig, som de måske ikke vidste så meget om i forvejen. I Den franske fotograf var det de kvindelige journalister og fotografers vilkår ved fronten, i Den hemmelige arv var det de kvindelige piloter, og i Huset på Rivieraen er det nazisternes kunsttyverier og kvinderne i den franske modstandsbevægelse. I En syerske i New York er det 1940'ernes modeverden, vi lærer noget om.

The favored granddaughter of IBM's Thomas J. Watson reveals a life of glamour, depressive battles, and hard-won joy and peace.

"[T]ells the thrilling and all-but-forgotten tale of an extraordinary artist and entrepreneur who fought setback after setback to create a wonder of the modern world. The quixotic and visionary sculptor Fraedaeric Auguste Bartholdi not only forged this 151-foot-tall colossus in a workshop in Paris and transported her across the ocean, but battled furiously to raise money for her construction, with little help from France or America. Notables of his age, including Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Pulitzer, Victor Hugo, Gustave Eiffel, and Thomas Edison, were drawn into his scheme, which became one of the most audacious public projects the world had ever seen"--Back cover.

A mirthful novella about a whimsical, hapless young Brooklyn writer who moves to Los Angeles to write for the movies.

2022 Governor General's Literary Award Shortlist * 2022 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry Finalist A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory. By turns darkly comic, emotionally connected, playful, incisive, lyrical and irreverent, Lake's poems navigate a harrowing personal and political terrain with understated, expansive wisdom. Lake persistently returns us to the search for love that lies at the core of relational trauma, even as she shows us how catastrophically such a search can be derailed. This is a rare text able to hold the full velocity of a survivor's hurt and rage alongside a clear-eyed understanding of the extent and complexity of harm. In their honest accounting of a wide array of bad encounters, these poems point us, again, toward compassion, tenderness, and solidarity. can you forgive mefor how you hurt me so bad - "On Shame"

En samling af seks forbundne kærlighedshistorier blandt tolv unge - fyldt med charme, humor og hjertevarme.En hedebølge forårsager en strømafbrydelse, der efterlader New York City i mørke. Og imens byen bliver kastet ud i kaos, opstår en hel ny form for elektricitet ?Et første møde.Langvarige venskaber.Bitre ekskærester.Og måske begyndelsen på noget nyt.Når lyset går ud, afslører mennesker deres hemmeligheder. Kærligheden blomstrer, venskaber forandres og nye muligheder opstår.Seks anmelderroste og prisvindende amerikanske forfatterstjerner hylder den uforglemmelige magi, man kan finde i en ulidelig varm stjernenat i storbyen.

This book gives new insights into the flowering of radical abstraction after 1945, focussing on the creative interplay between painters in the wider orbit of Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel.Following World War II, Western painting went in completely new directions. A young generation of artists turned their backs on the dominant styles of the interwar period: Instead of figurative representation or geometric abstraction, painters in the orbit of Abstract Expressionism in the US and Art Informel in Western Europe pursued a radically impulsive approach to form, color, and material. As an expression of individual freedom, the spontaneous artistic gesture gained symbolic significance. Large-scale color-field compositions created a meditative space for ruminating the fundamental questions of human existence. The exhibition and catalogue examine the two sister movements against the background of a vibrant transatlantic exchange, from the 1940s through to the end of the Cold War. The lavishly illustrated volume brings together works by more than 60 artists, amongst them Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, K. O. Götz, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Georges Mathieu, Joan Mitchell, Ernst-Wilhelm Nay, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Judit Reigl, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still.

Die in New York lebende deutsche FotografinNina Welch-Kling gehört zu den bekannten Namen der weiblichen Street Photography. In ihrem neuesten Werk "Duologues" ergänzt sie dieses Genre um einen neuen künstlerischen Aspekt: Indem sie jeweils zwei Fotografien zu einem festen Diptychon vereint, erschafft sie einen visuellen Dialog zwischen zwei Bildern,der beim Betrachten neue Dimensionen eröffnet. In einem kurzen Moment aufgenommene Fotos entwickeln durch die Paarung reichhaltige Verbindungen, Bedeutungen und ästhetische Beziehungen. Dieser Band bietet erstmalig die Möglichkeit, diese ausgefeilten Kompositionen in der ruhigen Welt gedruckter Buchseiten zu betrachten. »Diese Diptychen produzieren visuelle Echos, die neue Ideen, neue Bedeutungen, neue Verbindungen hervorrufen - sie ermutigen die Betrachtenden dazu, ihren eigenen Blick mit neuer Energie anzureichern.« (Jim Casper, LensCulture)

"When ... Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not just O'Hara's past, but also her father's, and her own. The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves ... literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond"--

Part novel, part Pop artwork, Andy Warhol's a is an electrifying slice of life at his Factory studio'A work of genius' NewsweekIn the early 1960s, Andy Warhol set out to turn the novel into pop art. a, the first book he wrote, is the result. Transcribed from audiotapes recorded in and around his legendary art studio, it begins with the actor Ondine popping pills, then follows a cast of thinly-disguised superstars, musicians and prima donnas as they run riot through Manhattan. A knowing response to James Joyce's Ulysses, using the freewheeling, spontaneous techniques as Warhol's visual art, this filthy, funny book is a uniquely creative insight into Factory life. 'Hellish hymns from Amphetamine Heaven, the vox populi of the Velvet Underground ... These people are witty and they are grand, they do terrible things and make awful remarks' New York Review of Books

Poems in English and Spanish; introd. and critical matter in English.

A news magazine intern sorts through the chaos of his life and the world around him after his parents' murder-suicide, and his brother's confession and suicide.