Bøger af Adelle Waldman

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 working second or third jobs. When store manager Big Will announces he is leaving, the members of Movement spot an opportunity. If they play their cards right, one of them just might land a management job, with all the stability and possibility for advancement that that implies. The members of Team Movement-including a comedy-obsessed oddball who acts half his age, a young woman clinging on to her "cool kid" status from high school, and a college football hopeful trying to find a new path-band together to set a just-so-crazy-it-might-work plot in motion.Adelle Waldman's debut novel was a breakout sensation, lauded by the Los Angeles Times as an "exacting character study" with "excellent and witty prose" and described as "incisive and very funny" by the Economist and "brilliant" by both NPR's Fresh Air and the Washington Post. In her long-awaited follow-up, Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and astute social observation to the world of modern, low-wage work. A humane and darkly comic workplace caper that shines a light on the odds low-wage workers are up against in today's economy, Help Wanted is a funny, moving tale of ordinary people trying to make a living.

In The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. Adelle Waldman plunges into the psyche of a sensitive, flawed, modern man - to reveal the view of the new world from his garret window, and the view of women from his overactive mind.

Nathaniel Piven er en ”rising star” på New Yorks litterære himmel. Efter som ung at have været lidt af en nørd har han nu kontrakt på en bog. Redaktørerne på de fine litteraturtids­skrifter står i kø for at publicere hans artikler, og han kan date de kvinder han har lyst til. Romanen følger ham ind i et nyt forhold og giver et fascinerende og foruroligende indblik i den mandlige psyke. Er Nate i sin egen selvforståelse en postfeministisk og progressiv fyr der helt selvfølgeligt opfatter det andet køn som ligeværdigt, så fortæller forløbet af hans affærer en anden, mere tvetydig historie. Nathaniel P’s affærer er en moderne sædeskildring, en klarsynet, sarkastisk og vittig roman om mænd, kvinder og kærligheden. Den er intelligent og humoristisk og man kan måske sammenligne Nathaniel med Bridget Jones’ chef, den egocentrerede Daniel Cleaver. ” Nathaniel P’s affærer”er indlæst af Camilla Qvistgaard Dyssel i 2016 for Lytteratur hos AV Forlaget / Swann studio