Bøger af Maggie Shipstead

HIMMELSTORMERE er en gribende roman om to uforglemmelige kvinder, hvis livsvalg og skæbner elegant flettes sammen på tværs af århundreder og kontinenter. Det er en roman, der med dyb empati udforsker, hvordan man kan forsone sig med, hvem man selv er, og finde ud af at leve sit liv, så man ikke bliver offer for ydre omstændigheder.Lige siden den skæbnesvangre nat, hvor hun som spæd blev reddet ud af flammerne på et synkende skib, til den dag hun første gang ser fly cirkle hen over barndomslandets store vidder til den dag, hun selv får mulighed for at se jorden fra luften, har Marian Graves’ liv været kendetegnet ved sult efter både frihed og fare.Efter en omtumlet tilværelse, der blandt andet indeholder et fatalt ægteskab med en spritsmugler, en professionel karriere som pilot i Alaska og en heroisk krigsindsats under 2. Verdenskrig som pilot i England, beslutter Marian sig for at flyve jorden rundt i en storcirkel hen over Jordens poler.Et halvt århundrede senere har Hadley Baxter, en strålende men kriseramt Hollywood-skuespillerinde, takket ja til en rolle som Marian Graves i en film om den forsvundne pilots liv. En rolle, der får større betydning for Hadley end hun nogensinde kunne have forestillet sig og som driver hende ud i en større undersøgelse af Marians liv og hemmeligheder.HIMMELSTORMERE blev shortlistet til Booker-prisen 2021 og er Maggie Shipsteads store gennembrud.

It is Marian's life dream and her final journey, before she disappears without a trace. Half a century later, Hadley Baxter, a scandal-ridden Hollywood actress whose own parents perished in a plane crash is irresistibly drawn to play Marian Graves, a role that will lead her to probe the true mystery behind the vanished pilot.

From the Booker Prize nominee and New York Times bestselling author of Great Circle, a piercing, irresistible, "immersive" (The New York Times) first collection of short stories exquisite in their craft and audacious in their range.A love triangle plays out over decades on a Montana dude ranch. A hurdler and a gymnast spend a single night together in the Olympic village. Mistakes and mysteries weave an intangible web around an old man’s deathbed in Paris, connecting disparate destinies. On the slopes of an unfinished ski resort, a young woman searches for her vanished lover. A couple’s Romanian honeymoon goes ominously awry, and, in the mesmerizing title story, a former child actress breaks with her life in a Hollywood cult.In these and other stories, knockout after knockout, Maggie Shipstead delivers another “extraordinary” (New York Times) work of fiction and seals her reputation as a writer of “breathtaking range and skill” (Kirkus Reviews). Rich in imagination and dazzling in its shapeshifting style, You Have a Friend in 10A excavates the complexities of love, sex, and life in ways unsparing and hilarious, sharp-eyed and tender.

After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There–after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes–Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles. A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian’s disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian’s own story, as the two women’s fates–and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times–collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead.

A New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize, this ebook special edition contains exclusive bonus content.The Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the New England island of Waskeke to celebrate the marriage of daughter Daphne to an impeccably appropriate young man. The weekend is full of lobster and champagne, salt air and practiced bonhomie, but long-buried discontent and simmering lust seep through the cracks in the revelry.Winn Van Meter, father-of-the-bride, has spent his life following the rules of the east coast upper crust, but now, just shy of his sixtieth birthday, he must finally confront his failings, his desires, and his own humanity.This ebook edition contains an extended extract of Maggie Shipstead's second novel, Astonish Me.