Bøker av Joyce Maynard

Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard.   After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful but decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona at the base of a volcano.   The Bird Hotel tells the story of this young American who, after suffering tragedy, restores and runs La Llorona. Along the way we meet a rich assortment of characters who live in the village or come to stay at the hotel. With a mystery at its center and filled with warmth, drama, romance, humor, pop culture, and a little magical realism, The Bird Hotel has all the hallmarks of a Joyce Maynard novel that have made her a leading voice of her generation.  The Bird Hotel is a big, sweeping story spanning four decades, offering lyricism as well as whimsy. While the world New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard brings to life on the page is rendered from her imagination, it’s one informed by the more than twenty years of which she has spent a significant amount of her time in a small Mayan indigenous village in Guatemala.    As the New York Times said, "[Maynard] has an unswerving eye, a sharply perked ear, and the ability to keep her readers hanging on her words." People Magazine said of her: "Maynard’s spare prose packs a rich emotional punch.”

They were born on the same day, in the same small New Hampshire hospital?but Ruth Plank and Dana Dickerson are different in nearly every way.Ruth is an artist, a romantic with a rich, passionate, imaginative life?the fifth daughter born to a gentle, caring farmer and his stolid wife. Raised by a pair of capricious drifters, Dana is a scientist and realist whose faith is firmly planted in the natural world. From the 1950s to the present, the lives of the ?birthday sisters? parallel and oddly intersect, as each struggles to find her place in a world in which she has never truly felt she belonged. Sharing little except a birth date?and a love for Dana's wild and beautiful older brother, Ray?two virtual strangers will travel alternate paths winding through first love, first sex, marriage, parenthood, divorce, and tragic loss...until both are forced to reevaluate themselves and each other when past secrets and forgotten memories unexpectedly come to light.

From the acclaimed author of "The Usual Rules" comes this heartbreaking yet uplifting portrait of a 14-year-old Montana boy. As his family falls apart, only the promise of winning his school's science fair holds any hope of happiness for him.

Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form withLabor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss.Jodi Picoult,New York Timesbestselling author ofMy Sisters KeeperandKeeping FaithMaynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while it breaks.St. Petersburg TimesJoyce Maynard, acclaimed author ofAt Home in the World,is back withLabor Day.Theunforgettable story of a mother and son forever changed during a long summer weekend when a mysterious man comes into their lives.Labor Day is a sexy, page turning, poignant story (Jane Hamilton, author ofA Map of the World) that affirms Maynards reputation as a master storyteller and shows her to be a passionate humanist with a gifted ear and heart (People)

A story of choices and events so intimate I felt I was part of it. The novel is wrenching, the emotions radiant, and it will leave readers transformedLuanne Rice, author of The Deep Blue Sea for BeginnersJoyce Maynard has outdone herself in this beautifully written story youll find hard to put down and impossible to forget.Elizabeth Berg, author of The Last Time I Saw You Bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Labor Day, Joyce Maynard now brings us The Good Daughters, a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange, unexpected twists of fate that shape our lives. The story of two women born the same day in the same hospital, but raised in vastly different emotional environments, The Good Daughters is another high note in Maynards already distinguished writing career.

In a manner evoking Ian McEwan's "Atonement" and Nick Hornby's "About a Boy," acclaimed author Maynard weaves a beautiful, poignant tale of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery as seen through the eyes of a young teenage boy.

In 1972, Joyce Maynard, an undergraduate at Yale, wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine called 'An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life'. In spite of the thirty-five year difference in their ages, she believed they would be together always - but after a year, he sent her away.