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Chris Bohjalian

Forfatter af Midwives

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Chris Bohjalian (born on August 12, 1962 in White Plains, New York) graduated from Amherst College and worked as an account representative for J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in New York in the mid-1980s. Bohjalian is an American novelist and the author of 15 novels, including the bestsellers vis mere Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls. His first novel, A Killing in the Real World, was released in 1988. His other novels include Water Witches, The Law of Similars, Before You Know Kindness, Skeletons at the Feast, and The Night Strangers. Past the Bleachers and Midwives were made into Hallmark Hall of Fame movies and Secrets of Eden was made into a Lifetime Television movie. He won the New England Book Award in 2002. He also contributes to numerous publications including Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and the Burlington Free Press. Bohjalian's The Guest Room is a New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Photo by Victoria Blewer

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Værker af Chris Bohjalian

Midwives (1997) 5,695 eksemplarer
The Double Bind (2007) 2,667 eksemplarer
Skeletons at the Feast (2008) 1,652 eksemplarer
The Sandcastle Girls (2012) 1,461 eksemplarer
Before You Know Kindness (2004) 1,450 eksemplarer
The Flight Attendant (2018) 1,278 eksemplarer
The Light in the Ruins (2013) 1,161 eksemplarer
Trans-Sister Radio (2000) 1,157 eksemplarer
The Night Strangers (2011) 1,133 eksemplarer
Secrets of Eden (2010) 1,102 eksemplarer
The Law of Similars (1999) 951 eksemplarer
Hour of the Witch (2021) 890 eksemplarer
The Buffalo Soldier (2002) 885 eksemplarer
The Guest Room (2016) 802 eksemplarer
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands (2014) 684 eksemplarer
The Sleepwalker (2017) 668 eksemplarer
Water Witches (1995) 560 eksemplarer
The Red Lotus (2020) 531 eksemplarer
The Lioness (2022) 428 eksemplarer
Past the Bleachers (1992) 38 eksemplarer
The Princess of Las Vegas (2024) 35 eksemplarer
The Premonition (2016) 27 eksemplarer
Hangman (1991) 25 eksemplarer
A Killing in the Real World (1988) 22 eksemplarer
Wingspan (2019) 7 eksemplarer

Associated Works

Stories from Suffragette City (2020) — Bidragyder — 84 eksemplarer
Brothers: 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry (2009) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer

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Andre navne
Bohjalian, Christopher Aram (birth name)
Fødselsdato
1962-08-12
Køn
male
Nationalitet
USA
Fødested
White Plains, New York, USA
Bopæl
White Plains, New York, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Lincoln, Vermont, USA
Uddannelse
Amherst College
Erhverv
novelist
Organisationer
Burlington Free Press
Priser og hædersbevisninger
Phi Beta Kappa
Kort biografi
Chris A. Bohjalian, known professionally as Chris Bohjalian is an American novelist and the author of 20 novels, including such bestsellers as Midwives (1997), The Sandcastle Girls (2012), The Guest Room (2016) and The Flight Attendant (2018) Bohjalian's work has been published in over 30 languages and three of his novels have been adapted into films. Bohjalian's The Flight Attendant has been adapted for an upcoming television drama starring Kaley Cuoco.

Chris Bohjalian graduated from Amherst College Summa Cum Laude, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In the mid-1980s, he worked as an account representative for J. Walter Thompson, an ad agency located in New York City. Bohjalian moved with his wife, Victoria Blewer, to Lincoln, Vermont in 1988.

In Lincoln, Bohjalian began writing weekly columns for the local newspaper and magazine about living in the small town, which had a population of about 975 residents. The column ran in the Burlington Free Press from 1992 through 2015 and won a Best Lifestyle Column from the Vermont Press Association. Bohjalian has also written for such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, The New York Times, and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine.

Bohjalian's first novel, A Killing in the Real World, was released in 1988. His third novel, Past the Bleachers, was released in 1992 and was adapted to a Hallmark Channel television movie in 1995.

In 1997, Bohjalian's fifth novel, Midwives, was released. The novel focuses on the rural Vermont midwife Sibyl Danforth, who becomes embroiled in a legal battle after one of her patients died following an emergency Caesarean section. The novel was critically acclaimed and was selected by Oprah Winfrey as the October 1998 selection of her Oprah's Book Club. It became a #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestseller. In 2001, the novel was adapted into a Lifetime Movie Network television film starring Sissy Spacek in the lead role. Spacek said the Danforth character appealed to her because, "the heart of the story is my character's inner struggle with self-doubt, the solo road you travel when you have a secret".

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Everything Chris Bohjalian writes is very good and exceptional. In the case of THE LIONESS, it doesn't start out that way. But if you keep reading, it does get there.

It is 1964. Katie, an actress, takes her new husband, brother and pregnant sister-in-law, and five friends on a safari in Africa. Almost immediately the group of campers is besieged by Russian men, who kill their African guides but not the Americans. It looks like the Russians intend to kidnap them.

What follows are the Americans' experiences from each of their points of view. Their African porter's POV is also included. All the while you and they wonder whether this is a kidnapping, why, and by whom. Every segment of every chapter has clues, but the clues point in different directions. The mysteries might be solved in several ways.

Some survive, others don't. Each of the Americans is up against not only the Russians but, also, wild animals. You'll see who is tough (and who "the lioness" is).
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techeditor | 31 andre anmeldelser | Mar 18, 2024 |
Intrigue and drama in sin city...

Crissy Dowling has a residency at the second-rate Buckingham Palace Casino in Las Vegas where she spends most nights of the week doing two shows as a Diana impersonator. She's spent years becoming Diana and has really embraced her character. Crissy isn't very social and spends her days poolside, drinking or dropping some pills, in a cabana that she has earned as one of her perquisites. She's not close to her younger sister, Betsy, and so is stunned to hear that Betsy has adopted a teenage girl and is moving out to Las Vegas to take a job with her current boyfriend, Frankie. Betsy's job is ostensibly as a secretary for a company that intends to make cryptocurrency big in the city. Unfortunately, they are most likely gangsters and bad things start to happen.

After a very slow start and lots of boring information about fintech and crypto, this got a little more exciting toward the very end -- even if most of what happened was fairly implausible. I didn't care for the Diana angle nor the way the narrative was obviously speaking the author's opinions about the royal family. That whole aspect of the novel had so little to do with the actual plot. That said, the other angle, the Vegas mafia, is also not of interest either. I never grew to like any of the characters and the conclusion was quite predictable.

I've found the Bohjalian novels to be hit or miss with me and this one was the latter. It took me forever to read because I just never got fully vested in the story. Was glad to finally finish.

Thank you to NetGalley and Doubleday books for the e-book ARC to read and review.
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Markeret
CelticLibrarian | 1 anden anmeldelse | Mar 14, 2024 |
Enjoyed, even though I wasn’t crazy about the main character. Seems to be yet another mystery that is responding to the me to movement. The setting was interesting, though I felt much of what happened particularly in the latter part of the novel was very unlikely for the time
 
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cspiwak | 42 andre anmeldelser | Mar 6, 2024 |
Could have been much shorter. It took til half way through to get going, and it REALLY took its time explaining itself.
 
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eboods | 42 andre anmeldelser | Feb 28, 2024 |

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Værker
29
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Medlemmer
25,566
Popularitet
#818
Vurdering
½ 3.7
Anmeldelser
1,352
ISBN
326
Sprog
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Udvalgt
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