Søster Carrie, 2 (uforkortet)

Written by Theodore Dreiser

Narrated by Kristina Pfeil Nielsen

Carrie har succes i et dillettantstykke på teateret. Igennem Drouet møder hun den smukke og velansete Hurstwood, der betages fuldstændig af hende. De forelsker sig. Uden Carrie ved det, stjæler Hurstwood af kassen på sit arbejde og bortfører hende. De bosætter sig i New York, uden at Hurstwood finder noget job. I takt med at pengene slipper op, falder den smukke mand fra hinanden. Til gengæld begynder Carrie at få arbejde i teaterverdenen. Igen får hun mulighed for at slippe ud af en ellers så grå hverdag. Men er dét lykken? Dreiser beskriver på sin fine og banebrydende amerikansk naturalistiske facon, hvor svært det er at forcere skellene mellem mænd og kvinder, rig og fattig i det amerikanske samfund. Hvor stor en kamp det kan være at tjene til livets opretholdelse - og hvor meningsløst den samme kamp kan synes, når man har til overflod og er ensom. Prisen for ens egen ret kan være høj. Theodore Dreisers forfatterskab anses for at være i liga med F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Don Passos og Sherwood Anderson blandt moderne amerikanske forfattere. Søster Carrie er oversat af vores egen Tom Kristensen. Han beskrev Dreisers bøger som nogen, man oplever, mere end man læser dem.

• Language: Dansk
• Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof Audio
• Release date: Feb 27, 2017
• ISBN: 9788711757857

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) was an American novelist and journalist. Born in Indiana, Dreiser was the son of John Paul Dreiser, a German immigrant, and Sarah Maria Schanab, a Mennonite from Ohio who converted to Catholicism and was banished by her community. Raised in a family of thirteen children, of which he was the twelfth, Dreiser attended Indiana University for a year before taking a job as a journalist for the Chicago Globe. While working for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Dreiser wrote articles on Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Dean Howells, as well as interviewed such figures as Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Edison. In 1900, he published his debut novel Sister Carrie, a naturalist portrait of a young midwestern woman who travels to Chicago to become an actress. Despite poor reviews, he continued writing fiction, but failed to find real success until An American Tragedy (1925), a novel based on the 1906 murder of Grace Brown. Considered a masterpiece of American fiction, the novel grew his reputation immensely, leading to his nomination for the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature, which ultimately went to fellow American Sinclair Lewis. Committed to socialism and atheism throughout his life, Dreiser was a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America and a lifelong champion of the working class.