Marcus Ingendaay, 1958 geboren, studierte Anglistik und Germanistik in Köln und Cambridge. Nach Stationen als Reporter und Werbetexter arbeitet er seit vielen Jahren als freier Übersetzer. Für seine Übersetzungen von Werken u. a. von William Gaddis und David Foster Wallace wurde er mehrfach ausgezeichnet. «Die Taxifahrerin» ist sein erster Roman.
Marcus Ingendaay Books
Agape Agape and Other Writings
- 272 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Agapc Agape reflects on the destructive elements of corporate culture on the arts, featuring an unnamed narrator who lies dying, mirroring Gaddis's own fate, while contemplating humanity's lost capacity for sacred passion.
Bridget Jones: Mad about the boy
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
What do you do when your girlfriend’s sixtieth birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend’s thirtieth?Is it better to die of Botox or die of loneliness because you’re so wrinkly?Is it wrong to lie about your age when online dating?Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice?Is it normal to be too vain to put on your reading glasses when checking your toy boy for head lice?Does the Dalai Lama actually tweet or is it his assistant?Is it normal to get fewer followers the more you tweet?Is technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood?If you put lip plumper on your hands do you get plump hands?Is sleeping with someone after two dates and six weeks of texting the same as getting married after two meetings and six months of letter writing in Jane Austen’s day?Pondering these and other modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of loss, single motherhood, tweeting, texting, technology, and rediscovering her sexuality in—Warning! Bad, outdated phrase approaching!—middle age.