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Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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'The tension never wavers' Guardian‘Sultry and engrossing’ ObserverSummer's almost over and Alex is no longer welcome...Alex is a young woman teetering on the edge. Behind on her rent and with nothing to keep her in New York she agrees to spend August by the beach, in the lavish house of the older man she’s been seeing.After one misstep at a dinner party she’s dismissed with a ride to the station and a ticket back to the city. But Alex decides to stay on the island, charming her way into the lives of the dazzlingly wealthy set who live there and leaving a trail of destruction behind her. Just how long can she keep going before she’s found out?‘A delicious, dark-sided novel’ Guardian‘Eerily captivating’ Elle ‘Compulsively readable’ Independent

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-05-30
Mått:190 x 20 x 120 mm
Vikt:855 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Vintage Publishing
ISBN:9781529921915

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Emma Cline is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Girls, the story collection Daddy and The Guest. The Girls was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was a New York Times Editors' Choice and was the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Cline's stories have been published in The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review and The Best American Short Stories. She received the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review and an O'Henry Award, and was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.

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Sultry and engrossing, with a note of menace, it's a gorgeously smart affair whose deceptive lightness conceals strange depths and an arresting originality . . . take it to the beach and savour every page