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The Guest

a novel
ID 466313
Slug the-guest
Contributors
Author : Emma Cline
Annotation
Description <p>A young woman pretends to be someone she isn&rsquo;t in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.<br />Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.<br />A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.<br />With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarified world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.<br />Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline&rsquo;s The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.</p>
Genres
Subjects
300 Literaire fictie algemeen NUR
NSTC
Publisher Veltman Distributie Import Books
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 304
Duration
Publication date first 2023-05-16
Publication date latest 2024-05-13
Cover URL
Editions
  • ISBN: 9780593597248 (BC)
  • ISBN: 9781529921915 (BC)

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