The Guest: A Novel
Littérature générale (romans), Oeuvres littéraires (romans), Sensations (romans à)
Audio avec voix de synthèse, Braille automatisé
Résumé
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A young woman pretends to be someone she isn&’t in this &“spellbinding&” (Vogue), &“smoldering&” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. &“Under Cline&’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel,… a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force.&”—The New York TimesLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Harper&’s Bazaar, Elle, Vogue, Glamour, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Slate, Time Out, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit, Bookreporter&“Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass from one world to another.&”Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.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.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 rarefied 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.Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline&’s The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.