The guest : a novel /
Cline, Emma,
The guest : a novel / Emma Cline. - First edition. - 291 pages : 22 cm.
"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 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. Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement"--
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Rich people--Fiction.
Social classes--Fiction.
Swindlers and swindling--Fiction.
Summer--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
Homeless women--Fiction.
False personation--Fiction.
Long Island (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.
The guest : a novel / Emma Cline. - First edition. - 291 pages : 22 cm.
"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 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. Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement"--
9780812998627 0812998626
2022037681
Rich people--Fiction.
Social classes--Fiction.
Swindlers and swindling--Fiction.
Summer--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
Homeless women--Fiction.
False personation--Fiction.
Long Island (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.