Looker : a novel / Laura Sims.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Scribner, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: 182 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781501199110
- 1501199110
- 9781501199127
- 1501199129
- 9781982117177
- 1982117176
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In this "wicked slow burn" ( Entertainment Weekly ) of psychological suspense from the author of How Can I Help You , a woman becomes fixated on her neighbor--the actress.
Though the two women live just a few doors apart, a chasm lies between them. The actress, a celebrity with a charmed career, shares a gleaming brownstone with her handsome husband and three adorable children, while the recently separated narrator, unhappily childless and stuck in a dead-end job, lives in a run-down, three-story walk-up with her ex-husband's cat.
As her fascination with her famous neighbor grows, the narrator's hold on reality begins to slip. Before long, she's collecting cast-off items from the actress's stoop and fantasizing about sleeping with the actress's husband. After a disastrous interaction with the actress at the annual block party, what began as an innocent preoccupation turns into a stunning--and irrevocable--unraveling.
A riveting portrait of obsession, Looker is "a sugarcoated poison pill of psychological terror" ( The Wall Street Journal ) and an immersive and darkly entertaining read--"by the end you'll be gasping" ( People ).
In this taut and thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor--the beautiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can't help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, they are separated by a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment. When an interaction with the actress at the annual block party takes a disastrous turn, what began as an innocent preoccupation spirals quickly, and lethally, into a frightening and irretrievable madness.