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Daddy : stories / Emma Cline.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Random House, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: 267 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780812998641
  • 0812998642
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Contained works:
  • Cline, Emma. What can you do with a general
  • Cline, Emma. Los Angeles
  • Cline, Emma. Menlo Park
  • Cline, Emma. Son of Friedman
  • Cline, Emma. Nanny
  • Cline, Emma. Arcadia
  • Cline, Emma. Northeast Regional
  • Cline, Emma. Marion
  • Cline, Emma. Mack the knife
  • Cline, Emma. A/S/L
Genre/Form:
Contents:
What can you do with a general -- Los Angeles -- Menlo Park -- Son of Friedman -- The nanny -- Arcadia -- Northeast Regional -- Marion -- Mack the knife -- A/S/L.
Summary: "An absentee father collects his son from boarding school after a shocking act of violence. A nanny to a celebrity family hides out in Laurel Canyon in the aftermath of a tabloid scandal. A young woman sells her underwear to strangers. A notorious guest arrives at a placid, not-quite rehab in the Southwest. In ten remarkable stories, Emma Cline portrays moments when the ordinary is disturbed, when daily life buckles, revealing the perversity and violence pulsing under the surface. She explores characters navigating the edge, the limits of themselves and those around them: power dynamics in families, in relationships, the distance between their true and false selves. They want connection, but what they provoke is often closer to self-sabotage. What are the costs of one's choices? Of the moments when we act, or fail to act? These complexities are at the heart of Daddy, Emma Cline's sharp-eyed illumination of the contrary impulses that animate our inner lives"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Fiction CLINE, EMMA Available 33111009750247
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction CLINE, EMMA Available 33111010395701
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From the bestselling author of The Girls comes a "brilliant" ( The New York Times ) story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience.

" Daddy 's ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent."-- Esquire

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

An absentee father collects his son from boarding school after a shocking act of violence. A nanny to a celebrity family hides out in Laurel Canyon in the aftermath of a tabloid scandal. A young woman sells her underwear to strangers. A notorious guest arrives at a placid, not-quite rehab in the Southwest.

In ten remarkable stories, Emma Cline portrays moments when the ordinary is disturbed, when daily life buckles, revealing the perversity and violence pulsing under the surface. She explores characters navigating the edge, the limits of themselves and those around them: power dynamics in families, in relationships, the distance between their true and false selves. They want connection, but what they provoke is often closer to self-sabotage. What are the costs of one's choices? Of the moments when we act, or fail to act? These complexities are at the heart of Daddy , Emma Cline's sharp-eyed illumination of the contrary impulses that animate our inner lives.

What can you do with a general -- Los Angeles -- Menlo Park -- Son of Friedman -- The nanny -- Arcadia -- Northeast Regional -- Marion -- Mack the knife -- A/S/L.

"An absentee father collects his son from boarding school after a shocking act of violence. A nanny to a celebrity family hides out in Laurel Canyon in the aftermath of a tabloid scandal. A young woman sells her underwear to strangers. A notorious guest arrives at a placid, not-quite rehab in the Southwest. In ten remarkable stories, Emma Cline portrays moments when the ordinary is disturbed, when daily life buckles, revealing the perversity and violence pulsing under the surface. She explores characters navigating the edge, the limits of themselves and those around them: power dynamics in families, in relationships, the distance between their true and false selves. They want connection, but what they provoke is often closer to self-sabotage. What are the costs of one's choices? Of the moments when we act, or fail to act? These complexities are at the heart of Daddy, Emma Cline's sharp-eyed illumination of the contrary impulses that animate our inner lives"-- Provided by publisher.

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