TY - BOOK AU - Cline,Emma TI - The guest: a novel SN - 9780812998627 PY - 2023///] CY - New York PB - Random House KW - Rich people KW - Fiction KW - Social classes KW - Swindlers and swindling KW - Summer KW - Young women KW - Homeless women KW - False personation KW - Long Island (N.Y.) KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcgft KW - Novels N2 - "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"-- ER -