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The Girls - American Gothic

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Informationen zum Autor Emma Cline is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Girls and the story collection Daddy . The Girls was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was a New York Times Editors' Choice and was the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Cline's stories have been published in The New Yorker , Granta , The Paris Review and The Best American Short Stories . She received the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review and an O'Henry Award, and was chosen as one of Granta 's Best Young American Novelists. Klappentext VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. A gripping and dark fictionalised account of life inside the Manson family from one of the most exciting young voices in fiction. If you're lost, they'll find you... Evie Boyd is fourteen and desperate to be noticed. It's the summer of 1969 and restless, empty days stretch ahead of her. Until she sees them. The girls. Hair long and uncombed, jewelry catching the sun. And at their centre, Suzanne, black-haired and beautiful. If not for Suzanne, she might not have gone. But, intoxicated by her and the life she promises, Evie follows the girls back to the decaying ranch where they live. Was there a warning? A sign of what was coming? Or did Evie know already that there was no way back? 'Taut, beautiful and savage, Cline's novel demands your attention' Guardian Zusammenfassung VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. A gripping and dark fictionalised account of life inside the Manson family from one of the most exciting young voices in fiction. If you're lost, they'll find you... Evie Boyd is fourteen and desperate to be noticed. It's the summer of 1969 and restless, empty days stretch ahead of her. Until she sees them. The girls. Hair long and uncombed, jewelry catching the sun. And at their centre, Suzanne, black-haired and beautiful. If not for Suzanne, she might not have gone. But, intoxicated by her and the life she promises, Evie follows the girls back to the decaying ranch where they live. Was there a warning? A sign of what was coming? Or did Evie know already that there was no way back? 'Taut, beautiful and savage, Cline's novel demands your attention' Guardian ...

Product details

Authors Emma Cline, Cline Emma
Publisher Vintage UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 07.09.2023
 
EAN 9781784878559
ISBN 978-1-78487-855-9
No. of pages 368
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
Series Vintage American Gothic
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)

FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, California, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Narrative theme: Coming of age, c 1960 to c 1969

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