Social Creature - A Novel

Zusatztext 78905403 Informationen zum Autor Tara Isabella Burton Klappentext One of the Best Books of the Year: Janet Maslin, The New York Times Vulture NPR "Social Creature is a wicked original with echoes of the greats (Patricia Highsmith, Gillian Flynn)." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times For readers of Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt, a dark, propulsive and addictive debut thriller, splashed with all the glitz and glitter of New York City. They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them... They drink and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together, when they finish their stories, when they are both great writers-to Paris and to Rome and to Trieste... Lavinia will never go. She is going to die soon. Louise has nothing. Lavinia has everything. After a chance encounter, the two spiral into an intimate, intense, and possibly toxic friendship. A Talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, this seductive story takes a classic tale of obsession and makes it irresistibly new. THE FIRST PARTY LAVINIA TAKES LOUISE TO, she makes Louise wear one of her dresses. “I found it on the street,” Lavinia says. “It’s from the twenties.” Maybe it is. “Someone just left it there. Can you believe it?” Louise can’t. “They probably just thought it was trash.” She puckers her lips. She puts on lipstick. “And that is the problem with people. Nobody understands what things mean .” Lavinia fiddles with Louise’s collar. Lavinia ties the sash around Louise’s waist. “Anyway, the second I saw it—Christ! I wanted to—oh, I just wanted to genuflect , you know? Kiss the ground—do Catholics kiss the ground, or is that just sailors? Anyway, I wanted to put my mouth right there on the sidewalk on somebody’s chewed gum and say, like, thank you, God, for making the world make sense today .” Lavinia puts powder on Louise’s cheeks. Lavinia adds rouge. Lavinia keeps talking. “Like—it’s all so fucking perfect , right? Like—somebody’s grand-mother or whoever, dies in some random brownstone in the East Village nobody’s even visited in twenty years and they dump all her shit out into the street and then at sunset—here I am walking across East Ninth Street and I find it. This old woman and I who have never met have these two beautiful, poetic, nights ninety years apart, wearing the exact same dress—oh, Louise, can’t you just smell it?” Lavinia shoves the lace in Louise’s face. “You could fall in love,” says Lavinia, “wearing a dress like that.”            Louise inhales. “So you know what I did?” Lavinia gives Louise a beauty mark with her eyebrow pencil. “I stripped down to my underwear—no, that’s a lie; I took my bra off, too. I took off everything and I put on the dress and I left my other one in the street and I walked all night, wearing it, all the way back to the Upper East Side.” Lavinia does Louise’s buttons. Now Lavinia is laughing. “Stick with me long enough,” she says, “and I promise—things will just happen to you. Like they happen to me.” Lavinia does Louise’s hair. At first she tries to do it, like she’s done her own: savagely and exuberantly tendriled. But Louise’s hair is too flat, and too straight, and so instead Lavinia braids it into a tight, neat bun. Lavinia puts her hands on Louise’s cheeks. She kisses her on the forehead. She roars. “God,” says Lavinia.“You look so beautiful. I can’t stand it. I want to kill you. Let’s take a picture.” She takes out her phone. She makes it a mirror. “Let’s stand against the peacock feathers,” Lavinia says. Louise does. “Pose.” Louise doesn’t know how. “Oh, please.” Lavinia waves the phone. “Everybody knows how to pose. Just, you know: Arch your back a little. Tilt your h...

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• Autori: Tara Isabella Burton
• Editore: Anchor Books USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780525436416
• ISBN: 978-0-525-43641-6
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 201 mm x 20 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Gialli; Narrativa > Romanzi > Letteratura contemporanea (dal 1945)