The Stepdaughter

Discover Caroline Blackwood''s darkly brilliant debut - a perfect rediscovered classic for fans of Shirley Jackson and Ottessa Moshfegh A lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war about to enter a phase of dangerous escalation. J is a lonely woman without even the luxury of being alone. Her husband has fled to Paris with his latest flame, but he''s left J not only with their own four-year-old daughter, Sally Ann, but with the sulky cake-mix addicted, thirteen-year-old Renata, a leftover from his previous marriage. The presence of a pert au pair, Monique, serves only to make J feel more isolated and self-conscious. What she''d like is someone to blame. Writing letters in her head to imaginary friends, J delights in dwelling on the hapless Renata, who ''invites a kind of cruelty''. This is an invitation J fully intends to take up - and like so many stepmothers before her, she will find that wickedness, once indulged, is a difficult habit to kick. A mordant black splinter of a book, Caroline Blackwood''s first novel stands as proof positive of her eternal mastery - and mockery - of the darkest depths of human feeling.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Caroline Blackwood, Blackwood Caroline
• Editore: Virago Press Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.01.2025, ritardato
• EAN: 9780349019468
• ISBN: 978-0-349-01946-8
• Pagine: 128
• Dimensioni: 124 mm x 196 mm x 14 mm
• Serie: Virago Modern Classics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Classics, Thriller / suspense, Psychological thriller, Fiction: general and literary