Social Creature
Autor Tara Isabella Burtonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iun 2019
Janet Maslin, The New York Times
Vulture
NPRSocial 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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780525436416
ISBN-10: 0525436413
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 130 x 200 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0525436413
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 130 x 200 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Notă biografică
TARA ISABELLA BURTON is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. Winner of the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for Travel Writing, she completed her doctorate in 19th century French literature and theology at the University of Oxford and is a prodigious travel writer, short story writer and essayist for National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist's 1843 and more. She is the former Religion Correspondent for Vox, lives in New York, and divides her time between the Upper East Side and Tbilisi, Georgia.
Caracteristici
Tara Isabella Burton is a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction and a highly promotable author, with extensive feature writing experience, who will be available for events and festivals
Recenzii
[A] spectacularly impressive debut . A ridiculously assured first novel, told in an utterly original voice
If you crossed Gossip Girl with The Talented Mr Ripley and added Whit Stillman's dialogue to the mix, you might come close to the feel of Burton's glittering story of identity theft. Sure to be on every smart beach lounger this summer
A formidable burlesque ... Sharp as a shard of broken mirror
Burton does a brilliant job of depicting the toxic charm of such a world... [she] draws us in via her control of the material, the expert way she plays off Lavinia's lavishness against Louise's guile - and our fascination with those wild Manhattan parties
An irresistible novel about a toxic friendship taken to the extreme, full of dark New York glamour, decadence and bohemia ... So many novels are compared to The Secret History and The Talented Mr. Ripley in the digital age, but in this case it's absolutely justified
[Tara Isabella Burton] knows her way around good, evil and the eternally reader-friendly realm in between. Social Creature is a wicked original with echoes of the greats (Patricia Highsmith, Gillian Flynn)
Imagine Gossip Girl grown up and gone very, very wrong, with a touch of The Secret History thrown in . A deliciously dark novel about excess and desperation
Meet your new one-sitting read: a stunning New York-set novel about a woman with nothing who befriends a woman with everything, and decides that she'd like her life. Think The Talented Mr Ripley meets The Secret History meets Gossip Girl
It is hard to believe that Social Creature is Tara Isabella Burton's first book, such is its poise and individuality - not to mention verve and bravado ... Her novel is a Trojan horse - sharp observations and serious insights ensconced in the body of a glamorous, compelling page-turner
If you enjoyed The Talented Mr Ripley, you'll love this . [A] gripping takedown of contemporary New York society
This deliciously seductive novel is a wild, sinister ride through contemporary New York. A layered and incisive portrayal of our obsession with social media and toxic friendships
Glittering, breathless, and precise - Social Creature fearlessly explores identity in the modern world through a dangerous and magnetic friendship. Tara Isabella Burton's prose is electrifying, her characters dazzlingly bright. This novel will consume you
Lethally well controlled . Addictive
I read Social Creature in one breathless rush. It's a wild nightmarish ride through a New York City of decadence & broken dreams, faking it & fucking up, love & lies & lies & more lies. This is the missing link between Bret Easton Ellis & The Secret History
Lavish and wild and bohemian, Social Creature swept me up in its spell, spun me round the streets of New York and left me wanting more. This book is ALL THAT JAZZ and then some
Social Creature is the perfect upmarket beach read for the summer
A rollercoaster of a ride of the kind best read in one almighty gulp, turning the pages faster and faster as the awful unavoidable fate of both women slowly becomes clear. a very tightly plotted and hugely enjoyable novel, which slips down as smoothly as the champagne served at the glittering parties her characters attend, only to leave a satisfyingly bitter taste at its end
Unflinching, cool, brutal. This book will make you its accomplice. You'll go willingly
If this novel were a drink, it would be a martini - shockingly cold and clean, and to be slugged back in one gulp. It's also tom Ripley updated for 21st-century Manhattan with added smartphones . Addictive
Like fireworks in the night sky, this explosive debut has darkness and glitz aplenty
A compulsively readable, razor sharp novel of manners for the social media age. Edith Wharton meets Patricia Highsmith
Devious and decadent. I couldn't put it down
A mesmerizing and beautifully lyrical debut about sexuality, identity, envy, confusion, and the creepy ways in which we swallow one another in attempt to become ourselves
A hugely compulsive read....Imagine Genuine Fraud meets The Secret History in the world of Gossip Girl.This book is beautiful, bohemian, seedy, sharp - and as devastating as it is decadent
A tarred-and-feathered shining gorgeous bloody obsessive compulsive shining shining shining nightmare fever dream of a book: The Secret History meets 2018 Gatsby meets The Talented Mr. Ripley
One of the most anticipated releases of the summer . A Talented Mr Ripley-esque story that mischieviously weaves around the envy and obsession of social media . Total, brilliant carnage
Social Creature is a millennial update on the well-trodden rags-to-riches fable - think Cinderella and The Great Gatsby meets the Kardashians - where pout-filled posts on Facebook and Uber rides are as much woven into its fabric as the iconic Manhattan skyline
Like 1980s Jay McInerney, but with murder
A Ripleyesque exploration of female insecurity set among the socialites of Manhattan
If you crossed Gossip Girl with The Talented Mr Ripley and added Whit Stillman's dialogue to the mix, you might come close to the feel of Burton's glittering story of identity theft. Sure to be on every smart beach lounger this summer
A formidable burlesque ... Sharp as a shard of broken mirror
Burton does a brilliant job of depicting the toxic charm of such a world... [she] draws us in via her control of the material, the expert way she plays off Lavinia's lavishness against Louise's guile - and our fascination with those wild Manhattan parties
An irresistible novel about a toxic friendship taken to the extreme, full of dark New York glamour, decadence and bohemia ... So many novels are compared to The Secret History and The Talented Mr. Ripley in the digital age, but in this case it's absolutely justified
[Tara Isabella Burton] knows her way around good, evil and the eternally reader-friendly realm in between. Social Creature is a wicked original with echoes of the greats (Patricia Highsmith, Gillian Flynn)
Imagine Gossip Girl grown up and gone very, very wrong, with a touch of The Secret History thrown in . A deliciously dark novel about excess and desperation
Meet your new one-sitting read: a stunning New York-set novel about a woman with nothing who befriends a woman with everything, and decides that she'd like her life. Think The Talented Mr Ripley meets The Secret History meets Gossip Girl
It is hard to believe that Social Creature is Tara Isabella Burton's first book, such is its poise and individuality - not to mention verve and bravado ... Her novel is a Trojan horse - sharp observations and serious insights ensconced in the body of a glamorous, compelling page-turner
If you enjoyed The Talented Mr Ripley, you'll love this . [A] gripping takedown of contemporary New York society
This deliciously seductive novel is a wild, sinister ride through contemporary New York. A layered and incisive portrayal of our obsession with social media and toxic friendships
Glittering, breathless, and precise - Social Creature fearlessly explores identity in the modern world through a dangerous and magnetic friendship. Tara Isabella Burton's prose is electrifying, her characters dazzlingly bright. This novel will consume you
Lethally well controlled . Addictive
I read Social Creature in one breathless rush. It's a wild nightmarish ride through a New York City of decadence & broken dreams, faking it & fucking up, love & lies & lies & more lies. This is the missing link between Bret Easton Ellis & The Secret History
Lavish and wild and bohemian, Social Creature swept me up in its spell, spun me round the streets of New York and left me wanting more. This book is ALL THAT JAZZ and then some
Social Creature is the perfect upmarket beach read for the summer
A rollercoaster of a ride of the kind best read in one almighty gulp, turning the pages faster and faster as the awful unavoidable fate of both women slowly becomes clear. a very tightly plotted and hugely enjoyable novel, which slips down as smoothly as the champagne served at the glittering parties her characters attend, only to leave a satisfyingly bitter taste at its end
Unflinching, cool, brutal. This book will make you its accomplice. You'll go willingly
If this novel were a drink, it would be a martini - shockingly cold and clean, and to be slugged back in one gulp. It's also tom Ripley updated for 21st-century Manhattan with added smartphones . Addictive
Like fireworks in the night sky, this explosive debut has darkness and glitz aplenty
A compulsively readable, razor sharp novel of manners for the social media age. Edith Wharton meets Patricia Highsmith
Devious and decadent. I couldn't put it down
A mesmerizing and beautifully lyrical debut about sexuality, identity, envy, confusion, and the creepy ways in which we swallow one another in attempt to become ourselves
A hugely compulsive read....Imagine Genuine Fraud meets The Secret History in the world of Gossip Girl.This book is beautiful, bohemian, seedy, sharp - and as devastating as it is decadent
A tarred-and-feathered shining gorgeous bloody obsessive compulsive shining shining shining nightmare fever dream of a book: The Secret History meets 2018 Gatsby meets The Talented Mr. Ripley
One of the most anticipated releases of the summer . A Talented Mr Ripley-esque story that mischieviously weaves around the envy and obsession of social media . Total, brilliant carnage
Social Creature is a millennial update on the well-trodden rags-to-riches fable - think Cinderella and The Great Gatsby meets the Kardashians - where pout-filled posts on Facebook and Uber rides are as much woven into its fabric as the iconic Manhattan skyline
Like 1980s Jay McInerney, but with murder
A Ripleyesque exploration of female insecurity set among the socialites of Manhattan