The Shining Girls: A Novel
Autor Lauren Beukesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 ian 2014
A
masterful
twist
on
the
serial
killer
novel
from
the
award-winning
author
Lauren
Beukes:
the
girl
who
wouldn't
die
hunts
the
killer
who
shouldn't
exist.
Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future.
Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times.
At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of these shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing without a trace into another time after each murder--until one of his victims survives.
Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins theChicago Sun-Timesto work with the reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case.Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on an impossible truth . . .
Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future.
Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times.
At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of these shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing without a trace into another time after each murder--until one of his victims survives.
Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins theChicago Sun-Timesto work with the reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case.Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on an impossible truth . . .
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316216869
ISBN-10: 0316216860
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Mulholland Books
ISBN-10: 0316216860
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Mulholland Books
Notă biografică
Lauren
Beukes
is
a
recipient
of
the
Arthur
C.
Clarke
Award,
finished
runner-up
to
Lev
Grossman
for
the
John
W
Campbell
Award,
was
shortlisted
for
a
plethora
of
other
awards
and
received
rave
reviews
from
around
the
world
including
theNew
York
TimesandThe
Guardian.
She
lives
in
Cape
Town,
South
Africa.
Recenzii
"Intriguing...Beukes
deals
with
slightly
surreal
things
in
very
real
ways.
I'm
all
over
it."
--
Gillian
Flynn,Omagazine
"A grisly crime thriller meets sci-fi action meets historical fiction in a wildly inventive summer page-turner." --Entertainment Weekly
"One of the scariest and best-written thrillers of the year, not to mention the most memorable portrait of a serial killer since Henry H. Holmes in....Erik Larson's 2003 nonfiction bestsellerThe Devil in the White City." --Chicago Sun-Times
"A triumph ... [T]he smart and spunky Kirby Mizrachi is as exciting to follow as any in recent genre fiction ... [E]ach chapter in which [Harper] appears holds a reader's attention, especially the sharply described murder scenes - some of which read as much like starkly rendered battlefield deaths out of Homer as forensic reconstructions of terrible crimes ... This book means business." --NPR.org
"[Beukes is] so profusely talented - capable of wit, darkness, and emotion on a single page - that a blockbuster seems inevitable....The Shining Girlsmarks her arrival as a major writer of popular fiction." --USA Today
"A grisly crime thriller meets sci-fi action meets historical fiction in a wildly inventive summer page-turner." --Entertainment Weekly
"One of the scariest and best-written thrillers of the year, not to mention the most memorable portrait of a serial killer since Henry H. Holmes in....Erik Larson's 2003 nonfiction bestsellerThe Devil in the White City." --Chicago Sun-Times
"A triumph ... [T]he smart and spunky Kirby Mizrachi is as exciting to follow as any in recent genre fiction ... [E]ach chapter in which [Harper] appears holds a reader's attention, especially the sharply described murder scenes - some of which read as much like starkly rendered battlefield deaths out of Homer as forensic reconstructions of terrible crimes ... This book means business." --NPR.org
"[Beukes is] so profusely talented - capable of wit, darkness, and emotion on a single page - that a blockbuster seems inevitable....The Shining Girlsmarks her arrival as a major writer of popular fiction." --USA Today
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The jaw-dropping, page-turning, critically-acclaimed book of the year: a serial-killer thriller unlike any other from the award-winning Lauren Beukes. `GONE GIRL has not exactly gone. But THE SHINING GIRLS have arrived' (The Times).
The jaw-dropping, page-turning, critically-acclaimed book of the year: a serial-killer thriller unlike any other from the award-winning Lauren Beukes. `GONE GIRL has not exactly gone. But THE SHINING GIRLS have arrived' (The Times).