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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Stepdaughter
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McNally Editions Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: RER2GPW
EAN: 9781961341128
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Zustellung: Do, 25.06.2026
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Beschreibung
“The Stepdaughter. is the perfect book for people who find Joan Didion too even-keeled, Renata Adler too fair-minded. In its own way, it’s a perfect novel. Blackwood’s best book. It deserves to be a cheeky summer hit. ” —Gideon Leek, Los Angeles Review of Books. A wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Carlone Blackwood's “quite brilliant” (The Times. ) debut. 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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Caroline Blackwood
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2024
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 112