Cline, Emma - The Guest (signed)

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Signed First Edition. Random House, New York 2023. 8vo., 291 pp. Book and Dustwrapper are fine like new. Signed on a tipped-in page after ffep by the author. Unclipped. Dustwrapper is now protected by a transparent Brodart sleeve. "Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she´s been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sublasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake. Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline´s 'The Guest' is a spelbinding literary achievement." (from the front flap) Show more