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The Guest

Emma Cline

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Chatto & Windus
16 May 2023
The Guest is the hotly anticipated new novel from the author of the global phenomenon, The Girls


Summer is coming to a close on Long Island and Alex is no longer welcome...

One 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, but a gift for navigating the desires of others, Alex stays on the island. She drifts like a ghost through the gated driveways and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world, trailing destruction in her wake.

Taut, sensual and impossible to look away from, The Guest captures the latent heat and potential danger of a summer that could go either way for a young woman teetering on the edge.


PRAISE FOR EMMA CLINE

'Taut, beautiful and savage.' GUARDIAN

'Stunning... thrilling... a spectacular achievement.' THE TIMES

'Something about Cline's intimate tone, her talent for conjuring the feeling of being alive, is entirely and uniquely her own.' RACHEL KUSHNER

'An astonishingly gifted stylist.' BRANDON TAYLOR
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Imprint:   Chatto & Windus
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 153mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   369g
ISBN:   9781784743741
ISBN 10:   1784743747
Pages:   368
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Emma Cline is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Girls and the story collection Daddy. The Girls was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was a New York Times Editors' Choice and was the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Cline's stories have been published in The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review and The Best American Short Stories. She received the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review and an O'Henry Award, and was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.

Reviews for The Guest

The talented Ms. Cline . . . Her prose is drifty and wire-taut, easy on the eye, with an awful undertow of unease that never lets up. The pathology brilliantly observed by The Guest would not feel so edgy if it were not perilously close to an aspirational ideal * GEOFF DYER * I loved every moment of The Guest: the intensity, the control, the atmosphere, the psychological escalation, the astonishing social observation, the profound and devastating visions of the void achieved with flicks of the wrist, the way it lets nobody off the hook and yet is not without deep humanity * Sam Lipsyte * This novel promises to be the perfect summer read * Culture Whisper, *Books to Look Out For 2023* * Cline on sterling form; eerie and masterful. The Guest is destined to be the status read of 2023 * Harper's Bazaar, *Best New Fiction Books to Read in 2023* * [An] addictive read * Stylist, *Books to Look Out For 2023* *


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