Guest
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Guest
14.99 €
11.99 €
Alex's life goes downhill when she meets Simon, a middle-aged rich man who thinks she's a college graduate and not a call girl. Now Alex lives in his summer house, dreaming of a future where she'll feel safe, like everyone else in this select community. But she's not one of them, and it only takes one wrong move for Alex's dream to turn to dust.
For a week, Alex moves from one house to another - a guest everywhere, an outsider everywhere - with one ephemeral goal: to cling to this cloudless life, to linger in it, to turn from a guest into a hostess, a hostess of her own destiny.
Alex drifts like a ghost along the beaches of Long Island, the alleys between villas, the driveways leading to luxurious mansions, along the hot summer dunes, and a trail of despair and destruction stretches behind her.
A tense, dynamic, hypnotic novel about loneliness and dreams. Emma Cline, the author of the famous "Girls", created a chamber masterpiece about the desire to be with people and the impossibility of being with them. Her book seems to combine the existential, disturbing mystery of David Lynch's films and the naive, cynical sincerity of Salinger's heroes.
For a week, Alex moves from one house to another - a guest everywhere, an outsider everywhere - with one ephemeral goal: to cling to this cloudless life, to linger in it, to turn from a guest into a hostess, a hostess of her own destiny.
Alex drifts like a ghost along the beaches of Long Island, the alleys between villas, the driveways leading to luxurious mansions, along the hot summer dunes, and a trail of despair and destruction stretches behind her.
A tense, dynamic, hypnotic novel about loneliness and dreams. Emma Cline, the author of the famous "Girls", created a chamber masterpiece about the desire to be with people and the impossibility of being with them. Her book seems to combine the existential, disturbing mystery of David Lynch's films and the naive, cynical sincerity of Salinger's heroes.
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