* 'Addictive' STYLIST Books to Look Out For 2023 * 'Destined to be the status read of 2023' HARPER'S BAZAAR BEST NEW FICTION * 'The perfect summer read' CULTURE WHISPER *
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
'So deft, with an undercurrent of unease' PANDORA SYKES
'Stunning . . . thrilling . . . a spectacular achievement' THE TIMES
'Cline's talent at uncovering the seedy and somehow bringing it to beautiful light is brilliant'
DAISY JOHNSON
'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
Review
Sultry and engrossing, with a note of menace, it's a gorgeously smart affair whose deceptive lightness conceals strange depths and an arresting originality . . . take it to the beach and savour every page -- Rob Doyle - Observer
Drawing the reader inexorably on to the heightened, rug-pulling denouement, this is beach reading at its finest -- Stephanie Cross - Daily Mail
Every sentence as sharp as a scalpel . . . tantalizing -- Liska Jacobs - New York Times Book Review
At once chilling and eminently evocative of the rarefied world it portrays . . . a definite contender for Status Vacation Book of 2023 - Vogue
Atmospheric and at times incandescent -- Michelle Hart - Los Angeles Times
About the Author
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.
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