The Guest: A Novel

The Guest: A Novel

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Beschreibung

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.

“Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force.”—The New York Times

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Vogue, Glamour, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Slate, Time Out, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit, Bookreporter

“Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass from one world to another.”

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 sun-blasted 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 spellbinding literary achievement.

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Format

Taschenbuch

Seitenzahl

310

Preis

8.99 €

Beiträge

9

5

I love it!

Ich kann verstehen, warum manche das Buch nicht mögen, aber ich liebe es! Ich denke, es soll so geschrieben sein, dass man die Protagonistin nicht richtig kennen lernt, obwohl es aus ihrer Perspektive ist, damit man sich etwas in die anderen Menschen hineinversetzen kann, was ich total toll finde, da es endlich mal etwas anderes ist. Man denkt viel mehr drüber nach, noch im Nachhinein und es ist einfach ein total toller Schreibstil der Autorin.

3.5

War ganz nett..

.. und ich mag Weird Girl Books auch ganz gerne, aber hat mich nicht zu 100% gecatcht. Mischung aus My Year of Rest and Relaxation und Catcher in the Rye würde ich sagen :)

War ganz nett..

4

You know that someone can write when there is not much happening in a book and yet you feel the tension on every page.

1

I don’t get it Following a 22y/o for a week of her being completely delusional and making one decision worse than the other and in the end nothing happens

2.5

Ich habe wirklich versucht, dieses Buch zu mögen, aber mich haben wirklich alle Charaktere der Geschichte genervt, insbesondere die Protagonistin. Ihr manipulatives und opportunistisches Verhalten gingen mir dermaßen auf den Senkel… Das Ende fand ich dann außerdem enttäuschend. Um auch etwas positives zu sagen: Clines Schreibe und der Aufbau des Romans haben mir generell gut gefallen.

2.5

There were no more words to read, no matter how much I wanted to read them.

Alex drifts and grifts from person to person on Long Island after being kicked out by an older man she's been living with. All we knew is that she believes if she can hold out until Labor Day, the man will welcome her back - she's just biding her time to return to him. In the meantime, we discover that Alex is a mess. She has no home, no job, few morals, and a strong talent for molding her personality into many different types of women. This makes her interesting enough as a character - plus the fact that she has zero qualms about lying, cheating, and stealing - but the emotional destruction she leaves in her wake is unsettling. Her survival comes first; everyone else comes second. The problem is, nothing really happens in the book. And even though something about Alex' train wreck of a life propelled me to keep reading, I never stopped waiting for something to happen. I waited. And I waited. And waited. And then when the final, climatic moment did arrive, again nothing happened, because the book ended in the most abrupt way possible. There were no more words to read, no matter how much I wanted to read them.

3

2.5 ☆

the ending was super unsatisfying just like the majority of the book. I don't have a problem with "nothing happening, just vibes" but you still have to make it remotely interesting to be in the main character's head, no?

3

This was kinda fun, but it didn’t feel very crime(y) to me?

5

Soooo good!!

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Beschreibung

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.

“Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force.”—The New York Times

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Vogue, Glamour, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Slate, Time Out, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit, Bookreporter

“Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass from one world to another.”

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 sun-blasted 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 spellbinding literary achievement.

Haupt-Genre

N/A

Sub-Genre

N/A

Format

Taschenbuch

Seitenzahl

310

Preis

8.99 €

Beiträge

9

5

I love it!

Ich kann verstehen, warum manche das Buch nicht mögen, aber ich liebe es! Ich denke, es soll so geschrieben sein, dass man die Protagonistin nicht richtig kennen lernt, obwohl es aus ihrer Perspektive ist, damit man sich etwas in die anderen Menschen hineinversetzen kann, was ich total toll finde, da es endlich mal etwas anderes ist. Man denkt viel mehr drüber nach, noch im Nachhinein und es ist einfach ein total toller Schreibstil der Autorin.

3.5

War ganz nett..

.. und ich mag Weird Girl Books auch ganz gerne, aber hat mich nicht zu 100% gecatcht. Mischung aus My Year of Rest and Relaxation und Catcher in the Rye würde ich sagen :)

War ganz nett..

4

You know that someone can write when there is not much happening in a book and yet you feel the tension on every page.

1

I don’t get it Following a 22y/o for a week of her being completely delusional and making one decision worse than the other and in the end nothing happens

2.5

Ich habe wirklich versucht, dieses Buch zu mögen, aber mich haben wirklich alle Charaktere der Geschichte genervt, insbesondere die Protagonistin. Ihr manipulatives und opportunistisches Verhalten gingen mir dermaßen auf den Senkel… Das Ende fand ich dann außerdem enttäuschend. Um auch etwas positives zu sagen: Clines Schreibe und der Aufbau des Romans haben mir generell gut gefallen.

2.5

There were no more words to read, no matter how much I wanted to read them.

Alex drifts and grifts from person to person on Long Island after being kicked out by an older man she's been living with. All we knew is that she believes if she can hold out until Labor Day, the man will welcome her back - she's just biding her time to return to him. In the meantime, we discover that Alex is a mess. She has no home, no job, few morals, and a strong talent for molding her personality into many different types of women. This makes her interesting enough as a character - plus the fact that she has zero qualms about lying, cheating, and stealing - but the emotional destruction she leaves in her wake is unsettling. Her survival comes first; everyone else comes second. The problem is, nothing really happens in the book. And even though something about Alex' train wreck of a life propelled me to keep reading, I never stopped waiting for something to happen. I waited. And I waited. And waited. And then when the final, climatic moment did arrive, again nothing happened, because the book ended in the most abrupt way possible. There were no more words to read, no matter how much I wanted to read them.

3

2.5 ☆

the ending was super unsatisfying just like the majority of the book. I don't have a problem with "nothing happening, just vibes" but you still have to make it remotely interesting to be in the main character's head, no?

3

This was kinda fun, but it didn’t feel very crime(y) to me?

5

Soooo good!!

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