{"product_id":"the-guest-9780812998627","title":"The Guest","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this \"spellbinding\" (\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e), \"smoldering\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) novel by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSummer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's \u003ci\u003eThe Guest\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding literary achievement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emma Cline\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812998627\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2022 pg. 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/06\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/13\/2023 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmma Cline \u003c\/b\u003eis the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collection \u003ci\u003eDaddy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize. It was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice and the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Cline's stories have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. She received the Plimpton Prize from \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e and an O. Henry Award, and was chosen as one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Young American Novelists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40918199074931,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":31.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_366b7107-dc40-4572-8fc7-60bce2f81e0e.jpg?v=1691674199","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-guest-9780812998627","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}