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Vogue

Consistently a pleasure to read

Independent on Sunday

A sneakily engaging and ultimately astounding first novel... A delight from the first page to the last

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A spare but polished miniature that isn't ashamed to strive for small truths instead of great lumbering ones

New York Times Book Review

Utterly gripping, a book to be read in one sitting

Times Literary Supplement

A gun is pointed at 21-year-old Ellis as she walks through a New York park. Although she escapes unharmed she is left psychologically reeling. Over the next few weeks Ellis keeps everyone at bay: the police, suitors who want to save her, and the university therapist who hints that her sweaters are too tight. But when Ellis accompanies her mother, a nurse, on a mission in the Philippines, she finds the life - even if held up - cannot be held back, and neither, finally, can she.
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A gun is pointed at 21-year-old Ellis as she walks through a New York park. But when Ellis accompanies her mother, a nurse, on a mission in the Philippines, she finds the life - even if held up - cannot be held back, and neither, finally, can she.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784707132
Publisert
2017-12-04
Utgiver
Vintage Publishing; Vintage
Vekt
149 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Vendela Vida has worked at the Paris Review and the New York Review of Books. She is the author of the non-fiction book Girls on the Verge. She and Dave Eggers have recently opened a writing lab for teenagers in San Francisco.