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Lieferstatus:	Vorankündigung
Veröffentlichung:	ANGEKÜNDIGT (August 2024)
Genre:	Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte
ISBN:	9781961341128
EAN-Code:	9781961341128
Verlag:	McNally Editions
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 216 mm / B 127 mm / D 13 mm
Gewicht:	95 gr
Seiten:	112
Bewertung:	Keine Bewertung vor Veröffentlichung möglich.

Inhalt:

A wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Carlone Blackwood's “quite brilliant” (The Times) debut. A lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war about to enter a phase of dangerous escalation. J is a lonely woman without even the luxury of being alone. Her husband has fled to Paris with his latest flame, but he’s left J not only with their own four-year-old daughter, Sally Ann, but with the sulky cake-mix addicted, thirteen-year-old Renata, a leftover from his previous marriage. The presence of a pert au pair, Monique, serves only to make J feel more isolated and self-conscious. What she’d like is someone to blame. Writing letters in her head to imaginary friends, J delights in dwelling on the hapless Renata, who “invites a kind of cruelty.” This is an invitation J fully intends to take up—and like so many stepmothers before her, she will find that wickedness, once indulged, is a difficult habit to kick. A mordant black splinter of a book, Caroline Blackwood’s first novel stands as proof positive of her eternal mastery—and mockery—of the darkest depths of human feeling.