Description
Product ID: | 9780008531850 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Book of Goose |
Authors: | Author: Yiyun Li |
Page Count: | 368 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), France |
Description: | Select Guide Rating ‘One of our finest living authors … propulsively entertaining’ New York Times 'Sly, profound … Electrifying' Observer ‘Wonderfully strange and alive’ Jon McGregor ‘One of our finest living authors … propulsively entertaining’ New York Times''Sly, profound … Electrifying'' Observer‘Wonderfully strange and alive’ Jon McGregorA propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons EndFabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised – the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story.As children in a backwater town, they’d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves – until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.‘Beguiling … A shimmering, unsettling tale of exploitation and manipulation’ Daily Mail‘Haunting and strange … Li has made her style her own’ Tessa Hadley, Guardian‘A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout’ Charlotte Mendelson, author of The Exhibitionist |
Imprint Name: | Fourth Estate Ltd |
Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-06-08 |