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DescriptionOne of The New Yorkers Books We Loved in 2017, a BOMB Magazine Looking Back on 2017: Literature Selection, and one of Vultures 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017. From Katherine Faw--the author of the critically-acclaimed Young God, longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize--comes Ultraluminous, a provocative and scintillating novel of one womans journey through a life of money, sex, and power.Girlfriend. Prostitute. Addict. Terrorist? Who is K?A high-end, girlfriend-experience prostitute called K has just returned to her native New York City, after more than a decade abroad in Dubai with a man she recalls as the Sheikh. She sets up a rotation of clients--all of them in finance, each with different delusions of how he is important to her--and makes time for a former Army Ranger who served in Afghanistan, whom she doesnt charge. Her days are strangely orderly: a repetition of dinners, personal grooming, museum exhibitions, sex, Duane Reades (she likes the sushi), cosmology, sex, gallery shows, nightclubs, heroin, sex, and art films. She finds the pattern substantiating, but does she really believe its sustainable? Or do the barely discernible rifts suggest a pattern within the pattern, a larger scheme shes not showing us, a truth that wont be revealed until we can see everything?About the authorKatherine Faws debut novel, Young God, was long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and named a best book of the year by The Times Literary Supplement, The Houston Chronicle, BuzzFeed, and more. Her second novel is Ultraluminous. Formerly known as Katherine Faw Morris, she was born in North Carolina, and lives in Brooklyn.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Picador Usa
