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The Guest

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內容簡介 紐時暢銷書《女孩們》作者艾瑪．克萊恩最新力作！✰ 衛報推薦克萊恩新作欠繳房租、敲詐熟客金錢且快被辭退的艾莉克絲，在交往對像賽門的邀請下，前往長島的奢華泳池別墅做客，以為抓住重生的機會，但事情不如她想得那樣…-------------------長島的夏日已接近尾聲，但這裡似乎已不再歡迎Alex，只因她在重要的宴會上，狠狠的搞砸了！包養她的男人最後的溫柔是一張紐約回程車票，但身無分文的Alex無意離開！揮之不去的絕望感與早已扭曲的價值觀，再加上這幾年練就了一身操控他人欲望的絕技，Alex將繼續靠自己的力量留在紙醉金迷的長島，留轉在一個個圍籬高聳、大門深鎖的大宅間……A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.“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.”Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.A 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.With 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.Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline’s The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Emma ClineEmma Cline is the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls and the story collection Daddy. The Girls was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Cline’s stories have been published in The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories. She received the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review and an O. Henry Award, and was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists.

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