Fierce People by Dirk Wittenborn
_________________ ‘The Catcher in the Rye meets The Great Gatsby via American Psycho' - Harpers and Queen ‘A whacked-out hybrid of Dickens and Salinger ... Compelling and moving' - Jac McInerney ‘Echoes of Lord of the Flies ... Hip but Gothic, wide-eyed but knowing ... an insight into super-rich corruption' - The Times ‘A riveting page-turner ... haunting and fascinating' - Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City _________________ A compelling and shocking novel set amongst America's debauched super-rich Fifteen-year-old Finn Earl's mother, Liz, is a thirty-two-year-old masseuse with a taste for cocaine. When Liz's habit forces them to flee the city, they find protection under the wing of one of her clients, ageing billionaire Mr Osborne. In Vlyvalle, a golden playground for the super-rich, Finn discovers a people who are stranger and more savage than any tribe in National Geographic. Offered a new life and new friends, he falls in love and grows up fast. But, on what should be the happiest night of his life, on an island in the middle of a private lake, naked and high with Osborne's bewitching granddaughter, someone is watching him from the depths of the forest...and laughing.
‘The Catcher in the Rye meets The Great Gatsby via American Psycho' * Harpers and Queen *
‘A whacked-out hybrid of Dickens and Salinger.. Compelling and moving' * Jac McInerney *
‘Echoes of Lord of the Flies ... Hip but Gothic, wide-eyed but knowing ... an insight into super-rich corruption' * The Times *
‘A riveting page-turner ... haunting and fascinating' * Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City *
‘A whacked-out hybrid of Dickens and Salinger.. Compelling and moving' * Jac McInerney *
‘Echoes of Lord of the Flies ... Hip but Gothic, wide-eyed but knowing ... an insight into super-rich corruption' * The Times *
‘A riveting page-turner ... haunting and fascinating' * Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City *
Dirk Wittenborn was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He spent his teenage years in a community not unlike the fictional village of Vlyvalle. He is the author of three novels, Eclipse, Zoe and most recently, Pharmakon. He currently lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780747598817 |
| ISBN 10 | 0747598819 |
| Titel | Fierce People |
| Autor | Dirk Wittenborn |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2009-02-02 |
| Seitenanzahl | 352 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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