{"product_id":"guest-book-emma-cline-9780812988031","title":"The Guest","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER * A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this \"spellbinding\" (\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e), \"smoldering\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) novel by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Under Cline's command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK * \u003ci\u003eVULTURE\u003c\/i\u003e'S INAUGURAL \"BEACH BOOK READS\" BOOK CLUB PICK * LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN\/FAULKNER AWARD\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Time,\u003c\/i\u003e NPR, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, Financial Times, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Vogue, Glamour, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Slate, Time Out,\u003c\/i\u003e Chicago Public Library, \u003ci\u003eElectric Lit, Bookreporter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's \u003ci\u003eThe Guest\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding literary achievement.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49864340668689,"sku":"CIN0812988035G","price":6.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49889989820689,"sku":"CIN0812988035VG","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49972632846609,"sku":"GOR013826215","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50726846988561,"sku":"GOR014050008","price":15.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008254902545,"sku":"NIN9780812988031","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53357670727953,"sku":"CIN0812988035A","price":5.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812988035.jpg?v=1786095878","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/guest-book-emma-cline-9780812988031","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}