Masterminds: Payback by Gordon Korman

Masterminds: Payback by Gordon Korman

In this novel of lifelong reckoning between two women by the award-winning Mary Gordon, we meet Quin Archer, the revenge-loving queen of the reality-TV show Payback. Unbeknownst to her many fans, Quin was once an angry teen named Heidi, whose true story may be known only to Agnes, her art teacher at a private New England girls' school in the 1970s. Then a young woman herself, Agnes saw a spark of originality in the brooding Heidi. But when she suggested Heidi visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the girl returned with a disastrous account of having been picked up at the museum by an older man. Agnes's stunned response will haunt both women for decades.

Gordon narrates this tale of #MeToo misunderstanding, from a time before there was language to contain it, with a sharp sense of life's changing tempo. She takes us through Heidi's disappearance and reinvention as Quin, and Agnes's escape into career and family in Italy, exploring their choices and potential for happiness until, inevitably, they meet again. Payback is a remarkable book about the precise weight of our words and deeds from a writer whose moral vision is deeply rewarding in its subtlety.

Gordon Korman est n? ? Montr?al et a grandi dans la r?gion de Toronto. Enfant unique, Gordon s'adonne tr's jeune ? l'?criture. Alors qu'il n'est qu'en 7e ann?e, il ?crit Deux farceurs au coll?ge qui sera publi? aux ?ditions Scholastic quelques jours seulement apr's son 14e anniversaire. Gordon a depuis publi? quantit? de romans dont L'escroc, L'?vasion et Pi?g?, les livres de la collection Droit au but, le succ's de librairie Mon p?re est un parrain, un ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Gordon est ?galement l'auteur des trilogies Naufrag?s, Everest et Sous la mer et du 2e roman de la collection Les 39 Cl's: Fausse note ? Venise, un succ's de librairie du New York Times. Gordon Korman habite maintenant Long Island, New York.

Gordon Korman was born in Montreal. He wrote his first book when he was 12 years old, This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall (Coll?ge MacDonald), which was published in 1978, when Gordon was fourteen. The prolific author has written more than sixty books for middle-grade and young adult readers. He is the author of the popular Island (Naufrag?s), Everest (Everest), and Dive (Sous la mer) trilogies as well as The 39 Clues Book 2: One False Note, which debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and The 39 Clues Book #8: The Emperor's Code. Korman now lives with his family in Long Island, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780062300065
ISBN 10	0062300067
Title	Masterminds: Payback
Author	Gordon Korman
Series	Masterminds
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2018-05-01
Number of pages	320
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