Social Creature
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Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton
One of the Best Books of the Year:Janet Maslin, The New York Times
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NPR Social Creature is a wicked original with echoes of the greats (Patricia Highsmith, Gillian Flynn). --Janet Maslin, The New York Times For readers of Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt, a dark, propulsive and addictive debut thriller, splashed with all the glitz and glitter of New York City. They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them... They drink and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together, when they finish their stories, when they are both great writers-to Paris and to Rome and to Trieste... Lavinia will never go. She is going to die soon. Louise has nothing. Lavinia has everything. After a chance encounter, the two spiral into an intimate, intense, and possibly toxic friendship. A Talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, this seductive story takes a classic tale of obsession and makes it irresistibly new.
Burton, Tara Isabella: - Tara Isabella Burton's debut novel, Social Creature, was named a best book of the year by The New York Times, Vulture, and The Guardian. She has written on religion, culture, and place for The New York Times, National Geographic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, City Journal, The Economist's 1843, Aeon, The BBC, The Atlantic, Salon, The New Statesman, and The Telegraph. She is a columnist at Religion News Service, a contributing editor at American Purpose, and the former staff religion writer at Vox. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, Volume 1 Brooklyn, The New Yorker's Daily Shouts, Tor, PANK, and more. She received a doctorate in theology from Trinity College, Oxford, where she was a Clarendon Scholar, in 2017.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385543521 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385543522 |
| Title | Social Creature |
| Author | Tara Isabella Burton |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Doubleday Books |
| Year published | 2018-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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