When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O'neill
"Every decent friendship comes with a drop of hatred. But that hatred is like honey in the tea. It makes it addictive."Charismatic Marie Antoine is the daughter of the richest man in 19th century Montreal. She has everything she wants, except for a best friend--until clever, scheming Sadie Arnett moves to the neighborhood. Immediately united by their passion and intensity, Marie and Sadie attract and repel each other in ways that thrill them both. Their games soon become tinged with risk, even violence. Forced to separate by the adults around them, they spend years engaged in acts of alternating innocence and depravity. And when a singular event brings them back together, the dizzying effects will upend the city.
Traveling from a repressive finishing school to a vibrant brothel, taking readers firsthand into the brutality of factory life and the opulent lives of Montreal's wealthy, When We Lost Our Heads dazzlingly explores gender, sex, desire, class, and the terrifying power of the human heart when it can't let someone go.
Heather O'Neill is a contributor to This American Life, and her writing has appeared in outlets such as the New York Times Magazine. In 2007, her international bestseller Lullabies for Little Criminals received the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the Canada Reads competition, and was shortlisted for seven accolades, including the Orange Prize for Fiction and Canada's Governor General's Literary Award, as well as being longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her most recent work, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, was called one of the finest books of the year by various magazines and was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for the 2015 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction and the Encore Award. She currently resides in Montreal.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593422915 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593422910 |
| Title | When We Lost Our Heads |
| Author | Heather O'neill |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2023-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
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