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Russell Kate Elizabeth
Russell Kate Elizabeth - My Dark Vanessa A Novel - Paperback
Russell Kate Elizabeth - My Dark Vanessa A Novel - Paperback
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Description: Instant NEW YORK Times Bestseller An exceedingly complex inventive resourceful examination of harm and power. The New York Times Book Review Editors Choice A lightning rod brilliantly crafted. The Washington Post Recommended by The New York Times US a Today Entertainment Weekly Marie Claire Elle Harper's Bazaar Newsweek New York Post Esquire Real Simple The Sunday Times The Guardian and more! Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet na ve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher a brilliant all - consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer.2000. Bright ambitious and yearning for adulthood fifteen - year - old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane her magnetic and guileful forty - two - year - old English teacher.2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student who reaches out to Vanessa and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager and who professed to worship only her may be far different from what she has always believed? Alternating between Vanessa's present and her past My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought - provoking and impossible to put down this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency consent complicity and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room My Dark Vanessa is an era - defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.
Title: My Dark Vanessa A Novel
Author(s): Russell Kate Elizabeth
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062941510
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/2/2021
Description: Instant NEW YORK Times Bestseller An exceedingly complex inventive resourceful examination of harm and power. The New York Times Book Review Editors Choice A lightning rod brilliantly crafted. The Washington Post Recommended by The New York Times US a Today Entertainment Weekly Marie Claire Elle Harper's Bazaar Newsweek New York Post Esquire Real Simple The Sunday Times The Guardian and more! Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet na ve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher a brilliant all - consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer.2000. Bright ambitious and yearning for adulthood fifteen - year - old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane her magnetic and guileful forty - two - year - old English teacher.2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student who reaches out to Vanessa and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager and who professed to worship only her may be far different from what she has always believed? Alternating between Vanessa's present and her past My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought - provoking and impossible to put down this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency consent complicity and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room My Dark Vanessa is an era - defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.
Title: My Dark Vanessa A Novel
Author(s): Russell Kate Elizabeth
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062941510
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/2/2021