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Van Den Berg Laura - State Of Paradise - Hardcover
Van Den Berg Laura - State Of Paradise - Hardcover
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Description: A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice. Named a Most Anticipated Book by TIME Oprah Daily Esquire the Los Angeles Times The Boston Globe Marie Claire ELLE Bustle and Lit Hub. An Apple Best Book of July. One of ELLE's Best Novels of 2024 So Far. " A brilliant ghost story and a profoundly moving and atmospheric meditation on place memory and the very nature of reality where everything is truly not as it seems." Mona Awad author of Rouge" At once an adventure and a treat a deep study of Florida's psychogeography and a creepy story about ghosts missing people cults and technology. Don't miss it." Gabino Iglesias NPR A heart - racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida's underbelly from the celebrated Laura van den Berg It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived everything appears to be getting back to normal: soul - crushing heat torrential downpours sinkholes swallowing the earth ominous cats a world - bending virtual reality device being handed out by a company called Electr a and an increasing number of posters dotting the streets with the faces of missing citizens. Living in her mother's home a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author tracks the eerie changes. On top of everything else she's contending with family secrets spotty memories of her troubled youth a burgeoning cult in the living room and the alarming expansion of her own belly button. Then during a violent rainstorm her sister goes missing. She returns a few days later sprawled on their mother's lawn and speaking of another dimension. Now the ghostwriter must investigate not only what happened to her sister and the other missing people but also the uncanny connections between Electr a the famous author she works for and reality itself. A sticky rain - soaked reckoning with the elusive nature of selfhood and storytelling Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise is an intricate and page - turning whirlwind. With inimitable control and thrilling style van den Berg reaches deep into the void and returns with a story far stranger than either reality or fiction.
Title: State Of Paradise
Author(s): Van Den Berg Laura
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
Barcode: 9780374612207
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 7/9/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice. Named a Most Anticipated Book by TIME Oprah Daily Esquire the Los Angeles Times The Boston Globe Marie Claire ELLE Bustle and Lit Hub. An Apple Best Book of July. One of ELLE's Best Novels of 2024 So Far. " A brilliant ghost story and a profoundly moving and atmospheric meditation on place memory and the very nature of reality where everything is truly not as it seems." Mona Awad author of Rouge" At once an adventure and a treat a deep study of Florida's psychogeography and a creepy story about ghosts missing people cults and technology. Don't miss it." Gabino Iglesias NPR A heart - racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida's underbelly from the celebrated Laura van den Berg It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived everything appears to be getting back to normal: soul - crushing heat torrential downpours sinkholes swallowing the earth ominous cats a world - bending virtual reality device being handed out by a company called Electr a and an increasing number of posters dotting the streets with the faces of missing citizens. Living in her mother's home a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author tracks the eerie changes. On top of everything else she's contending with family secrets spotty memories of her troubled youth a burgeoning cult in the living room and the alarming expansion of her own belly button. Then during a violent rainstorm her sister goes missing. She returns a few days later sprawled on their mother's lawn and speaking of another dimension. Now the ghostwriter must investigate not only what happened to her sister and the other missing people but also the uncanny connections between Electr a the famous author she works for and reality itself. A sticky rain - soaked reckoning with the elusive nature of selfhood and storytelling Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise is an intricate and page - turning whirlwind. With inimitable control and thrilling style van den Berg reaches deep into the void and returns with a story far stranger than either reality or fiction.
Title: State Of Paradise
Author(s): Van Den Berg Laura
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
Barcode: 9780374612207
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 7/9/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
