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Milliken Kate - Kept Animals A Novel - Paperback
Milliken Kate - Kept Animals A Novel - Paperback
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Description: Named a most anticipated novel by Oprah Daily Vogue Parade The Millions and Electric Lit *; A Reader's Digest Quarantine Book Club Pick *; Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A ';rugged and ravishing (Oprah Daily) debut novel of desire betrayal and loss centering on three teenage girls a horse ranch and the accident that changes everything. It's 1993, and Rory Ramos works as a ranch hand at the stable her stepfather manages in Topanga Canyon California a dry dusty place reliant on horses and hierarchies. There she rides for the rich clientele including twins June and Wade Fisk. While Rory draws the interest of out - and - proud June she's more intrigued by Vivian Price the beautiful girl with the movie - star father who lives down the hill. Rory keeps largely separate from the likes of the Pricesbut perched on her bedroom windowsill Rory steals glimpses of Vivian swimming in her pool nearly every night. After Rory's stepfather is involved in a tragic car accident the lives of Rory June and Vivian become inextricably bound together. Rory discovers photography begins riding more competitively and grows closer to seductive mercurial Vivian but despite her newfound sense of self disaster lurks all around her in this ';exquisite exploration of hurt and desire (Jeannette Walls): in the parched landscape in her unruly longings in her stepfather's wrecked body and guilty conscience. One night as the relationships among these teenagers come to a head a forest fire tears through the canyon and Rory's life is changed forever. Narrated by Rory's daughter Charlie in 2015, more than twenty years after that fateful fire Kept Animals is ';gorgeous sensual. an event - packed novel of class desire and coming - of - age (The New York Times Book Review).
Title: Kept Animals A Novel
Author(s): Milliken Kate
Publisher: Scribner
Barcode: 9781501188596
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/3/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: Named a most anticipated novel by Oprah Daily Vogue Parade The Millions and Electric Lit *; A Reader's Digest Quarantine Book Club Pick *; Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A ';rugged and ravishing (Oprah Daily) debut novel of desire betrayal and loss centering on three teenage girls a horse ranch and the accident that changes everything. It's 1993, and Rory Ramos works as a ranch hand at the stable her stepfather manages in Topanga Canyon California a dry dusty place reliant on horses and hierarchies. There she rides for the rich clientele including twins June and Wade Fisk. While Rory draws the interest of out - and - proud June she's more intrigued by Vivian Price the beautiful girl with the movie - star father who lives down the hill. Rory keeps largely separate from the likes of the Pricesbut perched on her bedroom windowsill Rory steals glimpses of Vivian swimming in her pool nearly every night. After Rory's stepfather is involved in a tragic car accident the lives of Rory June and Vivian become inextricably bound together. Rory discovers photography begins riding more competitively and grows closer to seductive mercurial Vivian but despite her newfound sense of self disaster lurks all around her in this ';exquisite exploration of hurt and desire (Jeannette Walls): in the parched landscape in her unruly longings in her stepfather's wrecked body and guilty conscience. One night as the relationships among these teenagers come to a head a forest fire tears through the canyon and Rory's life is changed forever. Narrated by Rory's daughter Charlie in 2015, more than twenty years after that fateful fire Kept Animals is ';gorgeous sensual. an event - packed novel of class desire and coming - of - age (The New York Times Book Review).
Title: Kept Animals A Novel
Author(s): Milliken Kate
Publisher: Scribner
Barcode: 9781501188596
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/3/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
