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Hex

Autor Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2020
'Wise, funny, suspenseful' JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER'Reads like a botanist's cross-breeding ofThe Secret HistoryandDepartment of Speculation'EMMA STRAUB'Hexis some dark and joyous witchery' LAUREN GROFFNell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in Biological Science, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote, working alone to set a speed record for the detoxification of poisonous plants. Her mentor, Dr. Joan Kallas, is the hero of Nell's heart. Nell frequently finds herself standing in the doorway to Joan's office despite herself, mesmerized by Joan's elegance, success, and spiritual force. Surrounded by Nell's ex, her best friend, her best friend's boyfriend, and Joan's buffoonish husband, the two scientists are tangled together at the center of a web of illicit relationships, grudges, and obsessions. All six are burdened by desire and ambition, and as they collide on the university campus, their attractions set in motion a domino effect of affairs and heartbreak. Meanwhile, Nell slowly fills her empty apartment with poisonous plants to study, and she begins to keep a series of notebooks, all dedicated to Joan. She logs her research and how she spends her days, but the notebooks ultimately become a painstaking map of love. In a dazzling and unforgettable voice, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight has written a spellbinding novel of emotional and intellectual intensity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526611413
ISBN-10: 1526611414
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Circus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Funny, sharp and sinister,Hexwill delight fans of Otessa Moshfegh'sMy Year of Rest and Relaxation, Elif Batuman'sThe Idiot,Miranda July'sThe First Bad Man, and Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels

Notă biografică

Rebecca Dinerstein Knight is the author of the novel and screenplayThe Sunlit Night, and a bilingual English-Norwegian collection of poems,Lofoten. Her nonfiction has appeared inThe New York Times,The Guardian, andThe New Yorkeronline, among others. She is a graduate of Yale and the NYU MFA program, and has received a Wallant Award for Jewish Literature. Born and raised in New York City, she lives in New Hampshire.

Recenzii

A book that examines our natural and absolutely astounding reactions to each other. The language of this novel is so finely tailored, so elegant yet organic, so absorbing that it takes the reader a moment to realize that this is not just a deliciously engaging tale of what it is like to be social and sexual, but that this writing is an actual incantation in itself. It is a beautiful, spooky spell that divides and processes our innate potential for poison or pleasure
Cannily explores both the poisons and the antidotes of love, ambition, mentorship, and yearning, in prose so lively that I often found myself laughing with pleasure.Hexis some dark and joyous witchery
Hexis sexy, unhinged, revelatory, so smart it gives the reader whiplash. It works on you like the poisonous plants that wind through the storyline, until you're as obsessed and intoxicated as the vivid characters that make up this love hexagon gone fascinatingly and beautifully wrong. I can't remember the last time I had so much fun reading a book or was so impressed by the wizardry of the language
Hexis a gem of a book: sharp and exquisite. Dinerstein Knight writes about women's obsession with devastating wisdom, insight, and humor. It is pure pleasure to be under her spell
Hexis neon-bright and guided by a fierce, scintillating interest in the innermost chambers of the human heart, where melancholic and bright humors mingle together. In every line you hear the voice of a writer who knows how to lead you expertly into the place where the story is most alive: spooky, shifty, darkly funny, and delectable in every way
Hexreads like a botanist's cross-breeding ofThe Secret HistoryandDepartment of Speculation, full of brilliant and bodily obsession. Rebecca Dinerstein Knight is both a scientist and a magician, and she conjures this beautiful spell of a novel with total control
Offbeat yet entirely precise; original and universal.Hexis a nut with sweet meat and a poison shell, at once disarming and quietly devastating. This is a book for anyone who's ever felt adrift, or felt alone, or loved someone out of reach, or all the above