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The Guest

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

By Emma Cline

By Emma Cline

By Emma Cline

By Emma Cline

By Emma Cline

By Emma Cline

By Emma Cline
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By Emma Cline
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By Emma Cline
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By Emma Cline
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May 16, 2023 | ISBN 9780593678510

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May 16, 2023 | ISBN 9780812998627

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    About The Guest

    A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.

    “Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass from one world to another.”

    Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.

    A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she’s been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.

    With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.

    Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline’s The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.

    About The Guest

    A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.

    “Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass from one world to another.”

    Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.

    A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she’s been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.

    With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.

    Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline’s The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.

    About The Guest

    A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.

    “Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass from one world to another.”

    Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.

    A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she’s been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.

    With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.

    Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline’s The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.

    About The Guest

    A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.

    “Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass from one world to another.”

    Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.

    A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she’s been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.

    With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.

    Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline’s The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.

    About The Guest

    A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.

    “Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass from one world to another.”

    Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.

    A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she’s been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.

    With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.

    Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline’s The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.

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    Emma Cline is the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls and the story collection Daddy. The Girls was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award, and the… More about Emma Cline

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    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

    Large Print | $30.00
    Published by Random House Large Print
    May 16, 2023 | 456 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780593678510

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

    Hardcover | $28.00
    Published by Random House
    May 16, 2023 | 304 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780812998627

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Random House
    May 16, 2023 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780812998634

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction | Audiobooks

    CD | $45.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    May 16, 2023 | 780 Minutes | ISBN 9780147524034

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $25.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    May 16, 2023 | 780 Minutes | ISBN 9780147524041
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    Praise

    Praise for Emma Cline

    “Brilliant . . . [Emma] Cline is an astonishingly gifted stylist.”—The New York Times

    “Masterful.”—New York magazine

    “Extraordinary . . . Debut novels like this are rare, indeed.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post

    “On every other page, it seems, there is something remarkable.”—James Wood, The New Yorker

    “A thrilling new voice in American fiction.”—Jennifer Egan

    “A striking achievement, the assured work of a young writer with talent to burn.”—The Boston Globe

    “Cline’s writing is an addictive treat . . . a propulsive read starring an irresistible antihero.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

    “The payoffs are as gratifying as they are shattering.”—Publishers Weekly

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