{"product_id":"9780812998627","title":"The Guest","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e), “smoldering” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) novel by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“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.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSummer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline’s \u003ci\u003eThe Guest\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding literary achievement.","brand":"Emma Cline","offers":[{"title":"Random House Publishing Group |  Hardback  |  2023-05-16","offer_id":44151415472383,"sku":"9780812998627","price":37.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_31cc2081-472f-4ad3-a869-571a419cd8fd.jpg?v=1700680543","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780812998627","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}