The Engagement - Rilegato

Hooper, Chloe

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0224096346 ISBN 13: 9780224096348

Casa editrice: Jonathan Cape, 2013

Riassunto

Two people. How many lies?

Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: Alexander Colquhoun, a handsome, well-mannered farmer, is paying for her to stay at his property in remote Australia. Liese, an English architect in flight from the financial crisis, has been working at her uncle’s estate agency in Melbourne, where Alexander is looking for a place to buy. The luxury apartments Liese shows him become sets for a relationship that satisfies their fantasies – and helps pay her debts. It’s a game. Both players understand the rules. Or so she thinks.

Across the ancient landscape they drive at dusk to his grand decaying mansion. Here Liese senses a change in Alexander, and realises a new game has begun.

Chloe Hooper's riveting and provocative new novel is a psychological thriller for the modern age, an exploration of the snares of money and love and the dark side of erotic imagination. A trap has been set, but how and why? And for whom?

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

A gripping, provocative new novel by the acclaimed author of The Tall Man and A Child's Book of True Crime.

L'autore:

Chloe Hooper was born in 1973. Her highly praised first novel, A Child's Book of True Crime (2002), was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her Observer article about the Doomadgee case, 'Island of Lost Souls', was shortlisted for the Amnesty International Media Awards. Her last book, The Tall Man, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2009. In Australia, it won seven major literary awards.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Jonathan Cape
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0224096346
• ISBN 13: 9780224096348
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256