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A haunting debut novel set against the background of New York City in the 1920s...
Confessions are Rose Baker’s job. A typist for the New York City Police Department, she sits in judgment like a high priestess. Criminals come before her to admit their transgressions, and, with a few strokes of the keys before her, she seals their fate. But while she may hear about shootings, knifings, and crimes of passion, as soon as she leaves the room, she reverts to a dignified and proper lady. Until Odalie joins the typing pool.
As Rose quickly falls under the stylish, coquettish Odalie’s spell, she is lured into a sparkling underworld of speakeasies and jazz. And what starts as simple fascination turns into an obsession from which she may never recover.
Confessions are Rose Baker’s job. A typist for the New York City Police Department, she sits in judgment like a high priestess. Criminals come before her to admit their transgressions, and, with a few strokes of the keys before her, she seals their fate. But while she may hear about shootings, knifings, and crimes of passion, as soon as she leaves the room, she reverts to a dignified and proper lady. Until Odalie joins the typing pool.
As Rose quickly falls under the stylish, coquettish Odalie’s spell, she is lured into a sparkling underworld of speakeasies and jazz. And what starts as simple fascination turns into an obsession from which she may never recover.
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“Totally addictive.”—The Atlantic Wire
“From the first page [I] was absorbed...Suzanne Rindell’s story of a 1920s police stenographer who becomes increasingly obsessed with a glamorous new typist reminds me at points of Notes on a Scandal and Patricia Highsmith, but has creepy charms all its own.”—The Paris Review
“Take a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, throw in some Great Gatsby flourishes, and the result is Rindell’s debut, a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan...A deliciously addictive, cinematically influenced page-turner, both comic and provocative.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“If you liked Gone Girl, you might enjoy [The Other Typist]...The best book I’ve read so far this summer.”—Greenwich Time
“Eerie and compelling...A riveting page-turner.”—Alice LaPlante, New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind
“A lush, evocative, darkly comic noir...A novel that keeps you turning th pages (and then turning them back again to see if you missed a clue or two). The author is a vivid storyteller; nearly every scene is expertly detailed without being overdone...[The] perfect book to start the summer with.”—Examiner.com
“Rindell’s debut is a cinematic page-turner.”—Publishers Weekly
“With hints towards The Great Gatsby, Rindell’s novel aspires to recreate Prohibition-era New York City, both its opulence and its squalid underbelly. She captures it quite well, while at the same time spinning a delicate and suspenseful narrative about false friendship, obsession, and life for single women in New York during Prohibition.”—Booklist
“Pick up now.”—O Magazine
“As you read this remarkable first novel you will feel the room temperature drop. It’s chilling till the very end.”—Rita Mae Brown, MFH, Author
“Exhilarating.”—Daily Candy
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“From the first page [I] was absorbed...Suzanne Rindell’s story of a 1920s police stenographer who becomes increasingly obsessed with a glamorous new typist reminds me at points of Notes on a Scandal and Patricia Highsmith, but has creepy charms all its own.”—The Paris Review
“Take a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, throw in some Great Gatsby flourishes, and the result is Rindell’s debut, a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan...A deliciously addictive, cinematically influenced page-turner, both comic and provocative.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“If you liked Gone Girl, you might enjoy [The Other Typist]...The best book I’ve read so far this summer.”—Greenwich Time
“Eerie and compelling...A riveting page-turner.”—Alice LaPlante, New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind
“A lush, evocative, darkly comic noir...A novel that keeps you turning th pages (and then turning them back again to see if you missed a clue or two). The author is a vivid storyteller; nearly every scene is expertly detailed without being overdone...[The] perfect book to start the summer with.”—Examiner.com
“Rindell’s debut is a cinematic page-turner.”—Publishers Weekly
“With hints towards The Great Gatsby, Rindell’s novel aspires to recreate Prohibition-era New York City, both its opulence and its squalid underbelly. She captures it quite well, while at the same time spinning a delicate and suspenseful narrative about false friendship, obsession, and life for single women in New York during Prohibition.”—Booklist
“Pick up now.”—O Magazine
“As you read this remarkable first novel you will feel the room temperature drop. It’s chilling till the very end.”—Rita Mae Brown, MFH, Author
“Exhilarating.”—Daily Candy
Suzanne Rindell is currently in the dissertation phase of the Ph.D. program in English literature at Rice University. Her concentration is in twentieth-century American modernism, and her research provided the impetus for her novel. She has published short fiction and poetry in Conjunctions (online), Nimrod, StorySouth, Crab Orchard Review, and Cream City Review.
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- EditoreG.P. Putnam's Sons
- Data di pubblicazione2014
- ISBN 10 0425275124
- ISBN 13 9780425275122
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine368
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