Josie and Jack: A Novel - Brossura

Braffet, Kelly

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0618441433 ISBN 13: 9780618441433

Casa editrice: Mariner, 2005

Riassunto

In Josie and Jack, Kelly Braffet gives us a deliciously dark, suspenseful debut novel in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith.
Beautiful, brilliant, and inseparable, Josie and Jack Raeburn live a secluded, anarchic existence in their decaying western Pennsylvania home. The only adult in their lives is their rage-prone father, a physicist, whose erratic behavior finally drives them away. Without a moral compass to guide them, Jack leads Josie into a menacing world of wealth, eroticism, and betrayal. His sociopathic tendencies emerge, and soon Josie must decide which is stronger: the love and devotion she feels for her brother or her will to survive.
From its opening page to its shocking climax, this contemporary Hansel and Gretel story is compulsively readable and hugely entertaining.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Kelly Braffet's first novel, Josie and Jack, was published in 2005. It was praised as “wicked fun . . . a gothic tour of hell” (Los Angeles Times) and “a compelling study of love, hate, and psychopathic jealousy” (New York Post). Braffet was born in Long Beach, California, in 1976, and has lived in Arizona, rural Pennsylvania and Oxford, England. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University, and has taught novel writing at the Sackett Street Writing Workshop. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, the writer Owen King.

Product Description:

Teenage siblings Josie and Jack are each other's whole world. Josie lives inside Jack's love and happily submits to his control, following him on his sociopathic path. When their father's erratic behavior finally drives them away, things get complicated, sinister, and interesting, in this contemporary Hansel and Gretel story.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Mariner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0618441433
• ISBN 13: 9780618441433
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256