Based on a True Story - Rilegato

Vigan, Delphine De

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ISBN 10: 1408878801 ISBN 13: 9781408878804

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017

Riassunto

What would you do if your closest friend tried to steal your life?
'Combining the allure of Gone Girl with the sophistication of literary fiction, Based on a True Story is a creepy but unapologetically clever psychological thriller' Independent

Today I know that L. is the sole reason for my powerlessness. And that the two years that we were friends almost made me stop writing for ever.

Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and unable to begin writing her next book, Delphine meets L.

L. is the kind of impeccable, sophisticated woman who fascinates Delphine; a woman with smooth hair and perfectly filed nails, and a gift for saying the right thing. Delphine finds herself irresistibly drawn to her, their friendship growing as their meetings, notes and texts increase. But as L. begins to dress like Delphine, and, in the face of Delphine's crippling inability to write, L. even offers to answer her emails, and their relationship rapidly intensifies. L. becomes more and more involved in Delphine's life until she patiently takes control and turns it upside down: slowly, surely, insidiously.

Based on a True Story is a chilling novel of suspense that will leave you questioning the truth and its significance long after you have turned the final page.

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Recensione:

The latest literary sensation ... It has people in a word-of-mouth frenzy I've not seen since Gone Girl ... De Vigan's description of a close female friendship is a compulsive but agonising read (Celia Walden, Daily Telegraph)

This is that rare beast - a fine thriller and a potential literary sensation. Patricia Highsmith would have been proud. Don't miss it (Daily Mail)

All writing is constructed on shifting sands, but I've never read a book that makes the complex relationship between reality and fiction both as visible, and at the same time so opaque, as here. I was captivated. Combining the allure of Gone Girl with the sophistication of literary fiction, Based on a True Story is a creepy but unapologetically clever psychological thriller that also aces the Bechdel test (Independent)

If Simone de Beauvoir had written Single White Female with nods to Marguerite Duras, the result might be something like this latest Gallic grip-lit sensation (Joanna Briscoe, Guardian)

A wonderful literary trompe l'ceil: a book about friendship, writing and the boundary between reality and fantasy ... Dark, smart, strange, compelling (Harriet Lane, bestselling author of Her)

A sophisticated modern take on an old trope (a film adaptation by Roman Polanski and Oliver Assayas is planned) . An unlikely mash-up of thriller and conte philosophique, Based on a True Story insists on the author's right to blur the lines (Evening Standard)

A superior identity-theft thriller on the same spectrum as The Talented Mr Ripley, or Single White Female ... De Vigan has produced a concept thriller with a lavish dash of theorising about the status of fiction and reality (Sunday Times)

The novel casts a spell of enchantment: there's always some new anxiety or fear to make the mind wonder - just what the hell is going on? ... Just don't peek ahead! The very last word will make you rethink everything you've just read. Utterly brilliant (Spectator)

An incredible true story of obsessive female friendship that grips until the very last mark on the very last page (Denise Mina, bestselling author of The Long Drop)

This is an unnerving picture of a toxic relationship and it's no surprise de Vigan's study of betrayal is to be filmed by a specialist in this dark territory, Roman Polanski (Financial Times)

Descrizione del libro:

What would you do if your closest friend tried to steal your life?
'Combining the allure of Gone Girl with the sophistication of literary fiction, Based on a True Story is a creepy but unapologetically clever psychological thriller' Independent

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1408878801
• ISBN 13: 9781408878804
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384