{"product_id":"the-guest-9780593678510","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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK - \u003ci\u003eVULTURE\u003c\/i\u003e'S INAUGURAL \"BEACH BOOK READS\" BOOK CLUB PICK - LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN\/FAULKNER AWARD \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Time, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, Financial Times, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Vogue, Glamour, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Slate, Time Out, \u003c\/i\u003eChicago Public Library, \u003ci\u003eElectric Lit, Bookreporter\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSummer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's \u003ci\u003eThe Guest\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding literary achievement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16595158\"\u003eEmma Cline\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Large Print Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593678510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593678516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarge Print\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC025000\"\u003ePsychological\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC044000\"\u003eWomen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmma Cline \u003c\/b\u003eis the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collection \u003ci\u003eDaddy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize. It was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice and the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Cline's stories have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. She was named a Guggenheim Fellow, received the Plimpton Prize from \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e and an O. Henry Award, and was chosen as one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Young American Novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Large Print Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44477000024301,"sku":"9780593678510","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_6451b0ae-11f6-4cd2-9f9a-88b1cd6d0069.jpg?v=1754408207","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-guest-9780593678510","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}