A Student of History

✍ Scribed by Revoyr, Nina

• Book ID: 110311165
• Publisher: Akashic Books
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781617756634

✦ Synopsis

"Masterfully and intimately suspenseful...Shrewdly delineated scenes, loaded conversations, and a delirious surge of desire caustically expose [Los Angeles's] toxic ruling-class legacy of prejudice and entitlement, while stoking questions of privilege, trust, and betrayal. Wealth and power, Revoyr confirms in this taut, commanding, and delectable novel, are not shields against folly, crime, or sorrow."
--Booklist , STARRED review

"An entertaining, crisply written tale...evokes echoes of Great Expectations , The Great Gatsby , and a lot of Raymond Chandler, but with a thoroughly 21st-century setting...Revoyr's sleek prose and fast pacing move the reader through the sharply observed world of old money and the bad behavior it protects."
--_Kirkus Reviews_

"Nina Revoyr is one of Los Angeles's most sharp-eyed and penetrating chroniclers, and A Student of History only furthers her reputation. Party mystery, part...