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Black Chalk

โœ Scribed by Christopher J. Yates


Book ID
110628056
Publisher
Picador
Year
2015
Tongue
en-US
Weight
1 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781250075567

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โœฆ Synopsis


"This is the smart summer thriller you've been waiting for." --NPR's All Things Considered
NAMED A MUST READ BY THE BOSTON GLOBE, BBC.COM , AND _NEW YORK POST
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR
A compulsively readable psychological thriller set in New York and at Oxford University in which a group of six students play an elaborate game of dares and consequences with tragic result

It was only ever meant to be a game played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University; a game of consequences, silly forfeits, and childish dares. But then the game changed: The stakes grew higher and the dares more personal and more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results. Now, fourteen years later, the remaining players must meet again for the final round. Who knows better than your best friends what would break you?
A gripping psychological thriller partly...


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