**"Torday is a singular American writer with a big heart and a real love for the world. He has the rare gift for writing dynamic action scenes while being genuinely funny." βGeorge Saunders** Bluegrass musician, former journalist and editor, and now PhD in English, Mark Brumfeld has arrived at his
Looker: a novel
β Scribed by Laura Sims (author)
- Publisher
- Tinder Press; Scribner. copyright 2019
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 111 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York ; London ; Toronto
- ISBN
- 1501199137
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β¦ Synopsis
*Vogue****'s "Most Anticipated Books of 2019"
*Entertainment Weekly****'s "One of January's Hottest Reads"
Literary Hub's "Most Anticipated Books of 2019"
***Southern Living***'s "Best New Books Coming Out Winter 2019"**
A dazzling, razor-sharp debut novel about a woman whose obsession with the beautiful actress on her block drives her to the edge.
I've never crossed their little fenced-in garden, of course. I stand on the sidewalk in front of the fern-and-ivy-filled planter that hangs from the fence --placed there as a sort of screen, I'm sure--and have a direct line of view into the kitchen at night. I'm grateful they've never thought to install blinds. That's how confident they are. No one would dare stand in front of our house and watch us, they think. And they're probably right: except for me.
In this taut and thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless...
β¦ Subjects
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