The Clasp

• Book ID: 126977298
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Standards

✦ Synopsis

**Part comedy of manners, part treasure hunt, The Clasp is the first novel from the writer whom David Sedaris calls "perfectly, relentlessly funny"**Kezia, Nathaniel and Victor are reunited for the extravagant wedding of a college friend. Now at the tail end of their twenties, they arrive completely absorbed in their own lives—Kezia the second-in-command to a madwoman jewelry designer in Manhattan; Nathaniel the former literary cool kid, selling his wares in Hollywood; and the Eeyore-esque Victor, just fired from the offices of a middling search engine. They soon slip back into old roles: Victor loves Kezia. Kezia loves Nathaniel. Nathaniel loves Nathaniel.In the midst of all this semi-merriment, Victor passes out in the mother of the groom's bedroom. He wakes to her jovially slapping him across the face. Instead of a scolding, she offers Victor a story she's never even told her son, about a valuable necklace that disappeared during the Nazi...

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