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Bottle Grove

- A Novel
Af: Daniel Handler Engelsk Hardback

Bottle Grove

- A Novel
Af: Daniel Handler Engelsk Hardback
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A razor-sharp tale of two couples, two marriages, a bar, and a San Francisco start-up from a best-selling, award-winning novelist.

This is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove--bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests, lustful teenagers, drunken revelers, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down. The girl in the corner slugging vodka from a cough-syrup bottle is Padgett--she’s keeping something secreted in the woods. The couple at the altar are the Nickels--the bride is emphatic about changing her name, as there is plenty about her old life she is ready to forget.

Set in San Francisco as the tech-boom is exploding, Bottle Grove is a sexy, skewering dark comedy about two unions--one forged of love and the other of greed--and about the forces that can drive couples together, into dependence, and then into sinister, even supernatural realms. Add one ominous shape-shifter to the mix, and you get a delightful and strange spectacle: a story of scheming and yearning and foibles and love and what we end up doing for it--and everyone has a secret. Looming over it all is the income disparity between San Francisco''s tech community and . . . everyone else.

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A razor-sharp tale of two couples, two marriages, a bar, and a San Francisco start-up from a best-selling, award-winning novelist.

This is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove--bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests, lustful teenagers, drunken revelers, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down. The girl in the corner slugging vodka from a cough-syrup bottle is Padgett--she’s keeping something secreted in the woods. The couple at the altar are the Nickels--the bride is emphatic about changing her name, as there is plenty about her old life she is ready to forget.

Set in San Francisco as the tech-boom is exploding, Bottle Grove is a sexy, skewering dark comedy about two unions--one forged of love and the other of greed--and about the forces that can drive couples together, into dependence, and then into sinister, even supernatural realms. Add one ominous shape-shifter to the mix, and you get a delightful and strange spectacle: a story of scheming and yearning and foibles and love and what we end up doing for it--and everyone has a secret. Looming over it all is the income disparity between San Francisco''s tech community and . . . everyone else.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 240
ISBN-13: 9781632864277
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1632864274
Udg. Dato: 28 nov 2019
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 216mm
Højde: 149mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Oplagsdato: 28 nov 2019
Forfatter(e): Daniel Handler
Forfatter(e) Daniel Handler


Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur


ISBN-13 9781632864277


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 240


Udgave


Længde 22mm


Bredde 216mm


Højde 149mm


Udg. Dato 28 nov 2019


Oplagsdato 28 nov 2019


Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Kategori sammenhænge