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YOU WERE MADE FOR THIS

Autor Michelle Sacks
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iun 2018

A bold, sharp, gripping debut about a couple whose perfect life in the Swedish countryside is not what it seems…

A gripping page-turner for fans of The Couple Next Door, Michelle Sacks’s You Were Made For This provocatively explores the darker side of marriage, motherhood and friendship.

Doting wife, devoted husband, cherished child. Merry, Sam and Conor are the perfectfamily in the perfect place. Merry adores baking, gardening, and caring for her infant son,while Sam pursues a new career in film. In their idyllic house in the Swedish woods, theycan hardly believe how lucky they are. What perfect new lives they've built for themselves,away from New York and the events that overshadowed their happiness there.

And then Merry's closest friend Frank comes to stay. All their lives, the two women havebeen more like sisters than best friends. And that’s why Frank sees things that othersmight miss. Treacherous things that unfold behind closed doors.

But soon it's clear that everyone inside the house has something to hide. And as the truthbegins to show through the cracks, Merry, Frank, and Sam grow all the more desperate tokeep their picture-perfect lives intact.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780008261221
ISBN-10: 0008261229
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Harper Collins SUA

Notă biografică

Michelle Sackswas born in South Africa, and holds a master's degree in literature and film from the University of Cape Town. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and for two South African PEN Literary Awards. Michelle's short story collectionStone Babywas published in 2017.

Recenzii

"A worthy page-turner...Sacks stuffs her sentences with intrigue and terror, and her prose effortlessly weaves between each of the narrators, giving them a distinct voice that's all-too-easy to be convinced by. She keeps you on the edge of your seat as the tension ratchets up...A gripping, smart, dire family drama."—David Canfield,Entertainment Weekly
"Haunting...Sacks deftly engages the complexities of motherhood, infidelity, and misconduct in this novel. Her storytelling shines most when Merry's alleged closest friend, Frank, arrives for a visit...Sacks explores the ways in which unhealthy relationships can wreak irrevocable damage on those involved--and everyone surrounding."—Megan McCluskey, TIME Magazine
"An engrossing tale that probes the darker corners of motherhood, friendship, and marriage."—Good Housekeeping
"Riveting...Devastating and unpredictable...Michelle Sacks richly explores marriage and parenting and delivers a brilliant, unflinching look at a household under siege from itself."—Associated Press
"Sacks proves herself to be an expert of both language and atmosphere. By turns mesmerizing and horrifying,You Were Made for Thisconfronts the dark truths behind motherhood, marriage and female friendship with disquieting lyricism...Margaret Atwood'sCat's Eyemeets the set of a David Lynch film in this haunting, psychological portrait that takes the dark domestic thriller into a new, literary realm."—Alice Martin,Shelf Awareness, starred review
"Beguiling and frightening.... Hardto read but also bewitchingly hard to put down-a fitting contradiction in anovel that explores the corruption at the heart of beauty."—Kirkus Reviews
"Sacks'sfirst novel expertly portrays the dark side of domesticity and motherhood... Fansof dark and twisted psychological thrillers will be swept up in the appearanceof domestic bliss and maternal perfection, only to be left off-kilter andbreathless with each costume change."
Library Journal
"Haunting...Though Sacks doesn't give readers anyone to root for, her unblinking look at beautiful people with ugly secrets has thevoyeuristic fascination of a Bergman film."—Publishers Weekly
"Insightfuland skillfully constructed... this will keep readers rapt to the final page."—Booklist
"The horrors of this rural paradise break free into the fresh Nordic air. A brilliant debut: crisp writing, a deliciously dark story."—Sarah Murdoch,Toronto Star
"A sinister, razor's edge of a book. I was, in turn, totally gripped, completely unsettled, and not just a little freaked out by these brutal characters and the damage they did to themselves and each other. Whatever you feel while reading this dark, twisting story, you definitely won't be able to put it down."—Lisa Unger,New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hunter
"Set in an idyllic Swedish forest straight out of a fairy tale,You Were Made For Thisis a taut novel of deception, full of heart-wrenching twists and turns. Michelle Sacks shows us that happy families are not always what they seem and explores the dark shadows that lurk within the fairy tale, and in human nature, in this richly compelling debut."—Jennifer McMahon,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Winter People
"You Were Made for Thisdeftly explores the darkest corners of domestic life through the eyes of three complicated, damaged souls, inextricably connected by obsession, loyalty, jealousy, and unspeakable secrets. The savage beauty of Michelle Sacks's prose nestled within the most chilling of stories will leave you shaken and bereft. It is a stunning accomplishment."
Heather Gudenkauf,New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Weight of Silence
"You Were Made For Thisis a thrilling literary fairytale from which you can't escape, not even after you've found your way back to the light of day. The warning is right there in the novel's epigraph: 'You must always go carefully into the dark Swedish woods.' And then in you go, forgetting to leave bread crumbs behind you, until soon you are lost in Sacks' fascinating domestic dreamscape, a dark and deceptive place where old wounds, secrets, and the seeds of violence are cooked up and jarred and stowed in plain sight, yet fill your heart with dread at every turn."—Tim Johnston,New York Times bestselling author of Descent
"You Were Made For Thisplumbs the darkness that can lie at the core of the most intimate of relationships: between husband and wife, lifelong friends, even mother and child. Michelle Sacks has a gift for empathy, and her broken sinners are so tenderly drawn that even at their worst they remain heartbreakingly human. She's also written the most complex and relatable female friendship I've read in years."—Heather Young,The Strand Critics' Award winner for The Lost Girls