Alice and Edith are sisters, soul mates, and archenemies.
Alice, the "good girl," is everything the stunning, wanton, and morally whimsical Edith is not. Except that both are expert manipulators-a power that is tested and exploited when the plane they are on is hijacked.
There's something decidedly strange about Bruno, one of the hijackers, not to mention his inept collaborators. When Alice is chosen to communicate with the hostage negotiator, Edith decides to take matters into her own hands by seducing Bruno. Alice finds herself growing smitten with the hostage negotiator, even as it becomes harder to distinguish her allies from her enemies in this elliptical airborne game show. When the hostages are taken to a hotel in a deserted Moroccan oasis town, Alice must confront the fact that if she wants to save herself, she will be forced to sacrifice someone she loves.
The Effect of Living Backwards is a comic, heartbreaking novel for our new and uncertain age.
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Recensione:
A wonderfully absurdist game of chess... The Effect of Living Backwards is a delicious feast of case studies gone haywire. (Aimee Bender)
L'autore:
Heidi Julavits has published fiction and nonfiction in Esquire, The Best American Short Stories 1999, Story, Zoetrope, McSweeney's, Harper's Bazaar, and Time. Her first novel, The Mineral Palace, was a Los Angeles Times Best Book, and was published in ten countries.
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- EditorePutnam Pub Group
- Data di pubblicazione2003
- ISBN 10 0399150498
- ISBN 13 9780399150494
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero edizione1
- Numero di pagine325
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