These Violent Delights
An O Magazine.com LGBTQ Book That Is Changing the Literary Landscape in 2020 An Electric Lit Most Anticipated Debut of the Second Half of 2020 A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year A Paperback Paris Best New LGBTQ+ Books To Read This Year Selection The Secret History meets Lie with Me in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novela feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence. When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, its with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. Sensitive, insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmates effortless charm. Paul sees Julian as his sole intellectual equalan ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. Paul will stop at nothing to prove himself worthy of their friendship, because with Julian life is more invigorating than Paul could ever have imagined. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel, and Paul becomes increasingly afraid that he can never live up to what Julian expects of him. As their friendship spirals into all-consuming intimacy, they each learn the lengths to which the other will go in order to stay together, their obsession ultimately hurtling them toward an act of irrevocable violence. Unfolding with a propulsive ferocity, These Violent Delights is an exquisitely plotted excavation of the depths of human desire and the darkness it can bring forth in us.
| yazar | Micah Nemerever |
|---|---|
| Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 14.61 x 3.18 x 14.61 cm |
| Tarafından yayınlandı | 15 Eylül 2020 |
Kolektif 1 x 13,5 x 21 cm 19,5 x 1 x 13,5 cm G. A. Henty 19,5 x 13,5 cm 5 Ocak 2017 4 Ocak 2017 3 Ocak 2017 1 Ocak 2018 H. G. Wells 1 x 13,5 x 19,5 cm 15,2 x 0,6 x 22,9 cm B M Bower 15,2 x 0,7 x 22,9 cm 15 Eylül 2020 Jack London F Scott Fitzgerald 28 Şubat 2018
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Sürüm ayrıntıları
| yazar | Micah Nemerever Michael Crouch |
|---|---|
| isbn 10 | 1799941434 |
| isbn 13 | 978-1799941439 |
| Yayımcı | Blackstone Pub |
| Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 14.61 x 3.18 x 14.61 cm |
| Tarafından yayınlandı These Violent Delights | 15 Eylül 2020 |
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