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As Good as Dead
Elizabeth Evans
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Description for As Good as Dead
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 27. Weight in Grams: 404.
At the high-octane Iowa Writers’ Workshop, small-town Charlotte is thrilled and confounded by her relationship with charismatic and sophisticated Esmé: One moment, Esmé appears to be Charlotte’s most intimate friend; the next, her rival. After a tumultuous weekend, Charlotte’s insecurities and her resentment toward Esmé reach a fever pitch. Blindly, Charlotte strikes out--in an act of betrayal that ultimately unleashes a cascade of calamities on her own head. Twenty years later, Charlotte is a successful novelist. A much-changed Esmé appears, bringing the past that Charlotte grieved over, and believed buried, to the doorstep of Charlotte and her beloved husband. ... Read more
At the high-octane Iowa Writers’ Workshop, small-town Charlotte is thrilled and confounded by her relationship with charismatic and sophisticated Esmé: One moment, Esmé appears to be Charlotte’s most intimate friend; the next, her rival. After a tumultuous weekend, Charlotte’s insecurities and her resentment toward Esmé reach a fever pitch. Blindly, Charlotte strikes out--in an act of betrayal that ultimately unleashes a cascade of calamities on her own head. Twenty years later, Charlotte is a successful novelist. A much-changed Esmé appears, bringing the past that Charlotte grieved over, and believed buried, to the doorstep of Charlotte and her beloved husband. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408863589
SKU
V9781408863589
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Ref
99-10
About Elizabeth Evans
Elizabeth Evans’s five previous books include The Blue Hour, Suicide’s Girlfriend and Carter Clay. She received the Iowa Author Award in 2010. Among her other awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the James Michener Fellowship, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers Award, and the Four Corners Award. She is a professor in the creative writing program at ... Read more
Reviews for As Good as Dead
Small-town Charlotte learns the true cost of betraying a turbulent friendship in this compelling psychological thriller
Marie Claire
Carter Clay is thrilling in its enormous ambition and intelligence. Elizabeth Evans is a fearless writer. After reading this novel, I’m convinced that there’s nothing that she can’t do
Ann Patchett
Her authority is brilliant and absolute, and ... Read more
Marie Claire
Carter Clay is thrilling in its enormous ambition and intelligence. Elizabeth Evans is a fearless writer. After reading this novel, I’m convinced that there’s nothing that she can’t do
Ann Patchett
Her authority is brilliant and absolute, and ... Read more