White Fur: A love story of equal parts grit and glamour - Softcover

Libaire, Jardine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474604897 ISBN 13: 9781474604895

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017

Synopsis

Elise, a street-smart girl from the wrong side of the tracks, and Jamey, the golden boy scion of a wealthy and powerful East Coast family make an unlikely couple. At first theirs is a tale of sexual obsession and wanting to have something you shouldn't. Jamey is both attracted by Elise and repelled by her - she is gritty, uncouth, abrupt and a million miles from his rarefied social circle. In some ways he hates her, yet he keeps coming back for more. For Elise, the attraction to Jamey is visceral. She sees something in him beyond the rich boy mask, and she has always loved to test the boundaries, defying anyone who tries to stop her. But as they get to know each other what started as a challenge gradually transforms and they get to see beyond social class and upbringing to the real person beneath. Their obsession slowly turns into something more like love, and Elise creates in Jamey the lover she wants and needs. In turn he leaves behind his Yale education and divorces his family and their wealth, and they invent a new life together that surprises them both. But Jamey's controlling family are not going to give him up easily and Elise and Jamey will have to fight for the ending they want to their story...

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Review:

Amazing . . . Wildly, darkly romantic with one of the best endings ever (Daily Mail)

White Fur is glorious: dark, dirty, and sexy, lit up with yearning and raw, young love. Libaire's sentences left me breathless. This is a Roman candle of a novel. I absolutely loved it (Amanda Eyre Ward, author of THE NEARNESS OF YOU and THE SAME SKY)

Brilliantly written and deeply felt, White Fur is a love story by turns comic and tragic, but always moving (PHILIPP MEYER, author of THE SON and AMERICAN RUST)

Each page crackles with the intensity, fury, lust, and pure insane pleasure of first love. Jardine Libaire has written a chronicle of one couple's wild romance: its highs and lows, its delights and contractions, its beauty and its messiness. A delight to read (Nathan Hill, author of THE NIX)

This sexy American fairytale about a star-crossed coupled solidifies Jardine Libaire's status as poet laureate of late nights and young love (Ada Calhoun, author of ST MARKS IS DEAD)

A love story of equal parts grit and glamour, I loved White Fur for its honest portrait of the extremes of American society, and the love that can bloom anywhere, always, despite the odds. Jardine Libaire is an extraordinary talent (Vanessa Diffenbaugh, author of THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS)

Two barely-20-somethings from opposite sides of the tracks fall in frantic love amid the lush grit of New York City in the 1980s in Libaire's new novel.... Libaire's New York is...raw and sweaty and intoxicating.... A page-turning whirlwind steeped in pain and hope (Kirkus Reviews)

Book Description:

A gorgeous, gritty, erotic love story - an urban, edgy Romeo and Juliet set in 1980s New York City. Pretty Woman meets A Little Life

About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1474604897
• ISBN 13: 9781474604895
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320