Collectors: A Novel - Softcover

Griner, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593766378 ISBN 13: 9781593766375

Publisher: Soft Skull Press, 2016

Synopsis

From critically acclaimed author Paul Griner comes Collectors, a novel about one woman’s risky fascination with a handsome, enigmatic man. Jean Duprez, an ad agency art director who specializes in effectual but unnerving concepts for her clients, meets the handsome and mysterious Steven Cain at a family wedding. Despite Cain’s marked indifference to her and his unsettling personal history, Jean finds herself drawn to him, confiding her own indiscretions in him despite their having just met. As their liaison continues, it becomes a mirror for the collecting process as well: how goods are bought and sold, who determines their worth, and most importantly, the tense, complicated bargaining between buyer and seller. What is never quite clear is whether Jean is the innocent prey of a dangerous lothario or if she’s deliberately put herself in harm’s way.

In the masterful hands of Paul Griner, Collectors becomes not just a novel about what one woman will risk for love or something like it, but a probing examination of the intricacies of relationship power dynamics, and how they are never quite what they seem.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Griner is the author of the acclaimed novels Second Life, Collectors, and The German Woman, and the story collections Hurry Please I Want to Know and Follow Me, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick. He teaches creative writing at the University of Louisville.

About this edition

• Publisher: Soft Skull Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1593766378
• ISBN 13: 9781593766375
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192