The Girls

Emma Cline

ISBN 10: 1784740446 / ISBN 13: 9781784740443

Published by Random House, 2016

About this Item

SIGNED. New - Unread. Stated First Edition first printing with complete number line ending with 1. Signed by Cline on the title page at an appearance/signing event in Atlanta, GA. Unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped and Fine. Protected in a Brodart cover. Seller Inventory # 5754

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Girls

Publisher: Random House

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

** The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **
** The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller **

The UK's best selling hardback debut novel of 2016
Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Evening Standard, Observer and The Times
California. The summer of 1969. In the dying days of a floundering counter-culture a young girl is unwittingly caught up in unthinkable violence, and a decision made at this moment, on the cusp of adulthood, will shape her life....

'This book will break your heart and blow your mind.' Lena Dunham

Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969, empty days stretch out under the California sun. The smell of honeysuckle thickens the air and the sidewalks radiate heat.

Until she sees them. The snatch of cold laughter. Hair, long and uncombed. Dirty dresses skimming the tops of thighs. Cheap rings like a second set of knuckles. The girls.

And at the centre, Russell. Russell and the ranch, down a long dirt track and deep in the hills. Incense and clumsily strummed chords. Rumours of sex, frenzied gatherings, teen runaways.

Was there a warning, a sign of things to come? Or is Evie already too enthralled by the girls to see that her life is about to be changed forever?

Review:

"A coming-of-age tale like no other ... the book of the summer" (Grazia)

"Stunning...thrilling... A spectacular achievement" (The Times)

"This book will break your heart and blow your mind" (Lena Dunham)

"The read of the summer" (India Knight Sunday Times)

"A tense and claustrophobic read" (Stylist)

"Taut, beautiful and savage, Cline’s novel demands your attention" (Guardian)

"An exhilarating read" (Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth is Missing)

"Darker than anything Gone Girl had to offer" (Shortlist)

"A seductive and arresting coming-of-age story...spellbinding" (New York Times Book Review)

"An intensely atmospheric story that perfectly captures the aching loneliness and longing of a teenage girl." (Sarra Manning Red)