Emily Perkins

The New Girl

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In The New Girl, Emily Perkins employs her sharp wit and incisive eye to demonstrate the profoundly destructive effects of resentment, mistrust and lies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 128mm x 198mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9781526681171
• ISBN-10: 152668117X
• Artikelnr.: 72543848

Autorenporträt

Emily Perkins is the author of a prize-winning collection of short stories, Not Her Real Name, and four novels, including Novel About My Wife (winner of the NZ Book Award and the Believer Magazine Book of the Year, The Forrests (longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction) and Lioness (winner of the Ockham NZ Prize for Fiction). Her work for stage and screen includes co-writing the film adaptation of Eleanor Catton's novel The Rehearsal (dir. Alison Maclean), an adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll's House, and the original play The Made. She lives in New Zealand.

Rezensionen

Perkins has a wonderfully light touch; she is a master of dialogue and plain speech, a casual Carver for our times