# The Girls - Paperback

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by **Emma Cline** (Author)

**THE INSTANT BESTSELLER - An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong**

**ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: _The Washington Post,_ NPR_, The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, Esquire, Newsweek, Vogue, Glamour, People, The Huffington Post, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Time Out, BookPage, Publishers Weekly, Slate_**

Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged--a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence.

**Finalist for the _Los Angeles Times_ Book Prize - Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award - Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - _The New York Times Book Review_ Editors' Choice - Emma Cline--One of _Granta_**'s** Best of Young American Novelists**

**Praise for _The Girls_**

"Spellbinding . . . a seductive and arresting coming-of-age story."**\--_The New York Times Book Review_**

"Extraordinary . . . Debut novels like this are rare, indeed."**\--_The Washington Post_**

"Hypnotic."**_\--The Wall Street Journal_**

"Gorgeous."**_\--Los Angeles Times_**

"Savage."**_\--The Guardian_**

"Astonishing."**_\--The Boston Globe_**

"Superbly written."**\--James Wood, _The New Yorker_**

"Intensely consuming."**\--Richard Ford**

"A spectacular achievement."**\--Lucy Atkins, _The Times_**

"Thrilling."**\--Jennifer Egan**

"Compelling and startling."**_\--The Economist_**

### Author Biography

**Emma Cline** is the _New York Times_ bestselling author of _The Girls_ and the story collection _Daddy_. _The Girls_ was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, and the _Los Angeles Times_ Book Prize. It was a _New York Times_ Editors' Choice and the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Cline's stories have been published in _The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review,_ and _The Best American Short Stories_. She was named a Guggenheim Fellow, received the Plimpton Prize from _The Paris Review_ and an O. Henry Award, and was chosen as one of _Granta_'s Best Young American Novelists.

**Number of Pages:** 384

**Dimensions:** 0.8 x 8 x 5.1 IN

**Publication Date:** May 09, 2017

## Details

- **Price:** 26.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Coming of Age, Fiction, Literary, Price Written on Book, Psychological, Thrillers

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