Megan Abbott

The Turnout

'Impossible to put down, creepy and claustrophobic' (Stephen King) - the New York Times bestseller

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Produktbeschreibung

'This is Megan Abbott working at the absolute height of her talent' Attica Locke Bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott's revelatory and mesmerising new novel set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio. With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since birth. Growing up, they were trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents' death in a tragic accident, the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student. Marie, warm and soft, teaches the younger students; Dara, with her precision, trains the older ones; and Charlie, back broken after years of injuries, rules over the back office. Circling around each other, the three have perfected a dance, six days a week, that keeps the studio thriving. But when a suspicious accident occurs, just at the onset of the school's annual performance of The Nutcracker, a season of competition, anxiety, and exhilaration, an interloper arrives and threatens the sisters' delicate balance. 'Abbott creates a dark and mesmerising world' Harriet Tyce 'A dreamy, sexy, a deep dive into a subculture . . . You feel the characters' aches and pains in your joints, your feet and, most dangerous of all, your heart' Laura Lippman

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 706927
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780349012483
• ISBN-10: 0349012482
• Artikelnr.: 60549741

Autorenporträt

Megan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of the novels Die a Little, Bury Me Deep, The End of Everything, Dare Me, You Will Know Me and The Fever. Her most recent book is Give Me Your Hand. Her work has won or been nominated for the CWA Steel Dagger, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and five Edgar awards. Formerly a staff writer on HBO's David Simon show, The Deuce, she is now co-creator, executive producer and show-runner of Dare Me , based upon her novel, for the USA Network and, internationally, Netflix. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The Believer. Her stories have appeared in multiple collections, including the Best American Mystery Stories of 2014 and 2016. Born in the Detroit area, she graduated from the University of Michigan and received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University. She has taught at NYU, the State University of New York and the New School University. In 2013-14, she served as the John Grisham Writer in Residence at Ole Miss. She is also the author of a nonfiction book, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, and the editor of A Hell of a Woman, an anthology of female crime fiction.

Rezensionen

Compulsively readable Ruth Ware (2021)