Leave the World Behind

A Novel

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Beschreibung

<p><strong>A Read with Jenna <em>Today</em> Show Book Club Pick!</strong></p><p><strong>Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction)</strong></p><p><strong>One of Barack Obama's Summer Reads</strong></p><p><strong>A Best Book of the Year From: <em>The Washington Post</em> * <em>Time</em> * <em>NPR </em>*<em> Elle </em>*<em> Esquire </em>*<em> Kirkus </em>*<em> Library Journal </em>*<em> The Chicago Public Library </em>*<em> The New York Public Library</em> *<em> BookPage</em> *<em> The Globe and Mail </em>* <em>[...] </em>*<em> The LA Times </em>*<em> USA Today </em>*<em> InStyle </em>*<em> The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe</em></strong></p><p><strong>A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.</strong></p><p>From the bestselling author of <em>Rich and Pretty</em> comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. <em>Leave the World Behind </em>explores how our closest bonds are reshaped?and unexpected new ones are forged?in moments of crisis.</p><p>Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple?it's their house, and they've arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area?with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service?it's hard to know what to believe.</p><p>Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple?and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780062667649

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

202 x 135 x 17 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Verlag / Hersteller

Harper Collins Publ. USA