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Today's Featured Title and Contest |
June 14, 2016 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Wednesday, June 15th at 5pm ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE GIRLS by Emma Cline, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
You can take a look at all the books we're giving away in this year's Summer Reading contests on our new Pinterest page here.
*Due to a technical glitch that delayed the arrival of this newsletter to your inboxes, we are extending the deadline of this contest to Wednesday at 5pm ET. Wednesday's contest will then go up at that time and run for a full 24 hours, ending on Thursday at 5pm ET. Thursday's contest will have the same 5pm - 5pm timeframe.
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: THE GIRLS by Emma Cline
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An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong, this stunning first novel is perfect for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides’ THE VIRGIN SUICIDES and Jennifer Egan’s A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD.
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.
Emma Cline’s remarkable debut novel is gorgeously written and spellbinding, with razor-sharp precision and startling psychological insight. THE GIRLS is a brilliant work of fiction.
THE GIRLS will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection. Read Carol Fitzgerald's commentary about the book in the June 24th Bookreporter.com Weekly Update newsletter.
-Click here to read a review.
-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to visit Emma Cline's official website.
-Click here to connect with Emma Cline on Facebook.
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Click here to enter the contest by Wednesday, June 15th at 5pm ET. |
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This is a special newsletter for our Summer Reading Contests, which will mail on select days through Thursday, August 25th. This newsletter is separate from our weekly Bookreporter.com newsletter, which mails every Friday. You can subscribe to that newsletter here.
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