# The Guest - Hardcover

by **Emma Cline** (Author)

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this "spellbinding" (_Vogue_), "smoldering" (_The Washington Post_) novel by the _New York Times_ bestselling author of _The Girls_.**

**"Under Cline's command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force."--_The New York Times_**

_"Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass from one world to another."_

Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.

A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.

With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.

Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's _The Guest_ is a spellbinding literary achievement.

### 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 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:** 304

**Dimensions:** 1.2 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN

**Publication Date:** May 16, 2023

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- **Price:** 28.0 USD
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