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Girls on Fire de Robin Wasserman

Girls on Fire

Autor Robin Wasserman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 mai 2016

Găsim în paginile acestui roman un început brutal, plasat sub semnul incertitudinii: în noaptea de Halloween a anului 1991, un sportiv popular dispare în pădurile din Pennsylvania, fiind găsit ulterior cu un glonț în cap și o armă în mână. Acest incident declanșează o undă de șoc într-o comunitate conservatoare deja măcinată de teama unor ritualuri oculte, însă dincolo de misterul morții sale, Girls on Fire se concentrează pe o forță mult mai distructivă: prietenia adolescentină. Notăm cu interes transformarea personajului Hannah Dexter sub influența carismaticei Lacey Champlain, o figură marcată de estetica grunge și bocanci Doc Martens, care o atrage pe Dex într-o spirală de rebeliune și obsesie. Ritmul narațiunii este unul febril, reflectând acea stare de ebrietate emoțională specifică vârstei, unde loialitatea se confundă adesea cu autoanihilarea. Ca și The Unraveling of Mercy Louis, romanul explorează modul în care secretele unei comunități izolate și presiunea socială modelează destinele fetelor, dar dintr-o perspectivă mult mai viscerală, ancorată în cultura alternativă a anilor '90. Robin Wasserman face trecerea către literatura pentru adulți păstrând precizia psihologică din lucrări precum The Book of Blood and Shadow, însă aici renunță la elementele supranaturale în favoarea unei analize crude a violenței și iubirii. Rezultatul este un roman polițist atmosferic care nu se teme să privească direct spre întunericul din spatele inocenței aparente.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408707104
ISBN-10: 1408707101
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 243 x 165 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Girls on Fire celor care caută o explorare psihologică profundă a relațiilor de putere dintre adolescenți. Cititorul va descoperi o poveste despre identitate și pierdere, scrisă cu o intensitate rară, care capturează perfect nostalgia și pericolul anilor '90. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii scriitoarei Megan Abbott, oferind o perspectivă matură asupra modului în care obsesia poate rescrie biografia unei persoane.

Despre autor

Robin Wasserman este o scriitoare americană de succes, absolventă a Universității Harvard și fost editor de carte, stabilită în Brooklyn. Înainte de a debuta în literatura pentru adulți cu Girls on Fire, a publicat numeroase romane pentru adolescenți, printre care seriile Seven Deadly Sins și Cold Awakening. Experiența sa în literatura YA se reflectă în capacitatea de a surprinde vocea autentică a tinerilor, însă contribuțiile sale în publicații precum The New York Times sau LA Review of Books demonstrează o versatilitate stilistică ce depășește granițele genurilor comerciale.

Descriere

A friendship that starts with a tragedy - and ends with a death. 'Like lightning in a bottle...A captivating, terrifying novel and one you won't forget' Megan Abbott

Recenzii

“An enveloping page-turner.” — Associated Press
“Explores the line where close female friendships can blur into obsession and self-obliteration….At the heart of the dark story is an intoxicating and all-consuming friendship between two teenage girls.” — New York Times
“An enthralling, gritty, and altogether unpredictable read that holds nothing back.... You will be utterly riveted.” — BuzzFeed
“Like lightning in a bottle, Robin Wasserman’s GIRLS ON FIRE captures girlhood friendship in all its shattering intensity. A captivating, terrifying novel, and one you won’t forget.” — Megan Abbott
“A perfectly constructed literary novel… nearly impossible to put down…Wasserman does so many things right... it’s hard to count them all…. Girls on Fire is an inferno - it’s brutally gorgeous, and you know it could explode anytime, but you can’t turn away, even for a second.” — Michael Schaub, NPR.org
“’She was making fun of me, or she wasn’t. She was like me, or she wasn’t,’ says Hannah, spidey senses already tingling, after her first extended hang-out with Lacey. It’s one of several sharp, spot-on lines about the frailty of teen friendships that Wasserman employs throughout the book.... [Wasserman proves her] own black-magic mettle by conjuring up an era where ill-informed paranoia (and just plain ding-dongness) turned some of the quietest corners of America into fear factories, full of deep-rooted distrust and misspent rage.” — Brian Raferty, Wired
“A dark, propulsive fever-dream of youth and friendship. I wanted to grab these girls and shake them, sing them lullabies, stop them—but all I could do was keep reading them, relentlessly enthralled by the heat-seeking missile of Robin Wasserman’s fearless imagination.” — Leslie Jamison, author of THE EMPATHY EXAMS and THE GIN CLOSET
“As intense as adolescence and as dark as a dream.... Girls on Fire is a mystery and a tangled love triangle and a sharp, ruthless thriller, and it’s satisfying and troubling on all these levels.” — Briallen Hopper, Los Angeles Review of Books
“Deliciously digestible.... [Girls on Fire has] an undeniably dark, voyeuristic appeal: we get to watch universal emotions manifest with extreme outward ferocity.” — Keziah Weir, Elle
“Part murder mystery, part love story, this page-turner explores the dark side of the all-consuming friendship between a wide-eyed good girl and a grunge-worshipping rebel.” — Cosmopolitan
“A little bit ‘Heathers’ with a 90s Nirvana vibe. You’ll want it in your tote for your first summer beach trip.” — Skimm Reads Book Pick
“The book is refreshing in its agility—the second you think you’ve got it pegged, it gives you the slip and heads in an entirely new direction…This is Wasserman’s first novel for adults, and it’s clear that years of writing dark young adult fiction have sharpened her ability to bring high school’s spiny underbelly into sharp relief… This book captures the cathartic mess of it all with artful prose that is chock full of fervent sensuality. Girls on Fire is a brilliant tale of love and betrayal between friends—complete with a can’t-look-away climax that will make your hair stand on end.” — Barnes & Noble Reads
“An intense whirlwind of love, violence, and obsession in a small town.” — Redbook
“The kind of book I wanted to tear through, but found so intense that I needed to take breathers. It captures the darkest side of girlhood in a way no other book or movie I’ve come across has. ” — Rookie
“A book so wonderful, so terrible, so nightmarishly compelling that I hardly knew what to say when I finished. Wasserman has wrapped up a love story inside a murder mystery, a promise and a testament inside a confession—and has a title ever been truer? The reader comes away singed.” — Kelly Link, author of GET IN TROUBLE and MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS
“This spellbinding story sent literal shivers up and down our spines.” — Refinery 29
“Thrilling.... [an] intriguing mix of dark literary sophistication and unadulterated teenaged angst…impressive storytelling abilities and flights of dazzling lyrical prose.” — Shane Sexton, Daily News
“Robin Wasserman may be known for her YA novels, but her foray into the adult genre is well worth your time.” — InStyle
“A book that crackles with the kind of energy that only teenagers can conjure.... It is about being nowhere and feeling like you’re going nowhere, and, maybe most importantly, it is about society’s fear of teenage girls.... All of these themes are explored through a Lynchian lens, a skewed take on small town America in all its hypocritical glory.” — Jason Diamond, Lit Hub
“A chilling mix-tape of love, girl crushes, secrets, and revenge… Read it on vacation; read it on the train; read it at the beach; read it at a campfire just about to burn out—but don’t miss it.” — Ploughshares
“This is not a novel you’ll put down after you pick it up, so clear some time. And it’s not a novel you’ll ever forget after you’ve read it—don’t say you weren’t warned. Wasserman is a brilliant writer, and GIRLS ON FIRE is a gorgeous gift of a novel.” — Laura Kasischke, author of IN A PERFECT WORLD and THE RAISING
“Excellent.... drives to its savage, surprising and unnerving conclusion.” — Miami Hearld
“Wasserman masterfully shows the all-consuming nature of adolescent relationships, in which the line between love and hate is a thin one indeed. The girls’ ultimate act is one that’s shocking, perverse, and frighteningly believable-and it will either bind them together forever or entirely break them apart.” — Examiner.com
“[Cranks] the emotional intensity higher and higher while pushing events into truly shocking, subversive territory. Much like her young protagonists, Wasserman takes things shockingly far, creating an irresistible hybrid between coming-of-age stories and Gone Girl-esque psychological thrillers.” — Shelf Awareness
“The story unfolds as a maddening tease, with shocking events waiting around every corner-and an ending that will leave readers stunned.” — Booklist
“Successful YA novelist Wasserman makes her adult debut with this edgy portrayal of a passionate, obsessive female friendship set in the grunge era.” — BookPage, "9 Women to Watch in 2016"
“With its narrative witchcraft, conjures up the ghost of the decade [the 90s] to full effect.” — Flavorwire

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Shortly after Halloween 1991, the local high-school basketball star is found in the woods near Battle Creek, Pennsylvania, with a bullet in his head and a gun in his hand—a discovery that sends tremors through this conservative community, already unnerved by growing rumors of satanic worship in the region.
In the wake of this incident, bright but lonely Hannah Dexter is befriended by Lacey Champlain, a dark-eyed, Cobain-worshipping bad influence. Lacey forges a fast, intimate bond with the impressionable Dex, making Hannah over in her own image—and unleashing a fierce defiance with unexpected and harrowing consequences.

Notă biografică

Robin Wasserman is a graduate of Harvard University and the author of several successful novels for young adults. A recent recipient of a MacDowell fellowship, she lives in Brooklyn, New York. Girls on Fire is her first novel for adults.