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See What I Have Done

Autor Sarah Schmidt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 iun 2018
  • Selected as an August Indie Next Pick, a Summer 2017 B&N Discover pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and a Summer/Fall Indies Introduce Selection
    • Named a must-read summer book by Entertainment Weekly, Refinery29, Redbook, NY Post, and Elle magazine
    • Schmidt was named a Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch for Fall 2017, and one of BookPage's Six Brightest New Names in Fiction
    • Received four starred pre-pub reviews
    • Film rights sold to House Productions, co-founded by Tessa Ross, executive producer of Carol, Room, 12 Years a Slave, and other notable films
    • Stephen King meets Lily King in this suspenseful thriller and historical reimagining; for readers of The Girls, Burial Rites, The Heretic's Daughter
    • Schmidt worked on this novel for ten years; she twice visited the Borden house (which is now a B&B) for research (even sleeping in Lizzie's room)
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    Specificații

    ISBN-13: 9780802128133
    ISBN-10: 0802128130
    Pagini: 352
    Dimensiuni: 135 x 207 x 25 mm
    Greutate: 0.34 kg
    Editura: Grove Atlantic

    Descriere

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    Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

    Haunting, gripping and gorgeously written, SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE by Sarah Schmidt is a re-imagining of the unsolved American true crime case of the Lizzie Borden murders, for fans of MONSTER and MAKING A MURDERER.

    'Eerie and compelling' Paula Hawkins
    'Stunning' Sunday Times

    'Gripping... outstanding' Observer
    'Glittering' Irish Times
    Just after 11am on 4th August 1892, the bodies of Andrew and Abby Borden are discovered. He's found on the sitting room sofa, she upstairs on the bedroom floor, both murdered with an axe.
    It is younger daughter Lizzie who is first on the scene, so it is Lizzie who the police first question, but there are others in the household with stories to tell: older sister Emma, Irish maid Bridget, the girls' Uncle John, and a boy who knows more than anyone realises.
    In a dazzlingly original and chilling reimagining of this most notorious of unsolved mysteries, Sarah Schmidt opens the door to the Borden home and leads us into its murkiest corners, where jealousies, slow-brewed rivalries and the darkest of thoughts reside.

    Recenzii

    Schmidt's portrayal of Lizzie is haunting and complex, a deeply psychological portrait that forces the reader to question their preconceptions about what women are capable of - for better and worse. Both disturbing and gripping, it is an outstanding debut novel about love, death and the lifelong repercussions of unresolved grief.
    [A] seminal voice of the future.... a dark, dense visceral ride that proves that this former librarian could be on course to become one of the breakout writers of the decade... Donna Tartt, make room
    Eerie and compelling, Sarah Schmidt breathes such life into the terrible, twisted tale of Lizzie Borden and her family, she makes it impossible to look away
    What a book - powerful, visceral and disturbing. I felt like one of the many flies on the walls of that unhappy, blood-drenched house
    An outstanding debut. Enviably brilliant and memorable
    Vivid, sultry and engrossing
    A twisty, visceral, highly original novel that grips you from start to finish. An exceptional and stunning debut
    See What I Have Done held me in its sweaty grasp to the very last pages... as deftly destabilising as the best of Margaret Atwood
    I loved See What I Have Done. So ominous and creepily compelling. Utterly macabre, in a good way. It is a novel that is close in style and sensibility to Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle
    See What I Have Done is wonderful. Exquisitely-drawn characters, beautiful prose, a brilliant retelling of story. Every single sentence is perfect
    I am obsessed with this book. It chews you up and spits you out like one of the ripe pears in Lizzie's garden. Incredibly tense and claustrophobic, Home Sweet Home is turned on its head for the nightmarish Borden family in this amazingly accomplished tale of power, betrayal and revenge
    [An] exquisitely crafted and chilling re-imagining of the gruesome 1982 crimes
    Lizzie Borden and her axe have fascinated since 1892, and this incredible reimagining is one you'll never ever forget
    A great historical novel that takes a real life crime as its starting point. See What I Have Done is a gripping family drama and a whodunnit about two unsolved murders... chilling and claustrophobic
    Sarah Schmidt's reimagining of the fatal events in the Borden household is dignified and sensual, as though Henry James had decided to tell the tale
    Schmidt is especially good at the sweltering claustrophobia in which the Bordens lived. She is also great at portraying the pent-up frustration of the spinster Borden sisters
    Schmidt's unusual combination of narrative suppression and splurge makes for a surprising, nastily effective debut
    Intense, unsettling and macabre
    She skilfully evokes the claustrophobic atmosphere of the household, conjuring up the rottenness of the family's relationships
    A claustrophobic, absolutely visceral novel that, like the walls of that unhappy house, leaves a stain long after the final page
    Breathlessly brilliant
    A disquieting read... I loved it
    This startlingly potent novel isn't so much a straightforward whodunit as a portrait of a dysfunctional household from which the emotionally arrested Lizzie emerges as the novel's most unsettling character
    The narrative alternates between Lizzie, whose shimmering, mercurial streams of consciousness read like prose poetry... Schmidt writes with precision and flair about the oppressive boredom of domesticity, the twisted intensity of sisterly love and the forlorn dreams of leaving and of personal reinvention Emma and Lizzie share. A glittering, gory fever dream of a book, See What I Have Done is a remarkable debut.

    Notă biografică

    Sarah Schmidt isd the acclaimed author of SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and won the AIBA Literary Fiction of the Year 2018. She lives in Melbourne where she works as a librarian. You can follow her at https://sarahschmidt.org/ and on Twitter @ikillnovel.