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The Fever de Megan Abbott

The Fever

Autor Megan Abbott
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mai 2015

Notăm cu interes acest format Paperback de 320 de pagini, o dimensiune ideală pentru adolescenții de peste 14-16 ani care caută o narațiune intensă și provocatoare. Abbott, M: Fever (cunoscut și sub titlul Give Me Your Hand) ne introduce într-un univers unde competiția academică și profesională capătă valențe periculoase. Povestea se concentrează pe Kit, o cercetătoare de succes a cărei ascensiune este amenințată de reapariția lui Diane, fosta ei prietenă din liceu. Remarcăm modul în care autoarea construiește tensiunea prin alternarea între prezentul ambițios și trecutul marcat de un secret teribil care a distrus legătura dintre cele două fete în laboratorul de chimie. Apreciem stilul distinctiv al lui Megan Abbott, care reușește să transforme ambiția feminină dintr-o virtute într-o forță distructivă, aproape biologică. Copiii și tinerii care au iubit The St. Ambrose School for Girls vor găsi aici aceeași atmosferă tensionată de școală privată și rivalități feminine letale, însă într-un context nou, mult mai ancorat în rigoarea științifică și consecințele pe termen lung ale alegerilor din adolescență. În contextul operei sale, acest volum se aliniază tematic cu Dare Me: A Novel, unde autoarea explora dinamica puterii în grupurile de majorete, dar și cu The Fever, unde o boală misterioasă destabilizează o comunitate de liceeni. Dacă în Beware the Woman accentul cădea pe tensiunea familială, aici Megan Abbott rafinează analiza obsesiei profesionale. Ritmul este alert, susținut de o proză elegantă care nu menajează cititorul, oferind o perspectivă psihologică profundă asupra a ceea ce înseamnă să vrei să fii cel mai bun, indiferent de costuri.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316231046
ISBN-10: 0316231045
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 141 x 208 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte adolescenților și tinerilor adulți care apreciază romanele psihologice complexe. Cititorul câștigă o explorare fascinantă a eticii și ambiției, învățând despre fragilitatea succesului construit pe secrete. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă cum experiențele din liceu ne pot modela întreaga viață adultă, totul sub forma unui roman polițist captivant scris de o maestră a suspensului.

Despre autor

Megan Abbott este o voce de referință în literatura contemporană, fiind laureată a prestigiosului Premiu Edgar Allan Poe în 2008 pentru cele mai bune scrieri polițiste. Deținătoare a unui doctorat în literatură de la Universitatea din New York, ea a beneficiat de rezidența de scriitor John și Renee Grisham la Universitatea din Mississippi. Opera sa se concentrează frecvent pe psihologia feminină și pe tensiunile ascunse din comunitățile aparent perfecte, transformând situații cotidiene în analize profunde ale naturii umane.

Descriere scurtă

"THE FEVER holds true to its title: It's dark, disturbing, strangely beautiful and utterly unshakeable" -- Gillian Flynn.

In this impossible-to-put-down "panic attack of a novel,"* a small-town high school becomes the breeding ground for a mysterious illness.

Deenie Nash is a diligent student with a close-knit family; her brother Eli is a hockey star and her father is a popular teacher. But when Deenie's best friend is struck by a terrifying, unexplained seizure in class, the Nashes' seeming stability dissolves into chaos. As rumors of a hazardous outbreak spread through school, and hysteria and contagion swell, a series of tightly held secrets emerges, threatening to unravel friendships, families, and the town's fragile sense of security.

A chilling story about guilt, family secrets, and the lethal power of desire, THE FEVER is "a potboiler in the truest, best sense" and "a great novel, full stop."**

*Jodi Picoult
**Slate

Notă biografică

Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of nine novels, includingYou Will Know Me,The Fever,Dare Me, andThe End of Everything. She received her PhD in literature from New York University. Her writing has appeared in theNew York Times, theWall Street Journal, theLos Angeles Times Magazine,The Guardian, andThe Believer. Currently, she is a staff writer on HBO's David Simon show,The Deuce. She lives in New York City.

Recenzii

"With The Fever, Megan Abbott has created a mesmerizing, modern portrait of teenage life today: Brutal crushes, competing allegiances and first-bloom sensuality, all magnified by the rush and crush of technology. The Fever holds true to its title: It's dark, disturbing, strangely beautiful and utterly unshakeable."—Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
"The Fever is a potboiler in the truest, best sense of that devalued word: Its ingredients are expertly combined, patiently agitated, and heated to an inexorable boil. But it's also a great novel, full stop, without any of the usual genre caveats, and I can think of no higher recommendation than that you'll want to read it twice: First insatiably, speeding through to find out just what's going to happen, and then again slowly, to savor the sharp, dare I say literary, insights about her characters that Abbott effortlessly scatters throughout."—Adam Sternbergh, Slate
"The book to beat...in the 'Is it the next Gone Girl?' sweepstakes.... [Megan Abbot has] exceptional gifts for making nerves jangle and skin crawl.... It's the book's constant throb of horror that keeps it gripping."—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"If the phenomena that led to the Salem Witch trials were to revisit the world today, it might very well look like the scenario in Megan Abbott's engrossing, disturbing, panic attack of a novel, The Fever. In a time when suicide and pregnancy pacts can go viral, this story of mass hysteria in a high school is not only completely plausible -- it's impossible to put down."—Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of The Storyteller
"No one understands the social dynamics of teenage girls better than Megan Abbott...settling into The Fever, one realizes that Abbott is setting a rhythm, one that's measured and paced with the brilliance of one of the best living mystery writers."—Kevin Nguyen, Grantland
"This smart thriller about the dynamics of panic keeps you guessing till the last scene."— Good Housekeeping
"[Megan Abbott is] a unique talent with a signature style that gets stronger with every book. With its confident plotting and lyrical prose, The Fever may be her best novel yet."—Los Angeles Times
"Abbott is able to render the texture, ambivalence, and confusion of the inner life of a teen, coupling it with sparse, plain dialogue that highlights the disjunction between the way a teen experiences the world and how he or she can actually articulate that experience. And the plot! It's like a riptide! I was hooked by Page 4. Seriously, Page 4 - the end of the first, highly ambiguous, totally tantalizing mini-chapter that begins the book. I knew, four pages in, that I was ruined for the rest of the day . . . It was delicious."— BuzzFeed
"a chilling new novel set in the emotional world of teenagers...In many ways, the message of THE FEVER is about how these things--ambivalence about sex, insecurities about their appearance and navigating the intensity of female friendships--affect the girls and their families, and how a traumatized community stumbles through a crisis."— Elizabeth Blair, NPR
"Stunning....Nothing should be taken at face value in this jealousy-and hormone-soaked world except that Abbott is certainly our very best guide."— Kirkus (Starred Review)
"The Fever sends chills. Megan Abbott's 'high school noir' is sensual and sinister...atmospheric and compelling...What sets Abbott apart from other mystery scribes is her evocative language. There is drama and a fast-moving narrative, but she skillfully weaves a mounting dread into the novel, as well as a claustrophobic sensuality. You feel as if you're in the heads of each of the teenagers in the fictional town of Dryden, but also privy to the inner life of the adults, as well."— The Detroit News
"Dare Me hurtles past the glitter and angst of high-school cheerleading, right to the bruising inner struggles of adolescence."—New York Magazine
"Make no mistake, this is no pulpy teenage tale: It's a very grown-up look at youth culture and how bad behavior can sometimes be redeemed by a couple of good decisions."—Sara Nelson, O, the Oprah Magazine
"A heady tale of high-school drama with grown-up stakes...Abbott's rendering of the power-plays, rites of bonding and twisted loyalties of teenage girls is pitch-perfect. As much as Dare Me is page-turning murder mystery, it is also an ode to the dark side of girlhood friendship and all its twisted loyalties."—Mythili Rao, The Daily Beast
"Megan Abbott has cornered the 'dark desires of teenage girls' territory too, with Dare Me."—Sarah Weinman, Salon
"Megan Abbott has been called the Queen of Noir...Her new novel, Dare Me, is something of a switch for Abbott in that it's about a cheerleading squad, though - trust us - it's still quite hard-boiled...A contemporary novel about a cheerleading squad that somehow manages to be as dark and sinister as any of Abbott's fiction."—Sherryl Connely, New York Daily News

Descriere

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Deenie, Gabby and Lise are best friends - a tight girl-unit negotiating their way through the troubled waters of their teens, a world of sex, secrets and intense relationships.

When first Lise then Gabby falls prey to a mysterious illness, hysteria sweeps their school and, as more girls succumb, Deenie finds herself an outsider, baffled by the terrifying illness and scared that it could all be because of something she has done.

Suffering with Deenie are her dad and her brother, both protective of Deenie, but each with secrets of their own . . .

The Fever is an explosive novel in which Megan Abbott explores the lethal power of guilt and desire, and how mass hysteria can grip a community, making real our deepest fears.