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Bittersweet - Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

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Title
Bittersweet - a novel
Author
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20150428

Suspenseful and cinematic, New York Times bestsellerBittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly ofan idyllic world of privilege and an outsider's hunger to belong.

On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate,thebeautiful, wild, blue-blooded Genevra Winslow.Ev invites Mabel to spend the summer at Bittersweet, her cottage on the Vermont estate where her family has been holding court for more than a century.Mabel falls in love with midnight skinny-dipping, the wet dog smell that lingers near the yachts,and themoneyed laughter that carries across the still lake while fireworks burst overhead. Before she knows it, she has everything she's ever wanted: friendship, a boyfriend, access to wealth, and, most of all, for the first time in her life, the sense that she belongs.

But as Mabel becomes an insider, aterrible discovery leads to shocking violence and reveals what the Winslows may have done to keep their power intact--and what they might do to anyone who threatens them.Mabelmust choose: either expose the ugliness surrounding her and face expulsion from paradise, or keep the family's dark secrets and make Ev's world her own.

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MIRANDA BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE is the author of three other novels: June; Set Me Free, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, given annually for the best book of fiction by an American woman; and The Effects of Light. A recipient of theCrazyhorse Prize in Fiction, she lives and writes in Brooklyn.

Type
BOOK
Edition
First paperback edition
Keyword Index
Female friendship - Fiction.|Summer - Fiction.|Roommates - Fiction.|Upper class - Fiction.
Country of Publication
New York (State)
Number of Pages
406

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