A Light Most Hateful
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- 8,99 €
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- 8,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
When a summer storm sweeps through a sleepy town unleashing a monstrous and otherworldy power that threatens to break reality, Olivia will stop at nothing to find her best friend and get them to safety.
Mona Awad's Bunny meets Stranger Things in this mind-bending and terrifying examination of female friendship and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love, from the Bram Stoker award winning author of Queen of Teeth
Three years after running away from home, Olivia is stuck with a dead-end job in nowhere town Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania. At least she has her best friend, Sunflower.
Olivia figures she'll die in Chapel Hill, if not from boredom, then the summer night storm which crashes into town with a mind-bending monster in tow.
If Olivia's going to escape Chapel Hill and someday reconcile with her parents, she'll need to dodge residents enslaved by the storm's otherworldly powers and find Sunflower.
But as the night strains friendships and reality itself, Olivia suspects the storm, and its monster, may have its eyes on Sunflower and everything she loves.
Including Olivia.
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This surreal offering from Bram Stoker Award winner Piper (Queen of Teeth) blends horror, fantasy, and domestic drama into a fiendishly imaginative saga. After teen Olivia Abram's parents discover her kissing another girl at a carnival, Olivia runs away from home to Chapel Hill, a claustrophobically small Pennsylvania town with nothing to recommend it other than Sunflower Mason, Olivia's best friend and unrequited love. Then a bizarre lightning storm sweeps through town, turning Chapel Hill's residents into violent, rage-filled zombies and spawning a serpentine monster that somehow knows Olivia's name. Olivia must band together with an unlikely group of survivors if she's to have any hope of making it out of Chapel Hill alive. Piper's prose crackles with energy and wit as it ties the novel's wilder excesses together into a story at once comfortingly familiar in its themes and cosmically alien in its execution. The story twists reader expectations into knots, flipping genre conventions and connecting unlikely elements to make something truly singular. The result is an ambitious, genre-shredding novel that takes big swings and, improbably, lands every one. Fans of Clive Barker's The Thief of Always will be especially hooked.
