The Burning Girl The Burning Girl

The Burning Girl

'[Messud] is an absolute master storyteller' Los Angeles Times

    • 4.0 • 3 Ratings
    • £3.99

Publisher Description

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2024 BOOKER LONGLISTED THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY

A bracing and hypnotic portrait of the complexities of female friendship

'Messud is a storyteller: the ability to compel and hold the reader's interest may not be the crown and summit of novel writing, but it's the beginning and end of it' Ursula K. Le Guin

Julia Robinson and Cassie Burnes have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge: while Julia comes from a stable, happy, middle-class family, Cassie never knew her father, who died when she was an infant, and has an increasingly tempestuous relationship with her single mother, Bev.

When Bev becomes involved with the mysterious Anders Shute, Cassie feels cruelly abandoned. Disturbed, angry and desperate for answers, she sets out on a journey that will put her own life in danger, and shatter her oldest friendship.

Compact, compelling, and ferociously sad, The Burning Girl is at once a story about childhood, friendship and community, and a complex examination of the stories we tell ourselves about childhood and friendship. Claire Messud brilliantly mixes folklore and Bildungsroman, exploring the ways in which our made-up stories, and their consequences, become real.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2017
31 August
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
224
Pages
PUBLISHER
Little, Brown Book Group
SIZE
1
MB
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015
2015
Throw Like A Girl Throw Like A Girl
2007
Watch Us Shine Watch Us Shine
2023
The Lies We Told The Lies We Told
2011
All That Glitters All That Glitters
2013
The Guest Room The Guest Room
2016
Strangers on a Train Strangers on a Train
2014
The Woman Upstairs The Woman Upstairs
2013
This Strange Eventful History This Strange Eventful History
2024
The Emperor's Children The Emperor's Children
2015
Extraits gratuits - Rentrée littéraire Gallimard 2014 Extraits gratuits - Rentrée littéraire Gallimard 2014
2014
A Dream Life A Dream Life
2021
Girl A Girl A
2021
Yellowface Yellowface
2023
Where the Crawdads Sing Where the Crawdads Sing
2018