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Shining Girls : A Novel by Lauren Beukes (2014, Trade Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780316216869
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316216860
ISBN-13
9780316216869
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167760000
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shining Girls : a Novel
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Historical, Crime, Thrillers / Suspense, Thrillers / General, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"THE SHINING GIRLS is utterly original, beautifully written, and I must say, it creeped the holy bejasus out of me. This is something special."-- Tana French, "[Beukes is] so profusely talented - capable of wit, darkness, and emotion on a single page - that a blockbuster seems inevitable.... The Shining Girls marks her arrival as a major writer of popular fiction." --USA Today, THE SHINING GIRLS is utterly original, beautifully written, and I must say, it creeped the holy bejasus out of me. This is something special., "One of the scariest and best-written thrillers of the year, not to mention the most memorable portrait of a serial killer since Henry H. Holmes in....Erik Larson's 2003 nonfiction bestseller The Devil in the White City." --Chicago Sun-Times, "Intriguing...Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I'm all over it."-- Gillian Flynn, O magazine, "A grisly crime thriller meets sci-fi action meets historical fiction in a wildly inventive summer page-turner." --Entertainment Weekly, "A grisly crime thriller meets sci-fi action meets historical fiction in a wildly inventive summer page-turner."-- Entertainment Weekly, "I loved THE SHINING GIRLS. It really is a new kind of thriller, sitting somewhere between The Time Traveller's Wife and The Silence of The Lambs . A dark, relentless, time-twisting, page-turning murder story guaranteed to give you heart palpitations. It shines."-- Matt Haig, author of The Radleys, "Intriguing...Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I'm all over it." -- Gillian Flynn, O magazine, "A tremendous work of suspense fiction. What's more, it's a fabulous piece of both time-travel and serial killer fiction, using the intersection of those two themes to explore questions of free will, predestination, and causality in a mind-melting, heart-pounding mashup that delivers on its promise."-- Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing, I loved THE SHINING GIRLS. It really is a new kind of thriller, sitting somewhere between The Time Traveller's Wife and The Silence of The Lambs . A dark, relentless, time-twisting, page-turning murder story guaranteed to give you heart palpitations. It shines., "A triumph ... [T]he smart and spunky Kirby Mizrachi is as exciting to follow as any in recent genre fiction ... [E]ach chapter in which [Harper] appears holds a reader's attention, especially the sharply described murder scenes - some of which read as much like starkly rendered battlefield deaths out of Homer as forensic reconstructions of terrible crimes ... This book means business."-- NPR.org, A tremendous work of suspense fiction... a mind-melting, heart-pounding mashup that delivers on its promise., THE SHINING GIRLS is enthralling and dazzlingly inventive. Lauren Beukes risks everything with a startlingly original structure, that's perfectly executed. A huge accomplishment., "A triumph ... [T]he smart and spunky Kirby Mizrachi is as exciting to follow as any in recent genre fiction ... [E]ach chapter in which [Harper] appears holds a reader's attention, especially the sharply described murder scenes - some of which read as much like starkly rendered battlefield deaths out of Homer as forensic reconstructions of terrible crimes ... This book means business." --NPR.org, "[Beukes is] so profusely talented - capable of wit, darkness, and emotion on a single page - that a blockbuster seems inevitable.... The Shining Girls marks her arrival as a major writer of popular fiction."-- USA Today, Imagine Poe and Steinbeck in a knife fight where Poe wins and writes Jack the Ripper's version of The Grapes of Wrath . Lauren Beukes's THE SHINING GIRLS is even scarier than that., "The premise is pure Stephen King, but Beukes gives it an intricate, lyrical treatment all her own."-- Time, "One of the scariest and best-written thrillers of the year, not to mention the most memorable portrait of a serial killer since Henry H. Holmes in....Erik Larson's 2003 nonfiction bestseller The Devil in the White City ."-- Chicago Sun-Times, "Very smart...completely kick-ass. Beukes' handling of the joints between the realistic and the fantastic is masterful, and those are always my favorite parts, in this kind of story. Not the weirdness (which is itself superb here, and very ample) but the segue to it. The liminal instant."-- William Gibson
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A masterful twist on the serial killer novel and "one of the scariest and best-written thrillers of the year" ( Chicago Sun-Times ) from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist. Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times. At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of these shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing without a trace into another time after each murder--until one of his victims survives. Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with the reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on an impossible truth . . ., Now an Apple TV+ series starring Elisabeth Moss: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist in this "expertly chilling" twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes ( San Francisco Chronicle ). Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times. At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of these shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing without a trace into another time after each murder -- until one of his victims survives. Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with the reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on an impossible truth . . . "Utterly original, beautifully written, and I must say, it creeped the holy bejasus out of me. This is something special." --Tana French
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