Opis: Blank Canvas - Grace Murray

A student lies about her father’s death: a fresh take on the campus novel and a story of deceit, denial, grief and reinvention, from an outstanding new voice in literary fiction

If I ever woke up with an ungodly dread — that I could change it all now, turn around, and confess — I ignored it. I had never been good, and there was no point in trying now.

On a small liberal arts campus in upstate New York, Charlotte begins her final year with a lie. Her father died over the summer, she says. Heart attack. Very sudden.

Charlotte had never been close with her classmates but as she repeats her tale, their expressions soften into kindness. And so she learns there are things worth lying for: attention, affection, and, as she embarks on a relationship with fellow student Katarina, even love. All she needs to do is keep control of the threads that hold her lie – and her life – together.

But six thousand miles away, alone in the grey two-up-two-down Staffordshire terrace she grew up in, her father is very much alive, watching television and drinking beer. Charlotte has always kept difficult truths at arm’s length, but his resolve to visit his distant daughter might just be the one thing she can’t control.

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Szczegóły: Blank Canvas - Grace Murray

Nazwa: Blank Canvas
Autor: Grace Murray
Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books
Kod paskowy: 9780241767306
Ilość stron: 280
Format: 215 x 135 x 23
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.296 kg

Recenzje: Blank Canvas - Grace Murray