Lady In The Lake: A Novel (libro En Inglés)

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Nombre: Lady in the Lake: A Novel (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: William Morrow Paperbacks

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A New York Times Bestseller
The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman.
In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to knoweveryone, that is, except Madeline Maddie Schwartz. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. This year, shes bolted from her marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life.
Maddie wants to matter, to leave her mark on a swiftly changing world. Drawing on her own secrets, she helps Baltimore police find a murdered girlassistance that leads to a job at the citys afternoon newspaper, the Star. Working at the newspaper offers Maddie the opportunity to make her name, and she has found just the story to do it: Cleo Sherwood, a missing woman whose body was discovered in the fountain of a city park lake.
If Cleo were white, every reporter in Baltimore would be clamoring to tell her story. Instead, her mysterious death receives only cursory mention in the daily newspapers, and no one cares when Maddie starts poking around in a young Black woman's lifeexcept for Cleo's ghost, who is determined to keep her secrets and her dignity. Cleo scolds the ambitious Maddie: You're interested in my death, not my life. They're not the same thing.
Maddies investigation brings her into contact with people that used to be on the periphery of her lifea jewelry store clerk, a waitress, a rising star on the Baltimore Orioles, a patrol cop, a hardened female reporter, a lonely man in a movie theater. But for all her ambition and drive, Maddie often fails to see the people right in front of her. Her inability to look beyond her own needs will lead to tragedy and turmoil for all sorts of peopleincluding Ferdie, the man who shares her bed, a police officer who is risking far more than Maddie can understand.

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...the closest writer America has to Ruth Rendell.... What makes this book special, even extraordinary, is that the crossword puzzle aspect is secondary...[Lady in the Lake] reflects the gulf which then existed between what women were expected to be and what they aspired to be. Stephen King
Dont miss this novel. Anna Quindlen, New York Times bestselling author
A cavalcade of narrators--including Cleos ghost, who wants Maddie to stop poking into her world--and Lippmans expert storytelling bring the citys tensions wondrously to life. People
[Lippman] only seems to be getting better. Entertainment Weekly
[Lippman] tells a classic mystery through the prism of many characters, all feeling the reverberations of dawning feminism and racial tension in civil-rights-era Baltimore...Lady in the Lake is aching, thoughtful, and compulsively readable. Vanity Fair
Baltimore in the mid-1960s is the setting of Lady in the Lake, the latest novel from the ever impressive Laura Lippman...Lippmans book is revelatory, too, in showing the personal and professional costs to othersfriends, loved ones, sources, witnessesof Maddies single-minded quest for achievement and recognition. Wall Street Journal
Elegantly written, the novel moves with an eye to how people adapt to changes in culture, or maybe how an evolving culture causes shifts in people...Lippman again proves shes a sharp observer of people, with an affinity for shaping complicated people in a refined plot. Associated Press
Inspired by the unsolved death of Shirley Parker... Lippmans ambitious novel weaves some 20 points of view into a seamless, vivid whole. The novel demonstrates that Lippman, a former Baltimore Sun reporter, is both a skilled journalist and a masterful novelist. Washington Post
Lippmans fans will devour this sophisticated crime novel, which ca

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Envío: Desde EE. UU.
-Libro Impreso y Nuevo

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Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9780062390028
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defecto de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 0062390023
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta blanda
Editorial: William Morrow Paperbacks
Titulo del libro: Lady in the Lake: A Novel (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Lippman, Laura
Fecha de publicación: 2020
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 384
ISBN-13: 9780062390028
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9780062390028