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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Very good condition no tears or writing or scratches, see images for details.”
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Artist
- Waters, Sarah
- Type
- Novel
- Era
- 2010s
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781594633119
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594633118
ISBN-13
9781594633119
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201606456
Product Key Features
Book Title
Paying Guests
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Lgbt / Lesbian, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-016148
Reviews
Praise for The Paying Guests "Outstanding. [ The Paying Guests ] is the work of an artist at the height of her powers… How difficult, and how admirable, to pull off an ending that both sates you and leaves you chomping for more… You feel as if an actual life were unfolding before you-a life that happens to be far more thrilling than most." - Pop Matters "Fans of Sarah Waters' previous novels know she is a gifted storyteller with a way of bringing historical eras to life… With the swiftly shifting mores of postwar British society as a backÂdrop, [she] once again provides a singular novel of psychological tension, emotional depth and hisÂtorical detail." -BookPage "It's easy to get so caught up in this quiet tale of suburban sapphic passion that you forget who's masterminding it. Waters is at her best when she sends the plot on dizzying twists, and what seems at first to be a novel about repressed desire soon spirals madly into murder, adultery and betrayal… an absorbing read, rich in period detail and complex characters." - The List (UK) "An exquisitely tuned exploration of class in post-Edwardian Britain-with really hot sex…Tension is high from the first paragraph…Waters is a master of pacing, and her metaphor-laced prose is a delight…until the last page, the reader will have no idea what's going to happen. Waters keeps getting better, if that's even possible after the sheer perfection of her earlier novels." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "An absorbing character study [and] expertly paced and gripping psychological narrative…Readers of Water's previous novels know that she brings historical eras to life with consummate skill, rendering authentic details into layered portraits of particular times and places…breathtaking" - Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "Moody and atmospheric, this latest from three-time Booker Prize finalist Waters ( The Little Stranger ) has a rich historical setting…[and] keeps you guessing until the very end" - Library Journal Praise for The Little Stranger "The #1 book of 2009 . . . Several sleepless nights are guaranteed." -Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly "A classic gothic page-turner." - USA Today "Sarah Waters is an excellent, evocative writer, and this is an incredibly gripping and readable novel." - The New York Times Book Review "Haunted by the spirits of Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe . . . Waters is just one turn of the screw away from 'The Fall of the House of Usher.' . . . She keeps the lightning flashing in every gloomy chapter, and you can't help but gasp, 'It's alive!'" - The Washington Post "Completely absorbing . . . I wanted to linger in that fictional world, page by page, chapter by chapter." - Newsday, "An exquisitely tuned exploration of class in post-Edwardian Britain-with really hot sex…Tension is high from the first paragraph…Waters is a master of pacing, and her metaphor-laced prose is a delight…until the last page, the reader will have no idea what's going to happen. Waters keeps getting better, if that's even possible after the sheer perfection of her earlier novels." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Praise for The Little Stranger "The #1 book of 2009 . . . Several sleepless nights are guaranteed." -Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly "A classic gothic page-turner." - USA Today "Sarah Waters is an excellent, evocative writer, and this is an incredibly gripping and readable novel." - The New York Times Book Review "Haunted by the spirits of Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe . . . Waters is just one turn of the screw away from 'The Fall of the House of Usher.' . . . She keeps the lightning flashing in every gloomy chapter, and you can't help but gasp, 'It's alive!'" - The Washington Post "Completely absorbing . . . I wanted to linger in that fictional world, page by page, chapter by chapter." - Newsday, Praise for The Paying Guests "An exquisitely tuned exploration of class in post-Edwardian Britain-with really hot sex…Tension is high from the first paragraph…Waters is a master of pacing, and her metaphor-laced prose is a delight…until the last page, the reader will have no idea what's going to happen. Waters keeps getting better, if that's even possible after the sheer perfection of her earlier novels." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "An absorbing character study [and] expertly paced and gripping psychological narrative…Readers of Water's previous novels know that she brings historical eras to life with consummate skill, rendering authentic details into layered portraits of particular times and places…breathtaking" Publisher's Weekly (starred review) Praise for The Little Stranger "The #1 book of 2009 . . . Several sleepless nights are guaranteed." -Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly "A classic gothic page-turner." - USA Today "Sarah Waters is an excellent, evocative writer, and this is an incredibly gripping and readable novel." - The New York Times Book Review "Haunted by the spirits of Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe . . . Waters is just one turn of the screw away from 'The Fall of the House of Usher.' . . . She keeps the lightning flashing in every gloomy chapter, and you can't help but gasp, 'It's alive!'" - The Washington Post "Completely absorbing . . . I wanted to linger in that fictional world, page by page, chapter by chapter." - Newsday, Praise for The Little Stranger "The #1 book of 2009 . . . Several sleepless nights are guaranteed." -Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly "A classic gothic page-turner." - USA Today "Sarah Waters is an excellent, evocative writer, and this is an incredibly gripping and readable novel." - The New York Times Book Review "Haunted by the spirits of Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe . . . Waters is just one turn of the screw away from 'The Fall of the House of Usher.' . . . She keeps the lightning flashing in every gloomy chapter, and you can't help but gasp, 'It's alive!'" - The Washington Post "Completely absorbing . . . I wanted to linger in that fictional world, page by page, chapter by chapter." - Newsday , Praise for The Paying Guests "An exquisitely tuned exploration of class in post-Edwardian Britain-with really hot sex…Tension is high from the first paragraph…Waters is a master of pacing, and her metaphor-laced prose is a delight…until the last page, the reader will have no idea what's going to happen. Waters keeps getting better, if that's even possible after the sheer perfection of her earlier novels." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "An absorbing character study [and] expertly paced and gripping psychological narrative…Readers of Water's previous novels know that she brings historical eras to life with consummate skill, rendering authentic details into layered portraits of particular times and places…breathtaking" - Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "Moody and atmospheric, this latest from three-time Booker Prize finalist Waters ( The Little Stranger ) has a rich historical setting…[and] keeps you guessing until the very end" - Library Journal Praise for The Little Stranger "The #1 book of 2009 . . . Several sleepless nights are guaranteed." -Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly "A classic gothic page-turner." - USA Today "Sarah Waters is an excellent, evocative writer, and this is an incredibly gripping and readable novel." - The New York Times Book Review "Haunted by the spirits of Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe . . . Waters is just one turn of the screw away from 'The Fall of the House of Usher.' . . . She keeps the lightning flashing in every gloomy chapter, and you can't help but gasp, 'It's alive!'" - The Washington Post "Completely absorbing . . . I wanted to linger in that fictional world, page by page, chapter by chapter." - Newsday
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Grade From
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Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Synopsis
The New York Times bestselling novel that has been called "a tour de force" ( Wall Street Journal) , "unputdownable" ( The Washington Post ), "a delicious hothouse of a novel" ( USA Today ), "effortless" ( The Economist ), "seductive" ( Vanity Fair ) and "pitch perfect" ( Salon ) "Superb, bewitching...Forget about Fifty Shades of Grey ; this novel is one of the most sensual you will ever read, and all without sacrificing either good taste or a "G" rating" - NPR "One of the year's most engrossing and suspenseful novels...a love affair, a shocking murder, and a flawless ending ... Will keep you sleepless for three nights straight and leave you grasping for another book that can sustain that high." -- Entertainment Weekly (A rating) " Volcanically sexy, sizzingly smart, plenty bloody and just plain irresistible." --USA Today (4 stars) It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa--a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants--life is about to be transformed as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. With the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the "clerk class," the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Frances's life--or, as passions mount and frustration gathers, how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be. Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize three times, Sarah Waters has earned a reputation as one of our greatest writers of historical fiction, and here she has delivered again. A love story, a tension-filled crime story, and a beautifully atmospheric portrait of a fascinating time and place, The Paying Guests is Sarah Waters's finest achievement yet., It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa - a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants - life is about to be transformed as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. With the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the "clerk class," the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Frances's life - or, as passions mount and frustration gathers, how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be. Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize three times, Sarah Waters has earned a reputation as one of our greatest writers of historical fiction, and here she has delivered again. A love story, a tension-filled crime story, and a beautifully atmospheric portrait of a fascinating time and place, The Paying Guests is Sarah Waters's finest achievement yet.
LC Classification Number
PR6073.A828P39 2014
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