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Obsession blooms when a professor fixates on a glamorous actress nearby.
Looker
'A slim novel that has maximum drama'
$36.73
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
22 July 2019
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Summary
‘Dazzlingly creepy storytelling, reminiscent of NOTES ON A SCANDAL’ Grazia
‘A short, bracing shock of a novel, easily gulped down in one sitting’ Metro
‘Written with a precise, sinister elegance, this is a gripping portrait of one woman’s descent into madness’ Heat
The Professor lives in Brooklyn; her partner Nathan left her when she couldn’t have a baby. All she has now is her dead-end teach…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472258809 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1472258800 |
| Author: | Laura Sims |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Tinder Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 22 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
Unsettling and compelling
A simmering sense of dread dominates this brilliant Brooklyn-set debut … dazzlingly creepy storytelling, reminiscent of NOTES ON A SCANDAL. Will leave you checking your curtains at night, but this is an utterly absorbing read - Grazia onlineSims creates a compelling narrator, who is both sympathetic and disturbing - Bookseller, Editor’s Choice for JulyLaura Sims has pulled off the high-wire act of making bitterness delicious - VogueEphemeral fiction with a hard landing - like a window, seen in passing, that glows and goes dark - New YorkerA sugarcoated poison pill of psychological terror - Wall Street JournalLooker is a powerful sylph of a book about creation and destruction and the permeable boundary between them - LitHubJealousy rears its ugly head in Sims’s chilling and riveting debut. In this tightly plotted novel, Sims takes the reader fully into the mind of a woman becoming increasingly unhinged, and turns her emotionally fraught journey into a provocative tale about the dangers of coveting what belongs to another - Publishers Weekly, starred reviewAbout The Author
Laura Sims
Laura Sims is the author of four books of poetry, and LOOKER is her debut novel. She lives in Brooklyn.
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