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Bottle Grove - A Novel (Hardcover)
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Bottle Grove - A Novel (Hardcover)
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A razor-sharp tale of two couples, two marriages, a bar, and a San
Francisco start-up from a best-selling, award-winning novelist.
This is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a
wedding, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle
Grove--bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good, back when
people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives, a stretch
of urban green where ritzy guests, lustful teenagers, drunken
revelers, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down. The
girl in the corner slugging vodka from a cough-syrup bottle is
Padgett--she's keeping something secreted in the woods. The couple
at the altar are the Nickels--the bride is emphatic about changing
her name, as there is plenty about her old life she is ready to
forget. Set in San Francisco as the tech-boom is exploding, Bottle
Grove is a sexy, skewering dark comedy about two unions--one forged
of love and the other of greed--and about the forces that can drive
couples together, into dependence, and then into sinister, even
supernatural realms. Add one ominous shape-shifter to the mix, and
you get a delightful and strange spectacle: a story of scheming and
yearning and foibles and love and what we end up doing for it--and
everyone has a secret. Looming over it all is the income disparity
between San Francisco's tech community and . . . everyone else.
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Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2019 |
Authors: |
Daniel Handler
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
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Pages: |
240 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-63286-427-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-63286-427-4 |
Barcode: |
9781632864277 |
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