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Fruit Of The Dead (Paperback, Export/Airside): Rachel Lyon

Fruit Of The Dead (Paperback, Export/Airside)

Rachel Lyon

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An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, exploring who holds the power in a modern underworld.

Camp counsellor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative.

The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island off the coast of Maine. Plied with luxury and opiates manufactured by his company, she continues to tell herself she’s in charge. Her mother, Emer, head of a teetering agricultural NGO, senses otherwise. When her daughter seemingly disappears, Emer crosses land and sea to heed a cry for help she alone is convinced she hears.

Alternating between the two women’s perspectives, Fruit of the Dead incorporates its mythic inspiration with a light touch and devastating precision. The result is a lush and haunting story that explores love, attraction, control, obliteration and America’s own late capitalist mythos.

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Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2024
Authors: Rachel Lyon
Dimensions: 234 x 153mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 320
Edition: Export/Airside
ISBN-13: 978-1-398-52994-6
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
Promotions > Loadshedding > Books > Fiction
LSN: 1-398-52994-X
Barcode: 9781398529946

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