"The Secret History meets The Price of Salt" (Vogue) in this "equal
parts dangerous and delicious" (Entertainment Weekly) novel about
queer desire, religious zealotry, and the hunger for transcendence
among the members of a cultic chapel choir at a Maine boarding
school--and the ambitious, terrifyingly charismatic girl that rules
over them. When shy, sensitive Laura Stearns arrives at St.
Dunstan's Academy in Maine, she dreams that life there will echo
her favorite novel, All Before Them, the sole surviving piece of
writing by Byronic "prep school prophet" (and St. Dunstan's alum)
Sebastian Webster, who died at nineteen, fighting in the Spanish
Civil War. She soon finds the intensity she is looking for among
the insular, Webster-worshipping members of the school's chapel
choir, which is presided over by the charismatic, neurotic,
overachiever Virginia Strauss. Virginia is as fanatical about her
newfound Christian faith as she is about the miles she runs every
morning before dawn. She expects nothing short of perfection from
herself--and from the member of the choir. Virginia inducts the
besotted Laura into a world of transcendent music and arcane
ritual, illicit cliff-diving and midnight crypt visits: a world
that, like Webster's novels, finally seems to Laura to be full of
meaning. But when a new school chaplain challenges Virginia's hold
on the "family" she has created, and Virginia's efforts to wield
her power become increasingly dangerous, Laura must decide how far
she will let her devotion to Virginia go. The World Cannot Give is
a "hypnotic and intense" (Shondaland) meditation on the power, and
danger, of wanting more from the world.
General
Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2023 |
Authors: |
Tara Isabella Burton
|
Dimensions: |
213 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-982170-07-3 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-982170-07-7 |
Barcode: |
9781982170073 |
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