Amy Gentry

Good as Gone: A Novel of Suspense

A whip-smart psychological thriller from the author of Good as Gone (a New York Times Notable Book), in which a grad student becomes embroiled in a deadly rivalry that changes her into someone unrecognizable to her struggling family, her ambitious academic friends, and even herself Claire "Mac" Woods--a professor enjoying her newfound hot-shot status at an academic conference--finally has the acceptance and admiration she has long craved. But at the conference's hotel bar, Mac is surprised to run into a face from a past she'd rather forget: the moneyed, effortlessly perfect Gwendolyn Whitney, Mac's foil, rival, and former best friend. When Gwen moved to town in high school, Claire--then known as Mac, a poor kid from a troubled family who had too much on her plate--saw what it meant to have. Money, sophistication, culture, the very blueprints to success. Mac had almost nothing, except the will to change. Change she did, habitually grinding herself to work as hard as straight-A Gwen, even eventually getting admitted into the same elite graduate program as Gwen. But then Mac and Gwen become entangled with the department's power-couple professors and compete head-to-head for a life changing fellowship. The more twisted the track toward success becomes, the more Mac has to contort herself to stay one step ahead--which deception signals the point of no return? Jack-knifing between Mac's world-expanding graduate days and the crucible of the hotel and its unexpected guests, BAD HABITS follows Mac's reckoning between her hardscrabble past and tenuous present. What, exactly, did Mac do to get what she has today? And what will she do to keep it? With taut, powerful prose, Amy Gentry asks how far we'll go to get what we want--and whether we can ever truly leave the past behind.

Bad Habits

Eight years ago, thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night.

Good as Gone

Molly Keane

Good Behaviour

"In Amy Gentry's follow-up to her acclaimed debut, Good As Gone, two assaulted women make a pact to kill each other's tormentor. But in the fallout, their paranoia grows until neither is sure whom she can trust. At what cost will their vengeance come?"--

Last Woman Standing

Dochters van anderen

Ein Mädchen verschwindet. Eine Fremde kehrt zurück. - Roman

Kayip

Napínavý psychologický thriller s genderovou problematikou. Dvě přítelkyně zahájí nebezpečnou hru, v níž se rozhodnou pomstít všem mužům, kteří jim někdy ublížili. Dana Diazová je nadějná stand-up komička. Když pozná počítačovou programátorku Amandu Dornovou, spojí je snaha obstát v mužských profesích. Dana přizná, že byla nedávno napadena a Amanda, která má vlastní špatné zkušenosti, přijde s plánem: měly by se všem mužům, kteří jim kdy ublížili, pomstít. Tím začne série odplat. Daně se to jednoho dne vymkne z rukou a uvědomí si, že jakkoli je pomsta sladká, nechce už nikomu ubližovat. Oznámí tedy Amandě, že končí. Ta si to nenechá líbit a začne Danu vydírat. Dana odjede za prací do LA a doufá, že tím všemu unikne, jenže Amanda ji sleduje jako stín. Nakladatelská anotace. Kráceno.

Kdo se směje naposled

So ich dir - Thriller

Wie du mir

ANNA WHITAKER sobreviveu a um pesadelo. Uma de suas filhas foi sequestrada aos 13 anos de idade e fica desaparecida por quase uma década. A família está feliz com o retorno da jovem, mas a mãe tem dúvidas que não consegue silenciar. Será que aquela é realmente sua filha? Caso não seja, quem é esta mulher e o que ela quer deles? Transcorridos oito anos de seu sequestro, testemunhado apenas pela sua irmã caçula na calada da noite, JULIE WHITAKER retorna subitamente para casa. A família, ainda que petrificada pela tragédia, se manteve unida e esperou muito por esse momento. Para ANNA, no entanto, a volta da filha ao lar suscita mais questões do que respostas, mais dúvidas do que conforto, pois, para ela, o pesadelo não parece ter acabado. Ainda que felizes e surpresos com o retorno de Julie, seus pais e a irmã vivem a angustiante dificuldade de superar o antigo e profundo trauma. Piorando a situação, os anos fora de casa, tendo de lutar pela sobrevivência, transformaram o comportamento de Julie, e a mãe percebe inconsistências nos seus relatos sobre o ocorrido e uma certa estranheza em sua maneira de agir, e logo suspeita da sua identidade. A busca por verdades é o único caminho capaz de reinstalar a confiança e, sobretudo, reafirmar os inquebrantáveis laços entre mãe e filhas. PARA SEMPRE PERDIDA é um romance que expõe, emociona e envolve o leitor da primeira à última página.

Para sempre perdida

It's hard to think of a solo female recording artist who has been as revered or as reviled over the course of her career as Tori Amos. Amy Gentry argues that these violent aesthetic responses to Amos's performance, both positive and negative, are organized around disgust-the disgust that women are taught to feel, not only for their own bodies, but for their taste in music. Released in 1996, Amos's third album, Boys for Pele, represents the height of Amos's willingness to explore the ugly qualities that make all of her music, even her more conventionally beautiful albums, so uncomfortably, and so wonderfully, strange. Using a blend of memoir, criticism, and aesthetic theory, Gentry argues that the aesthetics of disgust are useful for thinking in a broader way about women's experience of all art forms.

Tori Amos's Boys for Pele

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Čuža

A stand-up hagyományosan a férfiak világa - Dana Diaz mégis ebben a közegben próbál szerencsét. Összebarátkozik egy hajthatatlan programozóval, Amandával, akinek szintén a férfiak között kell helytállnia. Dana bizalmába fogadja a lányt és elárulja, hogy nemrég zaklatás áldozatává vált. Elhatározzák, hogy megtorolják a sérelmeket egymás zaklatóin, hasonlóképp, ahogy az Idegenek a vonaton című Hitchcock-klasszikusban látták. De a bosszú édes szertartásába Dana számára más élmények is vegyülnek: a csalás, a paranoia és a bizalmatlanság olyan személyiségvonásait csalja elő, melyekről maga sem tudott. Úgy tűnik, a bosszúért komoly árat kell fizetnie... „Csavarokkal teli, elsöprően olvasmányos - az ember egészen az utolsó oldalig találgatja, mi lesz a vége.” - Karin Slaughter „Egyetlen délután alatt felfaltam és óriási élmény volt - rádöbbenti az olvasót, milyen kevés választja el a jogos igazságérzetet a bosszúállástól.” - Rena Olsen, az Egy szót se szólj! és a Veled, mindörökké szerzője Amy Gentry a Ki ez a lány? Eltűnt, megkerült? című thrillerével, mely magyarul is olvasható, rögtön a legnagyobbak közé került. Második regénye szerepelt a thrillerblogok „2019 legjobban várt könyvei” listáin. Amy Chicagóban végzett, szabadúszó újságíró, jelenleg a texasi Austinban él.

Aki utoljára nevet

A compelling study of Tori Amos's landmark album and its relation to the concept of disgust.

Amy Gentry

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