Jean Hanff Korelitz

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!** "Insanely readable." —Stephen King Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written—let alone published—anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot. Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker’s first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that—a story that absolutely needs to be told. In a few short years, all of Evan Parker’s predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says. As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his “sure thing” of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?

The Plot

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, a Tonight Show Summer Read pick, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is an immersive, deeply perceptive story of three completely different triplets, and the upending of their family with the late arrival of a fourth. Born into a wealthy New York family, the Oppenheim triplets -- Harrison, Lewyn and Sally -- have led charmed lives: carefully educated and wildly indulged. Now, on the verge of their departure for college, and eager to escape one another at last, they are forced to contend with an unexpected complication: a fourth Oppenheim sibling, formerly a leftover embryo from their own long ago in vitro genesis, has just been born. How can they begin to imagine the impact this unwanted latecomer will one day have on all their lives and the utterly unexpected revelations that will emerge? Tracing the Oppenheim family through past, present and future, The Latecomer is the latest from an accomplished author, known for the depth of her character studies and her uncanny ability to bring readers into the messy complications of family life.

The Latecomer

Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended. Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves, Grace is also the author of a book You Should Have Known, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them. But weeks before the book is published a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only an ongoing chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.

You Should Have Known

Thirty-eight-year old Portia Nathan, a Princeton University admissions officer, must decide whether or not to confront the truth when a life-altering decision from her past resurfaces.

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Soon to be an HBO series starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, and Donald Sutherland -- the "rollickingly good literary thriller" about a marriage counselor who learns that her perfect life is a mirage (Vanity Fair). New York Times bestselling novel Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself, devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son, Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice. Grace is also the author of the forthcoming You Should Have Known, a book in which she castigates women for not valuing their intuition and calls upon them to pay attention to their first impressions of men. But weeks before the book is published, a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself. *Includes Reading Group Guide*

Also published as YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN

The Undoing

A Trama

Webster College: an elite New England campus and a world of learning where creativity and inclusiveness are the presiding principles. Naomi Roth, a feminist scholar, is named to the coveted position of Webster's president. When a student protest materializes, Naomi initially supports the movement, feeling proud and protective of the protesters, her own daughter Hannah among them. But the protest begins to fester, attracting students from other institutions and media. Attention begins to focus on one charismatic student, a Palestinian immigrant named Omar, and both the tension on campus and the essential conflicts in Naomi's personal life begin to overwhelm her until she finds herself facing an impossible and ultimately tragic conflict. The Devil and Webster is shot through with caustic comedy, and yet the Faustian notes are a persistent reminder that the possibility of corruption - personal or institutional - remains our persistent companion, however good our intentions might be.

The Devil and Webster

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Jacob Finch Bonner a fost cândva un tânăr romancier promițător, cu o primă carte respectabilă. Astăzi, predă un curs obscur de scriere creativă și nu a mai scris și publicat nimic acceptabil de ani întregi. Într-o zi, Evan Parker, cel mai arogant dintre studenții lui, declară că nu are nevoie de ajutor pentru viitorul său roman întrucât are o poveste atât de bună încât, oricât de slab ar fi scrisă, succesul este absolut garantat. Jake este convins că are de-a face cu un simplu diletant narcisist. Apoi Parker îi destăinuie povestea... Dar când află că fostul său student a murit, din câte se pare fără a-și fi terminat cartea, Jake procedează la fel cum ar face-o oricare alt scriitor care se respectă, pus în fața unei astfel de povești – o poveste care trebuie spusă cu orice preț. În numai câțiva ani, Jake este un scriitor de succes – bogat, faimos și citit în întreaga lume. Ajuns însă la apogeul noii lui vieți glorioase, primește un e-mail, în care scrie doar atât: Ești un hoț. Este doar primul pas dintr-o campanie anonimă terifiantă îndreptată împotriva lui... „Vieți furate este unul dintre cele mai bune romane pe care le-am citit vreodată despre scriitori și scris. Se citește pe nerăsuflate, iar suspansul depășește orice limită. Este remarcabil.“ STEPHEN KING „Vieți furate este scris cu atâta măiestrie și este atât de fascinant încât e aproape imposibil să-l lași din mână. Inteligent și tulburător, te captivează de la primul capitol și nu te mai lasă până la finalul uimitor, care îți taie răsuflarea.” GREER HENDRICKS și SARAH PEKKANEN

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White Rose

As a little girl climbs off a school bus on the Upper East Side of New York, a man named Trent rushes from the shadows to stab her viciously, instantly becoming the city's latest pariah and setting into motion an increasingly bizarre chain of occurrences. At one end of the chain is Sybylla Muldoon, the Legal Aid attorney who must somehow overcome eyewitness accounts, devastating forensic evidence, and the brutal disfigurement of an innocent child in her struggle to defend Trent; at the other is the mystery of why a previously peaceful and rational man should suddenly commit such an abhorrent crime. Sybylla's client may be inescapably guilty of the act, but everything about the case feels unaccountably wrong. Raised to argue both sides of anything by her father, a conservative judge whom she adores even as she rejects his politics, Sybylla is committed to the principles of public defense but growing increasingly weary in its practice. Now as she readies Trent's case for trial, Sybylla makes a series of seemingly unrelated discoveries that bind together a thriving trial consulting firm dealing exclusively with conservative prosecuting attorneys, a pattern of unnoticed abductions among New York's homeless, a long-abandoned avenue of medical research, and Sam, Sybylla's new colleague at Legal Aid whom she falls for but can't quite trust. In the end, Trent's mystery leads her to the very summit of the American legal system—the confirmation hearings of a Supreme Court nominee—and to the heart of her own family history, until Sybylla must reconsider virtually everything she believes she knows about her own life. With its captivating protagonist and its timely consideration of juries, trial consultants, and that elusive notion, justice, A Jury of Her Peers is a chilling novel about the law—and those who seek to corrupt it.

A Jury of Her Peers

Der New-York-Times-Bestseller: klug, überraschend, nervenaufreibend spannend Einst wurde Jake Finch Bonner in New York als Autor gefeiert. Doch sein großer Wurf liegt Jahre zurück und mittlerweile unterrichtet er Kreatives Schreiben an einem kleinen College in der Provinz. Als einer seiner ehemaligen Studenten stirbt, bevor er seinen ersten Roman fertiggestellt hat, übernimmt Jake dessen perfekte Geschichte. Das Buch wird über Nacht zum Bestseller. Dann erreicht Jake plötzlich eine anonyme E-Mail, die nur einen Satz enthält: "Du bist ein Dieb". Mit jeder neuen Nachricht werden die Drohungen schärfer, und was eben noch eine Frage der Ehre und Karriere war, wird bald zu einem lebensgefährlichen Katz-und-Maus-Spiel. "Wahnsinnig lesenswert" Stephen King

Roman

Der Plot - Eine todsichere Geschichte

You Should Have Known -- Free Preview (The First 4 Chapters)

Read the "rollickingly good literary thriller" and New York Times Bestseller -- and watch the most talked about TV series of 2020, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant. Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended. Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves, Grace is also the author of a book You Should Have Known, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them. But weeks before the book is published a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only an ongoing chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.

The Most Talked about TV Series of 2020, Now on HBO

The Undoing: Previously Published As You Should Have Known

Marian Kahn, a forty-eight-year-old married professor of history at Columbia University, ought to be content with her life -- marriage, wealth, her famed discovery of the eighteenth century adventuress, Lady Charlotte. Instead she finds herself in love with Oliver, the son of her oldest friend. As their dangerous affair becomes more and more complicated, Marian and Oliver learn that love is seldom straightforward, but always a gift.

The White Rose

'Embodied in The Properties of Breath is an unforced sense of how the speaking voice can be conveyed as music - an ear for the properties of language, for pause, for cadence, and syntactical decorum, such as constitute the mark of the true, the born poet. This disturbance is finally inseparable from the properties that underlie it, an acute, even sardonic eye for the telling detail. counterbalanced by a remarkable depth and generosity of feeling, a readiness to listen for what is submerged, what does not come easily to the surface, what may indeed never be entirely uncovered. A strain of demonic intensity hints at the presence of Sylvia Plath, the feeling and the cadence are both the poet's own.' - Amy Clampitt

The Properties of Breath

Verfilmt mit Nicole Kidman und Hugh Grant! THE UNDOING aktuell auf Sky. Grace Reinhardt Sachs lebt auf der Manhattaner Eastside in dem Gefühl, alles richtig gemacht zu haben. Sie ist eine erfolgreiche Paartherapeutin, ihr Mann ein berühmter Kinderarzt, und ihr Sohn besucht eine renommierte Privatschule. Graces Beziehungsratgeber DU HÄTTEST ES WISSEN KÖNNEN steht kurz vor der Veröffentlichung, und das Interesse ist groß. Als die Mutter eines Mitschülers ermordet wird und Graces Mann nicht zu erreichen ist, beginnt Grace zu ahnen, dass es vielleicht auch Dinge gibt, die sie hätte wissen können. Jean Hanff Korelitz erzählt von einer modernen Frau — klug, emotional, erfolgreich, die glaubt, alles im Griff zu haben. Erst eine große Krise hält sie davon ab, die Fassade weiterzupolieren, hinter der sie fast verschwunden war — endlich fängt sie wieder an zu leben. »Klug und raffiniert.« The New York Times

Roman | Du hättest es wissen können - jetzt verfilmt als THE UNDOING

Du hättest es wissen können

Grace Reinhart Sachs trăiește viața pe care și‐a dorit‐o întotdeauna, dedicată soțului ei, medic oncolog pediatru la un spital important, fiului lor, Henry, și pacienților pe care îi primește la cabinetul ei de psihoterapie. Grace este, de asemenea, autoarea cărții aflate în curs de publicare Ar fi trebuit să știi, un volum în care îndeamnă femeile să aibă încredere în intuiția lor și să acorde atenție primelor impresii în relațiile cu bărbații. Cu câteva săptămâni înainte de apariția cărții, o prăpastie se deschide însă în viața lui Grace: o moarte violentă, un soț dispărut și, în locul unui bărbat pe care credea că îl cunoaște, doar un șir de revelații teribile. În urma acestui dezastru amplu mediatizat, îngrozită de felul în care ea însăși nu a reușit să‐și urmeze propriile sfaturi, Grace trebuie să construiască o nouă viață pentru ea și pentru copilul ei. „Provoacă zeii cu trufie și siguranță de sine și ei ți‐o vor plăti cu o lovitură tragică neașteptată – asta aflăm din thrillerul alert al lui Jean Hanff Korelitz... Korelitz scrie într‐o manieră familiară și angajată despre straturi sociale în care puțini au acces, dar în care urâțenia e la tot pasul.“ VANITY FAIR „Acest excelent thriller literar oferă detalii autentice dintr‐un Manhattan contemporan select... Un roman fascinant și seducător.“ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY „O analiză minuțioasă a claselor sociale superioare din Manhattan.“ VOGUE.COM

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