Bøger af Virginia Feito

Virginia Feito, una Highsmith del siglo XXI, evoca a la inolvidable Sra. March, un ama de casa del Upper East Side cuya vida se ve destrozada por la âultima novela de su marido. En este asombroso debut, la venerable pero chismosa escena literaria de Nueva York se tuerce en una casa de diversiâon claustrofâobica de paranoia, horror y humor perversamente oscuro. La âultima novela de George March es un âexito. Nadie estâa mâas orgulloso que la seänora March, su cariänosa esposa. Pero una maänana, el tendero de su pastelerâia favorita sugiere que su protagonista estâa basada en la propia Sra. March: "'Pero... -no es ella...' La Sra. March se inclinâo y casi en un susurro dijo: ' Åuna puta?'" Agarrando su cartera de cuero de avestruz, ella huye, ese comentario casual destruye su creencia de que sabâia todo sobre su esposo, asâi como sobre sâi misma. De repente, la Sra. March se ve envuelta en un viaje desgarrador que se acerca a la psicosis, uno que comienza meramente dentro de las pâaginas de un libro, pero que puede descubrir tanto a un asesino como los secretos enterrados durante mucho tiempo de su pasado.

George March's latest novel is a smash. No one could be prouder than his dutiful wife, Mrs. March, who revels in his accolades. A careful creature of routine and decorum, she lives a precariously controlled existence on the Upper East Side until one morning, when the shopkeeper of her favorite patisserie suggests that her husband's latest protagonist-a detestable character named Johanna-is based on Mrs. March herself. Clutching her ostrich leather pocketbook and mint-colored gloves, she flees the shop. What could have merited this humiliation?That one casual remark robs Mrs. March of the belief that she knew everything about her husband-and herself-thus sending her on an increasingly paranoid journey that begins within the pages of a book. While snooping in George's office, Mrs. March finds a newspaper clipping about a missing woman. Did George have anything to do with her disappearance? He's been going on a lot of "hunting trips" up north with his editor lately, leaving Mrs. March all alone at night with her tormented thoughts, and the cockroaches that have suddenly started to appear, and strange breathing noises . . . As she begins to decode her husband's secrets, her deafening anxiety and fierce determination threaten everyone in her wake-including her stoic housekeeper, Martha, and her unobtrusive son, Jonathan, whom she loves so profoundly, when she remembers to love him at all.Combining a Hitchcockian sensibility with wickedly dark humor, Virginia Feito, a brilliantly talented and, at times, mischievous newcomer, offers a razor-sharp exploration of the fragility of identity. A mesmerizing novel of psychological suspense and casebook insecurity turned full-blown neurosis, Mrs. March will have you second-guessing your own seemingly familiar reflection in the mirror.