Saint X, Schaitkin Alexis

Автор: Alexis Schaitkin; read by Ell Potter
Название: Elsewhere
ISBN: 1250852773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250852779
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Автор: Alexis Schaitkin
Название: Elsewhere
ISBN: 1250219639 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250219633
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Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear.

Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving in its adherence to tradition, faces a singular affliction: some mothers vanish, disappearing into the clouds. It is the exquisite pain and intrinsic beauty of their lives; it sets them apart from people elsewhere and gives them meaning.

Vera, a young girl when her mother went, is on the cusp of adulthood herself.

As her peers begin to marry and become mothers, they speculate about who might be the first to go, each wondering about her own fate. Reveling in their gossip, they witness each other in motherhood, waiting for signs: this one devotes herself to her child too much, this one not enough-that must surely draw the affliction's gaze. When motherhood comes for Vera, she is faced with the question: will she be able to stay and mother her beloved child, or will she disappear?

Provocative and hypnotic, Alexis Schaitkin's Elsewhere is at once a spellbinding revelation and a rumination on the mysterious task of motherhood and all the ways in which a woman can lose herself to it; the self-monitoring and judgment, the doubts and unknowns, and the legacy she leaves behind.

Автор: Schaitkin, Alexis
Название: Saint x
ISBN: 1529074851 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529074857
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Описание: A stunning debut and a haunting portrait of grief, race, obsession and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know each other.

Автор: Schaitkin, Alexis
Название: Saint x
ISBN: 152901428X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529014280
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Описание: A stunning debut, a haunting portrait of grief, race, obsession and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know each other.

Автор: Schaitkin Alexis
Название: Saint X
ISBN: 1529014271 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529014273
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Описание: A stunning debut, a haunting portrait of grief, race, obsession and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know each other.

Автор: Schaitkin Alexis
Название: Saint X
ISBN: 1250219590 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250219596
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Hailed as a "marvel of a book" and "brilliant and unflinching," Alexis Schaitkin's stunning debut, Saint X, is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another.

Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later, Alison's body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men-employees at the resort-are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. The story turns into national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved. For Claire and her parents, there is only the return home to broken lives.

Years later, Claire is living and working in New York City when a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with Clive Richardson, one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. It is a moment that sets Claire on an obsessive pursuit of the truth-not only to find out what happened the night of Alison's death but also to answer the elusive question: Who exactly was her sister? At seven, Claire had been barely old enough to know her: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation.

As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will reveal the truth, an unlikely attachment develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by the same tragedy.

For readers of Emma Cline's The Girls and Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies, Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story that culminates in an emotionally powerful ending.

Автор: Alexis Schaitkin
Название: Saint X
ISBN: 1529014263 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529014266
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Описание: A stunning debut, a haunting portrait of grief, race, obsession and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know each other.

Автор: Schaitkin, Alexis
Название: Saint x
ISBN: 1250760372 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250760371
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Описание: Examining American colonial constitutionalism, this book yields insights for legal historians, comparativists, post-colonial scholars, and Southeast Asia specialists. Its focus on the use of American political models in Philippine colonial state-building and development will resonate with law and development scholars and political scientists specializing in American political development.