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“@jazzt Thought about you when I bought this! "Jealousy, obsession, love, sex, and the internet all come whirling together in a wry and bracing tale of class and privilege.” ( NYTimes Book Review) "Half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy Crazy Rich Asians high living." (Vogue) https://t.co/7WS21E8Gwm” (from X)
by Naoise Dolan·You?
by Naoise Dolan·You?
“This debut novel about an Irish expat millennial teaching English and finding romance in Hong Kong is half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy Crazy Rich Asians high living—and guaranteed to please.” —Vogue A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM: The New York Times Book Review * Vogue * TIME * Marie Claire * Elle * O, the Oprah Magazine * The Washington Post * Esquire * Harper's Bazaar * Bustle * PopSugar * Refinery 29 * LitHub * Debutiful An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than "I like you a great deal." Enter Edith. A Hong Kong–born lawyer, striking and ambitious, Edith takes Ava to the theater and leaves her tulips in the hallway. Ava wants to be her—and wants her. And then Julian writes to tell Ava he is coming back to Hong Kong... Should Ava return to the easy compatibility of her life with Julian or take a leap into the unknown with Edith? Politically alert, heartbreakingly raw, and dryly funny, Exciting Times is thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love. In stylish, uncluttered prose, Naoise Dolan dissects the personal and financial transactions that make up a life—and announces herself as a singular new voice.
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“@ArleneMach I love that book. I love grand conspiracy novels that are so densely layered and convoluted that screenwriters are too intimidated to turn them into movies. Theodore Roszak's Flicker is another one you might like.” (from X)
Obsessed with the baffling disappearance of a nearly-forgotten director, film buff Jonathan Gates traces a trail of intrigue, deception, and death throughout cinematic history and beyond