Resultados da Pesquisa: 9781398529946

Scribner UK, 2024. Paperback. New. export/airside edition. 320 pages. 9.13x5.98x0.94 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. An electric, beguiling contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld.

Trade Paperback. Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK | | Trade Paperback | 320 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, exploring who holds the power in a modern underworld. Camp counsellor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island off the coast of Maine. Plied with luxury and opiates manufactured by his company, she continues to tell herself she's in charge. Her mother, Emer, head of a teetering agricultural NGO, senses… Ler mais