Bibliograph

Daddy, stories, Emma Cline

Type

Label

Daddy, stories, Emma Cline

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Daddy

Oclc number

1187196824

Responsibility statement

Emma Cline

Sub title

stories

Summary

"An absentee father collects his son from boarding school after a shocking act of violence. A nanny to a celebrity family hides out in Laurel Canyon in the aftermath of a tabloid scandal. A young woman sells her underwear to strangers. A notorious guest arrives at a placid, not-quite rehab in the Southwest. In ten remarkable stories, Emma Cline portrays moments when the ordinary is disturbed, when daily life buckles, revealing the perversity and violence pulsing under the surface. She explores characters navigating the edge, the limits of themselves and those around them: power dynamics in families, in relationships, the distance between their true and false selves. They want connection, but what they provoke is often closer to self-sabotage. What are the costs of one's choices? Of the moments when we act, or fail to act? These complexities are at the heart of Daddy, Emma Cline's sharp-eyed illumination of the contrary impulses that animate our inner lives"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

What can you do with a general -- Los Angeles -- Menlo Park -- Son of Friedman -- The nanny -- Arcadia -- Northeast Regional -- Marion -- Mack the knife -- A/S/L

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