Amy Gentry Knihy

Keď trinásťročná Julie Whitakerová jednej noci zmizne z domu, vyzerá to ako učebnicový príklad únosu. Rodina je zdrvená, napriek tomu však verí, že ich dcéra je stále nažive. Lenže nikto nežiada výkupné, neobjavuje sa žiadna stopa…A zrazu, po dlhých ôsmich rokoch, sa na prahu rodinného domu Anny a Toma objaví mladá žena, ktorá o sebe tvrdí, že je Julie. Počiatočný úžas a nadšenie rodiny čoskoro vystriedajú pochybnosti a neodbytné otázky. Julie sa navyše s rodinou zbližuje len pomaly a niekedy sa správa viac než čudne. Dokonca sa občas záhadne vytráca z domu... A prečo odmieta chodiť na terapiu a už vôbec nechce hovoriť o tom, čo sa jej stalo? Po čase Annu osloví súkromný detektív, ktorý ju svojimi informáciami a otázkami ešte viac zneistí. A vtedy sa začína mučivé hľadanie pravdy. Annu však najviac trápi otázka – vrátila sa ako mladá žena skutočne ich dcéra Julie?

‘A twisty and engrossing thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end.’ Karin Slaughter, International Bestselling Author

It's hard to think of a solo female recording artist who has been as revered or as reviled over the course of her career as Tori Amos. Amy Gentry argues that these violent aesthetic responses to Amos's performance, both positive and negative, are organized around disgust-the disgust that women are taught to feel, not only for their own bodies, but for their taste in music. Released in 1996, Amos's third album, Boys for Pele, represents the height of Amos's willingness to explore the ugly qualities that make all of her music, even her more conventionally beautiful albums, so uncomfortably, and so wonderfully, strange. Using a blend of memoir, criticism, and aesthetic theory, Gentry argues that the aesthetics of disgust are useful for thinking in a broader way about women's experience of all art forms.

A whip-smart psychological thriller from the author of Good as Gone (a New York Times Notable Book) in which a grad student becomes embroiled in a deadly rivalry that changes her into someone unrecognizable to her struggling family, her ambitious academic friends, and even herself

Propulsive and suspenseful, Good as Gone will appeal to fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, and keep readers guessing until the final pages. Thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night, witnessed only by her younger sister. Her family was shattered, but managed to stick together, hoping against hope that Julie is still alive. And then one night: the doorbell rings. A young woman who appears to be Julie is finally, miraculously, home safe. The family is ecstatic--but Anna, Julie's mother, has whispers of doubts. She hates to face them. She cannot avoid them. When she is contacted by a former detective turned private eye, she begins a torturous search for the truth about the woman she desperately hopes is her daughter.

Zwei Frauen, Dana und Amanda, schließen einen Pakt, um sich an den Männern zu rächen, die ihnen Leid zugefügt haben. In einer von Männern dominierten Welt geraten sie jedoch in eine Spirale aus Täuschung, Betrug und Gewalt, während das Vertrauen zwischen ihnen auf die Probe gestellt wird.