Name: Rouge: A Novel
Price: 49.59 NZD
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Author: Mona Awad
ISBN: 9781982169701

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Physical Book

Author

Mona Awad

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 14.0 x 2.4 cm

ISBN13

9781982169701

Rouge: A Novel

Mona Awad (Author) · Simon and Schuster · Paperback

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Synopsis "Rouge: A Novel "

A National Bestseller A USA TODAY Bestseller A New York Times Editors' Choice A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Tor, and Literary Hub From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a "Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the modern age" (Good Housekeeping) and "darkly funny horror novel" (NYLON) about a lonely young woman who's drawn to a cult-like spa in the wake of her mother's mysterious death. "Surreal, scary and deeply moving--like all the best fairy tales" (People). A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Time, Vogue, The Guardian, Goodreads, Bustle, The Millions, LitHub, Tor, Good Housekeeping, and more! For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother's) obsession with the mirror--and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass. Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry--as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.

Mona Awad

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Mona Awad is the successful author of the novels Bunny, All’s Well and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. She has been a three-time finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award, has received the Amazon Best First Novel Award. Bunny, chosen best book of 2019 by various publications, is being adapted into a film by Bad Robot Productions. Rouge, her latest book, has been a bestseller and has been selected as a New York Times Notable Book. She is a professor in the Creative Writing program at Syracuse University. Resides in Boston.

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