Name: Neverworld Wake
SKU: 52795355
Price: 14.55 EUR
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Author: Marisha Pessl
ISBN: 9780399553943

Type

Physical Book

Author

Marisha Pessl

Publisher

Ember

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780399553943

Synopsis "Neverworld Wake "

"A 'clear your calendar' kind of one-day read." --MELISSA ALBERT, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel WoodFive friends. Only one can survive the Neverworld Wake. Who would you choose?From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Night Film comes an absorbing psychological suspense thriller in which fears are physical and memories come alive."A thriller that will grip readers from the start." --HypableIt's been one year since graduation, and Beatrice Hartley has mixed feelings about joining her friends for a weekend reunion. She's right to be worried. After a night out, they narrowly avoid a collision with a car on a deserted road. Or so they believe. Back at the mansion where they are staying, a mysterious man knocks on the door during a raging storm. He tells them that they must make a choice: one of them will live, and the rest will die. And the decision must be unanimous. Soon time backbends. Beatrice and her friends are forced to repeat that dreadful day so many times they lose count. With each replay, events twist and fears come alive in horrifying ways. This nightmare, this nothingness . . . this is the Neverworld Wake. To escape, they have to vote. But how do you choose who to kill? And then how do you live with yourself?"Beautifully creepy." --The New York Times"You won't be able to stop reading until the mystery is unraveled." --Refinery29"A dark and twisty tale brimming with psychological suspense." --Bustle

Marisha Pessl

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Marisha Pessl is an American writer born on October 26, 1977 in Clarkston, Michigan. She studied English Literature at Barnard College and worked as a financial consultant before fully dedicating herself to writing. Her first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006), was a bestseller and received the John Sargent Sr. Prize for Best First Novel. In 2013, she published Night Film, translated into Spanish as Última sesión, which reached the sixth spot on The New York Times bestseller list and won the Shirley Jackson Award.

Pessl has continued her literary career with works such as Neverworld Wake (2018), published in Spanish as Eterna Vigilia, and Darkly (2024), a young adult psychological thriller. Her novels are characterized by combining elements of mystery, suspense, and cultural references, often incorporating unconventional formats like fictional documents and multimedia materials.

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