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His Favorites

Kate Walbert

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A "tense, taut, and thrilling" (Marie Claire) novel about a teenage girl, a predatory teacher, and a school's complicity from the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women--"riveting, terrifying, exactly the book for our times" (Ann Patchett).They were on a lark, three teenaged girls speeding across the greens at night on a "borrowed" golf cart, drunk. The cart crashes and one of the girls lands violently in the rough, killed instantly. The driver, Jo, flees the hometown that has turned against her and enrolls at a prestigious boarding school. Her past weighs on her. She is responsible for the death of her best friend. She has tipped her parents' rocky marriage into demise. She is ready to begin again, far away from the accident. "Devastatingly relevant" (Vogue) and "fueled by gorgeous writing" (NPR), His Favorites reveals the interior life of a young woman determined to navigate the treachery in a new world. Told from her perspective many years later, the story coolly describes a series of shattering events and a school that failed to protect her. "Before things turn treacherous, there's a moment when predation can feel dangerously like kindness...Walbert understands this...His Favorites begs to be read" (Time).

Book Details

  • Publisher: Scribner Book Company
  • Publish Date: Jun 11st, 2019
  • Pages: 160
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.40in - 4.90in - 0.60in - 0.30lb
  • EAN: 9781476799407
  • Categories: • Literary• Family Life - General• Women

About the Author

Walbert, Kate: - Kate Walbert is the author of seven works of fiction: She Was Like That, longlisted for the Story Prize and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; His Favorites, an Atlantic Monthly Best Book of the Year; The Sunken Cathedral; A Short History of Women, a New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of the Year and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Our Kind, a National Book Award finalist; The Gardens of Kyoto; and the story collection Where She Went. Her work has appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize stories. She lives with her family in New York City.

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Since 1846, publisher of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Jesmyn Ward, Anthony Doerr, Jennifer Egan, Siddhartha Mukherjee, & more.

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Poet/v.artist w/ME/FM. Publ/EIC @IceFloeP PushcartNom. Book: EDEN (2021). In: @PenteractPress @WatchYrHead @talking_time @Visual_verse @anthro_poetry, + more ++

Inmates met over 3 months...to discuss books on Goncourt list...to chose a winner. The prize was awarded...to Sarah Jollien-Fardel for “Sa Préférée,”or “His Favorite,” about a woman struggling to cope w/ legacy of her father’s physical/psychological abuse. https://t.co/CyYldb9PnA

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PRAISE FOR HIS FAVORITES: "His Favorites is exactly the book for our times. That Kate Walbert has managed to write a novel that is riveting, terrifying, and yet always charmingly buoyant, speaks volumes to how well she understands women. If you're trying to figure out what's going on, how these things happen, read this book." -Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth

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Scribner
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2 years

Since 1846, publisher of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Jesmyn Ward, Anthony Doerr, Jennifer Egan, Siddhartha Mukherjee, & more.

#MilkFed, #LieWithMe, #HisFavorites, #LoveMarriage, and More Books Every Devoted Sally Rooney Fan Must Read via @OffTheShelf http://spr.ly/6018zJUap

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RobertFredeKenter
@frede_kenter
2 years

Poet/v.artist w/ME/FM. Publ/EIC @IceFloeP PushcartNom. Book: EDEN (2021). In: @PenteractPress @WatchYrHead @talking_time @Visual_verse @anthro_poetry, + more ++

Inmates met over 3 months...to discuss books on Goncourt list...to chose a winner. The prize was awarded...to Sarah Jollien-Fardel for “Sa Préférée,”or “His Favorite,” about a woman struggling to cope w/ legacy of her father’s physical/psychological abuse. https://t.co/CyYldb9PnA

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