Binding: Paperback
Description: Dark seductive Noirish and sexy this provocative novel explores what it's like to be a woman on the edge. Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire A crispy biscotti of a novel You ll feel indecent reading it in public. Molly Young Vulture A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood death and sex To cool - headed fastidious Pricilla Messing Italy will be an escape a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that's starting to feel like one long decline. Rescued from the bedside of her difficult mother forty - something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece Hannah. But after years of caregiving babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah's youthful heedless world drinking dancing smoking relishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer. After years of feeling used up and overlooked Cilla feels like she's coming back to life. But being so close to Hannah brings up complicated memories making Cilla restless and increasingly reckless and a dangerous flirtation with a teenage boy soon threatens to send her into a tailspin. With the sharp - edged insight of Ottessa Moshfegh and the taut seduction of Patricia Highsmith The Worst Kind of Want is a dark exploration of the inherent dangers of being a woman. In her unsettling follow - up to Catalina Liska Jacobs again delivers hypnotic literary noir about a woman whose unruly desires and troubled past push her to the brink of disaster.
Title: The Worst Kind Of Want A Novel
Author(s): Jacobs Liska
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250758194
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/20/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction