Book Review The Guest By Emma Cline Purewow Her new novel, “ the guest,” proves cline has become adept at portraying the eager heat of lust — not necessarily for sex, but for power and comfort — with cool insouciance. the narrative. Cline’s the guest follows a week in the life of alex, an aimless young woman who has just been turned out by her boyfriend simon, a rich older man she’d lived with during the summer at his house on long island.
Book Review Of The Guest By Emma Cline All is not as it seems in emma cline’s latest novel, “the guest,” a deceptively simple story about a young woman kicked out of her rich lover’s long island beach house in the final days of. Emma cline offers up an unlikely grifter in her novel the guest, which tells the story of a 22 year old woman charming her way through a summer on long island while on the run from a man to whom she owes a lot of money. In emma cline’s latest novel, the guest, alex is 22 and has no one looking out for her. she’s the titular guest of the book, a drifter and a grifter without a home or a friend. but she does have wits and beauty, two things she’ll leverage in a bid to survive in the east end of long island. A week in the life of a 22 year old grifter in the hamptons. cline does pretty but creepy like no one else and now takes her brand of alluring ickiness to the wealthy enclaves of long island (the location is unnamed but clearly recognizable) in the last week of summer.
The Guest Emma Cline In emma cline’s latest novel, the guest, alex is 22 and has no one looking out for her. she’s the titular guest of the book, a drifter and a grifter without a home or a friend. but she does have wits and beauty, two things she’ll leverage in a bid to survive in the east end of long island. A week in the life of a 22 year old grifter in the hamptons. cline does pretty but creepy like no one else and now takes her brand of alluring ickiness to the wealthy enclaves of long island (the location is unnamed but clearly recognizable) in the last week of summer. What’s going on with women’s fiction? read my review of the guest by emma cline to hear about how passive protagonists are ruining the thriller genre. In 'the guest,' the must read anxious girl book of the season, a grifter struggles to survive in the risky world of the rich. Thanks to netgalley for my copy in exchange for an honest review. the book follows alex, a young woman existing on her wits, as she scams her way through the luxurious homes and lives of those holidaying on long island. A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this stunning novel by the new york times bestselling author of the girls. summer is coming to a close on the east end of long island, and alex is no longer welcome.