08263cam a2200517 4500 249873110 TxAuBib 20160115120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780804192002 0804192006 b1ce6521-ebe7-4851-91be-7115a1b140e1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1381753 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Beverly-Whittemore, Miranda. Bittersweet [READS Audiobook] : A Novel. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2014. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 375MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 375MB. HTML:Suspenseful and cinematic, Bittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly of an idyllic world of privilege and an outsider's hunger to belong. On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful, wild, blue-blooded Genevra Winslow. Ev invites Mabel to spend the summer at Bittersweet, her cottage on the Vermont estate where her family has been holding court for more than a century; it's the kind of place where children twirl sparklers across the lawn during cocktail hour. Mabel falls in love with midnight skinny-dipping, the wet dog smell that lingers near the yachts, and the moneyed laughter that carries across the still lake while fireworks burst overhead. Before she knows it, she has everything she's ever wanted: friendship, a boyfriend, access to wealth, and, most of all, for the first time in her life, the sense that she belongs. But as Mabel becomes an insider, a terrible discovery leads to shocking violence and reveals what the Winslows may have done to keep their power intact - and what they might do to anyone who threatens them. Mabel must choose: either expose the ugliness surrounding her and face expulsion from paradise, or keep the family's dark secrets and make Ev's world her own. From the Hardcover edition.. HTML:"Beverly-Whittemore is at her best bringing Winloch vividly to life, evoking the look and feel of its cottages and dining hall, and its daily summer rhythms...A fairy tale aspect -- of the Grimm, not the Disney variety -- pervades the novel, which artfully builds an increasing sense of menace...Like a Downton-in-Vermont, Bittersweet takes swift, implausible plot turns, and its family secrets flow like a bottomless magnum of champagne, but Beverly-Whittemore succeeds in shining a light into the dark, brutal flaws of the human heart.". HTML:New York Times Book Review. HTML:"Mesmerizing gothic thriller...Bittersweet is worth savoring--it unfolds like a long summer day, leisurely revealing the dark." --People, Lisa Kay Greissinger "What begins a little like Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep quickly warps into a sickly addictive thriller...think ABC's Revenge when it was good, only more scandalous...With books like Bittersweet to stuff in beach bags, it's beginning to feel a lot more like summer. A-". HTML:Entertainment Weekly, Stephan Lee. HTML:"In Bittersweet, Miranda Beverly-Whittemore prizes up the veneer of an old, privileged American family to discover depths of intrigue, power, and menace beneath. In its guise as a coming-of-age mystery, the book is both swift and arresting; that the novel also doubles as an insightful meditation on class, aspiration, and longing makes the book reverberate in the reader long past its final line.". HTML:Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia. HTML:"In the tradition of The Great Gatsby, Miranda Beverly-Whittemore's heroine is an outsider invited into the secret, labyrinthine world of the super-rich--but the twist is, you never met such debauched people as the Winslows. Bittersweet is a satisfyingly dramatic, super-juicy read.". HTML:Jenna Blum, New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Stormchasers. HTML:"Beverly-Whittemore captures both the idyllic beauty of a Vermont summer and its dark shadows ...gothic tangles wind the plot more and more tightly. ...A suspenseful tale of corruption and bad behavior among wealthy New Englanders. Readers who enjoy coming-of-age stories featuring dark secrets that affect generations will find much that appeals here.". HTML:Library Journal. HTML:"Bittersweet is the kind of book you hope to stumble across on a rainy vacation weekend: a wild New England gothic full of family secrets, mysteriously locked doors, sailboats, suntans, forbidden lust, and a few priceless works of art. An engrossing summer blast.". HTML:Maggie Shipstead, national bestselling author of Seating Arrangements and Astonish Me. HTML:"Gripping, beguiling and beautifully written, Bittersweet is a page turner that chills as it intoxicates. Miranda Beverly-Whittemore has created a family so dangerously enthralling that the more we learn of their greed and bloodlust, the more we aspire to belong.". HTML:Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner award-winning author of The Great Man and Blue Plate Special. HTML:"Takes the reader inside the glamorous world of the super-wealthy, where everything is not as it seems, and dark, long-buried family secrets gradually make their way to the surface. ...its strength lies in its elements of mystery. The result is a page-turner that will keep readers guessing until the end.". HTML:BookPage. HTML:"Suspenseful and intriguing, filled with characters who both fit the blue-blood mold and break the stereotypes we all associate with the upper class. Her short chapters, with their cliff-hanger endings, will keep readers turning pages late into the night.". HTML:Booklist. HTML:"Part coming-of-age story, part riveting mystery, Bittersweet is a tantalizing tale of an outsider thrust into a glittering world. HTML:Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia. HTML:"For fans of Edward St. Aubyn... Miranda Beverly-Whittemore's Bittersweet spins a New England gothic filled with blonde bluebloods and heavily bolted doors.". Vogue.com. HTML:"Beverly-Whittemore has crafted a page-turner riddled with stubborn clues, a twisty plot and beguiling characters.". HTML:Kirkus, starred review. HTML:"Evokes Gone Girl with its exploration of dark secrets and edge-of-your-seat twists.". HTML:Entertainment Weekly, Lanford Beard. HTML:"[An] intriguing outsider tale of the 1%.". HTML:The New York Post; Summer's Hottest Fiction pick. Suspense. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-01-14 20:00:02. 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