Rachel Lyon


Fruit of the Dead

Lyon, Rachel | FRUIT OF THE DEAD


BoklivArtikelnr: 9781398525016

En modern återberättelse av myten om Persephone och Demeter som utforskar teman som makt, beroende och familj.

  • En modern tolkning av myten om Persephone.

  • Utforskar teman kring beroende och familjedynamik.

  • Utgiven som pocket, 2025.

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Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Simon & Schuster UK
ISBN: 9781398525016

Omfång: 320 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2025-07-03

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An electric, beguiling contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld.

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld.

Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island. Plied with luxury and opiates manufactured by his company, she continues to tell herself she's in charge. Her mother, Emer, head of a teetering agricultural NGO, senses otherwise. With her daughter seemingly vanished, Emer crosses land and sea to heed a cry for help she alone is convinced she hears.

Alternating between the two women's perspectives, Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead incorporates its mythic inspiration with a light touch and devastating precision. The result is a tale that explores love, control, obliteration, and America's own late capitalist mythos. Lyon's reinvention of Persephone and Demeter's story makes for a haunting and ecstatic novel that vibrates with lush abandon. Readers will not soon forget it.

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Boken 'Fruit of the Dead' av Rachel Lyon utforskar en modern tolkning av myten om Persephone och Demeter, med fokus på teman som makt, kärlek och familjerelationer, centrerad kring den unga camp-rådgivaren Cory Ansel och hennes relation till sin överbeskyddande mor.

Boken behandlar teman som makt och kontroll, där berättelsen växlar mellan Corys och hennes mors perspektiv och undersöker hur deras relationer påverkar deras liv och identiteter.

'Fruit of the Dead' är en ny pocketbok på engelska, utgiven av Simon & Schuster UK, med ett omfång av 320 sidor och ett utgivningsdatum den 3 juli 2025.

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