Título: Cover Story: A Novel
Autor: Susan Rigetti
Sinopse: Netflix’s Inventing Anna and Hulu’s The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can in this captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artist’s scam.
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“It’s exciting, it’s surprising, it’s satisfying, it’s darkly funny, and it will keep you guessing.”—Linda Holmes for Today.com
After a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting her help with side projects and encouraging her writing.
As a friendship emerges between the two women, Lora opens up to Cat about her financial struggles and lost scholarship. Cat’s solution: Drop out of NYU and become her ghostwriter. Lora agrees and, when the internship ends, she moves into Cat’s suite at the opulent Plaza Hotel. Writing during the day and accompanying Cat to extravagant parties at night, Lora’s life quickly shifts from looming nightmare to dream-come-true. But as Lora is drawn into Cat’s glamorous lifestyle, Cat’s perfect exterior cracks, exposing an illicit, shady world.
A whip-smart and delightfully inventive writer, Susan Rigetti brilliantly pieces together a perceptive, humorous caper full of sharp observations about scam culture. Composed of diary entries, emails, FBI correspondence, and more, Cover Story is a fresh, fun, and wholly original novel that takes readers deep into the codependency and deceit found in a relationship built on power imbalance and lies.
“[A] page-turner that’s hilarious in its dedication to vamping on viral news stories about real-life strivers and cons from Delvey to Instagram personality Caroline Calloway … a delicious read.”—TIME magazine
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Cover Story: A Novel”, de Susan Rigetti, publicado pela editora William Morrow Paperbacks, em 2023 e com 368 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: William Morrow Paperbacks
Páginas: 368
Ano: 2023-04-25
Edição: Reprint
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0063072068
ISBN13: 9780063072060
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora William Morrow Paperbacks costumam apresentar narrativas com personagens complexos e conflitos intensos, muitas vezes ambientados em cenários contemporâneos que exploram temas como mistério, suspense e relações humanas profundas. A experiência de leitura varia entre thrillers policiais, dramas familiares e histórias de superação, com ritmo que alterna entre tensão crescente e momentos mais introspectivos. O catálogo sugere uma preferência por tramas que envolvem investigações, dilemas morais e reviravoltas, além de obras que combinam elementos históricos com ficção, sempre com linguagem acessível e envolvente.
