Título: Invisible Woman
Autor: Katia Lief
Sinopse: Other people kill their husbands. Not her.
“A darkly clever thriller about women’s thwarted ambitions, celebrity, the Time’s Up movement and revenge.”—People (Book of the Week)
In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences.
Joni Ackerman’s decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came with a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, and his ascending career at a premier television network provided a safety net. Now they’ve recently transplanted to Brooklyn, so that Paul can launch a major East Coast production studio, when a scandal rocks the film industry and forces Joni to revisit a secret from long ago involving her friend Val.
Joni is adamant that the time has come to tell the story, but Val and Paul are reluctant, for different reasons. As the marriage frays and the friends spar about whether to speak up, Joni’s struggles with isolation in a new city, and old resentments about the sacrifices she made on her family’s behalf start to boil over. She takes solace, of sorts, in the novels of Patricia Highsmith—particularly the masterpiece Strangers on a Train, with its duplicitous characters and their murderous impulses—until the lines between reality and fantasy become blurred.
Invisible Woman is at once a literary thriller about the lies we tell each other (and ourselves), and a powerful psychological examination of the complexities of friendship, marriage, and motherhood.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Invisible Woman”, de Katia Lief, publicado pela editora Atlantic Monthly Press, em 2024 e com 272 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: Atlantic Monthly Press
Páginas: 272
Ano: 2024-01-09
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Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0802161405
ISBN13: 9780802161406
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Atlantic Monthly Press apresentam uma leitura que mescla tensão e profundidade, com foco frequente em narrativas policiais e histórias de guerra que exploram conflitos humanos e sociais. O catálogo traz obras que transitam entre o thriller investigativo e o relato histórico, sempre com personagens complexos, como detetives marcados por passados difíceis ou soldados imersos em batalhas traumáticas. Além disso, há espaço para reflexões científicas e biográficas que abordam temas como comportamento humano e descobertas históricas, oferecendo um equilíbrio entre narrativas mais narrativas e outras de cunho informativo e analítico.
