Die a Little: A Novel

By the author of Dare Me and The End of EverythingFemmes fatales. Obsessive love. Double crosses. How does a respectable young woman fall into Los Angeles’s hard-boiled underworld?Shadow-dodging through the glamorous world of 1950s Hollywood and its seedy flip side, Megan Abbott’s debut, Die a Little, is a gem of the darkest hue. This ingenious twist on a classic noir tale tells the story of Lora King, a schoolteacher, and her brother Bill, a jun...

By Megan Abbott
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (April 19, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781476787947
ISBN-13: 978-1476787947
ASIN: 1476787948
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
Amazon Rank: 250505
Format: PDF Text TXT ebook

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When we think of noir, we usually think of a morally compromised cop at the center of the story, a femme fatale, and often some kind of good girl set against her. And Megan Abbott's debut novel, Die A Little, has all of these elements. But it's not a

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