The Rachel Incident: A novel
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- Synopsis
- A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three • &“O'Donoghue deepens the familiar coming-of-age premise with riveting moral complications." —People"If you&’ve ever been unsure what to do with your degree in English; if you&’ve ever wondered when the rug-buying part of your life will start...if you&’ve ever loved the wrong person, or the right person at the wrong time…In short, if you&’ve ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did.&” —Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowRachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it&’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them.When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred&’s glamorous, well-connected, bourgeois wife. Aching with unrequited love, shot through with delicious, sparkling humor, The Rachel Incident is a triumph.
- Copyright:
- 2023
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593535714
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780593535707
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 05/14/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Caroline O’Donoghue
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.