In the Cut

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"Brilliaut. fi hcautifiiHij crafted story of obsession, sex, violation fpit-tiristing. . . qoes dellberatcli/ too far, climaxing in one of the most authcnticallii shocking endings in recent fiction."
—Snii fKfuieisco Gm^ouiccc
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biSj biscuit, n., hand gun to cap, v., to shoot
to flake, v., to plant evidence, usually a gun to do, v., to kill
She lives in two rooms on the third floor of a brownstone on Washington Square. By day, she teaches her students about irony and language in all its nuance, eccentricity, and unspoken meaning. By night, she compiles a secret dictionary of street slang, and takes chances.
One night, in the basement of a bar, she walks in on an intimate moment between a man and a woman. His face is shadowed in darkness, but she will remember the tattoo on the inside of his left wrist; the feeling of his eyes on her. She will remember long after the first brutal murder rocks her neighborhood long after she is propelled into a sexual liaison that... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"Brilliaut. fi hcautifiiHij crafted story of obsession, sex, violation fpit-tiristing. . . qoes dellberatcli/ too far, climaxing in one of the most authcnticallii shocking endings in recent fiction."
—Snii fKfuieisco Gm^ouiccc
-•iifcr^
biSj biscuit, n., hand gun to cap, v., to shoot
to flake, v., to plant evidence, usually a gun to do, v., to kill
She lives in two rooms on the third floor of a brownstone on Washington Square. By day, she teaches her students about irony and language in all its nuance, eccentricity, and unspoken meaning. By night, she compiles a secret dictionary of street slang, and takes chances.
One night, in the basement of a bar, she walks in on an intimate moment between a man and a woman. His face is shadowed in darkness, but she will remember the tattoo on the inside of his left wrist; the feeling of his eyes on her. She will remember long after the first brutal murder rocks her neighborhood long after she is propelled into a sexual liaison that tests the limits of her safety and desires, as she begins a terrifying descent into the dark places that reside deep within her
"Taps into the deep well of female obsession builds an atmosphere of thick sexual tension, and arranges for its explosive release." —The New Yorker
"Cruel and refined 6ut-deep and risky Raunchy and lurid, yet truthful, graceful, subtle, and brutally intelligent .A story you'll never forget." —Elle Vissza