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Nemesis | Joyce Carol Oates
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This mesmerizing novel about a crime at an elite music school calls to mind a David Lynch film (TheNew York Times). Shy piano teacher Maggie Blackburn has selflessly devoted her life and career to her students at the Forest Park Conservatory of Music in an affluent Connecticut suburb. Then a rape shakes the schools refined grounds. The violated young student, Brendan Bauer, is a timid ex-seminarian. The perpetrator, Rolfe Christensen, is the newly appointed and celebrated composer-in-residence who has dazzled the faculty in ways Maggie could never have dreamed of. But when the conservatorys conspiracy to conceal the crime results in Christensens murder, Bauer is suspectedand Maggie vows to find the real killer. What Maggie soon discovers is that Christensens reputationas genius, manipulator, and sexual predatorhad preceded him, giving many people a reason to want him dead. But when the murder of another colleague casts additional doubt on Bauers innocence, Maggies labyrinthine hunt for a killer turns into more than an investigation. Now its a liberating obsession with secretshers includedas dark and twisted as the crimes themselves. One of todays most prolific and acclaimed literary talents, Joyce Carol Oates is a National Book Award winner, a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a #1 New York Timesbestselling author. As Elmore Leonard said, with her psychological suspense novels written under the name Rosamond Smith, [she] could become the worlds Number One mystery writer easily.
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Nemesis | Joyce Carol Oates
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Tons of audiobooks in January, and lots of male authors! Favorites are Nemesis, Delivrance and Farthest North, plus Born a Crime. Oh! And The Girl Next Door! #tricoursstats #readingstats

LauraBeth Wow! 👏👏 7y
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Nemesis | Joyce Carol Oates
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Loved it - except for certain parts of the ending. I really like Oates‘ style of writing though, so I‘m eager to dive into more of her books. First book finished as part of #24in48!

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Nemesis | Joyce Carol Oates
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Aaah, I‘m loving this book! So glad I got it when it was a deal! Today it totally saved me when I showed up 1h early for an obligatory 150€ driving in the dark class (getting my license together with like 19 obnoxious 16 year olds) and had to sit at our only café reading on my phone — because of course I didn‘t bring my Kindle — with a terrible headache. This book made it all worth while.

SandyW How horrible! 7y
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Nemesis | Rosamond Smith
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"Though she was by nature a deeply introspective person, susceptible to long periods of brooding, and worrying, and rehearsing, and revising, there was a sort of potent emptiness at the core of her vision, or perhaps it was a blinding light; and this impairment (if that was what it was) allowed her to think obsessively, often futilely, around the margins if one of her actions, yet prevented her from seeing it directly. Or from seeing herself."

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