{"product_id":"dream-girl-a-novel-isbn-9780062390172","title":"Dream Girl: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“My dream novel. I devoured this in three days. The sharpest, clearest-eyed take on our #MeToo reckoning yet. Plus: enthralling.\" —\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMegan Abbott, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdgar Award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eDare Me\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Fever\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFollowing up on her acclaimed and wildly successful \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestseller \u003cem\u003eLady in the Lake\u003c\/em\u003e, Laura Lippman returns with a dark, complex tale of psychological suspense with echoes of \u003cem\u003eMisery\u003c\/em\u003e involving a novelist, incapacitated by injury, who is plagued by mysterious phone calls.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the end, has anyone really led a blameless life?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInjured in a freak fall, novelist Gerry Andersen is confined to a hospital bed in his glamorous high-rise apartment, dependent on two women he barely knows: his incurious young assistant, and a dull, slow-witted night nurse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen late one night, the phone rings. The caller claims to be the “real” Aubrey, the alluring title character from his most successful novel, \u003cem\u003eDream Girl\u003c\/em\u003e.  But there is no real Aubrey. She’s a figment born of a writer’s imagination, despite what many believe or claim to know. Could the cryptic caller be one of his three ex-wives playing a vindictive trick after all these years? Or is she Margot, an ex-girlfriend who keeps trying to insinuate her way back into Gerry’s life?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd why does no one believe that the call even happened?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsolated from the world, drowsy from medication, Gerry slips between reality and a dreamlike state in which he is haunted by his own past: his faithless father, his devoted mother; the women who loved him, the women he loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd now here is Aubrey, threatening to visit him, suggesting that she is owed something. Is the threat real or is it a sign of dementia? Which scenario would he prefer? Gerry has never been so alone, so confused – and so terrified.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChilling and compulsively readable, touching on timely issues that include power, agency, appropriation, and creation, \u003cem\u003eDream Girl\u003c\/em\u003e is a superb blend of psychological suspense and horror that reveals the mind and soul of a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Baltimore in the mid-1960s is the setting of \u003cem\u003eLady in the Lake\u003c\/em\u003e, the latest novel from the ever-impressive Laura Lippman...Lippman’s book is revelatory, too, in showing the personal and professional costs to others—friends, loved ones, sources, witnesses—of Maddie’s single-minded quest for achievement and recognition.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The closest writer America has to Ruth Rendell.... What makes this book special, even extraordinary, is that the crossword puzzle aspect is secondary...[\u003cem\u003eLady in the Lake\u003c\/em\u003e] reflects the gulf which then existed between what women were expected to be and what they aspired to be.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen King, New York Times Book Review, on The Lady in the Lake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Don’t miss this novel.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnna Quindlen, New York Times bestselling author, on The Lady in the Lake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A cavalcade of narrators—including Cleo’s ghost, who wants Maddie to stop poking into her world—and Lippman’s expert storytelling bring the city’s tensions wondrously to life.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople on The Lady in the Lake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Inspired by the unsolved death of Shirley Parker... Lippman’s ambitious novel weaves some twenty points of view into a seamless, vivid whole. The novel demonstrates that Lippman, a former \u003cem\u003eBaltimore Sun\u003c\/em\u003e reporter, is both a skilled journalist and a masterful novelist.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post on The Lady in the Lake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889501565157,"sku":"NP9780062390172","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062390172.jpg?v=1730231387","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/dream-girl-a-novel-isbn-9780062390172","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}