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| Original Title: | The Guest Room |
| ISBN: | 0385538898 (ISBN13: 9780385538893) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Chris Bohjalian
Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.68 | 25911 Users | 3307 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Guest Room |
| Author | : | Chris Bohjalian |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | January 5th 2016 by Doubleday |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Audiobook |
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room; two women are on the run from police; and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams.When Richard Chapman offers to host his younger brother's bachelor party, he expects a certain amount of debauchery. He sends his wife, Kristin, and young daughter off to his mother-in-law's for the weekend, and he opens his Westchester home to his brother's friends and their hired entertainment. What he does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, a dangerously intimate moment in his guest bedroom, and two naked women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards before driving off into the night. In the aftermath, Richard's life rapidly spirals into a nightmare. The police throw him out of his home, now a crime scene; his investment banking firm puts him on indefinite leave; and his wife finds herself unable to forgive him for the moment he shared with a dark-haired girl in the guest room. But the dark-haired girl, Alexandra, faces a much graver danger. In one breathless, violent night, she is free, running to escape the police who will arrest her and the gangsters who will kill her in a heartbeat. A captivating, chilling story about shame and scandal, The Guest Room is a riveting novel from one of our greatest storytellers.
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Ratings: 3.68 From 25911 Users | 3307 ReviewsCriticism Appertaining To Books The Guest Room
This is an amazing book. Chris Bohjalian has such a knack for slipping his readers right into the lives and hearts of his characters. With this book, he has not only created a chilling thriller but also a deep complex novel about family and trust. But he doesnt stop there. He also opens your heart and mind to the horror of child sex trafficking in such an intimate way that is completely heart rending.The striking comparison between the lives of the two young girls in this book makes for anVeteran writer Chris Bohjalian has an appreciation for story and character, and he combines a ripped-from-the-headlines topic with a sympathetic family drama. Wealthy investment banker Richard Chapman has been happily married to Kristin, and their nine-year-old daughter, Melissa, is the light of their lives. Kristin teaches at the upscale private school near where they live in Bronxville. Solid marriage. Happy family. But, what happens when a tragedy of consequences hits home? When Richards wife
I recommend you read this book.It may not be entirely enjoyable. In fact, you might feel rather uncomfortable at times (I certainly did). But if you're uncomfortable, that means Bohjalian's story is striking a nerve.In The Guest Room Chris Bohjalian tells the story of a bachelor party gone very, very wrong (might this book do for bachelor parties what the movie "Fatal Attraction" did for affairs?...) It's a book about poor judgement, bad decisions, and worst case scenarios. It's a book about
My first foray into Overdrive, and considering I work in a library, a long overdue one! This was to me, literary fiction. Lots of back story on Russia in the 1980's, and many references to the sex slave industry. This is not nice stuff.A 'good' man, loving father and sensible older brother holds a bucks evening for his reckless, selfish and obstinant younger sibling. What could go wrong? Admittedly the owner of the house (the wife) knew there would be a stripper, but so be it. What transpires is
Everything, it seemed, was unraveling. I've been seeing a lot of hype for Bohjalian's new thriller - The Guest Room - and it even made it into Goodreads' most read books of the week. The author was unfamiliar to me, but I decided to pick this up because I personally can't resist the call of the latest juicy thriller.And that's just what this book is. It wouldn't be fair to sell this as something life-changing, or genre-defining; it's just really not that kind of book. What The Guest Room is,
The Guest Room is a standalone, literary fiction novel written by Chris Bohjalian. This novel touches on a number of topics related to marriage, family, and trust, but the overall theme is human trafficking. Fortunately, there is more and more awareness being brought to this ever-present crisis and Mr. Bohjalian wrote a very plausible example of how some girls may end up in this modern-day slavery. In terms of enjoyment, I don't think The Guest Room is intended to be enjoyed. All this topic can
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