Based on a True Story

Fiction & Literature, Literary, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense
Cover of the book Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan, Bloomsbury Publishing
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Delphine de Vigan ISBN: 9781632868862
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: May 9, 2017
Imprint: Bloomsbury USA Language: English
Author: Delphine de Vigan
ISBN: 9781632868862
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: May 9, 2017
Imprint: Bloomsbury USA
Language: English

The international sensation that sold half a million copies in France and the subject of a new film by Roman Polanski: a chilling story about a friendship gone terrifyingly toxic.

Winner of Le Prix Renaudot 2015
Winner of Le Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2015

Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L., who embodies everything Delphine has always secretly admired; she is a glittering image of feminine sophistication and spontaneity and she has an uncanny knack of always saying the right thing. Unusually intuitive, L. senses Delphine's vulnerability and slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer's life. However, as L. makes herself indispensable to Delphine, the intensity of this unexpected friendship manifests itself in increasingly sinister ways. As their lives become more and more entwined, L. threatens Delphine's identity, both as a writer and as an individual.

This sophisticated psychological thriller skillfully blurs the line between fact and fiction, reality and artifice. Delphine de Vigan has crafted a terrifying, insidious, metafictional thriller; a haunting vision of seduction and betrayal; a book which in its hungering for truth implicates the reader, too-even as it holds us in its thrall.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

The international sensation that sold half a million copies in France and the subject of a new film by Roman Polanski: a chilling story about a friendship gone terrifyingly toxic.

Winner of Le Prix Renaudot 2015
Winner of Le Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2015

Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L., who embodies everything Delphine has always secretly admired; she is a glittering image of feminine sophistication and spontaneity and she has an uncanny knack of always saying the right thing. Unusually intuitive, L. senses Delphine's vulnerability and slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer's life. However, as L. makes herself indispensable to Delphine, the intensity of this unexpected friendship manifests itself in increasingly sinister ways. As their lives become more and more entwined, L. threatens Delphine's identity, both as a writer and as an individual.

This sophisticated psychological thriller skillfully blurs the line between fact and fiction, reality and artifice. Delphine de Vigan has crafted a terrifying, insidious, metafictional thriller; a haunting vision of seduction and betrayal; a book which in its hungering for truth implicates the reader, too-even as it holds us in its thrall.

More books from Bloomsbury Publishing

Cover of the book War: A Short History by Delphine de Vigan
Cover of the book Arctic Bf 109 and Bf 110 Aces by Delphine de Vigan
Cover of the book Adolescence: How to Survive It by Delphine de Vigan
Cover of the book Redeemable by Delphine de Vigan
Cover of the book Princess of Glass by Delphine de Vigan
Cover of the book Strength and Conditioning for Triathlon by Delphine de Vigan
Cover of the book The Decline of Iranshahr by Delphine de Vigan
Cover of the book Art and Resistance in Germany by Delphine de Vigan
Cover of the book It May Never Happen by Delphine de Vigan
Cover of the book US Navy Battleships 1886–98 by Delphine de Vigan
Cover of the book Governing Biobanks by Delphine de Vigan
Cover of the book We Come Apart by Delphine de Vigan
Cover of the book Words and the First World War by Delphine de Vigan
Cover of the book Ovid by Delphine de Vigan
Cover of the book The Royal Navy by Delphine de Vigan
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy