07080cam a2200553 4500 235449069 TxAuBib 20140807120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780804138826 0804138826 B00H6JHM18 Amazon da4a8d14-20c0-4d32-abac-005662847a7a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1489325 OverDrive (Product ID) 233836 1489325 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Koch, Herman. Summer House with Swimming Pool [Libby] : A Novel. Crown/Archetype, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2582kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. "This is a novel of ideas (Have fun, book clubs)...[Koch] makes Nietzsche sound like Dale Carnegie.". HTML:Janet Maslin, New York Times. "Caustic...Poisonous ... I couldn't stop reading this... Chapter by chapter, it is shockingly cynical and infected with a strain of humor so toxic that it should come with a bottle of Purell....Ghoulishly fascinating.". HTML:Ron Charles, Washington Post. "The opening pages grab us with a mordant view of socialized medicine and a chilled insight into the anxieties of the flesh... Disturbingly good...Psychologically rich...Deftly paced...Compelling.". HTML:USA Today. HTML:"Summer House With Swimming Pool is a gripping read, an assault of unexpected twists and thumbscrew-turning tension.". HTML:Entertainment Weekly. "Sick, twisted--and more important--highly entertaining... Balmy temperatures and sunny skies won't stop the chill that runs up and down your spine as the story unfolds...A modern-day Agatha Christie... [This] could be the most talked-about book of the summer.". HTML:Chicago Tribune. HTML:"Bound to satisfy fans of The Dinner...A new psychological thriller about nasty people on an opulent vacation.". HTML:Boston Globe. "Twisty, thrilling.". HTML:New York Post. "There are all kinds of scary novels, and this one, out of the Netherlands, Herman Koch's "Summer House With Swimming Pool," is perhaps the most unsettling sort. It's devilish...You'll be hooked.". HTML:Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. HTML:"Gripping...Koch uses language like a stethoscope, so that we can hear the beating hearts of his characters and their visceral feelings of envy, love, fear and hatred...The novel anatomises our most unsavoury impulses with scalpel-like prose...For fans of thrillers such as Gone Girl, this should be the summer's essential reading.". HTML:The Guardian. "This book is horribly thrilling, and utterly entertaining. There is a manic clarity and gleefulness to its writing...Take this book to the beach, you'll be gripped and chilled.". The Independent. HTML:"In Koch's equally devious follow-up to The Dinner, civilization is once again only a thin cover-up for man's baser instincts...Make no mistake: very few real-world events will distract readers from finishing this addictive book in one or two sittings.". HTML:Publishers Weekly (starred review.) HTML:"[In The Dinner,] Koch's wry wit and sardonic approach to marriage and children transformed a grisly act of violence into fodder for parental and ethical contemplation. Here, he once again probes the limits of parental protection...[and] continues to illuminate ways in which our Freudian unconscious takes dreadful revenge on the ego.". HTML:Library Journal (starred review). HTML:"Just as he did in his bestseller, The Dinner (2013), Dutch novelist Koch tells a sinister tale through the eyes of a questionable narrator...Koch's deft and nuanced exploration of gender, guilt, and vengeance make his second novel to be translated into English an absorbing read.". HTML:Booklist. HTML:"In this disquieting novel from Koch (The Dinner, 2013, etc.), sex, celebrity and medical ethics become inextricably tangled as a summer idyll goes nightmarishly wrong...A sly psychological thriller lurks within this pitch-dark comedy of manners.". HTML:Kirkus. HTML:"Herman Koch (The Dinner) dishes up another rich stew of language, character and cynicism...[with] a summer vacation mystery.". HTML:Shelf Awareness. HTML:"A European Gone Girl...The Dinner, a sly psychological thriller that hinges on a horrific crime and its consequences for two families, has become one of spring's most anticipated suspense novels.". HTML:The W. HTML:The blistering, compulsively readable new novel from Herman Koch, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Dinner. When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, he's not exactly upset that Ralph is gone, but as a high profile doctor to the stars, Marc can't hide from the truth forever. It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week at the Meier's extravagant summer home on the Mediterranean. Joined by Ralph and his striking wife Judith, her mother, and film director Stanley Forbes and his much younger girlfriend, the large group settles in for days of sunshine, wine tasting, and trips to the beach. But when a violent incident disrupts the idyll, darker motivations are revealed, and suddenly no one can be trusted. As the ultimate holiday soon turns into a nightmare, the circumstances surrounding Ralph's later death begin to reveal the disturbing reality behind that summer's tragedy. Featuring the razor-sharp humor and acute psychological insight that made The Dinner an international phenomenon, Summer House with Swimming Pool is a controversial, thought-provoking novel that showcases Herman Koch at his finest.. Media Type: eBook. 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