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Come Closer
2003
First Published
3.66
Average Rating
189
Number of Pages

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults. Amanda—a successful architect in a happy marriage—finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she's doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea. The new voice in Amanda's head, the one that tells her to steal things and talk to strange men in bars, is strange and frightening, and Amanda struggles to wrest back control of her life. Is she possessed by a demon, or is she simply insane? Described as “a new kind of psychological thriller” by George Pelecanos and “this year's scariest novel” by Time Out New York, Come Closer has become a modern classic “with a kick that will stay with the reader for days afterward” (The Dallas Morning News).

Avg Rating
3.66
Number of Ratings
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Author

Sara Gran
Sara Gran
Author · 9 books
Sara Gran's most recent book is THE BOOK OF MOST PRECIOUS SUBSTANCE, available from Dreamland Books in the US and Faber Books in the UK. She is the author of 6 1/2 previous novels, a screenwriter, and a publisher.
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