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Anita de Monte Laughs Last
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
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THE REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK FOR MARCH 2024 ‘I have goosebumps just talking about this story’ — REESE WITHERSPOON ‘Smart, funny – and furious’ — MARIE CLAIRE ‘Genre-busting ... A clear-eyed deconstruction of skewed value systems’ — FINANCIAL TIMES It’s 1985 and Anita de Monte, a...
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last
A first-generation Ivy League student uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death in this mesmerising novel from the New York Times-bestselling author
A first-generation Ivy League student uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death in this mesmerising novel from the New York Times-bestselling author
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THE REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK FOR MARCH 2024
‘I have goosebumps just talking about this story’ — REESE WITHERSPOON
‘Smart, funny – and furious’ — MARIE CLAIRE
‘Genre-busting ... A clear-eyed deconstruction of skewed value systems’ — FINANCIAL TIMES
It’s 1985 and Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City. Thirteen years later, art history student Raquel is preparing her final thesis, feeling the pressure to work twice as hard for the same opportunities as the wealthy students around her. Anita’s name — and the mysterious circumstances around her death — has all but faded from view.
When Raquel becomes romantically involved with a well-connected older student, she finds herself unexpectedly rising up the social ranks. But then she stumbles upon Anita’s story and is struck not only by the question of who gets to leave a legacy, but by how her own relationship eerily mirrors that of the forgotten artist...
A NEW YORK TIMES, ELLE AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING HIGHLIGHT FOR 2024
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ISBN: 9781526676290
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 March 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 260g
Pages: 352
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About the Author
Xochitl Gonzalez is the New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming. Named a Best of 2022 by the New York Times, TIME, Kirkus, Washington Post and NPR, Olga Dies Dreaming was the winner of the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Fiction and the New York City Book Award. Gonzalez is a 2021 MFA graduate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her nonfiction work has been published in Elle Decor, Allure, Vogue, Real Simple and The Cut. Her commentary writing for the Atlantic was recognised as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A native Brooklynite and proud public school graduate, Gonzalez holds a BA from Brown University and lives in her hometown of Brooklyn with her dog, Hectah Lavoe.
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