- Rich people, Teenage girls, Fiction, Suspense fiction
Sixteen-year-old Katya Spiva is walking with her two summer babysitting charges in Bayhead Harbor, New Jersey, when she's approached by silver-haired, gentlemanly Marcus Kidder, a local resident of some renown. What does this mysterious rich man really want from Katya, who is young enough to be his granddaughter? And what will he risk to get it?
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 165
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Mariner
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780547263359
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